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By Mikael Duthu
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Thursday, 16 March 2006 |
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France is in the
middle of its second youth revolt in the span of just a few months
time. Students and workers all across France are mobilising against
the proposed First Employment Contract. A national demonstration will
be held this weekend against the proposed legislation, and some 1 to
1.5 million people are expected to turn out. The stage is being set
for a decisive battle between the working class and the Villepin
government.
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By Goran M. in Belgrade
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Wednesday, 15 March 2006 |
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In the morning hours of
Saturday, March 11, Slobodan Milosevic, was found dead in his prison
cell at the Hague. With his death, the bourgeois media began once
again to dig through the recent history of the Balkans in an attempt
to make sense of the break-up of former Yugoslavia. But what was the
role played by Milosevic, and what is the feeling over his death in
Serbia?
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By the Workers' Action Committee (Iran)
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Wednesday, 15 March 2006 |
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We received this brief report by the Workers' Action Committee (Iran) on a recent strike at the Iran Khodro car plant in Tehran. The production line in most halls came to a
halt and, with the slogan "Going on strike is the only way to act", the
strike took over the whole plant.
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By Alan Woods
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Wednesday, 15 March 2006 |
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Publicamos aquí el prólogo
de Alan Woods a la edición cubana de Razón y Revolución
publicada por la editorial Ciéncias Sociales, y presentada en
la XV Feria Internacional del Libro de la Habana en Febrero del 2006.
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By Patrick Larsen
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Tuesday, 14 March 2006 |
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In February the Venezuelan province of Ciudad Bolivar was the setting for a number of remarkable struggles on the part of the youth, the working class and the organised communities. In one of them, a fight against a rise in the prices of bus tickets, masses of youth went so far as to seize the buildings of the local parliament. Ronny Pante and Carlos Rondón, leaders of the local student movement, recount what happened. |
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By Mike Palecek
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Tuesday, 14 March 2006 |
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The Campbell government is planning a major offensive on the rights of working people. Over the past five years, each attack of the government has been met with stiff resistance. Each battle has taken on an increasingly militant character. With most public sector contracts ending this month, the stage is set for a decisive battle. |
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By Dax Toscano
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Tuesday, 14 March 2006 |
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El pasado 8 de marzo de 2006, día internacional de la mujer, varias organizaciones sindicales del Ecuador, respaldadas por los movimientos sociales y, principalmente, por estudiantes secundarios de la capital, convocaron a una huelga preventiva de 24 horas para protestar contra la posible firma del TLC con Estados Unidos y contra la compañía petrolera OXY, protesta que se desarrolló en forma parcial en el territorio nacional. |
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By Mick Brooks
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Monday, 13 March 2006 |
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The Internet is open to all, but capitalism demands an owner of everything and payment for everything. This new privatisation of ideas has provoked widespread indignation and sense of injustice. Tight control over intellectual property rights can actually slow down innovation. New technology has transcended the standard capitalist business model. We need to get rid of capitalism in order to unchain human creativity. The Internet shows us a glimpse of what is possible under socialism. Don't let them take it away from us! |
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By the Editorial Board of the US Socialist Appeal
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Friday, 10 March 2006 |
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The stakes are higher than ever. It's becoming increasingly clear to millions of workers that even in the "best of times", capitalism simply doesn't work anymore. The corruption, greed, and mismanagement of the system has reached unheard of proportions. |
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By Jorge Martín - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Friday, 10 March 2006 |
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On March 8, the British Parliament held a debate on Venezuela, proposed by Labour MP Colin Burgon, who sparked off Blair’s attack on Hugo Chavez by posing a question to him on Venezuela. “Indeed, some people in Latin America found [the answer] more than disappointing, and it created a minor political tsunami.” |
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By John Peterson
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Friday, 10 March 2006 |
On the weekend of March 4-6, some 500 people from across the US, Canada, Latin America, and Europe gathered in Washington DC for a series of workshops, plenary sessions, cultural events, and demonstrations as part of the Venezuela Solidarity Conference (VSC). For more information please visit www.ushov.org.
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By Jorge Martín - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Friday, 10 March 2006 |
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El 8 de marzo el Parlamento británico celebró un debate sobre Venezuela, propuesto por el parlamentario laborista, Colin Burgon, que provocó un ataque de Blair a Hugo Chavez cuando se le planteó una pregunta sobre Venezuela. "Desde luego, alguna gente en América Latina lo encontró [la respuesta] más que decepcionante y esto creó un pequeño tsunami político". |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 09 March 2006 |
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We are proud to announce the recent publication of the Indonesian edition of Reason in Revolt. The book was launched publicly on February 20th at the Gadja Mada University. Here we provide some background information and details of how to order the book in Indonesia. |
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By Alan Woods
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Thursday, 09 March 2006 |
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In his preface to the recently published Indonesian edition of Reason in Revolt, Alan Woods points out that the intense anti-Islamic propaganda in the West is merely a “crude ideological cover for the pretensions and arrogance of imperialism and especially US imperialism, which seeks to dominate the entire world and subject it to its pitiless exploitation”. In answer to all this what is needed is that the rational, scientific outlook of Marxism should become the viewpoint of the labour movement in all countries. |
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By Maarten Vanheuverswyn
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Thursday, 09 March 2006 |
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Last Saturday around 50 people gathered in London for the Marxist.com Day School on Latin America. Alan Woods and Jorge Martin, who both just came back from Cuba, spoke on the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions. You can also listen to Alan Woods' speech by downloading the audio file. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 09 March 2006 |
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We have received the following declaration, in both English and Creole, from student groups in Haiti on last month’s elections. The declaration details the difficulties the masses faced in voting and the alliance of the Haitian ruling class with imperialism. |
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By El Militante
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Thursday, 09 March 2006 |
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La comunista cuba Celia Hart concedió esta entrevista al periódico de la corriente marxista El Militante, en la que habla sobre la publicación de los inéditos del Che, la presencia de la Fundación F Engels en la Feria del Libro de la Havana distribuyendo en otros los libros de Trotsky, la publicación de su primer libro y la importancia del reciente discurso de Fidel Castro sobre los peligros que acechan a la revolución cubana. |
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