The internationalists

The post war boom is now a thing of folk memory. We have had forty years of declining wages and living conditions. The harsh reality is that capitalism has no future to offer beyond escalating attacks on those who by accident of birth are not fortunate enough to belong to the privileged minority. Their wealth has increased by leaps and bounds as the austerity agenda for the rest of us bites ever...

Despite the second Minsk accord between the Kiev government and the Russian separatists of Donetsk and Lugansk signed on February 13 the agony of the people of Eastern Ukraine will go on. Already the human cost has been horrendous. According to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 5,486 people have been killed and 12,972 wounded.

The following document originally appeared in Workers’ Voice in 1994. It, along with so much of our earlier material, has never been digitalised, but thanks to a sympathising comrade we have begun to address this issue and will be publishing more in future. As the orgy of lies about the First World War goes on the article below is a timely reminder of the real role of Social Democracy in saving...

The impressive victory of the left Social Democratic Party SYRIZA and the terrible defeat of the outgoing neoliberal government forces (New Democracy and PASOK) who had signed the memoranda, [1] is an important manifestation of the will of the vast majority of the Greek people to get rid of these detestable memoranda and their cruel catastrophic anti-worker and anti-social consequences.

For the last 35 years Government policy has been aimed at making us a nation of homeowners. From the Right to Buy to the deregulation of the banks, the main push was to get as many people as possible on the housing ladder and give us all a stake in capitalism. But now we face the biggest housing crisis for generations. House prices are more and more unaffordable and way beyond many people’s wages.