I believe in the need for poverty which provides wage-labourers and is the mother of overwork. · Paul Lafargue "A Capitalist Prayer" in his "The Religion of Capitalism" · An overview of the situation · Poverty · In Italy 15 million people, including 3 million children, live in poverty (figures from Caritas[1]).

We are publishing passages from a letter sent to some French comrades written by a Mexican comrade, who works in a school. He describes, albeit briefly, the climate of severe repression that has affected the struggles of school workers, who have been violently attacked - not only verbally - by the media, and by sections of the so-called civil society (including the sub-proletariat and petty...

For the last few months French workers have gone on strike and taken to the streets in demonstrations and street meetings against the new Labour Law. What is striking about the El Khomri law (so-called after the Minister for Labour), especially when compared to the rest of Europe, is not its content but the reaction that it has provoked amongst wide sectors of the working class and so-called...

The document which follows was written by an Italian comrade of Battaglia Comunista as a preliminary introduction to the text we have called “The Strikes in France May 2016” which appeared on the site some days ago. His intention was simply to put the strikes in context for Italian readers. This slightly adapted translation intends to do the same for English speakers and should be read in...