The internationalists

It is class war at BA. Unfortunately, on our side, the war is being lost because the Unite union calls the shots for the workers. · BA cabin crew, currently striking as we go to press, are under enormous pressure to cave in to the BA management’s demands for job and wage cuts. The capitalist press is constantly attacking them for refusing to see sense and bow to the inevitable or lose their jobs.

Suicide is Dangerous… for Capitalist Profit · The New York Times announced on 6 June: · "The body of a 19-year-old worker named Ma Xiangqian was found in front of his high-rise dormitory at 4:30 a.m. Police investigators concluded that he had leapt from a high floor, and they ruled it a suicide. His family, including his 22-year-old sister who worked at the same company, Foxconn Technology, said...

(The essay we are publishing here is a translation of the “Présentation” to “La Gauche bolchevique et le pouvoir ouvrier 1919-27” written and published by Michel Olivier as one of three pamphlets which collects together in French many of the documents of the communist left in Russia. The first of these will shortly be published by the Smolny publishing house along with the previously unpublished...

Our first struggles will be against the austerity policies of our elected leaders. Join us in the fight. We have a world to win. · What the Politicians are Not Saying · Politicians will usually say anything to get elected. The difference in this election is that that they are saying nothing to get elected.

The Cuts · Although hardly reported in our media Greek workers are resisting the austerity which the Greek and European ruling class has planned for them. This is the same ruling class which hid from the world the fact that the Greek budget deficit has been 4 times higher than publicly admitted. Greece’s public debt stands at almost twice that of the UK’s as a % of GDP.