The internationalists

For The Working Class - For Our Own International Party · 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, real wage cuts (i.e.

This protest poster was issued by Globalise Resistance against the Kissinger presence at the Institute of Directors convention in London in April 2002. Whilst Kissinger is undoubtedly a war criminal in every sense the message is not anti-capitalist but only against some individual capitalists and firms. We reject the idea that capitalism can be made fairer or ethical or whatever you want it to be.

Le Pen.s achievement of 17% of the votes cast (i.e. 12% of French citizens) underlines so many things about modern capitalism that it is not easy to summarise them in a short space. In the first place the failure of the ruling Socialist Party to carry out its promised programme on housing and working conditions explains why even its own members didn't turn out to vote for Lionel Jospin in the...

The economic and financial crisis that has been troubling stock markets and production in the rich west for years is having a devastating effect on the countries of the so-called periphery. Above all there is Argentina which, after Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and the Philippines, has been thrown headlong into the abyss of the crisis and social desperation.

Political events regularly tend to bring the question of the role of the police in society to the fore. In the period heading up to the September 11 attack, a rash of police brutality cases throughout the world had created a situation where many important cities where rocked by protests against general police violence or individual rogue cops.