Workers' conditions and struggles

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Turkey · The strikes over previous months involving workers of the Port of Istanbul have extended to the neighbouring naval dockyards of Tuzla. At those enterprises the struggle has also had the objective of putting an end to what is a real nightmare caused by unsustainable rhythms of work in conditions of total insecurity.

Latin America - The End of an Era?

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South America
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Documents

Is it the end of an era? This is the question that spontaneously occurs to you when you observe the accumulating excitement over the events in the Southern Cone of the American continent. From Venezuela to Tierra del Fuego almost all the governments in what has always been seen as “el patio trasero” (backyard) of US imperialism are lining up in defence of the Bolivian President Evo Morales...

Public Sector Workers' Strikes

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British Isles
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Workers' conditions and struggles
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Revolutionary Perspectives

As the economy unravels before our eyes, with the credit crunch opening the door to a housing crisis and ever higher food, fuel and living costs, the usual suspects are trotted out for blame. Or rather, usual suspect, for as ever it is the working class which is seen as the culprit for an ever worsening situation.

The Political Significance of the Strikes at FIAT Pomigliano

Politics: 
Base Unionism
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Italy
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2008: Pomigliano Struggle
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Activities
Workers' conditions and struggles
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Revolutionary Perspectives

Bologna Debate - In our last issue we produced an extensive dossier on the strike at the Fiat Pomigliano factory near Naples and on the intervention there of our comrades from the Napoli section of Battaglia Comunista. This short piece taken from the July-August edition of the paper Battaglia Comunista updates that report and indicates that something small but positive may yet come out of the...

Economic Crisis = Social Crisis - Family and Poverty in the UK

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British Isles
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Revolutionary Perspectives

"Another trend is happening, simultaneously: The worldwide rise of anxiety, despair, self-harm and general malaise. Children as young as three are diagnosed with depression. (1)" · Although the scope of this article is restricted mostly to exposing national events and conditions, there is absolutely no doubt that the root cause of these events lies in the machinations of a savage globalised...

Beijing Olympics - “Powder on the False Face”

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Eastern Asia
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Revolutionary Perspectives

"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

History: 
2007: Subprime Crisis
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

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

Regions: 
Caucasus and Anatolia
History: 
2008: War in Georgia
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

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?

Regions: 
Caucasus and Anatolia
History: 
2008: War in Georgia
Facts: 
Conflicts
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

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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Caucasus and Anatolia
People: 
Fabio Damen
History: 
2008: War in Georgia
Facts: 
Conflicts
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

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”

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Leninism
National Liberation Movements
Stalinism
Regions: 
Caucasus and Anatolia
History: 
1919-43: Third International
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

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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Middle East
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

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...

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