The internationalists

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.

"Remember that the only way to fight the class war is by accepting every challenge of the master class and throwing down more challenges ourselves. Every determined fight binds the workers together more and more, clears the heads of our class to their robbed and enslaved condition and prepares them for … socialism.

(This article expresses the opinions and ideas of individual comrades and not necessarily those of the ICT as a whole. See Introduction to Discussions on Socialism. ( · "But the historical development of the antagonisms immanent in a given form of production is the only way in which that form of production can be dissolved and a new form established." (K.Marx , Capital, Volume I, Chap. XV p.

First Editorial from Revolutionary Perspectives 05 · As we go to press the dust following the terrorist outrages in Paris has still not settled. The ramifications are likely to be felt for a long time to come although we think we have identified in our statement (reproduced in this issue) the main political games the various capitalist factions will be playing out over the next few months.