Immigration Movement in the US

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United States of America
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Internationalist Notes

The Electoral Road to Nowhere · On May 1st, hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers demonstrated in the streets against the draconian anti-immigration legislation. Called “a day without immigrants”, the day of protest shut down shops, restaurants, construction sites and stopped work in parts of the agricultural and industrial sectors of the economy.

Canadian imperialism’s new offensives

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Canada
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Internationalist Notes

Capitalism’s crisis requires more aggressive policies · Though frequently but erroneously portrayed as a moderate and peace loving country, recent developments in the Canadian state’s foreign and internal policies reveal its fundamentally imperialist and increasingly aggressive nature. While Iraq remains the focus of world public opinion, Canada, in close alliance with other so-called moderate...

Afghanistan - Still the Crucible of Imperialist Struggle

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Central Asia
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

Recent months have seen an escalation of the fighting in Afghanistan with NATO taking military control, first of the southern province of Helmand and then - at the end of September - of the whole country. The difficulties NATO is encountering militarily and the high casualties have brought with them the realisation that the Afghan war is far from over and may yet be lost.

Our Last Salute to Comrade Goupil

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France and Benelux
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

As we were going to press we learned of the death from cancer of our comrade Andre Claisse (alias Goupil). Our website will contain further tributes to him but here we record his contribution to the struggle for the emancipation of the working class which he maintained to his dying day through a brief biographical sketch written by Jean-Louis Roche which Goupil himself approved of.

Terrorism in the UK - The Plot Thickens

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British Isles
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

(Image - Raising the state of alert has... shifted focus away from the domestic crisis) · There can be no doubt that the actions of the Labour government in taking Britain into war in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as it’s policy in the Middle East have heightened the chances of a terrorist attack in the UK.

Capitalism’s New Economy - The Case of the UK

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British Isles
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

Part Five: The Working Class · "A knowledge of proletarian conditions is absolutely necessary to be able to provide solid ground for socialist theories, on the one hand, and for judgements about their right to exist, on the other; and to put an end to all sentimental dreams and fancies pro and con." (Engels, Preface to the German edition of ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’,...

Global Warming - Socialism or Ruin

Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

Introduction · During the last decade environmental degradation and in particular global warming have been propelled to the centre of capitalist politics. The rise of the green parties and their participation in governments, in countries such as Germany, is a reflection of this. Major bourgeois political figures, such as Al Gore, the ex vice president of the US, have become environmental...

The Widening Conflict in the Middle East

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Middle East
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

We are reproducing here the statement issued by the Bureau during the latest Israeli attack on Lebanon which represented another step in the direction of a much wider war and not only in the Middle East. The blue helmets of the UN may now be gradually replacing the Israeli invaders and the rocketing of civilians by Hezbollah may have stopped, but this is a truce not a peace.

Behind the Smell of Blood in Darfur Lie Imperialist Interests

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Northern Africa
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

The horrors inflicted on largely non-combatant people in Darfur over the last three years have been largely overshadowed by the more public atrocities being played out in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. And yet in terms of numbers the crisis in Darfur is worse than anywhere. Between 2 and 3 million people have been uprooted from their homes in the face of strafing by helicopter gunships and...

The Suez Fiasco

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Northern Africa
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

The Day the British Ruling Class Realised the Empire Was Over · "England, unlike junior nations, · Wears officers’ long combinations. · So, no embarrassment was felt · By the Church, the Government or the Crown. · But I saw the Thames like a grubby old belt · And England’s trousers falling down." (Remember Suez? by Adrian Mitchell) · The Decline of the British Empire · When, on the eve of the...

50th Anniversary of Hungarian Workers’ Uprising

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Stalinism
Regions: 
Central Europe
History: 
1956: Hungarian and Polish Uprisings
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

Its Significance for Workers Today · It is now well over a decade since the collapse of the USA’s first arch enemy, the ‘Empire of Evil’ that was the Soviet Union. The Cold War between the two imperialist blocs ended when the economically weaker and most fragile of the two, the Soviet bloc, was unable to withstand the force of the economic crisis that was pummelling world capitalism, both east and...

For Polish Workers the Path to Socialism is One of Armed Insurrection

Regions: 
Russia and Eastern Europe
History: 
1956: Hungarian and Polish Uprisings
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

(Image - Workers climb aboard a tank in the streets of Poznan; later the tanks turned on the workers) · (From Battaglia Comunista Number 6, July/August 1956) · Workers! · Three years after insurrection in East Germany, the Polish proletariat has resorted to arms to defend its right to life and liberty. · The workers who were beaten on the streets of Poznan and mown down by the armed tanks of the...

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