The internationalists

The Death of Third Party, Reformism in the US, Part 1 · Each year, the left reformist party Progressive Dane, whose power base is located in Madison, Wisconsin and in the surrounding County of Dane, hosts a political conference called “Fighting Bob Fest”. What is it about “progressivism” that leftists love so much? Bob LaFollette Jr, the “non-fighting Bob”, took his father’s political fiefdom into...

Janesville GM is set to close its doors in January, 2009. In 1970, when its’ workforce was at its largest, GM employed around 7000 workers at the Janesville plant. · The regional economy is faced with a serious economic crisis, where the state teeters on the edge of bankruptcy and thirty regional banks having posted losses in the second financial quarter of 2008.

(Editor’s note: This is wholly in line with many similar statements from union leaders in the US, from John L. Lewis to Andy Stern)

Up to the present, the Israeli operation “Cast Lead” has produced almost 500 dead, many of them civilian, and 2000 wounded, of which half are in a serious condition. It is a butchery which has had few precedents in the unending conflict in the Middle East. The ferocious Israeli reaction to the launch of Qassam and Katyusha rockets by Hamas after 18 months of political and economic isolation has...

Whatever else happens, 2008 will go down as the year when capitalists lost confidence in the market. In a dramatic U-turn, the free market credo that has been shoved down our throats for almost three decades, has been replaced by calls for central banks to inject liquidity, for governments to coordinate fiscal stimuli and generally for the state to pick up the pieces and sort out the consequences...