The internationalists

(We are publishing again the "Theses on parliamentarism". We first published these in RP3 old series which has for many years been out of print. We consider it timely to republish these theses for two principal reasons. The first is that the use of democracy as a weapon against the working class and in particular against independent class politics has become stronger in the last two decades.

The muted response from all quarters to the collapse of Rover underscores the widespread acceptance of manufacturing's declining role in the UK economy. Working class indifference is symptomatic of the low level of resistance to attack by the present generation of wage workers. For the capitalist class it is a sign of their confidence that a predominantly service-based economy can deliver them...

The "Workers' Government" of the St Petersburg Soviet · (Part Two) · Introduction · The first part of this article had two aims. The first was to give today's readers the context in which they could understand the 1905 revolution from the perspectives of today. The second was to examine the origins of the 1905 movement.

(The following leaflet was given out by sections of the IBRP on May day in Italy, Britain, Germany, France, Canada and the US. We encourage all sympathisers to give out our leaflets and will send copies where we are able to.) · For five years international capitalism has been unable to drag itself out of the depths of the most severe economic recession since the Second World War.

Seymour Hersh's article "The Coming War" (The New Yorker, January 17th 2005) stating that the USA was planning to attack Iran has not been denied. Nor is it denied that the US has already conducted secret missions inside Iran. Instead the US State Department led by Condoleeza Rice has stepped up the propaganda against Iran's nuclear programme.