The internationalists

Editorial · As sure as the thaw, as is the tradition in Quebec, each spring brings us some new conference or meeting heralding some kind of new left alternative. This year again, at the end of May, a high mass was celebrated in Montreal bringing together hundreds of the faithful in hopes of uniting “the political left and progressive forces” in preparation for the next electoral rendez-vous.

About a year ago on June 29, 1999, the leader of the Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, was condemned to death for treason and separatism by the Turkish state on his island prison of Imrali, on the Marmara Sea. Since then, ostensibly under the pressures of the European Human Rights Tribunal, the threat to the life of the man also known as Apo seems to have passed for now.

All About Crime I · "Make money! If possible do it honestly, if not, by any means, make money." · Over 2,000 years later, the bourgeoisie have made this Horace quotation their scripture, the indisputable word. Yet the ruling class, itself established on a system of legal organized theft, rants all the time about the so-called rise in the rate of crime! The press in their pay makes a big fuss about...

The anger of the unemployed · (I.N. statement prepared for the Toronto June 15 March on Queens Park) · Last June 15th, members of Internationalist Notes took part in an important demonstration of the unemployed in Toronto. Around 1,500 people assembled in a downtown park to march on the Legislature. The purpose of this action was to denounce the most recent Ontario state measures against workers...

Only the World Working Class can Put a Stop to Capitalist "Globalisation" · This time it's the turn of the bureaucrats of the World Bank and the IMF to run the gauntlet of 'anti-capitalist' protests as they gather in Prague for their 55th annual general meeting. Whilst the rich countries continue with their empty promises to reduce '3rd World' debt, while the yawning chasm between the income of...