The internationalists

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...

... 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...

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.