The internationalists

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.

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.

Apparently it’s simple. Almost simultaneously with the various sudden changes of government in Mali from March 2012 up until today, Islamic terrorist groups and the Tuareg secessionists have created an extremely tense situation. At present in the south the confused goings-on of the national bourgeoisie have led to Django Sissoko being favoured by the military as the head of government in Mali.

Anyone tuning in to Radio 4’s Today programme this week would have been surprised to hear someone speaking about “the working class” and about the uselessness of all “middle class parties” to represent them. But the first frisson of interest quickly died. The realisation that this was just some Ulster Protestant bigot defending the riots against the decision taken by Belfast City Council on...

Workers show real solidarity while the unions' solidarity is with capitalism · The recent settlement of the port clerical workers strike in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California showed an impressive display of solidarity among port workers. While only 450 port clerical workers went on strike, some 10,000 port workers refused to cross their picket line shutting down 10 out of 12 port terminals in...