The internationalists

On the massacre of the Zhanaozen strikers · For decades the working class has been largely ignored by the media as a fringe element in society. However, it still frightens the ruling class, so much so it speaks of its existence and its struggles as little as possible. When it does acknowledge its existence it does so in ways that reduce our "subversive", ie, anti-capitalist potential, to harmless...

We have analysed elsewhere the underlying cause of the exponential growth in sovereign debt over recent years, whilst most recently focussing in particular on the financial crisis. Now let's concentrate on the underlying causes of the attack on the sovereign debt of euro zone countries. · According to the "received wisdom" this is due to the so-called financial markets getting rid of (selling)...

From 7pm on Thursday until 7am on Saturday over 2,500 Unilever workers at various sites from Port Sunlight on Merseyside to Purfleet in Essex manned picket lines as they mounted the first ever all-out strike over plans to axe the company's final salary pension scheme. · Only two days before the N30 public sector workers’ ‘day of action’ against monstrous changes to pension schemes and the biggest...

In 90 countries round the world the “Occupy” and “Indignados” movements have posed the question. Things cannot go on as before. We need an alternative to capitalism. Perhaps that’s why the state in many countries has attacked the peaceful occupations? As it happened coordinated repression in the US only came AFTER they linked up with the workers in Oakland, California.

Listen to the news on any day and there is no shortage of crisis talk. The bulletins tell us that we are in a mess for many reasons. Greedy bankers, corrupt politicians, unbalanced state budgets (so-called sovereign debt), or the Euro, all get a mention. But the truth is that this crisis is much more serious than any of these. · This is not a crisis caused only by “greedy bankers”.