Beijing Olympics - “Powder on the False Face”

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"Holding the Olympics in Beijing is wasting manpower and money, the country is still poor. The Olympics could only put powder on the false face of the regime. The communist regime stole the land from the villagers by cheating; now it will cheat the foreigners. (1)" · Thus spoke a Mr. Li, a retired Communist Party cadre, one of the thousands forcibly evicted from the heart of the 2008 Olympics...

Facing Up To the Capitalist Crisis

This article was written before the US Government takeover of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae but the purpose of it is explained clearly here. This is the biggest financial bailout in capitalist history. The cost of bailing out the two home loan corporations is equivalent to more than twice the entire GDP of the United Kingdom and more than 17% of US GDP. And it won't be the last ...

The War in Georgia - Not Just Another International Crisis

We have been writing for some time about the New Great Game in Central Asia and the Caucasus and about the connection between all the conflicts there and the Middle East. The common denominator is the world’s energy supplies and in particular oil and gas pipelines (1). The two wars in Chechenya in the 1990s, the Beslan massacre in September 2004, the local wars that broke out in 1993 in Georgia...

War in Georgia: Who Will Control the Oil and Gas of the Caspian Basin?

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This was the first statement issued by the Bureau at the start of the war and has been translated into several languages as has the article on South Ossetia which follows. · Probably the words which best describe the present situation in the southern Caucasus - as well as the divergent standpoints of the opponents - are those attributed to a private conversation between Putin and Bush at the...

South Ossetia: Fulcrum of Imperialism’s “Great Game”

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Since 1992 the question of Ossetia has troubled the Caucasus. Along with every other nationalism, Ossetian nationalism is part of an imperialist game that is being made increasingly difficult by the international crisis. The motive forces which have induced Georgia to attack the small autonomous region in the Caucasus and those which have impelled Russia to employ its army in favour of the...

Georgia on His Mind: Lenin’s Final Fight against “Great-Russian Chauvinism”

As the Russian Army swept into Gori from where the Georgian Army had launched its assault on Tshkinvali they came face to face with its most infamous son. The statue of Josef Vissiaronovich Djugashvili, aka Stalin, still gazes down on the town of his birth. Stalin would have absolutely approved of the iron response the Putin-Medvedev regime gave to the reckless attack on South Ossetia by the...

Iran’s Imperialist Brinkmanship Can’t Hide More Misery for the Working Class

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Beyond the Caspian · Georgia may have driven Iran off the front pages this summer but the stand-off the Islamic Republic’s alleged plans (which are probably true) to develop nuclear weapons continues. The Mullahs and their current mouthpiece Ahmadinejad are playing a dangerous game of brinkmanship, behind which stands the imperialist interests of the US and the Western powers on one side, with...

The Tensions Against Iran are Growing

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Israel is Rehearsing for a Possible Air Attack · On 5th June, Israel finished a military exercise in the Mediterranean involving F15 and F16 fighters and combat helicopters covering a range of 900 miles, the distance between Israel and Iran’s nuclear plant at Natanz. It is well-known that there is bad blood between the two governments.

Chinese Imperialism - A New Force in Africa

African Economic Revival? · In the last decade of the twentieth century the African continent was torn apart by wars, with millions of refugees, and half the population living on less than $1 per day. The continent had become a net exporter of capital to the central capitalist countries and its share of world trade and foreign investment has declined relentlessly (1).

A New Development for the International Bureau

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The text which follows was drafted by the comrades of Battaglia Comunista for a European meeting of the Bureau held in Parma last May. We were unable to translate it in time for our last issue so we are publishing it here. The meeting gave us the opportunity to welcome the delegates from the Gruppe Internationaler Socialistinnen which had adhered to the Bureau in February (for a report on this,...

25 Years of the Bureau: Balance Sheet and Perspectives

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Presented by the Internationalist Communist Party (Battaglia Comunista) to the May 10th 2008 Bureau meeting and amended by the meeting · The Bureau has now existed for 25 years, long enough for us to draw up a political balance sheet and to attempt to identify its achievements and strengths, but above all, the limitations of this experience.

On Certain Recent Developments in Canadian Trade-Unionism

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Last April 28th, the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) announced that they had just signed an agreement in principle with Ford, renewing the collective agreement for three years, five months before the current one was to expire. This agreement provides for a three year wage freeze, a freeze of the cost of living allowance for four years, the loss of 40 hours of vacation per year, a reduction in...

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