No to capitalist war! No to capitalist peace!

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If we are to believe the last two important public appearances of George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein, the two of them are working and praying for peace. Both of them claim they are calling on their gods to help them win peace, but at the same time they are preparing yet another war. Neither George W. nor Saddam have ever been embarrassed by themselves and they certainly aren't now.

Not with Saddam, not with Bush, not with Europe!

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Workers! · Only the politicians' and media's hypocritical propaganda could pretend that the reasons for the present attack on Iraq are Saddam's arms or his dictatorial and bloody regime. · In reality, the American bourgeoisie wants to secure for itself control over the oil of Iraq, which has the richest deposits in the world, as well as those of Saudi Arabia.

Statement on the April 14 Quebec general elections

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(Statement of the Internationalist Workers' Group) · In the midst of yet another mobilization for capitalist war, Quebec Premier Bernard Landry has called on the population to participate in one the most cynical events of life under capitalist peace: a general election. For the next few weeks, the whole ideological apparatus of the state will be mobilized to convince workers that they have a stake...

Rouyn-Noranda - Horne Smelter strikers face a difficult battle

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515 workers have been on strike since June 18, 2002 at the Horne smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, a small mining town of 27,000 located 400 miles north of Montreal. The workers accepted the CSN union proposal to strike because of a thinly veiled threat on seniority and job security in the new contract company 'offers'. However, the strike was launched without any real discussion about its timeliness.

Industrial Hazards - Of cockroaches and capitalists

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In Internationalist Notes #7 (old Canada only series), we published an item entitled Beryllium Alert! on the very real threat of deadly berylliosis at the Horne smelter in Rouyn-Noranda. The Horne plant recycles 100,000 tons of beryllium-laden material every year. Beryllium is classified as a human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and studies have shown that 40% of...

Quebec - Vidéotron workers in danger!

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Nearly 2200 workers have been locked-out since May 2002 by Vidéotron, a Quebec-based telecommunications company. The conflict comes from the proposed transfer of 664 jobs (which would entail the actual loss of 300 more) to another communications company, Entourage Solutions. Workers transferred would lose over 30% of their present wages and their entire pension plan.

Ontario - Workers face severe prison sentences

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Three working class militants associated with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) are on trial for incidents surrounding the June 15, 2000 March on Queen's Park in Toronto. · On that day, over 1500 demonstrators assembled to denounce five years of welfare and housing cuts by the government of Ontario.

Capitalist order in East Timor

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East Timor, hailed as the first democracy of the millennium, and established with the aid of the US state, with the assistance of the Australian regional satrap as the local gendarme has shown it's true colors. No clearer an illustration can be made of the reactionary nature of national liberation than in East Timor.

Deadly capitalist peace

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Over 2000 Mexican workers have died trying to illegally cross the US border since 1995. That amounts to one death for every mile or one death every 1.4 days. Immigrant workers drown in the Rio Grande, are shot by ranchers and border patrols or die from thirst in the desert. This silent massacre of workers whose only crime is looking for employment rarely if ever gets a headline.

How the Iraqi Communist Party helped put workers at the mercy of the Ba'ath Party

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In the Progressive Magazine, Faleh A. Jabar puts forward the view that the Ba'ath Party regime in Iraq should be replaced by a secular democratic government. The author of the article fails to take into account the economic situation in the world and the role of the US in relation to Iraq. Furthermore the author glosses over the record of the Iraqi Communist Party that he was a member of and an...

USWV repeats its slanders

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A group of militants, formerly associated in their activity with the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party, have since decided to go off in their own direction. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. However, in the pages of their publication they reprint some of their earlier hostile statements regarding the IBRP.

New joint Internationalist Notes #A good start!

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The new joint US and Canadian Internationalist Notes (IN) published last November has been just about sold out. Both the French and English editions were distributed by the hundreds in the two countries were we operate and also sent to a considerable amount of subscribers and correspondents in other countries of the world.

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