Bush and Ahmedinejad are Both our Enemies

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Only the Working Class Can End Capitalism’s Perpetual Wars · What is Behind the US Threat to Iran? · US threats of war against Iran are taking a familiar turn. Citing the Iranian regime’s plans to obtain “weapons of mass destruction”, the Neo-cons in the Bush camp are stirring the embers of conflict.

Halting Climate Change Means Changing the System

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Global warming is a scientific fact. The big debate now is about its effects. How long will it be before it becomes an actual threat to the planet’s survival, and how severe will its effects be in the next few decades? Even the most optimistic experts think there will be drastic consequences within twenty years.

Mexican miners

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The protest of 1500 mine workers from Cananea, in Messico, is still ongoing, from the 11th of September, and has been followed by strikes in other mines, in Zacatecas and Taxco. · Thousands of miners have been striking since July to have more decent working conditions, a minimum of security and against the repressive measures the government has taken in the confrontation with the most militant...

Public Sector Workers Have the Strength if They Unite to Fight

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Pay Cuts for the Producers · Anyone who insists we no longer live in a class society would have some difficulty in explaining what we have just witnessed this year. It began last March when public sector workers, after three years of below inflation pay rises (i.e. pay cuts), were again slapped in the face by Gordon Brown.

The Rotten State We’re In

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To paraphrase Shakespeare, something is rotten in the state of Britain. Of course, this is nothing new, but a number of recent events have brought this rottenness to the fore. As the world economy plummets deeper into crisis, as manifested by the collapse of the US sub-prime mortgage market and its Northern Rock spin-off in Britain, this is also reflected in growing corruption and repression at...

Britain’s Poorest Towns: Inequality and Division are the Realities of Capitalism

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Readers of the CWO press are well aware that we have focussed much effort in providing direct evidence from the contemporary situation in order to prove the continuing validity of the Marxist critique. For us Marxism is not a completed religious text, but a means to understand reality as it unfolds, it is a means to understand the trends which shape the future, and the task of building on Marx’s...

Britain, France and Germany - Same Fight, Same Problems

After decades of submitting to layoffs, speed ups, real wage cuts and a general reduction of the standard of living so that two wages are needed where one almost did before, workers in many regions of the planet but particularly in Europe are saying enough is enough. British workers, after their epic defeats in the 1980s have been particularly slow to recover but they have one lesson for the rest...

...and in Egypt Workers Win by Going Beyond the Unions

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Battaglia Comunista 10 (October 2007) · The powerful struggle that the Egyptian proletariat is waging shows yet again how the conditions of life for workers around the world are increasingly unbearable. · The situation in Egypt has been made worse by the policy of privatisation of public services and has revealed once again how the union organisations openly side with the bosses.

Turkey, Pakistan and Iran: Squaring the Circle of US Imperialism

Behind the Misery of War - Imperialist Rivalry · The area of direct confrontation between the imperialist powers in the Middle East/Central Asia/Northern East Africa is spreading like an inkblot on wet paper. From Darfur to Daghestan, from Aden to Almaty the conflict zone is widening and intensifying. · To those who believe everything they are told, there is no connection between these conflicts...

Capitalist Financial Crisis: The Worst is Still to Come

When we last went to press, the global fall-out from what began as a crisis of mortgage defaults in the US had begun to reach dramatic proportions. Faced with the possibility of leading banks and financial houses being unable to honour their immediate “obligations” the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank injected liquidity into their financial systems to the tune of $64bn (between...

Ninety Years On: The Lessons of the Russian Revolution for Today

(This article is based on the introductory talk given at the CWO Public Meeting in London on November 10th 2007) · "If the Russian Revolution were overthrown by violence on the part of the bourgeois counterrevolution, it would rise again like a phoenix; if, however, it lost its socialist character and by this disappointed the working masses, this blow would have ten times more terrible...

Letters - The NHS is like a battlefield...

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The NHS is like a battlefield, the fighting and war being waged between the managers, who are wanting more and more for less and less on one hand, and the workers, nurses, on the other. Although there are other workers in the hospital, its the nurses that run things on a day to day basis on the wards.

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