The internationalists

“Occupy Wall St” and “Los Indignados” may have raised the banner of anti-capitalism in the West but for the last 2 months South African workers have reminded us what real class war is about. The Marikana Massacre of 34 miners shot by the police has unleashed a wave of (mainly) wildcat strikes.

NO to Cuts The Political Struggle for Socialism · Workers the world over face a truly historic task as the capitalist crisis lurches into open class war on all our conditions. The UK is no exception. Despite the most intense efforts to unify us all in an ecstatic red, white and blue euphoria provided by the sporting elite, and the Labour Party’s newly hatched One Nation rhetoric, there is no...

On 19th September the striking miners at Marikana platinum mine accepted a revised pay offer from the mine owner Lonmin. The miners were offered a bonus of R2000 (£150) and pay increases of between 11% and 22% depending on their grade. The deal was negotiated by the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration, (CCMA) with help from the South African Council of Churches.

As Election Day approaches in the United States, it is important to evaluate the foreign policy of the current president, and place this administration within the contemporary imperialist framework. It will then become clear that the debate between representative political parties only centers around the interests of the ruling class specific to the current stage of capitalist decay.

(CWO Introduction. The following article has been translated from the latest edition of Prometeo (May 2012), the theoretical journal of the ICT’s representative in Italy, the PCInt, otherwise known as Battaglia Comunista. Although the argument is directed towards the criticisms of another group in Italy (1), its subject matter — the underlying cause of the present capitalist crisis — goes beyond...