The internationalists

The Israeli withdrawal from Gaza has two dimensions. On the one hand, it represents the next chapter in the category of suffering and exploitation which the Palestinian workers are suffering, while, on the other, it represents another move in the greater strategy of US imperialism for the Middle East. We publish below two texts which consider the events from each of these angles.

We are publishing below a text written by one of our sympathisers examining Marx's critique of the Gotha programme of 1875. The text looks at Marx's critique of wage labour, which forms the basis of capitalism, and gives his insights into what labour will be like under communism. The text illustrates Marx's method which is to proceed from a ruthless criticism of what exists, namely...

Subtitled "How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive", this book (1) puts the author's views on what leads to the disintegration or persistence of human societies, and how this relates to present-day society. He supplies a wealth of description of previous societies in support of these views. However, as the author himself acknowledges, the focus of the book is slightly narrower than the title...

We are publishing below a letter which the CWO sent to the Partito Comunista Internazionalista (Battaglia Comunista) in commemoration of their - and our - recently deceased comrade Mauro. We will be publishing the full details of the commemoration and correspondence celebrating his life and work for communism in the forthcoming edition of Communist Review.

During August, while the media's attention was focussed on the government's latest anti-terrorist measures, yet another outrageous attack occurred at the hub of Britain's air transport system. The culprit is a little-known outfit which calls itself Gate Gourmet. Gate Gourmet, a fanatical follower of capitalism's latest Profit at any Price movement, is a shadowy concern in the pay of much larger...