The internationalists

Editorial · The American middle class, subject of the ravings of the bourgeois media and academics alike, is a potent myth. Contrary to this myth, the Luxembourg Income Study Database ranks the US fourteenth out of the fifteen countries included in their rankings. This statistical database defines the term “middle income” as being those households with incomes from 62.

(We publish the following article in its entirety. First appearing in issues 38 and 40 of Revolutionary Perspectives, the journal of the Communist Workers Organisation in the UK, and given the rise of left nationalist leaderships in countries once considered unquestioningly under the thumb of US imperialism and the persistence of massive broad popular struggles in the region for which the left...

Workers’ Resistance Grows Despite Union Sabotage · As we go to press, 200 000 Civil Service workers are taking part in a one-day strike whilst British Airways workers have just had their strike called off by Tony Woodley, once Trotskyist militant, now boss of the TGWU. Over 100 000 jobs are still at risk in the Civil Service, and a further 5% cut in staff costs is planned by the Treasury from...

Trident and its replacement - Nuclear Weapons · In December, the government introduced a White Paper recommending the replacement of Britain’s Trident nuclear missile system. The Trident system, which is a submarine launched, nuclear armed, ballistic missile system, is due to end its operational life in about 2025. The new system would, we are told, last to the 2050’s.

What we said at the time... - From Workers’ Voice 8 (second series) August 1982 · The re-taking of the Falkland Islands was a major military and propaganda victory for the British ruling class. The victory was also achieved without damage to the interests of US imperialism, which at first seemed threatened by the conflict with Argentina.