This was the first statement issued by the Bureau at the start of the war and has been translated into several languages as has the article on South Ossetia which follows.

Since 1992 the question of Ossetia has troubled the Caucasus.

As the Russian Army swept into Gori from where the Georgian Army had launched its assault on Tshkinvali they came face to face with its most infamous son.

Beyond the Caspian

Israel is Rehearsing for a Possible Air Attack

African Economic Revival?

The text which follows was drafted by the comrades of Battaglia Comunista for a European meeting of the Bureau held in Parma last May.

Presented by the Internationalist Communist Party (Battaglia Comunista) to the May 10th 2008 Bureau meeting and amended by the meeting