Editorial

Firemen’s strike · As we go to press the first 8 day strike by the firemen is underway. It is now clear that the government torpedoed the 16% agreement reached by the fire Brigades Union (FBU) and the employers. The government fears 16% for the firemen could set the precedent for other public sector workers to follow and this would be intolerable.

Firefighters' strike

(Image - Firefighters on education workers’ picket line; but really effective joint action requires going beyond union control) · Spread the strikes! Stop the War Drive! · It’s not so long ago that Tony Blair was crowing about the end of class struggle. The working class, however, is still alive and kicking. The firefighters’ strike is the first for 25 years and comes at a time of growing unrest.

Countdown to war with Iraq

(Conformity, blind allegiance, complacency, uniformity and silence are also useful in the war against the working class) · The UN resolution passed on 8th November 2002 has started the clock ticking for the US’s new war with Iraq. The period of manoeuvring and phoney opposition to the US by its rivals has ended with the US achieving more or less everything it wanted.

Formation of the Internationalist Workers Group (U.S. & Canada)

Communiqué on IBRP work in North America · The editors of Internationalist Notes (Canada) and Internationalist Notes (U.S.) met last spring in Montreal to discuss how best to advance the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party’s work in this part of the world. This meeting followed the IBRP’s break with the ultra-localist Los Angeles Worker’s Voice as well as other more encouraging...

Communism Against the War Drive

(Image - Time to co-ordinate the class struggle resistance to imperialist war) · Intervention or Monasticism? · RP26 carried details of CWO’s participation in the Sheffield No War But the Class War group ( and our attempts to build a strong co-ordination around opposition to the war drive based on the politics of class struggle.

Imperialism’s coming war

We are publishing below the text of a leaflet handed out by the Partito Comunista Internazionalista (Battaglia Comunista), our sister organisation in the IBRP, at the European Social Forum held in Florence, 6th-10th November. · US imperialism is on the verge of once again launching death and destruction on the Iraqi population.

The Palestinian tragedy

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We are publishing below an article from our sister organisation Battaglia Comunista which they published in the April edition of their paper. Although it is now 6 months since the text was written, it expresses very well the tragedy of the Palestinian proletariat. These months, which have brought further horrible butchery of workers in the area, show the proletariat is being crushed between the...

Imperialism’s new world order

In 1990, Bush Senior announced the dawn of a “New World Order”. What he was really announcing was that, following the defeat of Russian imperialism, the US would now create its own new world order. The old division of the world into two opposing imperialist blocs, that had been the result of World War II, had now ended and a new division of the world was to be carried out, a division in which the...

Class Consciousness and Working Class Political Organisation (Part VII): Party and Class in the Revolutionary Wave of 1917-21

(Image - Petrograd, October 1917) · Class consciousness and working class political organisation - Part seven · Introduction · The experience of the Russian Revolution is the single most important event in any discussion of the nature of working class consciousness, the emergence of a proletarian party and the nature of class decision-making.

SWP and Stalinism - A Tangled Web

The collapse of the Soviet Empire heralded political crisis for those Stalinists and Trotskyists groups who applauded the Moscow regime and saw it in varying degrees as “non-capitalist” or even “post-capitalist”. These groups are faced with the problem of explaining how a “workers’ state”, is able to transform itself into a “bour geois state” by a series of reforms imposed by the political...

Johannesburg Earth Summit

(Image - Whose hand holds the globe? While it remains the capitalists’, the World is not safe) · Capitalism fails to save the world · Self-congratulation summit · After the Johannesburg jamboree on sustainable development (officially, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, or, informally, the Earth Summit, organised by the UN), world leaders have been praising themselves on their great...

Appeal! Greater ambitions require more support

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The formation of the Internationalist Workers Group as an Organizing Committee of the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party (IBRP) in the USA and Canada is a response to the crying need for a true internationalist communist presence in these two major countries. However, if the founding of this new group is to be of any effect the question of giving it sufficient financial resources is...

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