The internationalists

After winning one of the dullest elections in history,(1) where less than 60% bothered to vote, Labour has quietly slipped into office to carry out the task of managing UK incorporated. The main job is to reassure international capital markets that their investments are safe — no more Liz Truss profligate spending announcements based on unsecured borrowing or energy price guarantees.

The recent strike at 36 major container ports throughout the East and Gulf Coast is the first strike to be launched by the ILA since 1977. It has been estimated that the strike would cost the U.S. economy billions per week, or even per day for some higher estimates. Taft-Hartley was not invoked and its potential usage was disavowed despite being used in 2002 against the ILWU on the West Coast.

Introduction · Before their election win on 4 July, the Labour Party leaked to the press a “shit list” drawn up by Sue Gray, the Chief of Staff of the Leader of the Opposition, of potential crises that could befall the new government in the near future if they were to be elected.(1) Top of the list, above such headaches as public sector pay negotiations and prison overcrowding, was the collapse...

Imperialist war and its atrocities are part of a capitalist world order which sends workers to die for the profits of their national capitalists. So, we reject support for capitalist war from any of its sides, and support workers’ struggle against it: from the most embryonic actions like desertion and refusal to ship arms, to the final revolutionary action that can stop world war in its tracks...

(On July 27-28 the IWG held its first AGM. The meeting was a great achievement with most of the affiliate attending in person or tuning in elsewhere. The meeting served as a major milestone in the development for the ICT’s US affiliate serving as an example of its organizational capabilities.) · Imperialism · Modern imperialism was brought on by the concentration of capital and the development of...