Platinum and Lead Kill South African Miners

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Southern Africa
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Fabio Damen
Facts: 
Repression and control
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Documents

The South African bourgeoisie have been long-sighted and smart. In order to guarantee the economic development of one of the richest mining countries in the world, racial segregation and the tensions which it generated were seen as no longer fit for purpose. It was better to change everything: the constitution, the old President of the Republic (and substitute him for the icon of Nelson Mandela)...

The Libyan Elections

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Northern Africa
People: 
Fabio Damen
History: 
2011: War in Libya
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Elections and polls
International relations
Publications: 
Documents

The long-awaited elections for the Libyan Constituent Assembly have ended. In both Europe and the USA there has been unanimous satisfaction. The dictatorship has been overthrown by local opposition forces, Libya has created the conditions for the development of democracy, the Constituent Assembly elections have taken place without problems in a climate of renewed calm, and Libya’s wealth, above...

The Egyptian "Spring" Between Reaction and Conservatism

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Northern Africa
People: 
Fabio Damen
Basics: 
Core and peripheral countries
Publications: 
Documents

After a week of disputed vote counting, deals, behind the scenes infighting, promises and threats, and accusations of vote rigging, the election for the Head of State came up with a winner: Mohammed Morsi, by a narrow margin against his opponent, Ahmed Shafiq. The former is the historic representative of the Muslim Brotherhood, the latter a man of the old regime, former minister and number two in...

The Struggle of the Asturian Miners

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Iberian Peninsula
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Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Documents

The day before yesterday (June 6) the Spanish Civil Guard was decisively repulsed and driven back into Ciñera de Gordon, a small town about halfway between Oviedo and Leon. They had arrived in force on Tuesday to clear a roadblock on highway N-630 near the village wedged between the mountains of Asturias, between Oviedo and Leon. But they did not have to wait long for a response from the miners.

Moralism is no Substitute for a Materialist Understanding

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Anarchism
Basics: 
Historical materialism
Facts: 
Financial market
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

(Review - "Debt: The First 5,000 Years", David Graeber - Melville House Publishing (New York), May 2011, 534 pp [hardback $32.00]) · Along with capitalism’s voluminous debt mountain a veritable avalanche of books on debt and the financial crisis has descended onto the market place. With almost four hundred pages of text, a further sixty of notes and a substantial bibliography, David Graeber’s book...

It’s Coming Yet For All That …

Basics: 
Proletarian revolution
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

For years we in the Internationalist Communist Tendency predicted that the speculative bubble which really started in the 1980s with the deregulation of financial markets would not last. We were confident that what Marx said about speculation being the sign that a cycle of accumulation has entered its final stages still held.

Report on the Manchester Meeting of the CWO

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British Isles
Basics: 
Crisis
Party and class
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

The document that follows (Beyond Protest) is based on the notes of the introductory speaker for the CWO’s Manchester meeting on April 21. The meeting was also attended by members of the ICC and the Anarchist Federation as well as individual council communists and left communists. · The meeting was held in a fraternal manner with all seriously trying to grapple with the problem of the development...

One Law for the Rich...

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British Isles
Facts: 
Law
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

The Irresistible Decline of Legal Aid · In December of 2011 Justice Secretary Ken Clarke trumpeted the opening of the Rolls Building, an · "… impressive new court complex … located at the heart of the City of London on Fetter Lane and is the largest specialist centre for the resolution of financial, business and property litigation anywhere in the world.

Serious Event at the Parma ICT Office

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Italy
Facts: 
Activities
Publications: 
Documents

(Translated into English by the comrades of FICL who we warmly thank) · During the night of Wednesday 16 to Thursday 17 May, unknown persons got into our office in borgo San Giuseppe 5, Parma, and have taken tens of volumes from the Dimitri Papaioannoy library. The following Friday morning one comrade passing the office found the mailbox pulled off and thrown in front of the door.

Syria: Caught in the Vice of Imperialism

Regions: 
Middle East
History: 
2011: War in Syria
Basics: 
Imperialism
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

In early May multi-party elections were held in Syria. These were the first, so called, “free” elections since the Syrian Ba’ath party seized power in 1963. A referendum, held in February, paved the way for these elections by securing a vote to permit constitutional changes which would allow multi-party democracy.

Sudan: Open War for Oil Breaks Out Again

Regions: 
Africa
Eastern Africa
Basics: 
Imperialism
Facts: 
Conflicts
Publications: 
Documents

In April the long war for control of Sudan’s oil broke out again. South Sudan, which became an independent country in 2011, shut down all oil production in the oil fields which it controls and launched an incursion into Sudanese territory and captured the Sudanese town and oil field of Heglig. It is reported that oil facilities in Heglig have been destroyed.

Update on Wisconsin: Elections and Austerity

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United States of America
Basics: 
Crisis
Publications: 
Internationalist Notes

Since the massive protests came to an end and the campaign to get the current Governor recalled from his position, workers have remained silent, largely hoping that an election of Democrats will stop the attacks on their wages and working conditions. Patriotism and democratism stand like a pair of blinders on the working class while the capitalists are already preparing more attacks.

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