The Great Unrest 1910-1914: When the Working Class Shook Britain’s Capitalist Foundations

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(Image - Soldiers parade to intimidate workers, Liverpool 1911) · As time goes by and the internet becomes the main source of information the forgotten details of working class history tend to remain buried in the archives and only selectively brought out to bolster Labourist interpretations of the past.

Crisis in the Iranian Ruling Class

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Everything that had been planned by the Iranian state, prior to the disputed election of 2009, seems to be falling apart. As a result the power struggle among factions of the ruling class has been intensifying on an almost daily basis. There is no end to it. The split between Khamenei and Ahmadinejad came more obviously to the public’s attention when Ayatollah Khamenei reinstated the...

The International Sovereign Debt Crisis

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After the sub-prime crisis it is now the turn of sovereign debt. Bourgeois analysts have rushed to condemn the present serious situation as market madness. Actually the real madness is the entire global capitalist system which is agonisingly debating its own incurable contradictions. The so-called markets are nothing but a dozen or so international banks and financial centres.

The US Budget Crisis—Workers Get Downgraded

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The budget crisis in the US is stunning in its political theatrics and in its indication of the direction the US state is headed. The deal has been settled in the halls of power that will greatly cut all basic government aid programs, particularly Medicare and Social Security while only slightly scaling back military spending.

The Unfinished Business of the Arab Spring

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The Arab revolt which started in Tunisia last January and swept across North Africa and the Middle East has been a political earthquake. Its aftershocks are still reverberating across the Mediterranean and being felt round the world. Countries in an arc from Morocco to Yemen have been directly affected by protests and revolts and two of the West’s most trusted satraps, Ben Ali of Tunisia and...

Riots in Britain - The Fruit of Forty Years of Capitalist Crisis

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The immediate spark for the riot was the shooting by the Metropolitan police of 29 year old Mark Duggan who was dragged from a minicab and during the struggle with the police was killed, apparently by two shots fired at close range to his head. The police in a statement said that their officers were defending themselves from being shot at by Mark Duggan.

The Crisis is Terminal; the “Recovery” is an Illusion

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(The article which follows was submitted by our comrade Ant more than one month ago. We have published it in Revolutionary Perspectives 58 without attempting to edit it. Since then its essential argument holds. The UK economy has posted “growth” figures of 0.2% (it used to be stated that 2% was equal to stagnation).

Sovereign Debt and the Fight Against the System

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(As we go to press the US Government and Congress seem paralysed in reaching an agreement on raising the Federal debt. EU leaders are also holding a summit to try to escape from the impasse created over the ongoing Greek debt crisis. As a result of the rise in interest rates on sovereign debt the crisis threatens to overwhelm the eurozone with knock-on effects for the whole capitalist world.

Famine in the Horn of Africa

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Failure of Rain or Failure of the Global Capitalist System? · According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Horn of Africa is now facing the world’s most severe food crisis. Around 3.5 million people in Kenya, 2.85 million in Somalia, and 3.2 million in Ethiopia are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.

News International and the Lie of a “Free Press”

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The Stench of Hypocrisy · There is something ironic in the demise of the News of the World and the crisis in the Murdoch empire. The News of the World sold papers profitably on the basis of hypocrisy. Even before Murdoch bought it in 1969 the paper traded on the pretence that it was on a “moral crusade”.

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...

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