The Aged, Mentally Impaired, and Children: Who Cares?

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"A litmus test of civilisation is the way a society values its most vulnerable members. By that standard, England is lagging miserably in its treatment of the old, young adults and children in nursing and care homes. According to a report out today, nearly half of those looking after the first and third fail to meet national minimum standards on giving medication, while the figure for the second...

Solidarity appeal for the renovation of Gondolkodo Autonom Antikvarium (Gondolkodo Autonomous Bookshop)

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The Gondolkodo Autonomous Bookshop is the only distribution place of the workers’ movement, bookshop and meeting-place in the East Central European region (namely in Hungary) which has been functioning continuously for many years (now for 18 years). Now this place must be renovated because the walls are wet and mouldy, the mortar has been falling, the sets of shelves are rickety, the drainpipe...

There is an Alternative - It is Anti-Capitalist

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On June 30 800,000 public sector workers will be on strike. For most it will be the first time they have done so in their lives. Many will attend rallies and demonstrations or picket lines. At the rallies, union leaders will tell them that “there is an alternative” to the cuts. There is, but not the one they are trying to sell … · The Crisis · The first thing we have to recognise is that we are...

In UK and elsewhere, global resistance has to be based on working class struggle

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“The crisis is capitalism” · The movement of young Spaniards, the “indignados” (angry ones), started on 15 May (hence the name “15-M”). Its ranks have quickly swelled, attracting tens of thousands of people onto the streets, and even going beyond national borders. · Amongst the various banners in the Puerta del Sol in the centre of Madrid a large black one stood out proclaiming “The crisis is...

Tornado Terror and Capitalist Calamity

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Images of the destruction caused by the recent onslaught of violent tornadoes resembles that of the victims of American imperialism, completely leveled by bombs and explosions. The similarity continues, the victims of the ruin being composed of the poorest and most dejected from society. · Bombing raids, missile attacks, and destruction as a result of war is a clear act of violence that is easily...

Syria: So Many Deaths, So Many Illusions to be Shattered

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The Revolt · Since March Syria has been the scene of mass murder. More than 1300 people, including young children, are dead (compared with the 800 deaths that were required before the Army’s removal of Mubarak in Egypt) and as we write another 70 died in Hama and other places after another Friday of protest. The response of the “international community” has been noticeable by it feebleness.

Indignados - Document of the "Labour Commission" in Rome

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(We publish below a document drawn up by the Rome “Labor Commission”, as part of the movement calling itself "Italian revolution - real democracy now!". We have already published an article on the broader international movement of the "Indignados": The "indignados" on the streets, for now lacking real proletarian anger ) · As the Labour Commission of the Roman movement of the Italian Revolution...

The Strange Death of Osama Bin Laden

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How Bin Laden really died we’ll probably never know. The American Seals’ [special forces] blitz was quick, determined and left no trace. Within hours, the villa bunker was violated, the prey killed, his body flown by helicopter to a ship waiting in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The US narrative would like us to believe that he was even given an unlikely Islamic burial.

When Will We Really Begin to Struggle?

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(Leaflet for the general strike of May 6) · (CWO Introduction. We have been asked by some English-speaking readers of our site to translate the following leaflet from our comrades of Battaglia Comunista (Italian affiliate of the Internationalist Communist Tendency). We originally thought that some of the issues raised were too specifically Italian but given the interest we have decided to make it...

Spain - The "indignados" on the streets, for now lacking real proletarian anger

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The movement of young Spaniards, the "indignados" (1), emerged suddenly, but not unexpectedly from the seemingly flat calm of European society. From the day it burst on the scene (15 May, hence the name "15-M"), its ranks have quickly swelled, attracting thousands and thousands of people onto the streets, and even going beyond national borders.

May Day 2011: The Deepening World Crisis Calls for a Real Class Struggle!

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On this occasion more than ever our focus is not on a workers’ day of celebration but on the attacks on workers · The world crisis which has produced enormous economic devastation in the financial sector and the real economy in the last few years has not finished inflicting its evil consequences on the international proletariat.

... Meanwhile in the UK

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Workers face draconian cuts to pensions, welfare benefits, hospitals and public services in general. In short, a head-on assault on present and future living standards. In the wake of the TUC’s ‘March for the Alternative’ opposition to the cuts has been dispersed to localities and fragmented sector by sector.

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