The internationalists

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...

The trial of strength between Hamas and Israel has ended, at least for now, with a “victory” for all. With elections coming up, Netanyahu has achieved an important result. He has shown that he is a hawk, a worthy successor to Sharon, the man of destiny for the Israeli people. In electoral terms he wanted to forcefully demonstrate that the security of the nation rests in his hands, through his...

Redundancies, cuts in benefits, growing youth unemployment, insecure jobs, tax rises for the low paid as well as pension and welfare cuts for each and everyone. In the supposedly so "advanced" capitalist countries the solution to the crisis is the same everywhere. Many suspect that the worst is yet to come and even parts of the ruling class say it straight out.

The following theses were written by a group of comrades in Greece. They are witness to the way in which the crisis is forcing internationalists everywhere to come together to politically confront the attacks of the capitalist state on the working class. Needless to say we find ourselves in profound agreement with these Theses which the comrades translated into English themselves and offer them...