The capitalists and their government reinforce the anti-workers' attacks in Greece

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Total war against the working class! · (We are publishing here a letter, as received, from a young comrade in Greece. It gives an account of a renewed round of austerity measures and attacks on workers in Greece that may appear to our readers as an all too familiar reflection of similar attacks experience by workers in the west.

May Day 2008 - Against Capitalism’s Onslaughts, International Class Struggle

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(Statement of the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party May 1st 2008 - This English language version is produced by the Communist Workers’ Organisation, the British affiliate of the IBRP) · Another May Day surrounded by conflict: imperialist wars between capitalist rivals and class war, with the world’s rulers united against the working class and the poorest people on the planet.

Since Thursday April 10, 2008, the FIAT factory of Pomigliano (NA) is blocked

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TV, mass media and newspapers are saying nothing, because of FIAT opposition. Help us diffusing news to other workers. Publish on blogs, lists, forums. · Let’s break this wall of silence! · (Communique from the Internationalists of Battaglia Comunista) · Since 10.00 p.m. Thursday April 10th the Fiat Factory of Pomigliano has been forced to halt production · A workers committee formed independently of...

With the Tibetan and Chinese Workers

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Against All Imperialisms and All Racial, Religious and Nationalist Traps · The recent violent explosions in Tibet have to be understood on different levels. This demands a deeper analysis than the clichés we have been offered, which either talk about the repression of popular demands for religious liberty and a return of an idyllic society based on the peaceful precepts of Buddhism, or about...

Anti-workers’ attacks in Greece

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The capitalists and their government reinforce the anti-workers’ attacks in Greece - Total war against the working class! · (Letter from a young comrade from Greece) · In the last few months the Greek capitalist government has carried out a great massive on the social security rights of the working class.

Strike of shop workers in France

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On the first of February, thousands of shop workers from the large stores came out on strike for a wage increase and better working conditions. Their situation is certainly not great, in fact besides not having an adjustment to take into account inflation, these workers are threatened with more Sunday working and the introduction of automatic tills which will lead to heavy lay offs.

Five Years since the Occupation of Iraq

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Capitalist Terror: War Without End · Five years ago 10 million people around the world marched against the impending war in Iraq. An unprecedented 2 million marched in London alone. It was a massive rejection of all the lies spread by the Bush and Blair regimes. People then did not have to wait for “dodgy dossiers” to know that there were no weapons of mass destruction, there was no support for Al...

Only the World Working Class Can Halt Imperialist War

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February 15th 2003 · Reflecting on the failure of the huge demonstration in 2003 to stop Britain going into Iraq, Andrew Murray, Chair of the Stop the War Coalition, argued that even though the demonstration had not stopped this war it might stop the next. It would be comforting if it were true, but unfortunately it is not.

US Imperialism’s Hundred Years War?

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(Image - McCain: ready for 100 years’ war) · Imperialism: Five Years since the Invasion of Iraq · The Costs of the War · Since the US invasion Iraq five years ago this month almost 4000 US military personnel have been killed and another 29 000 wounded. Against that, almost 1 200 000 Iraqis have been killed and 4.5 million Iraqis are refugees.

Capitalist Equality Means Low Pay for All

"Instead of the conservative motto, “A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work!” they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword, “Abolition of the wages system!”" (Marx, Value, Price and Profit) · Reformism, as the old saying goes, is a great idea in theory, it just doesn’t work in practice.

Death at Work: Capitalism is Bad for Your Health

The following article was inspired by the paper of the Italian affiliate of the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party, Battaglia Comunista (January 2008). It reported on the dangers faced by miners around the world, every day. Much of what follows is directly translated from the article. However, the very direct threat of working underground and relying on the capitalist bosses to...

Germany: Solidarity with our Transport Worker Comrades

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(Image - Demonstration of BVG workers and sympathisers) · Striking is the Only Language the Bosses Understand! · (We translate below a leaflet produced by the GIS (Gruppe Internationalister SozialistInnen), a group in Germany with which we have fraternal relations. It concerns a strike on the BVG (Berliner Verkehrsgesellschaft, which runs local transport in Berlin).

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