(A Review of Land and Freedom, Director: Ken Loach)
The recent assassination of Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin highlights the deep divisions in the Israeli ruling class over the issue of the “peace process”.
Coming so soon after US triumphs in the Middle East and Northern Ireland, the Dayton peace accord underlines the immense power of the USA.
What is arguably the fourth or fifth Balkan War this century (see Imperialism in the Balkans below) has now come to an uneasy armistice. It is likely that it will hold.
Strike action has continued in France over the government’s proposals to make significant cuts to its welfare and benefits system.
(“Demagogia democratica e fascista e realtà di classe” - From Prometeo December 1, 1943)
(Internationalist archives - Appeared in 1921 in the theoretical review of the Communist Party of Italy, Rassegna Comunista, "Partito e classe", Rassegna Comunista no 2, April 15, 1921)