The Slow Death of Rover and the Reorganisation of Capitalism

The April Collapse · In early April, MG Rover finally declared itself bankrupt and called in the receivers. This followed the failure of a rescue deal, under which the Chinese car manufacturer Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) was to invest £ 1 bn in Rover. Apparently SAIC, which has already invested £ 67 million in Rover, backed off when they discovered the true state of the...

Capitalism's New Economy: the Case of the UK - Part One: The Decline of Manufacturing and the Rise of Services

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...

Pensions Under Attack - Social wage being reduced

Introduction · Today, according to the National Pensions Convention, there are about 4 million pensioners living below the official poverty line. Britain has one of the lowest state pensions in the entire OECD group of countries. It amounts to only 47% of the average national wage. Only 4 countries in the OECD, Mexico, Korea, New Zealand and Ireland have state pensions representing a lower...

"A Majestic Prologue" - The Russian Revolution of 1905

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.

John Paul II - the Pope Who Made Himself a Commodity - is Dead

(Translated from Battaglia Comunista 4 - April 2005) · Introduction · We are printing here a translation from Battaglia Comunista, monthly paper of our comrades in Italy. The translation has tried to convey the sense of irony that is brilliantly illuminated in the original but inevitably some of the puns and comments are difficult to render in a foreign language.

Only Working Class Struggle Can Halt Capitalism and Its Wars - 1st May 2005

(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.

Lebanon: Syrian Withdrawal Heralds New Phase of Imperialist Intervention

The official withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon on 26th April ended 29 years of military intervention which was triggered by the Lebanese civil war in 1976. That brutal and protracted conflict which pitted the French backed Maronite Christians against various Moslem factions ended with the Taif agreement in 1989.

Two Faces of Capitalist Barbarism - Will the USA attack Iran?

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.

Too Sexy for the Anti-Fascists - Left is Never Left Enough!

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(We publish below a text which the Gruppe Internationaler KommunistInnen, a German group which is relating positively to the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party, has produced on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, an event which is being commemorated in Germany by both a "Day for Democracy" and a Nazi march.

Parliamentary Path to Socialism?

Letters · In Revolutionary Perspectives 34 we published a letter to the SP form a contact because we considered it raised relevant points and because the SP had not replied to the letter. We have since received a reply from the SP which we have passed on to the contact and which we publish below. The letter which we publish does not seriously address the questions raised.

May Day 2005

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Only working class struggle can halt capitalism and its wars · 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. Soon after September 11th 2001 the international bourgeoisie declared that the world economy's problems could be blamed completely on the terrorist attacks of Al Qaeda on the USA and...

Towards a German Section of the IBRP

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(From Battaglia Comunista June 2004) · There isn’t yet a German section of the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party but the task of building it has already begun. So far we have already held two public meetings in Berlin, one in February, the other in May. · In February the theme was "The Crisis, the Tendency towards War and Perspectives for the Proletariat".

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