The internationalists

(Image - US war aims) · With the invasion of Iraq the US has announced its determination to launch pre-emptive wars anywhere in the world where it feels it has important interests and to change the governments of states which oppose its dictates. What is, in fact, announced is that the constraints under which US imperialism has operated up to now no longer apply.

Restart the strikes - Break out of the union prison · On 19th March the Firefighters’ delegates rejected the latest offer put forward by the bosses, despite the fact that the union desperately urged then to accept. The government promptly announced its intention to impose a settlement on the firefighters by force, using a legal injunction and the power of the state through the courts and the...

Class consciousness and working class political organisation - Part eight · Introduction · In the last two parts of this article we have looked at the Russian Revolution. Despite taking place more than 80 years ago, it remains the single most important event for shaping our understanding of the question of class consciousness in this epoch.

(Image - Lula may give social democracy a workers’ face, but nothing can erase its bourgeois content) · Papers over the cracks in capitalism · Introduction · Latin America has been teetering on the brink of total barbarism for so long that any new commentary seems unnecessary but in the last few years the world economic crisis and the neo­liberal policies that have been adopted to deal with it have...

The imminent invasion of Iraq is not just a war on the people there. Like all wars in capitalism’s imperialist epoch this war is part of the way the system reproduces itself. The imperialist powers in 1914 started the modern epoch by going to war not only to solve their own economic problems but also to try to prevent the rising working class from ending the system of class privilege and...