India Between Thirst for Energy and Superpower Aspirations

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Southern Asia
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Today with the USA, Tomorrow with China? · With its recent agreements for the supply of nuclear material and technology to India, the United States hopes it has made the first, but significant, steps towards building a strategic partnership. It sees in India an important potential regional ally to be used to encircle and contain the growing power of Chinese imperialism.

The Fairy Story of the Parliamentary Road to Communism

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In their journal Socialist Studies, No. 57, the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) run an article “Carnage, massacres and the state.” In this text they advocate the parliamentary road to socialism and criticise the IBRP for its rejection of this. In particular, they refer to letters published with introductions in Revolutionary Perspectives numbers 34 and 35.

France: Contract of First Employment Shows that Capitalism’s Laws Know no Borders

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Fabio Damen
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After the revolt in the suburbs of Paris it is not just the students who struggle against increased job insecurity - From Battaglia Comunista 4 (April 2006) · On the 18th March a huge demonstration against the CPE (Contract of First Employment) was held in Paris. The CPE is aimed at those young workers under 26 years of age.

Reflections on the Student Movement in France

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Armed Struggle
Student Movement
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France and Benelux
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Revolutionary Perspectives

The Struggle Against the CPE · The resistance of young workers and school and university students against the de Villepin Government’s attempt to create greater labour flexibility in France has been one of the most encouraging events of recent years. · The Capitalist Crisis · Since the early seventies global capitalism has been faced with a crisis of accumulation caused by the law of the tendency...

May Day 2006

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Documents

Against War, Against Capital, Workers of the World Unite! · Between fragile recoveries and severe recessions, the world capitalist crisis continues to tighten in on itself. So year after year the international proletariat, the penniless masses, find themselves locked in the grip of exploitation, poverty and war.

Against All Anti-Working Class Attacks! Against the CPE!

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France and Benelux
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Documents

The Government’s attacks on all workers are continuing. Today it is the young who are in the line of fire just as other sectors were before because the CPE (Contrat Premier Embauche or First Employment Contract) is part of a coherent package of measures. For some years the ruling class has made an ever larger part of the working class (starting with the young) insecure, with temporary contracts,...

State Terrorists on the Loose in Britain

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British Isles
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Aurora (en)

The announcement last week by the Metropolitan Police that their “shoot to kill” policy is entirely justified underlines how much democracy we have left in Britain. Despite the murder on July 22nd 2005, by armed officers of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian worker who just happened to be resident in London, the state reserves the right to kill innocent people in cold blood.

Iraqi Occupation - Neither Islam nor the West Have Anything to Offer

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Middle East
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Aurora (en)

It is not hard to grasp the evil of the war in Iraq. Over 110,000 civilians have been killed by armies which claimed to be bringing “freedom and democracy”. But torture is still torture however “democratic” the torturers say they are. The assaults in Abu Ghraib prison and by British soldiers on civilians in Al-Amarah have demonstrated that this war is not about saving Iraqis from an evil dictator.

Islamic Repression in Iran - Tehran Bus Workers' Gaoled

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Middle East
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Aurora (en)

Tehran Bus Workers’ struggle · In January bus drivers in Tehran carried out an unusual protest. They displayed photographs of various arrested union members in the windows of their buses and kept their headlights on all day. The workers were demanding freedom to organise and wage increases which had been expected for more than 4 years.

The UK and Capitalism's New Economy - Part Four:The Illusion of a Productive Economy

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British Isles
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Revolutionary Perspectives

So far in this series we have been subjecting capitalist claims about the wealth generated by today’s service-dominated economy to a Marxist value analysis. It is now time to draw these threads together and see what they tell us about the current state of well-being of UK capital. First, then, a reminder of some of the significant points established so far.

The Revolt of the Parisian Suburbs

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France and Benelux
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Revolutionary Perspectives

Translated from Prometeo Series VI No 12 (January 2006) · In our last issue we published a brief article on the revolt which took place on the outskirts of Paris and other French cities and the Bureau statement on it is published in Internationalist Communist 23. Here we are publishing a longer reflective piece from the theoretical organ of our Italian comrades of Battaglia Comunista.

Hamas Victory - The Reasons for Victory and the Perspective for Palestinians

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Armed Struggle
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Middle East
People: 
Fabio Damen
History: 
1987-93: First Intifada
Publications: 
Revolutionary Perspectives

(Translated from Battaglia Comunista 2/2006. This article is only avalaible in the web version of RP38.) · The data so far available (mid-February) show an overwhelming victory for Hamas. The victory, 75 seats out of 132, more than 50% of the votes, was widely predicted. The reasons for victory are to be found in a series of factors.

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