The internationalists

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.

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.

(Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Dhaka, Bangladesh (AP) - Dozens of people were killed after a devastating blaze raced through a garment factory that supplies major multinationals such as Gap and JCPenney near Bangladesh's capital. Many of the dead included trapped workers who jumped from the smouldering building engulfed by flames, witnesses at the scene said.

Many people might not even have noticed that the latest UN climate conference was held in the Mexican resort of Cancun during the first 2 weeks of December. It was hardly reported in the bourgeois press and where it was mentioned the expectations of success were well and truly damped down. After the fiasco of the 2009 Copenhagen conference, which was supposedly “the last chance to save the...

Whose future is it? Looking around at how workers (whether permanent, casual, temporary) are living the response isn’t encouraging. Wages and earnings have been falling for years. This is so extreme that the army of those who slave away to find that their wages don’t reach the fourth, or third, or even second, week of the month is increasing.