Marxism and Anarchism

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The document which follows is a rough outline of our introductory remarks in our meeting in the London Anarchist Bookfair. We say “rough” since we had intended to record the meeting but failed to do so. We have since had quite a few requests (even criticisms of our failure), from those not present, to make some kind of account of the meeting.

Grangemouth: A Chronicle of our Time

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Crisis
Exploitation and accumulation
Globalization
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Workers' conditions and struggles
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Documents

The Ineos Connection · The Grangemouth oil refinery and connected petrochemical plant remains one of the biggest contributors to the Scottish economy. It is also strategically important for the North Sea oil industry. The Forties pipeline, which carries a third of the UK's daily oil output from 65 platforms, runs from the North Sea to BP’s Kinneil plant, near Grangemouth.

Global warming: Capitalism is Dragging Us to Catastrophe

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Environment and resources
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Aurora (en)

The latest UN Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) report makes dismal reading. It states loud and clear that global warming is caused by human activity, and sees the argument on this issue as now settled. Since its last report in 2007, there has been no significant attempt to cut global emissions, in fact the rate of emissions of greenhouse gases has accelerated.

Why Do We Lose All the Time?

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Canada
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Workers' conditions and struggles
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L'Internationale

The following article is translated from L’Internationale, agitation broadsheet of the Groupe Internationalist Ouvriere (Internationalist Workers’ Group) Canadian affiliate of the Internationalist Communist Tendency. Some comrades in Europe may think that the picture given here of the state of class war in Quebec is exaggerated but rather the opposite is the case.

No Justice for Workers

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British Isles
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State
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Law
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Aurora (en)

On 1 April 2013 the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act brought in massive cuts to legal aid. The result is that civil legal aid will generally no longer be available for areas of law such as employment, welfare benefits, clinical negligence, immigration, debt, divorce and custody of children.

Good News For Capital - For the Working Class: The Mixture As Before

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British Isles
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Crisis
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Economic policies
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Aurora (en)

Good news then: the IMF says the UK is the second fastest growing economy amongst the world’s seven richest states (the G7). Apparently only the United States is growing faster than here. So what are we to make of news about hundreds of thousands of federal workers suddenly being told to take leave of absence without pay (furlough) as their workplaces shut down while Congress debates the budget...

Saving Stocksbridge Leisure Centre – The Limits of Local Action

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British Isles
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Activities
Books, art and culture
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Documents

A local facility threatened by the crisis · Stocksbridge is a small town between Sheffield and Barnsley. It came into existence in the mid-19th century as a centre of steel production. Until the 1970s the local economy and employment continued to be based around the steel works. In the early 1970s the local working class community made huge efforts raising funds to support the establishment of a...

The Need for an Alternative

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Italy
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Documents

It’s right and necessary "to fight and to organise social dissent" against this government and the extremely grave economic and social consequences of the policies of the governments that preceded it. Policies ranging from the reform of pensions and the labour market – passed with the silence / approval of the big three trade unions – to the cuts to health care and the welfare state, to...

UK Recovery? It’s a Red Cross disaster area.

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Documents

Cameron and his mates can claim an ever-poorer population is recovery but the reality of the UK’s dire situation means this winter the Red Cross will start collecting and distributing food aid to the needy in Britain for the first time since the Second World War, as welfare cuts and the looming economic mega-depression force ever-growing numbers of people to soup kitchens and food banks across...

Youth - Fight for a Future or Accept There is No Future.

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Environmentalism
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Documents

For a long time, revolutionary communists have argued that ‘’either the proletarian revolution is victorious or capitalist barbarism will destroy humanity”. It is little motive for celebration that the latest economic, social and scientific data not only confirm the profundity of the human dilemma but illustrate that degradation of the planet beyond repair can only be prevented in a matter of a...

Lampedusa Disaster

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Eastern Africa
Northern Africa
Italy
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Core and peripheral countries
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Disasters
Migrations
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Battaglia Comunista

Only the overthrow of capitalism can put an end to its barbarity · Sooner or later it had to happen and now it has happened again. The carnage in the sea off ​​Lampedusa[1] is not a tragic accident but the logical consequence of the bourgeoisie’s policies to halt the flow of refugees or "simple" migrants in search of work; people who are fleeing civil wars and poverty.

The Real Dilemma is not "Parliamentarism OR Fascism" But "Socialism OR Barbarism"

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Antifascism and United Front
Fascism
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Balkans
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Democracy and dictatorship
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Repression and control
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Documents

(In the wake of the murder of the rapper Pavlos Fyssas at the hands of a neo-Nazi Gold Dawn thug and the arrest of the leader of that party Greek Internationalists issued the following leaflet. Its warning is clear. To be only anti-fascist today is to fall into the trap of the Greek "democratic" state which is bringing in new repressive measures not only against immigrants but against all...

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