The Problem of Nationalism and the GKM (Group of Communist Maximalists), Russia/Ukraine

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Nationalism
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Russia and Eastern Europe
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Repression and control
Publications: 
Documents

(Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT) Statement) · At the end of November 2012 we received a document in English with the title "Platform of the Group of Communist Maximalists“. The text was largely orientated within the political framework of the internationalist communist left. But only "largely“.

Remembering the First World War: Ruling Class Battle for Hearts and Minds

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Europe
Central Europe
Russia and Eastern Europe
History: 
1914-18: World War I
Basics: 
Imperialism
Facts: 
Conflicts
Publications: 
Aurora (en)

“… no other war is possible any longer except a world war, and indeed a world war of an extensiveness and fierceness undreamt of up to now. Eight to ten million soldiers will be at each others’ throats and thereby strip all Europe bare as no swarm of locusts has ever done. [Engels 1887] · We live in reactionary times.

30 Years On: The Miners' Last Great Strike Today

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British Isles
History: 
1984-85: UK Miners' Strike
Facts: 
Energy, oil and fuels
Publications: 
Documents

This is a painful anniversary for the working class. In February 1984 miners at Manvers Colliery walked out over pit closures which had been looming since Ian Macgregor had been appointed Chairman of the National Coal Board a year earlier. They were joined a few days later by men at Cortonwood and Bulcliffe Wood collieries after pithead ballots. It sparked off a strike.

Venezuela: Recent Events Since the Death of Chavez and the Election of Maduro

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South America
People: 
Fabio Damen
Basics: 
Core and peripheral countries
Crisis
Publications: 
Documents

Venezuela, one of the emerging capitalist countries, is economically and politically on the brink. The Government is in trouble, all the ministers have resigned and the opposition is becoming more entrenched across the country. For bourgeois analysts everything is the result of the "madness" of the socialist Maduro for continuing with the policies of the previous president Chavez, who died in...

Climate Change: The Alternative is Social Collapse or Socialism

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Environmentalism
Facts: 
Environment and resources
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

Towards the end of 2013 the spectre of ecological catastrophe, which now threatens humanity, again raised its head. Since the start of the 2007/2008 crisis our rulers have managed to largely ignore the questions of global warming and ecological degradation of the planet. This is because other issues dominated the headlines and, in any case, they consider it too costly to deal with (1).

Bosnian Revolt: Nationalism, "Democracy" and Class

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Nationalism
Regions: 
Balkans
Basics: 
Democracy and dictatorship
Facts: 
Repression and control
Social unrest
Publications: 
Documents

It may not last long but there is something positive about the struggles that began in Bosnia last week. The original issue was over the privatisation of 5 factories in the Tuzla Canton. These were Dita, Polihem, Poliolhem, GUMARA and Konjuh. Privatisation in the past have been followed by shutdowns. Not unusual in ex-Yugoslavia the factor that sparked things off was the vicious response of the...

Bashing the Poor

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British Isles
Facts: 
Unemployment and precarity
Publications: 
Aurora (en)

On 3rd March 1985, the miners were formally defeated. On May 11th 1985 a smallish demonstration of 500 or so mostly young (but at least one South Yorkshire miner) marched behind the banner of ‘’Behold Your Future Executioners’’ through swanky Kensington. Fast forward through years of Tory and Labour administration, the result of the defeat of the miners and other workers struggles fought in...

Their "Plan for our Recovery": Over Our Dead Bodies

Regions: 
British Isles
Basics: 
Crisis
Exploitation and accumulation
Facts: 
Unemployment and precarity
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Aurora (en)

The Government say things are getting better. They say jobs are being created. They say wages and prices are stabilising, whatever that means. They say the housing market is breathing again so that’s alright. So why does the Chancellor tell us that we need to have £25 billion more in cuts to the welfare budget? And why does the Labour opposition agree that more welfare cuts are needed? For us...

Amazon – A Modern Capitalist Microcosm

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Europe
Basics: 
Exploitation and accumulation
Facts: 
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

There has been a great deal of focus on Amazon’s global operations recently. As we write workers in Germany are on strike over pay and conditions, and there have been exposées in several countries of the nature of Amazon’s working operations both in evading tax and in the gloriously named “fulfilment centres”.

Housing is a Basic Need Not a Commodity

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British Isles
Basics: 
Crisis
Facts: 
Housing
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

I am not going to stand back while people’s aspirations to get on the housing ladder, to own their own flat, to own their own home, are being trashed. · (David Cameron, September 2013). · With this, the government launched the second part of its Help to Buy scheme, its latest solution to the housing problem. Without doubt there’s a big problem to solve.

Canada Post: Victory comes through the extension of our struggle

Regions: 
Canada
Basics: 
Exploitation and accumulation
Facts: 
Contracts and wages
Economic policies
Publications: 
Documents

The document below is an English translation of a leaflet given out by comrades of the GIO, affiliate of the ICT in Canada, to postal workers. The postal workers were locked out by Post Canada in 2011 after a couple days of strike. The answer of the workers was pretty combative. In Edmonton they ''locked in'' the managers.

‘Recovery’: Whose Recovery?

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Crisis
Exploitation and accumulation
Facts: 
Economic policies
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

The article which follows is the editorial for Revolutionary Perspectives 03 which appeared at the end of January 2014 (to receive the printed magazine or subscribe see side panel on this page). · Five years ago capitalism experienced its biggest-ever financial crash. Thanks to central banks (particularly the US Federal Reserve) conjuring up unimaginable amounts of capital to cover financial...

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