Statement Concerning S., Comrade who is in a Life-Threatening Condition Following the Sainte-Soline Protest

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We reproduce here the statement by the group Camarade ( one of whose members was grievously injured by the police during the demonstration on 25 March. We believe that the brutality of police repression, like something out of a war zone, is no accident. It is linked on the one hand to the gravity of the various crises confronting the bourgeoisie, and on the other hand to the ongoing imperialist...

Trenches of the Tundra

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The media hysteria in February over flying objects and weather/spy balloons flying over American and Canadian airspace points out the increased military importance of the skies of the far north. These objects have left NATO higher-ups embarrassed over the fact they weren’t detected sooner, confirming paranoias of a blind spot in the “underfunded” NORAD system.

From the Zimmerwald Left to the Establishment of the Communist International

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(Translation of an article originally published in The Communist (May 2019 reprinted March 2021), organ of Internationalist Communist Perspective (South Korea).) · September 1915 - March 1919: From the Zimmerwald Left to the establishment of the Communist International · An Event from 102 Years Ago · From 2-6 March 1919, 102 years ago, 52 delegates from more than 40 political groups from various...

NSW Elections: No Matter Which Party Gets in Power, It's Capital Who Wins

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The last bastion of the Liberal Party is the state of New South Wales. Despite this, Labor has not been able to make the cost-of-living crisis go away, either on a state or national scale. Chris Minns, although condemning the wage cap introduced by the Liberals, has not confirmed whether wages would even increase if the cap were abolished (1).

Inflation, Pensions, War Spiral: Only Open Mass Struggle Can Stop the Descent into Hell Promised by Capitalism

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(Leaflet distributed by Bilan et Perspectives during protests against pension reform in France.) · While for months, proletarians have seen their real wages decrease due to inflation, and after a reform of the unemployment insurance which considerably restricts access to it, reduces the amount and duration of compensation, the government is once again attacking our living and working conditions by...

Ukraine War: No to Imperialist War, Yes to Class War!

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February saw the first anniversary of the Ukraine war - a year of massive destruction and massive loss of workers’ lives. As the front lines move back and forth, the US and its NATO allies escalate the supply of deadly weapons to Ukraine. Following the artillery, rockets, and Russian tanks from ex-Warsaw Pact countries, it was announced in January that hundreds of Western tanks and longer range...

US Ramps Up Anti-Chinese Aggression Amidst Maneuvers Over Ukraine

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After a Chinese balloon was spotted over Montana and shot down by the US government two days later over South Carolina, the US went into a balloon shooting frenzy. Anything in the sky that the US government and military could not immediately recognize was shot down for a week or so, so that in the news there was story after story of an “unidentified flying object” being shot down over North...

Capitalism Cannot Be Made Fair

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The sudden rise in prices, combined with decades of attacks on wages, have not only produced a surge in strikes, they have also produced new activist-reformist campaigns. The "Don’t Pay" campaign, launched last June, is one. It calls for capitalism to lower energy prices via state action and its activist methods – demonstrations and a non-payment 'strike' – are familiar to anyone who has...

International Working Women's Day: Against All Oppression and Exploitation!

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Since International Working Women’s Day last year, in the midst of war and environmental catastrophe, with the economic crisis making life harder for workers everywhere, there has been a wave of protests in response to issues affecting women in particular. · In Iran, they were sparked by the killing of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, by the Guidance Patrol (known unofficially as the...

Iranian Workers Need an Internationalist Class Programme

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On 14 February 2023, the "Charter of Minimum Demands of Independent Union and Civil Organisations of Iran" translated below was published with the signatures of 20 organisations and institutions. We don't know much about the background and history of how this Charter has come about, but we have previously reported on the struggles of three of the signatories – Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Workers’...

Unite the Strikes

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On the first of February, 2023, over 500,000 workers walked out in what was the biggest strike day for over a decade. On pickets and rallies across the country, teachers, university lecturers, civil servants, and train drivers all made the same calls for better pay, higher staffing, and an end to the looting of public services by the government.

Capitalism's Economic Foundations (Part II)

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(Part I ( – Part II ( – Part III ( – Part IV ( · As explained in our previous issue ( we have decided to re-issue a serialised and updated version of an article which appeared almost 50 years ago in only the second edition of the first series of Revolutionary Perspectives, when the group that was to become the CWO was setting out its Marxist political analysis.

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