Blast From the Past: Revolutionary Perspectives on Strikes in Scotland

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(The 1970s were a period of political questioning and reawakening. As capitalism’s post-war boom drew to a close the working class as a whole suddenly faced economic hardship and, increasingly, unemployment. For a critical minority from a new generation of working class youth, a whole panoply of questions was raised — from the nature of the USSR to the possibility or otherwise of the overthrow of...

Recent ILA Port Strike Exemplifies Union as a Tool of the Ruling Class

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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.

War in Lebanon: Another Massacre of the Working Class

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On October 1st the IDF invaded Lebanon with the brutal objective of creating a security belt south of the Litani river. The Lebanese army withdrew, with some return fire, from the ‘blue line’, and hours later Iran launched retaliatory missile attacks with some piercing Israel’s various anti-missile systems.

Thames Water, Macquarie, and the False Choice of Nationalisation

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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...

Unending Barbarism: The Causes that Led to the Middle East Crisis

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One of the questions that the most astute observers asked themselves after the tragic attack of 7 October, and throughout the period of Israel's response in this devastating war, was and is: "how is it possible that the secret services of Tel Aviv did not know about Hamas’ attack?". Is it conceivable that Mossad and Shin Bet, which are seen as the most efficient secret services in the world,...

Peace Calls are Part of the War Game

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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...

The Class War in Italy: Striking Workers Attacked in Prato

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On the night of 9 October the picket line at the gates of the Lin Weidong leather goods factory in Seano (Province of Prato) was attacked with iron bars by at least half a dozen hooded thugs. “Next time we’ll shoot you,” the attackers shouted as they ran off after the beating. Four people were injured, two workers and two members of Sudd-Cobas grassroots union which had called the “the strike...

The March Towards Generalized War: Presentation from the IWG’s Annual General Meeting

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(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...

News from a World in Turmoil: Chinese Imperialism in Africa and the Mediterranean

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(When capitalism is in crisis, when profit rates are falling, when the GDP growth of the most advanced countries is at minimal or zero levels, when states can barely survive under the weight of increasingly unsustainable national debt, when capital flies from the real economy to chase the chimera of easy profits leading to a vicious cycle of speculation that generates financial bubbles and...

Zionism: A Prime Example of National Liberation as a Dead End

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More than 40,000 dead and counting, many among them children, whole districts razed, millions displaced, and the conflict spiralling into a wider war engulfing the Middle East – this is what Israel's "right to self-defence", invoked since Hamas' dramatic incursion of 7 October, has meant in practical terms.

Capitalism's Economic Foundations (Part V)

(Part I ( – Part II ( – Part III ( – Part IV ( – Part V) · Globalisation and its Discontents · Before continuing with this section which brings us closer to our contemporary world, it is worth summarising the key elements in this necessarily truncated analysis of almost fifty years of capitalism’s profitability crisis.

Revolution or Reconciliation?

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Truth and Reconciliation Day is presented to the workers of Canada, indigenous and otherwise, as a step on the path towards making amends for the historic injustices of the colonial period. It is no secret that while some greet this occasion earnestly in the intended spirit, reason for skepticism persists, and rightly so.

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