Revolutionary Perspectives #56 - Editorial

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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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Northern Africa
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2011: Uprising in Maghreb
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Workers' conditions and struggles
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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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Northern Africa
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2011: Uprising in Maghreb
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Workers' conditions and struggles
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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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Student Movement
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British Isles
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2010: Student Protests in UK and Italy
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Education and youth
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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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Italy
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Workers' conditions and struggles
Education and youth
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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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Student Movement
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Italy
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2010: Student Protests in UK and Italy
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Education and youth
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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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Student Movement
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Italy
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2010: Student Protests in UK and Italy
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Workers' conditions and struggles
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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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British Isles
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Food
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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

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France and Benelux
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Workers' conditions and struggles
Pensions and benefits
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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...

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France and Benelux
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Workers' conditions and struggles
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... 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.

Wikileaks and the Limits of Capitalist Free Speech

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Information and media
Repression and control
Communications
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At the end of November last year, the contents of US State Department diplomatic cables began to appear in various newspapers throughout the world. These cables had previously been anonymously leaked to the web based media organisation ‘Wikileaks’ which then entered into a deal with five “reputable” newspapers; The Guardian, New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El Pais to publish them.

The Crisis in Ireland: A Warning to the World’s Workers

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British Isles
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Tigers are endangered species and not just in the natural world. With the collapse of the global speculative bubble, the Walt Disney world of the Celtic Tiger has come crashing down. · Ireland is obviously not alone and this crisis is global. In fact, as we have said many times the crisis of this cycle of accumulation has been with us since the beginning of the 1970s [signalled by the US...

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