The internationalists

The mass resistance of mainly public sector workers to the Jupp‚ Plan has not broken any new ground but it has been a reminder of what the working class is capable of. With all the arrogance of a party that has a massive parliamentary majority combined with the pressures to fulfil the Maastricht criteria for European monetary union, Chirac's Gaullists hit out at the working class on all...

What is arguably the fourth or fifth Balkan War this century (see Imperialism in the Balkans below) has now come to an uneasy armistice. It is likely that it will hold. 60,000 NATO troops should see to that. After over 200,000 deaths the imperialism can claim to have established peace. We say “claimed” because the forces of imperialism have also promoted the war, despite all the hypocrisy about...

The recent assassination of Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin highlights the deep divisions in the Israeli ruling class over the issue of the “peace process”. Whilst Rabin’s killer was a member of a tiny organisation of religious fanatics, the ideology which fuelled the assassin is much the same as that espoused by the constitutional right in Israeli politics, namely the Likud Party.

It is not surprising that the effects of the world crisis lead people to seek desperate solutions to the dire situations in which they find themselves. It is easy to understand how they become embroiled in a reactionary response like religious fundamentalism. Christian, Hindu and Islamic fundamentalists are all cashing in on the poverty, insecurity and social fragmentation that the capitalist...

(“Demagogia democratica e fascista e realtà di classe” - From Prometeo December 1, 1943) · Each belligerent state has failed in convincing the working masses of the supreme necessity and sanctity of the massacre and thus adopts a certain social tint or a downright socialist facade. The National Socialism of Hitler has served as a cover for the military preparation of Germany; the "slow beverage"...