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News aggregatorEKS: Turkish ımperialism’s latest adventure in northern IraqWe are publishing here an article from the Turkish group Enternasyonalist Komünist Sol (EKS), which analyses the different imperialist interests and rivalries underlying the Turkish army's recent incursions into northern Iraq. We consider it important for several reasons: first and foremost, by offering a clear analysis on an internationalist basis, it strikes a blow against both Turkish and Kurdish nationalism, in a region where the propaganda campaigns of all the competing bourgeois factions are doing their utmost to stoke nationalist hatreds so as to use the workers and poor masses as cannon fodder in their own sordid struggles for power and influence; second, it gives a voice to the feelings of indignation and revolt among the workers in Turkey who have been conscripted into this bloody conflict, and gives the lie to the bourgeoisie's claims, in Turkey and elsewhere, about universal popular support for the war.
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The sources, contradictions and limitations of the growth in Eastern AsiaUp to now capitalism has shown a conspicuous inability to develop the countries where two-thirds of humanity live. Now, with the incredible economic growth in India and China - and throughout East Asia generally - we hear it shouted from the roof tops that from henceforth it will be able to develop more than half the world and that it would be able to go even further if only all the constraints imposed on it were to be eliminated. If wages and working conditions were to be levelled down to those obtaining in China, it is claimed, then growth in the West would also rise to 10% a year. This raises theoretical and ideological questions of great importance: does the development in East Asia represent a renewal of capitalism or is it no more than a stray occurrence in its on-going crisis? To answer this question we will consider the phenomenon throughout the whole of the sub-continent, though we will examine China more closely as it is the most publicised and the most representative example. Categories: From other sites
Revolution Betrayed: How the Trotskyists Betrayed the Proletarian RevolutionSome sincere Filipino revolutionaries but imprisoned in their dogmatism and uncritical study of the history of the international workers’ movement and the actual experience of state capitalism as the general tendency of decadent capitalism continue to believe that there are still “socialist characteristics” of the Stalinist-Maoist regimes that “must be defended” against their enemies. Many [...]
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Food Crisis: The Price of Capitalist Greed that KillsFood Crisis: The Price of Capitalist Greed that Kills
The world food crisis hit the center stage of media attention only very recently, but it is a phenomenon that has been building steadily for decades. The food riots from Haiti to Bangladesh, from Pakistan to Egypt may have brought forth the issue of the soaring costs [...]
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Food riots show the need to overcome capitalismDuring
the past weeks a series of revolts, protests and strikes against the rising
food and energy prices have broken out in many countries of the capitalist
periphery. At recent meetings the guard dogs of the capitalist institutions -
IMF, World Bank and G 8 - have warned of a gigantic destabilisation and
conflicts in almost 40 countries around the world.
It is no coincidence that the hunger revolts are erupting now, since the sharp rise in food prices is not a natural disaster but a result of the sharpening of the capitalist crisis. Categories: From other sites
Financial Turmoil: A Worsening Economic CrisisOn
February 28th, even though he acknowledged the risk of an economic
slowdown, President George W. Bush declared, "I don't think we're headed for a
recession...I believe that our economy has got the fundamentals in place for
us...to grow and continue growing, more robustly than we're growing now. So we're
still for a strong dollar."
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Elections and Ruling Class StrategyThe
electoral circus is clearly at the heart of the political strategy of the
bourgeoisie in the current period. Revolutionaries differ from the bourgeois
media pundits because our concern is not to make electoral predictions or succumb to immediatist and empiricist
temptations in dissecting the minutiae of the day-to-day evolution of the
electoral circus...
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The Class Struggle in the USThere are so many things that are going wrong in
today's world -- wars without end that are killing and displacing millions
around the world; health epidemics that condemn millions to early deaths and
suffering; famines; homelessness; degradation of the environment that is menace
the future of all life on earth; growing pauperization of the working masses of
the world....
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The Strengthening of the Repressive ApparatusFor the past seven years the American ruling class has
moved relentlessly and forcefully to use the events of 9/ll as the pretext for
pushing through a tremendous reinforcement of the repressive apparatus of the
capitalist state. While ostensibly designed as a means to combat the
“terrorist” threat from Islamist fundamentalism, the strengthening of the
repressive apparatus is a means that the state will not hesitate to use against
any threat to its dominance...
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Tibet: Human rights and state repression both serve imperialist interestsThis article has already been published on this site here: Categories: From other sites
Internationalism’s 2008 Territorial ConferenceAnyone
who has followed the ICC press in the last couple of years has certainly
noticed the articles where we saluted the emergence of a new militants in the
working class searching for political understanding and willing to take
militant action to defend proletarian interests.
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Correspondence on the Union QuestionDear Internationalism. I've read your series on how decadence affects capitalism in the International Review. Even though the union movement is portrayed as being progressive in the 1920's and 30's, it had moved away from being a worker's movement and became a hindrance on the working class. In the US, the situation was different... Categories: From other sites
May 1968: The Student Movement in France and The WorldThis article has already been published on this site here: Categories: From other sites
Capitalism can’t feed the worldUN Secretary Ban Ki-moon has said that “the dramatic
escalation in food prices worldwide has evolved into an unprecedented challenge
of global proportions”. While the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO) estimates that globally average food prices have risen 57% over the last
year, this average is exceeded by certain staples.
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Local election results: Labour sinks with the economyThe 1st May local election results were a very bad setback for the Labour government, with only 24% of the vote, the lowest share since 1968, the loss of a number of councils in their core areas of support, and most spectacularly Boris Johnson's victory over Ken Livingstone in the London Mayoral election.
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Oppression of WomenAng Pang-aapi sa Kababaihan
Ang paninidigan ng marxismo sa kababaihan ay nakabatay sa makauring tunggalian sa lipunan. Malinaw ito sa teksto ni Engels na sinulat noong 1887, “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State” at sa sinulat ni Bebel noong 1891, “Woman and Socialism”. Ang solusyon ng usapin ng kababaihan ay nasa [...]
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In Defence of Russian RevolutionIn defence of the Russian Revolution, internationalism is not negotiable
Ninety years on from 1917 we are publishing an extract of correspondence on the degeneration of the Russian revolution. An essential part of our defence of the Russian revolution is to draw a clear class line between the revolution and the Stalinist counter-revolution which abandoned [...]
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Labor Day StatementDiwa ng Mayo Uno: MAGKAISA AT MAKIBAKA LABAN SA KAPITALISMO!
Dineklara ng lahat ng manggagawa sa mundo ang Mayo Uno bilang Internasyunal na Araw ng Paggawa. Isa lamang ang ibig sabihin nito: Ang mga manggagawa ay isang internasyunal na uri at pareho ang mga interes at pinaglalaban kahit saang bansa man sila. Iisa lamang ang [...]
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On Popular Front, Partial Struggles and the Union Question: A Reply to a CommentUna sa lahat, nagpapasalamat kami kay JK sa kanyang prangka at praternal na komentaryo sa paninindigan ng grupong Internasyonalismo sa Pilipinas. Ang diskusyon at debate ay kailangan para sa teoritikal na klaripikasyon ng lahat ng mga elementong seryoso para mabago ang bulok na kasalukuyang kapitalistang sistema. At ang pinakamahalagang porma ng diskusyon at talakayan ay [...]
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World Food CrisisPandaigdigang Krisis ng Pagkain: Bunga ng Naghihingalong Pandaigdigang Sistema
Hindi na maaring itago at napilitang aminin ng mga estado at internasyunal na institusyon gaya ng International Monetary Fund at United Nations na merong pandaigdigang krisis sa pagkain. Subalit nagsisikap pa rin ang burgesya na pakalmahin ang masa at ipakitang “under control” pa rin nila ang krisis [...]
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