The internationalists

The Chinese “Miracle” · The myth that was once widely circulated about China was that it has “decoupled” from dependence on the rest of the world economy. This has been well and truly exploded by the capital crisis which has engulfed the world this year. Despite its phenomenal rate of economic growth, China has demonstrated that it is not immune from the economic virus sweeping the globe.

We are reproducing here for readers of English three contributions made by our Italian comrades of Battaglia Comunista to the current fight against the so-called “reforms” of the right-wing Berlusconi Government. Readers in Britain, and elsewhere, will recognise the nature of the cuts in a state school and university system which has served its purpose for the ruling class.

9 November is an auspicious date in the German historical calendar. The bourgeois press remind us that 70 years ago this was the anniversary of Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) when synagogues were burned and 10,000 Jewish males were marched to Dachau. The first step on the road to genocide. Eighteen years ago it was the day that the GDR authorities announced the dismantling of the...

Enternasyonalist Komunist Sol (1) is a group of Turkish Left Communists who have been in existence since 2005. The IBRP has had discussions with them in the past and published some of their material including an exchange of correspondence on imperialism. (2) The EKS have recently published two pamphlets in English, the first giving an historical account of the formation and subsequent defeat of...

"We want only the best human capital at the lowest possible cost." · So Sabelli, the Alitalia manager, succinctly but clearly expressed the firm’s point of view to a large union delegation a few days ago. The bosses have the unique merit of saying little but saying it clearly. The so-called representatives of the workers instead indulge in endless chatter on the company’s terms.