Wikileaks and the Limits of Capitalist Free Speech

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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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...

Bangladesh: Workers Struggle for a Living Wage

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(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.

Prisoners of Capital Fight Back

(From our comrades in the Internationalist Workers’ Group) · December 9th, 2010 saw the start of the largest prison strike in the history of the United States. The strike was organized by the prisoners, where they made contact through illegally acquired cell phones (sold to the prisoners by underpaid and corrupt prison guards).

Cancun World Climate Conference - Another Predictable Capitalist Failure

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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...

The Current State of Global Capitalism

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(Meeting of the ICT Bureau Milan December 2010 - Life of the Organisation) · The meeting dealt with a number of organisational matters as well as undertook the task of editing a new common documents which will appear in 2011. It began with a discussion of the current state of the crisis which the Italian comrades were asked to introduce. The following is a brief account of what was discussed.

Whose future is it? Tomorrow is ours if we know how to build it

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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.

Defend our conditions, our class and our cause

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(From the Friends of Spartacus, The Internationalist Youth Review, Oct-Nov 2010 - The Friends of Spartacus are young comrades involved in the resistance of university and school students as well as young workers against the cuts in Italy) · It is well known communists support the need to overthrow capitalism.

GM, Unions and Bosses Face Workers Resistance

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(Image - Workers demonstrate outside UAW headquarters against the union) · The Fight against United Autoworkers (UAW ) and General Motors (GM) · On October 16 workers from GM's Lake Orion assembly plant, from UAW Local 5960, started a picket at the United Auto Workers headquarters, “Solidarity House”.

The French working class in struggle against the attacks of the capitalist state and … the pensions “reform”

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In order to face the full extent and seriousness of the economic crisis of 2008 the French bourgeoisie, like all the other bourgeoisies, has to strongly attack the workers to fill in the deficit chasm which they created in order to “save” their moribund system. France has decided to start with an attack on pensions, whilst Greece and Spain have taken broader and more drastic measures.

Osborne’s Axe Shows Capitalism Offers No Future

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(Image - “We are all in the same boat” special - “A few more cuts and they’ll see how fair we are!”) · The Cuts. The much-heralded cuts are now with us. They represent the biggest drop in Government spending in 90 years. It came with few surprises. The main bad news was well trawled before the 20 October announcement. This included · 490,000 civil service jobs to go.

In France the Struggle Intensifies

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(As we go to press the struggles in France show no sign of dying down. We cannot do full justice to all that is going on but we can give a flavour of what is happening behind the headlines in this leaflet from Toulouse. It shows that at least some workers recognise the fact that ritual responses are not enough against an intractable and increasingly desperate class enemy.

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