Reflections on the Samara Summit between the European Union and Russia

New Imperialist Fronts on the Horizon · Comrade Mauro Stefanini wrote in an article in Prometeo, June 2003: · "The objective of the now desperate war policy of the ruling clan of the USA is to hold up, if not to avoid, the joining together of the Euro-zone and Russia." · This is where one must begin if one wishes to fully understand the outcome of the Samara summit last 17-18th of May.

The Recent Turkish Parliamentary Election

(An Article from the Enternasyonalist Komünist Sol) · (CWO Introduction - In Revolutionary Perspectives 41, we published correspondence with the EKS on imperialism (at the end of 2006) and a leaflet that they wrote on the war in Lebanon (in the summer of 2006). Since then, we have had the oportunity to meet and directly discuss with comrades of the EKS and hope to continue our mutual cooperation.

Ecological Disaster Cannot be Solved by Capitalism

CWO Introduction · We are reproducing below an article on the environment by our fraternal organisation within the IBRP, Battaglia Comunista. · With the recent UK floods, the G8 summit and the all too obvious gift wrapping of all things capitalist in the aura of green respectability, the question of the environment, particularly climate change is becoming more central, especially as the scientific...

Private Equity Scuppered by Subprime Fallout

As we go to press, the stock market has just recorded its greatest fall since 9/11. It is timely, therefore, that we had already prepared the following article explaining how the crisis has come about. The devaluation of capital is inevitable, and the collapse of prices on world stock markets on August 9th 2007 has only wiped off the equivalent of 5% of world GDP.

The Dynamic of Capitalism and Its Crisis - A Reply to the ICC - Part One

The Evasions and Sophistry of the ICC · Introduction · It is no secret that one of the factors in the formation of the Communist Workers’ Organisation in 1975 was the failure of the precursors of the International Communist Current (ICC) to take seriously, let alone address, the issues we raised about the real cause of capitalist crises.

The Accumulation of Contradictions or The Economic Consequences of Rosa Luxemburg

(Originally published in RP6 (First Series, 1976). Re-published as a "web special" for RP43 (Third Series, 2007).) · The revolutionary basis of Marxism rests on its ability to prove that capitalism is not only a crisis-ridden system, but that as a mode of production it also faces objective limits to its own self-expansion.

Political Leaders Change, Policies Demanded by Capitalism Continue

Editorial · The recent changes of the political leadership in France and the UK are being presented as a “rupture” with the past, by the new leaders and their political machines. This is not true. The new leaders, like the ones they have replaced, will simply pursue the policies dictated by the needs of capitalism.

Civil Service Workers: the Attacks Continue

Regions: 

The attack on public sector pay continues with Brown imposing the worst pay settlement on the sector for a decade. More than one million workers were offered average increases of 1.9%, (though for some the increase will only be 1.5%) in April with the balance worth up to 2.5% coming in November. With inflation currently running over 4% and rising, the cuts will, as ever, hit the poorest workers...

Iran: Imperialist Aspirations Mask Economic Decline

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Of sailors, Shias and Sunnis · The recent incident of the Iranian capture of British naval personnel in the Shatt-Al-Arab waterway showed the world that the British military are either liars (if they were in Iranian waters) or incompetent fools (for allowing themselves to get caught if they were in Iraqi waters - apparently those fiendish Iranians have developed the technology to materialise out...

The Barcelona May Days of 1937

Last year was the 70th anniversary of the war in Spain. The Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 has evoked more political comment and historical reflection than almost any other event in modern times. With each passing decade, the myths of Spain do not diminish as the supporters of the various protagonists in that war all vie to have their version of events dominate political discourse.

Bullets, Machine Guns and Prison

... That’s the Popular Front’s Response to the Workers Who Dare to Resist Capitalist Attacks · (From Bilan, Theoretical Monthly Bulletin of the Italian Fraction of the Communist Left , No. 41, May-June 1937) · Proletarians! · On July 19th 1936, the workers of Barcelona crushed the attacks of Franco’s battalions who were armed to the teeth with their bare fists.

Global Capitalism in Crisis

The More it Grows, the More Unequal it Gets · "For billions, especially in Africa and the Islamic world, poverty is spreading, and per capita income is falling. This growing divide between wealth and poverty, between opportunity and misery, is both a challenge to our compassion and a source of instability.

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