Wisconsin - War Declared on State Sector Workers

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The Governor of the State of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, has just dropped the anvil on public sector workers statewide. This is the start of a nationwide offensive to wipe out public sector unions. The state are going bankrupt and slipping into default because they refuse to increase revenue from the only potential source left to collect from, income taxes.

Beyond Bourgeois Barriers - For the Class Autonomy of the Egyptian and Maghrebian Proletarian Masses

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The Crisis · The knock-on effects from the world capitalist crisis are far from over. The weakest countries of the so-called capitalist periphery are suffering the consequences. At present it is the countries of the Maghreb and the Middle East which are in the eye of the storm. Amongst these is Egypt presided over by Mubarak the Satrap (1). Mubarak has held uninterrupted power since 1981.

Against the Cuts and Against Capitalism, We have no Choice but to Fight Together

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Students and Workers, Employed and Unemployed, Pensioners and Schoolchildren: We are all in it together! · According to the Coalition “We are all in it together”. Suffering is supposed to be “fair” and “equal”. Yet bankers' bonuses are bigger than ever and the rich don’t face benefit cuts. Osborne has tried to present his tax rises as shared pain. This is an outright lie.

Students - Capitalism Offers No Future

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One of the most heartening features of the current student struggles is the fact that many (though not a majority, unfortunately) of students recognise that the struggle is not just about their education. Historically, the social position of students has changed dramatically. · In the 1926 General Strike the posh university students of the time took part in strikebreaking.

Tunisia: Stirrings of Revolt - and Not Just in the Arab World

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The first thing that strikes you about the fall of the Ben Ali regime in Tunisia is the hypocrisy and lies of the Western media and political classes. For years they colluded with the ruthless dictatorship, giving Tunisia favoured trading status as reward for the “stability” it brought to that part of North Africa.

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...

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