The internationalists

Pop star Bono, lead singer of the best-selling Irish rock band U2 and self-proclaimed conscious of the world, recently showed us what he was all about. The rock star and Catholic ‘social activist’ emissary of John Paul II’s campaign "against poverty and for debt relief", had quite a weekend of activity and personal publicity for his contribution at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in New York and...

Health vs capitalism 2 · The population of Rouyn-Noranda, a metallurgic production centre in North Western Quebec is under the menace of severe and diverse kinds of industrial pollution. Out of the general population of just over 27,000 people, the workers of the Horne smelter and the largely working class neighbourhood of Notre-Dame directly to the south of the plant are the most exposed, mainly...

Capital imposes on science the task of revolutionizing capitalist production. Freed from this science would be able to pursue the development of socially necessary technologies. Compare the "Son of Star Wars" plan for Nuclear Missile Defense with proposals for solar energy generators in space, the capitalist class would choose to develop further its destructive military technology.

Either the Revolutionary Party and Socialism or Generalised Poverty and War · Argentina, pummelled by an economic, financial and political crisis which has no precedent in this post second world war period, has been torn apart and the vast majority of its population reduced to hunger. When the media and the institutions that govern the world economy, like the World Bank and the International...

Originally published by the Communist Workers Organisation, British section of the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party (IBRP). · The attack on the World Trade Centre was also an attack on the workers who made up the majority of those who died. Scores of them will not even be recorded in death since they were the very illegal immigrants who are stigmatised daily by the capitalist state...