The Predictable Course of the Egyptian "Revolution"

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(The following article was written in October as workers’ strikes were increasing. Since last Friday the situation has changed again and a new wave of demonstrations has engulfed the country. The reason for this is as noted in this article that the fall of Mubarak was actually the only way for the military to remain in charge.

Imperialist Manoeuvres in the Wake of the "Arab Spring"

Since the Tunisian revolt last December sparked off the series of revolts know as the Arab Spring the scenario in the Middle East which had previously seemed as lively as the contents of a canopic jar (1) has changed. Not so much in the way those on the streets wanted, as the article on Egypt accompanying this shows. What are really shifting are the tectonic plates of imperialist interests.

Two Texts from the Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty

(We have no direct connection with Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty which seems to be supported by a mixture of political tendencies including anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists, libertarian and left communists etc. However what we like about these two documents is not only that they explain the way the capitalist system is operating in terms almost identical to our own but they also reject any...

The Unions, the Class Struggle and Communists

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The Unions as "Transmission Belts" · Communist consciousness is a reflection of the class struggle of the working class. It does not however arise directly from that struggle but is based on the reflections of a minority of the class on the lessons of that struggle. This gives rise to a revolutionary organisation or party which expresses the long term goal of the working class in the form of a...

George Orwell, the Fight Against Fascism and the Spanish Civil War

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To be distributed as an A5 leaflet at an event in South Yorkshire UK on the topic in the title. · Against All Forms of Capitalism · An anti-capitalist is against fascism and racism, be it in the form of Hitler or Le Pen or the BNP or the EDL. We are not 'anti-fascist', when this is understood as a political position regarding a fascist state or threat as a first and worst enemy to be...

Solidarity and the Sparks

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The following brief comment on the electricians’ strikes appeared in Aurora 22. It cannot do full justice to the topic in this brief space but we will follow it with a longer analysis in Revolutionary Perspectives 59 ( which is due out in early November. CWO · In the run up to the strike ballots on pensions by public sector workers the press have tried to divide public and private sector (or...

Get Rid of the Lot of Them!

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A Working Class Future Depends on Getting Rid of Capitalism Not Just the Tories · Capitalism is in the middle of the biggest crisis it has seen since the 1930s. As well as facing economic bankruptcy there is no better evidence of its political bankruptcy than the carefully orchestrated party conferences that pass most of us by every autumn.

CON/DEM/LABOUR/PARLIAMENT/UNIONS - NO!

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Capitalism has NO FUTURE! · There is no hiding the fact that the crisis that is out in the open everywhere has been building up for decades. Under governments of the left and right, all around the globe, the working class has become ever less well off, with ever more of us falling into the stagnant pit of low wages, unemployment, poverty and despair, as the wealth of the elite doubles and triples,...

Tenacious Student Battles Inflame Chile

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(The following commentary appeared on our Italian site on 1 Sept. It demonstrates that the global crisis is creating similar problems and similar responses all over the world. These responses are increasingly bitter but as yet still inadequate to the severity and determination of the attacks of the ruling class.

The plight of workers in Romania

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(The following brief comment is a translation of a report by a comrade of Battaglia Comunista) · In Bucharest on August 19 the Romanian government approved a new fiscal strategy for the years 2012-2014. For two years now the country has been a victim of severe austerity measures and the new tax plan is literally horrifying Romanians workers.

9/11 Ten Years on

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The tenth anniversary of September 11 gives us the opportunity to make a brief assessment of that tragic event and the ten-year history of imperialism that followed it. · First, it should be noted that the official version of events doesn’t hold up. This was enshrined in the report of the Commission on September 11, which opened and closed its enquiry with a haste that was, at the very least,...

The Truth behind NATO’s Victory in Libya

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Campaign Lies · The bloodiness of the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime is matched only by the violence its perpetrators are doing to the truth, that perennial first casualty of war. According to the leaders of NATO and their close allies in the Arab League, the Libyan civil war was the result of a spontaneous rising in imitation of those in Libya’s neighbours Tunisia and Egypt.

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