"Nunc est bibendum?" On the Death and State Funeral of Silvio Berlusconi

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Nunc est bibendum?(1) It is possible and even highly probable that someone, somewhere, uncorked a bottle at the news of Berlusconi's death. This is in stark contrast to the attitude of sorrow and condolence assumed by all the political expressions of the bourgeoisie, including unions like the CGIL.

Appeal for the Creation of a NWBCW Committee in San Francisco, USA

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(The appeal we publish here was sent to us by some internationalist communists in San Francisco.) · The Main Issue Today? Revolution or War · "‘We are now in a wartime economy’, says France’s top military procurement official" (Le Monde, March 15) · "Defense budget speeds towards $1 trillion, with China in Mind" (El País, March 13) · "Vladimir Putin has already lost in Ukraine.

Imperialist War or Class War

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The Ukraine war is not just about Ukraine or Russia. It is the first step on the road to a wider war. Tomorrow we will be suffering what the population of Ukraine is suffering today. Both Russian and Ukrainian workers are suffering death at the fronts to defend ... what? The property and interests of their oligarchic cliques.

A New World is Still Possible but We Have a Fight on Our Hands

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Capitalism is dragging humanity into an abyss. Rampant price increases, rising interest rates, collapsing banks and ecological disasters accompany the capitalists plunder of the planet in their drive for profits. Growing numbers of refugees are fleeing from immediate hell to anywhere they can. Meanwhile the war in Ukraine is dreadful confirmation of the ‘final solution’ capital has in store for...

The Present Wave of Strikes and the Way Forward for the Working Class

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(A public meeting was held on this topic in London on 6 May 2023. The presentation, which we reproduce below, was generally well received. Interventions from the floor did not dispute the main points made, most significantly the role the trade unions and the left were playing in defeating the strikes, nor did they dispute the need for mass meetings and strike committees as the only way to extend...

Montreal: Why are the BAnQ Workers on Strike?

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(Leaflet distributed by NWBCW Montreal during the BAnQ and Owens Illinois strikes.) · The BAnQ workers are on strike because, even prior to the current inflationary period, their wages were suppressed, without any pay increase since 2018. With generalized inflation, workers across the board have seen their real pay slashed as food prices rise and real estate speculation causes skyrocketing rent...

Turkish Elections: The Crisis of Capitalism will not be Resolved at the Ballot Box

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Elections are often touted as the cornerstone of democracy, the means by which people exercise their political power and shape the future of their society. However, under capitalism, the realities are far from this idealistic image. The working class will not see its own emancipation on the ballot paper, but only the parties and representatives of various bourgeois factions that are candidates...

Revolution and the State: Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War

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(Review of Revolution and the State: Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Danny Evans.) · This book by Danny Evans, a lecturer in Modern European History and co-host of a radical history podcast(1), originally started as a PhD thesis which was expanded and in 2020 published by AK Press as a paperback.

Education: Funding Crisis or Structural Crisis?

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Our education system is on its knees but will more money be enough to save it? · Teaching is being abandoned in droves. Each year more and more staff leave the profession for an easier career or early retirement. Less than half of secondary school teacher training placements for next year have been filled.

Base Unionism: Political Struggle or Struggle Against Politicians?

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In continuing our analysis of "alternative" trade unionism(1), we take our latest cue from the open letter ( by SI Cobas addressed to the other base unions, aimed at organising united action on May Day. · Among other things, we read that they are: "against the warmongering, anti-proletarian, racist and repressive policies of the Meloni government".

Reformism and its Discontents

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"Parliamentary cretinism, a disorder which penetrates its unfortunate victims with the solemn conviction that the whole world, its history and future, are governed and determined by a majority of votes in that particular representative body which has the honor to count them among its members(1)" (Friedrich Engels) · The inescapable, deafening cry that one must “do something!” rings out from the...

May Day 2023: There is no "Right Side" in an Imperialist War, No War but the Class War!

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(2023 May Day Statement of the Internationalist Communist Tendency) · The continued existence of capitalism demands an increasingly higher price. Whether through rapidly rising living costs, rising interest rates, collapsing banks, environmental disasters, or on people who are forced to flee for their very survival.

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