The internationalists

Introduction · It is 25 years this spring since the start of the Falklands War and the Government has announced four days of commemoration to mark the anniversary of the final victory in June. This seems extravagant for a war which was ostensibly one of the most pointless in modern history. All this attention underlines that this war has had an impact on British ruling class thinking which has...

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...

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.

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.

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.