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It is class war at BA. Unfortunately, on our side, the war is being lost because the Unite union calls the shots for the workers. · BA cabin crew, currently striking as we go to press, are under enormous pressure to cave in to the BA management’s demands for job and wage cuts. The capitalist press is constantly attacking them for refusing to see sense and bow to the inevitable or lose their jobs.

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Chinese Workers Show Their Class

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Eastern Asia

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Suicide is Dangerous… for Capitalist Profit · The New York Times announced on 6 June: · "The body of a 19-year-old worker named Ma Xiangqian was found in front of his high-rise dormitory at 4:30 a.m. Police investigators concluded that he had leapt from a high floor, and they ruled it a suicide. His family, including his 22-year-old sister who worked at the same company, Foxconn Technology, said...

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Greece: The Shape of Things to Come

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Balkans

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Economic policies

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Aurora (en)

The Cuts · Although hardly reported in our media Greek workers are resisting the austerity which the Greek and European ruling class has planned for them. This is the same ruling class which hid from the world the fact that the Greek budget deficit has been 4 times higher than publicly admitted. Greece’s public debt stands at almost twice that of the UK’s as a % of GDP.

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Kyrgyzstan - at the Heart of Russian-US Rivalry

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Central Asia

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Fabio Damen

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International relations

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Scandinavia and Baltic Sea

A few hours before the signing of the farcical “nuclear disarmament” agreement between Medvedev and Obama a violent revolt against the pro-American government of Bakiyev broke out. Almost a hundred dead and thousand wounded were left on the streets of the capital, Bishkek. The government fell and was immediately replaced by a “regency” in the person of Roza Otumbayeva, an ex-minister in the same...

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Against a Global Capitalist Crisis, the Struggle has to be International

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Northern Africa

Southern Asia

Balkans

Caucasus and Anatolia

Australia and New Zealand

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In the ideological world-view of the bourgeoisie the crisis is the fault of greedy bankers who took unnecessary risks which did not turn out as they wished. In reality, the bankers played a crucial role in hiding the underlying problem of capitalism, the falling rate of profit, by manufacturing fictitious profit to replace the real thing.

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Solidarity with the Rosarno Labourers, Against the Bosses’ Iron bars and Lockouts

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Italy

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Migrations

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After two days of clashes in Rosarno 66 people have treated in hospital, 17 locals, 19 police and 30 immigrants. Two of the latter were beaten with metal bars on the night of January 7-8 and remain in a serious condition. Others were run over by cars. This was the response to the sudden explosion of anger the day before, after two immigrants were wounded by a coward with an airgun.

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Communication Workers’ Union Sabotages Postal Workers’ Struggle

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Unionism

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British Isles

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Communications

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Déjà vu · On the night of 4-5 November the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) carried out their own plot to blow up the workers’ resistance to the one of the most aggressive managements in Britain. The postal strikes were called off in the early evening of 4 November but the actual agreement with the Royal Mail management was not signed until after 1.00 a.m. on 5 November.

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The Class War at Royal Mail

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British Isles

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Transports

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Support the Posties! They Offer Us a Better World · After years of management bullying and the loss of 60,000 jobs postal workers have had enough. 76% voted for strike action (67% of the workforce took part) and this is now being observed by 95% of the workforce (according even to the Royal Mail bosses themselves).

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In Support of the Struggle of the Workers of SPX, For Proletarian Internationalism

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Italy

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Since 14 September the workers of Spx (Tecnostest) in Sala Baganza (Parma - Italy) have been fighting a hard struggle, with courage and intelligence. They were left with no choice after the firm had pushed their backs against the wall. · The Sala plant - belonging to a multinational, with a head office in the USA - produces and repairs diagnostic equipment for cars.

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From Episodic Resistance to Global Class War?

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