The internationalists

Liberation won't come from two separate states · Deportations, destruction, massacres of innocent and defenceless citizens: the bloody cycle which recommenced more than a year ago with the Nazi-style provocation of Sharon has tragically accelerated. Yet Israeli mini-imperialism has always had a free hand.

For the working class, for our own international party - IBRP statement · For too long May Day has been a ritual with no meaning for the working class. The occasion has been used for decades to mobilise workers in support of reformist parties whose policies are anti-working class. Despite all the election promises, their reforms in reality have led to 30 million job losses throughout the OECD,...

Editorial · Take a look around you. What do you see? We’ll tell you what we see. We see a schizophrenic society; a society capable of living a lie of unprecedented historical consequence. A society whose essence and appearance is aberrant but lays claim to a moral and practical high ground that just isn’t there. We see a monster. Why is that? · It is because we see injustice.

Pop star Bono, lead singer of the best-selling Irish rock band U2 and self-proclaimed conscious of the world, recently showed us what he was all about. The rock star and Catholic ‘social activist’ emissary of John Paul II’s campaign "against poverty and for debt relief", had quite a weekend of activity and personal publicity for his contribution at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in New York and...

Health vs capitalism 2 · The population of Rouyn-Noranda, a metallurgic production centre in North Western Quebec is under the menace of severe and diverse kinds of industrial pollution. Out of the general population of just over 27,000 people, the workers of the Horne smelter and the largely working class neighbourhood of Notre-Dame directly to the south of the plant are the most exposed, mainly...