Public Sector Strikes

A summer of discontent? · In recent months various sectors of the working class have voted to take strike action, from airport and rail workers to council workers and firefighters, with one of the biggest strikes by council workers since the 1970’s taking place in July. As ever industrial action has led to a barrage of abuse from the press and other media as well as from politicians and other...

Understanding the Rail Farce

"Capital is said by a Quarterly Reviewer to fly turbulence and strife, and to be timid, which is very true; but this is very incompletely stating the question. Capital eschews no profit, or very small profit, just as Nature was form erly said to abhor a vacuum. With adequate profit, capital is very bold.

Class Consciousness and Working Class Political Organisation (Part VI): Spontaneity and Organisation in the Russian Revolution of February 1917

Class Consciousness and Working Class Political Organisations - Part Six · In this part of our series on class consciousness and political organisation we have arrived at the point where all previous ideas about what was and was not “revolutionary class consciousness” reached their greatest test. Here we should perhaps begin with a warning on methodology.

Immigration

The needs of European capitalism and the suffering of immigrants · Since September 11th the state campaign against immigrants and refugees across Europe and the US has been stepped up. Recently there has been a further escalation of these attacks in the months leading up to the European summit at Seville in June, where a programme of action on illegal immigrants was supposed to be agreed.

The Colombian debt: a manifestation of the international crisis

The following article has been translated from Prometeo, the theoretical magazine of our Italian comrades in the IBRP, the Partito Comunista Internazionalista (Battaglia Comunista). Note that $1 is approximately 2600 Colombian pesos. · In the last ten years, the Colombian government has tripled its debt without this meaning the modification of its infrastructure or even the minimum improvement in...

May Day 2002

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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.

Venezuela: Chávez and the Con of the “Bolivarian Revolution” survive, for now

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Text from the Latin American comrades · Venezuela, a country of great importance due to the vast reserves of oil it commands, has become the latest Latin American setting for high political drama as a military coup, supposedly coming to the aid of those disenchanted with the Chávez regime which dresses up its bourgeois programme in populist rhetoric and pseudo - revolutionary slogans, friendly...

To End War we Have to End the System that Causes War

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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.

Palestine, Israel

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Liberation won't come from two separate states · Deportations, destruction, massacres of innocent and defenceless citizens: the bloody cycle which recommenced more than a year ago with the Nazi-style provocation of Sharon has tragically accelerated. Yet Israeli mini-imperialism has always had a free hand.

Down with Le Pen! Down with capitalist democracy!

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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...

May Day 2002

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For the working class, for our own international party - IBRP statement · 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,...

Argentina: The Proletariat has Once Again Raised its Head

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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.

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