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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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...

Germany’s Election Spectacle 2013: We have no choice but the class struggle!

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Sozialismus oder Barbarei

(The 2013 election campaign for the Bundestag is casting its shadow and conditioning the political confrontations of the present time. Normally, on these occasions, politicians outbid each other with all sorts of election promises, which are just as quickly forgotten after the election as they were pulled out of the hat.

Lehman Brothers 5 Years On: The Emperor Still Has No Clothes

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Davide Casartelli
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2011: Sovereign Debt Crisis
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Crisis
Financialization
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Financial market
Publications: 
Documents

Today the press and TV are talking about the "flood" of liquidity that is almost drowning the world. However, until recently they were crying about the lack of liquidity that had given rise to the crisis in early 2000. · Just five years ago, on September 15, 2008, the American merchant bank, Lehman Brothers failed and in the following weeks the aftershocks of a financial earthquake of gigantic...

Syria: Another Unending Imperialist Agony

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Middle East
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2011: War in Syria
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Crisis
Imperialism
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Conflicts
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Documents

An Imperialist Turning Point? · There has been much agonising in the various imperialist camps in the last couple of weeks. A lost vote in the British Parliament by the Con-Dem coalition, a retreat from instant retaliation by the White House to await the return of Congress, the Pope backing non-intervention and even Putin saying that he had cut spare parts supplies for the S-300 anti-missile...

The Continuing Crisis in Egypt, More Power Games While the Masses Are Dying Of Hunger And Poverty

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Northern Africa
Middle East
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Fabio Damen
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Democracy and dictatorship
Facts: 
International relations
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Prometeo

The Revolt Against the Islamists · Tahrir Square once again exploded. Millions of protesters took to the streets of the main cities of Egypt. President Morsi was deposed, arrested and put under surveillance in the "offices" of the Republican Guard. An interim president, Adli Mansour, former President of the Constitutional Court, has taken his place and the Constitution has been suspended.

Antonio Gramsci "Pre-Prison Writings": Review Article

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Fascism
Gramscism
Italian Communist Left
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Italy
People: 
Amadeo Bordiga
Antonio Gramsci
Onorato Damen
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1921: Communist Party of Italy
1922-45: Fascism
1925: Comitato d'Intesa
1926: Lyons Congress of PCd’I
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Documents

(The article reprinted here was published originally in International Communist Review 13 in 1995. We have recently scanned this entire publication and it can be downloaded as a pdf. However our main reason for revisiting this issue was because several people in the last few months have written to ask us if we have written anything on Gramsci.

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