Falklands Balance Sheet

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.

Lebanon: The Next War Won’t Be Just a Civil War

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CWO Introduction · We are publishing here an article by our comrades in Battaglia Comunista analysing last summer’s war between Israel and Lebanon. Since it was written, the crisis in Lebanon has taken a new turn. During the war against Israel, the various Lebanese factions of the bourgeoisie rallied to each other in resistance to Israel - unlike in 1982 during the first invasion, when Christian...

Palestine: More Imperialist Misery

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The recent faction fighting between the Fatah supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the militias supporting the democratically elected Hamas government is a the latest manifestation of the spiral into barbarism in Gaza, the world’s largest prison camp. This represents a fragmentation of the Palestinian bourgeoisie under the pressure of ongoing Israeli military incursions, despite...

Iraq: The Debacle of US Imperialism

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Iraq occupation backfires · In the last few months, the US ruling class has finally come to realise that its adventure in Iraq is facing defeat. The mid-term elections in October reduced the pro-war camp to a minority in both the US Congress and Senate, while the cross-party Baker/Hamilton report on the war is basically an attempt to prepare the ground for the least damaging method of retreat.

Another US War in the Horn of Africa

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Imperialist confrontation is hotting Up · Imperialist competition and confrontation is hotting up. Wherever you look, where there are huge energy or mineral resources there are clashes now hidden, now open, not only between the Great Powers, but also between their smaller surrogates. From Eastern Europe to Afghanistan, from Azerbaijan to Sakhalin Island there are struggles over oil and gas rights...

International Attacks on Workers Require an International Response!

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As the tendency for the rate of profit to fall exerts itself, the ruling class is forced to prop up their profits at the expense of the working class, by extending the working day, putting downward pressure on wages and generally reorganising production to get more from fewer workers. · What is true of the bourgeoisie in general, is also true of the German bourgeoisie.

Solidarity with our comrades at Volkswagen!

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Against Nationalism and the Logic of Profit! · On 17th November, the Volkswagen management announced the transfer of Golf production from Brussels to the Mosel and Wolfsburg factories. Because of this, 4 000 jobs in Brussels were in danger. Thousands more, in suppliers like Meritor and Johnson Control, and also at VW-Pamplona (Spain) and VW-Palmela (Portugal), were threatened.

Bangladesh - Garment Workers Struggle against Vicious Exploitation

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The struggles of 2006 · In 2006, Bangladeshi garment workers launched a series of fierce struggles to improve their conditions and pay. These struggles were joined by other workers from industries such as jute, sugar and transport and at their height involved tens of thousands of workers. In May, workers from the garment factories launched a series of strikes at factories in the capital, Dhaka.

Correspondence with the Enternasyonalist Komunist Sol (Turkey) on the Nature of Imperialism

It is not every day that a new force of the working class appaers on the international arena but in 2006 we were contacted by the comrades of the Enternasyonalist Kommunist Sol of Turkey. We had then intended to publish their leaflet on May day and their declaration of principles but lack of space at that point prevented us.

Correspondence on the Tasks of Communists Today

We are including here a short correspondence we have recently had via our webmail with Sander Hewitt. It was not originally intended for publication but, as we explained to Sander when asking his permission to publish this correspondence, the issues he raises are also issues which other correspondents have recently raised with us (but not as bluntly) in this very difficult period for the working...

From Worker Aristocracy To Insecurity

Imperialism’s New Course · Introduction · The article below is taken from the latest edition of Prometeo, the theoretical journal of the PCInt (Battaglia Comunista), our sister organisation in Italy. It was originally translated for publication on the IBRP’s (International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party) internet site as part of our policy to make more of Battaglia’s articles available to a...

The Revenge of Russian Imperialism?

Introduction · Two years ago, in a note on Russia (1), we made the observation that the Russian bourgeoisie’s new course, in the incarnation of the old KGB man Putin, was aiming to rebuild its imperialist power which had been seriously compromised by the last phase of the “Soviet” era and the devastation of the Yeltsin epoch.

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