Palestine: No End to Barbarism in Sight

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The recent massacre of a Palestinian civilians, including three children on a Gaza beach is a grim indicator that there is no end in sight to the continuing barbarism that is the Israel/Palestine conflict. It is likely that the eight deaths and 20 injuries came from indiscriminate artillery fire from Israeli gunboats, which in turn claimed to be responding to Palestinian rockets launched from...

Gas gets Heavier

We are publishing below two articles from Battaglia Comunista 4 of this year. These articles deal with the increasing specific weight of gas reserves within the imperialist system, in the light of the increase in oil prices. This price has continued to increase since the articles were written, reaching a level closer to $70 per barrel rather than the $46-7 per barrel mentioned in the first...

Gas Follows Oil

Oil’s Price Increase Contributes to the Thirst for Gas · Given the increasing difficulties in its oil supply, the US’s recent energy plan has turned that country’s attention towards internal production and marketing of gas. Its subterranean reserves are considerable, although this is partially obscured by the large investment needed to exploit them and the high overall cost.

Gas at the Centre of Imperialist Manoeuvring

The Recent Accord between Russia and China Consolidates the Strategic Axis between Moscow and Peking · The whole world economy is based on the growing consumption of energy and, consequently, oil is at the centre of imperialist conflict. The USA is the first in line in cornering the oil market for itself by force of arms, as we have said so often in the context of its military interventions in the...

India Between Thirst for Energy and Superpower Aspirations

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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

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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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

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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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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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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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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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.

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