No War but the Class War

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In Sheffield, July 13th 2002 · The text which follows was delivered as the introduction to the above meeting which was attended by about 30 people from a number of towns in the Midlands and North of England, as well as Scotland. They represented a wide divergence of political opinion from anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists, left communists, (organised and individual) as well as individuals...

More Than Just a Slogan?

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The purpose · There a number of purposes to this afternoon. · The ultimate goal we in Sheffield have set ourselves is the greater coordination of the efforts of all those, whatever their political starting points, who share the recognition that the only way to oppose capitalist war, the famines capitalism produces and the deterioration of the ecological framework of life itself is through class...

A Proletarian Response to Trade Union Manoeuvres

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CWO introduction · The bosses ’ press have been full of propaganda about a “summer of discontent”. Without a doubt workers have plenty to be discontented about with the list growing longer every day. As yet the majority of workers who have taken action have done so under the control and manipulation of the same Trade Unions who have helped manage years of attacks on their members’ living standards.

Low pay - Just part of the problem!

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The hundreds of thousands who have struck today are showing their anger at a pathetically low increase on already low wage levels. · The Trade Unions, alongside the bosses, have agreed low pay year after year. Now they wheel us out for one day’s strike like the chorus in a musical. · But the low pay of many Council Workers is only one part of the problems which affect all the working class.

Class Struggle or “Anti-Imperialism”

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A debate with leftism · Introduction · During recent months CWO militants have been working with others in Sheffield to build an opposition to the bosses’ war-drive based on developing a class struggle. The emergence of a successful co-ordination (Sheffield No War But Class War) has clarified the differences in theory and practice between class struggle militants, on the one hand, and the liberal...

Eleven months since September 11

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US imperialism rampant · Eleven months have now elapsed since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The dramatic nature of these attacks has been followed by equally dramatic advances in the interests of US imperialism worldwide. Not only has the US taken over Afghanistan and advanced into the oil rich region of the · Caspian basin, it has effectively abandoned the cold war...

Stock market falls presage capitalist war

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"The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis." (Herbert Hoover, October 25th 1929) · - · "I want you to know the economy, our economy, is fundamentally strong." (George W. Bush, July 15th 2002) · As we said a couple of issues ago, the gigantic financial deception which lay at the heart of Enron and what was then the...

Public Sector Strikes

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A summer of discontent? · In recent months various sectors of the working class have voted to take strike action, from airport and rail workers to council workers and firefighters, with one of the biggest strikes by council workers since the 1970’s taking place in July. As ever industrial action has led to a barrage of abuse from the press and other media as well as from politicians and other...

Understanding the Rail Farce

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"Capital is said by a Quarterly Reviewer to fly turbulence and strife, and to be timid, which is very true; but this is very incompletely stating the question. Capital eschews no profit, or very small profit, just as Nature was form erly said to abhor a vacuum. With adequate profit, capital is very bold.

Class Consciousness and Working Class Political Organisation (Part VI): Spontaneity and Organisation in the Russian Revolution of February 1917

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Class Consciousness and Working Class Political Organisations - Part Six · In this part of our series on class consciousness and political organisation we have arrived at the point where all previous ideas about what was and was not “revolutionary class consciousness” reached their greatest test. Here we should perhaps begin with a warning on methodology.

Immigration

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The needs of European capitalism and the suffering of immigrants · Since September 11th the state campaign against immigrants and refugees across Europe and the US has been stepped up. Recently there has been a further escalation of these attacks in the months leading up to the European summit at Seville in June, where a programme of action on illegal immigrants was supposed to be agreed.

The Colombian debt: a manifestation of the international crisis

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The following article has been translated from Prometeo, the theoretical magazine of our Italian comrades in the IBRP, the Partito Comunista Internazionalista (Battaglia Comunista). Note that $1 is approximately 2600 Colombian pesos. · In the last ten years, the Colombian government has tripled its debt without this meaning the modification of its infrastructure or even the minimum improvement in...

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