Damen on Bordiga - CWO Introduction

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Amadeo Bordiga - Beyond the Myth and the Rhetoric - The validity and limitations of a revolutionary experience ( · Today (January 21, 2011) is the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the “Communist Party of Italy, section of the Third (Communist) International” [PCd’I] at Livorno (January 1921).

Amadeo Bordiga - Beyond the Myth and the Rhetoric

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(For CWO Introduction see: · Our party has never made a fetish of Bordiga. Even when he was alive we openly disagreed with some of his principles, but mainly with the way his ideas were deformed by more than a few of his epigones when making use of his name. We are thus in better position to speak of him, of his high stature as a militant, of his untiring work as an organiser, and also of his own...

Revolutionary Perspectives #56 - Editorial

2011 promises to be a dire year for workers everywhere. The austerity plans already announced in the old capitalist countries are beginning to bite. The introduction of the 20% VAT rate alone in the UK has sent the cost of living spiralling. And the real cost of government cuts in job losses will be revealed. Already in Manchester the council had upped its job cuts from 1,200 to 2000.

Uprising in Maghreb - Solidarity with the proletarians in struggle

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A New Stirring in the Arab World · As we go to press the Tunisian uprising against the dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was going into its third week. The spark of the unrest, came when a 26-year old unemployed university graduate, Mohammed Buazizi, set himself ablaze in the central town of Sidi Buzeid to protest at the police confiscation of his fruits and vegetables cart.

Wildcat Strike in Algiers Docks

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On January 4 100 Algerian dockworkers went on wildcat strike. They were protesting about the deal reached last July between “their” union and the bosses which reduces overtime pay to basic levels and brings in new (worse naturally) shift patterns. Within two days they seem to have been joined by about 800 more and they have all refused union attempts to get them back to work.

Student Protests: Capitalism has Nothing to Offer

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The explosion of anger from students and young people around the world has shown they are refusing to passively accept the cuts and are refusing to be landed with the bill for the economic mess capitalism is in. Since the crash student unrest has exploded in Greece, Italy, Ireland, France, the US, Puerto Rico and Germany, but it was the savage cuts in further education announced by the Coalition...

Open Letter from the Workers of FIAT Mirafiori

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(We are publishing and distributing this appeal launched by workers at FIAT’s Mirafiori factory. Students and workers encountering each other on a class basis is step in the right direction. But any struggle will have to come up against capitalism’s structural crisis so that to come out victorious - if for nothing else, but primarily from the point of view of political clarity - it will have to...

From London to Rome young people’s protests are exploding against the cuts, against the crisis

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Reflections on the Student Movement · It would be stupid and simplistic to say that the clashes of 14th December were only the work of the blackblock i.e. police infiltrators amongst the demonstrators. The truth is that much more simple than the conspiracy theories of the pacifists or of the left. The truth is three and a half years since the explosion of the crisis, young people realize they...

Lets Get Out of the Student Ghetto. Carry on the Struggle. Build Autonomy!

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Comrades, something is changing… (25 November 2010) · The rage of young people has exploded in every corner of the country. · Marches and occupations of faculties have taken place on an historic scale, roads, station and ports have been blocked, and clashes with the dogs who guard the bosses have taken place.

Unite Cans Heinz struggle

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(The following article is taken from The Educator, a paper of Manchester students, with no connection to the CWO, whose attempts to link workers and students we support. Contact 07976386737 or mailto:info@communiststudents.org.uk ) · The 1,200 striking workers at Europe’s biggest food manufacturing plant, the Heinz factory in Kitt Green of Wigan, suffered the first defeat in their ongoing...

The Struggles against Pensions “Reform” in France

The French ruling class, like the ruling class everywhere has been forced to step up its attacks on the working class in order to reduce their budget deficits. In France the attacks in 2010 took the form of a reduction in pensions rights. · At first union formal protests in the spring (there were three days of “action”) seemed to be the extent of the resistance.

AG-IP Paris - They have struggled against the kind of world the capitalists are preparing...

... and on the road of struggle they have found the unions united against them · The Address which we are publishing below represents an effort by the final participants in the General Inter-professional Assembly (AG-IP) of the Gare de l’Est in Paris to address the international working class whose living conditions have been strongly attacked in the same way as the French workers.

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