USA: A PR Campaign for Austerity—A More “Flexible” System of Layoffs in the Offing for Workers

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The Illusion of popular participation in austerity and restructuring programs can be particularly nauseating for those conscious workers who have the stomach to sit through one of these staged public relations sessions. Across the US there are such events being held in the City of Detroit to mediate the sell-off of all city assets.

Migrants And Italians United In Struggle - Why Not a Strike?

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As Titan workers we’ve always said that this proposed day of struggle is important. In our workplace there are lots of workers, both migrants and Italians, sympathetic to each other and aware of the fact that a migrant leaves his own country, not for a holiday but out of poverty and desperation, to find a job which all of us need in order to survive in the absurd capitalist system.

Hugo Chávez: Neither Socialist Nor Anti-Imperialist

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Hugo Chávez died on March 5 2013. He was President of Venezuela between February 1999 and March 2013. His long hold on power was a result of the 4 elections in which he won by clear majorities. There is little disputing the fact that his main base of support came from the poorest layers of Venezuelan society and there is a good case to be made that his period in power saw some improvement in...

The Events in Port Said

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We are publishing this position statement about what is happening in Port Said, Egypt with the warning that the news about what is going on is limited [ignored internationally by the official media] and not entirely consistent even if all the sources consulted agree on the fact that the Egyptian city is in ferment. · Information is still scarce but some facts speak for themselves.

New Government, Same Bosses

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The first fact that emerges from the Italian election results - with the centre-left (Democratic Party or PD) in the majority in the Lower House, a tie in the Senate between PD and Berlusconi’s PDL, and, above all, Grillo’s[1] exploits – is that the country is ungovernable. The smaller groupings, such as those that were supposed to support the grand coalition of the Centre of Fini and Casini[2],...

The Problem is the Global Capitalist Crisis

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These days it doesn’t take a bunch of Marxists to alert workers that world capitalism is in deep crisis. There’s a mounting chorus from all the pundits that the world economy is facing the biggest crisis since the 1930s. · What they don’t tell us, or mostly don’t realise, is that the financial meltdown in 2007-8 was only the latest stage in a global crisis that capitalism has been trying to...

Is the Worm Turning?

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Throughout much of mainland Europe and in the USA, debt-laden states are axing jobs and services. Here, literally hundreds of campaigns, lobbies, rallies, involving thousands of people are underway at any one time. The campaigning is as wide-ranging as the cuts themselves. From swim-ins to e-petitions and rallies outside parliament to reverse an endless chain of individual cuts.

If one Pope dies they just create another ...

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... but when one has resigned? They do the same, but under certain conditions · Pope Benedict XVI, or Monsignor Ratzinger in his secular guise, has resigned. The situation is strange, there are few precedents and those are lost in the mists of time, but what is more perplexing are the justifications, immediately assumed to be genuine and convincing of the good faith of the outgoing vicar of...

Christopher Dorner – A Capitalist Tragedy

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Revolutionaries frequently write about the tragedies of capitalism. Sometimes it seems more ink is used to talk about the horrors of capitalism rather than highlighting examples of working class struggle, large or small. As internationalists, we believe the ushering in of a new society (that we call communism) will be the result of a revolution by the working class.

The Vote is only a Trick

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Workers, whether casual, part-time, full-time, unemployed or retired, the vote will not change our conditions, let’s not kid ourselves! · At the last election, five years ago, politicians were full of promises. We were told that after the sacrifices the crisis would pass and that our conditions of life and work would improve.

Niger: Act Two of French Imperialism’s Campaign in West Africa

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The campaign in Mali is not over but France has already opened a second front in Niger. · It is obvious to everyone that a rapacious French imperialism intends to re-colonize the entire area of the Sahel. As in Mali the excuse is to clear the ground of jihadist terrorism, to provide stability for friends, and to stand up as a champion of democracy against the totalitarianism of Sharia law.

Bedroom Tax: Another Vicious Attack on the Working Class

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If any more evidence were needed of just how confident the ruling class in the UK feels today the so-called bedroom tax is it. Like so many of the ‘all in it together’ attacks this one is deliberately aimed at weaker sections of the working class who are in no position to fight back on their own: people on the lowest wages and the unemployed who must rely on benefits.

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