The internationalists

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...

(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.

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...

(Image - Mexican demonstration against rising maize and tortilla prices) · Whatever else has changed with the advent of today’s global, supposedly free-market capitalism, in-built inflation remains a fact of life. It was the “runaway” inflation of the 1970s and 1980s which encouraged the advanced capitalist states - those with the lowest rate of accumulation - to go global and abandon attempts to...

A World to Win · In February the CWO were invited to participate in a discussion at Sussex University on the question, “Do you have to be red to be green”. The discussion was called by the student ”Environmental Society” and “Socialist Students Society”. · Speaking on the issue were representatives of the “Green Party”, the “Brighton and Hove Transition Towns Movement” (1), the “Socialist Party”...