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By Jorge Martín
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
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The early origins of International Women’s Day are closely linked to the struggle of women textile workers. This year’s International Women’s Day finds 240 textile workers, mainly women, occupying the premises of the Sel-Fex company in Caracas. Their struggle is no longer just a struggle against the bosses for concrete demands, but a struggle to defend the Bolivarian revolution and to build a better future for Venezuelan working women and all working people in general. |
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By V.I. Lenin
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
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"The working woman and the peasant woman are oppressed by capital, but over and above that, even in the most democratic of the bourgeois republics, they remain, firstly, deprived of some rights because the law does not give them equality with men; and secondly - and this is the main thing - they remain in "household bondage", they continue to be “household slaves", for they are overburdened with the drudgery of the most squalid, backbreaking and stultifying toil in the kitchen and the family household." V.I.Lenin, March 4, 1921 |
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By William Sanabria and Jorge Martín
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
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On Saturday, February 25th a meeting of representatives of the workers in factories that have been expropriated or are occupied took place in the premises of Inveval, in El Carrizal, not far from the Venezuelan capital Caracas. Dozens of workers took part in the meeting, the main aim of which was to set up a national Revolutionary Front of Occupied Factories. |
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By Alan Woods
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Tuesday, 07 March 2006 |
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In his concluding remarks Alan Woods stresses that we have entered a new period, one in which the working class is moving in all corners of the globe. After the defeats of the past a new generation of working class fighters is coming onto the scene of history, a generation that has no alternative but to fight. We are faced with a new revolutionary perspective, a new period that will unfold over some time. We must grasp the opportunity to build the forces of revolutionary Marxism in all countries. |
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By Leon Trotsky
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Monday, 06 March 2006 |
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In the 1930s Mexican president Cardenas came into conflict with imperialism because of several measures he introduced, including land reform and the nationalisation of the oil industry. In this conflict Trotsky emphasised that it was the duty of workers, especially in countries like Britain, to side with the Mexican people against the imperialists.
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By Alon Lessel in Israel
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Monday, 06 March 2006 |
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We publish this article by Alon Lessel in Israel on the recent suspension of Ken Livingstone by the unelected Adjudication Panel. Since writing this article last week, the High Court has blocked Livingstone’s suspension allowing him time to prepare his appeal. |
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By Jorge Martin
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Monday, 06 March 2006 |
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The Bush administration and its allies have launched yet another campaign designed to demonise Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The latest example is an article in The Washington Times by Stephen Johnson. Jorge Martin takes a look at who Stephen Johnson is, and the dangers of the campaign. |
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By Rob Lyon
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Friday, 03 March 2006 |
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Sectarian violence has plagued Iraq since the February 22 destruction of the sacred Shia al-Askariya shrine in As Samarra, pushing the country dangerously close to civil war. As the US army in Iraq faces the prospect of being dragged into such a war, opinion polls in the United States show that support for the Bush administration is at an all time low. The conditions are being laid for an all out explosion both in Iraq and in the United States. |
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By Patrick Larsen in Quito
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Friday, 03 March 2006 |
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Almost one year has passed since Lucio Gutierrez was ousted from power, overthrown by the rising of big sectors of the Ecuadorian population. His replacement, the former vice-president Alfredo Palacio, has not managed to solve any of the fundamental problems that led to the April 2005 rising. Great contradictions are accumulating and will sooner or later explode in new revolutionary events. |
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 03 March 2006 |
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Publicamos aquí el prólogo de Alan Woods al libro de Ariel Dacal y Francisco Brown Infante que se acaba de publicar en Cuba por la editorial Ciéncias Sociales. El libro es un interesante análisis de las razones y las consecuencias de la caída de la URSS. "Rusia: del socialismo real al capitalismo real" se va a presentar el próximo lunes en la Habana. |
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By Alan Woods
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Thursday, 02 March 2006 |
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Alan Woods continues his analysis of events in the rest of Latin America, in particular, the situation in Mexico where Lopez Obrador is seen as a threat to the interests of US imperialism, Argentina and the victory of Evo Morales in Bolivia and what this means. He also stresses the need to defend the Cuban Revolution, but the only way to do this is by spreading the revolution to the rest of Latin America and beyond and returning to the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky. |
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By Phil Mitchinson
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Thursday, 02 March 2006 |
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The constant stream of news, combined with photographic and video evidence, about maltreatment of Iraqis at the hands of occupying troops is having a traumatic impact on the Iraqi people. It is also affecting the outlook of soldiers, both British and American, and on the population in Britain and in the US. This will serve to strengthen resistance to the occupation inside Iraq and to increase pressure in Britain and America for withdrawal of the troops. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 02 March 2006 |
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The heroic mobilisation of the petrol workers of Las Heras (Argentina) lasted for two weeks and has unleashed the fury of the ruling class and its agents in the government, the judiciary, the media and the police. Here we launch a petition for the support committee of these workers in order to collect signatures and solidarity messages in support of their demands. We have also issued a financial appeal for the workers’ strike fund, to help them in their struggle. |
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By William Sanabria (CMR)
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Thursday, 02 March 2006 |
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El 25 de febrero tenía lugar en las instalaciones de Inveval, una Reunión de trabajadores de distintas empresas recuperadas por los trabajadores con el objetivo de conformar un Frente para luchar unidos en defensa el proceso revolucionario y contra el saboteo del imperialismo, los capitalistas y la burocracia. |
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By Frente de trabajadores de empresas ocupadasdas y en cogestión
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Thursday, 02 March 2006 |
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Construyamos Unidades de batalla electoral y por el socialismo para ganar la segunda batalla de Santa Inés al imperialismo y a la contra revolución. El futuro de la Revolución bolivariana pasa por el socialismo a través de la expropiación de laindustria básica venezolana y la banca bajo el control de los trabajadores junto a las comunidades. |
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By Felix Zorba
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Wednesday, 01 March 2006 |
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On Saturday President Arroyo of the Philippines declared a State of Emergency in response to an alleged coup against her. Just prior to this there had been several workers’ mobilisations demanding her resignation. Bonapartist measures will not save her in the long run. They will not remove the underlying social and economic problems which are at the root of the political instability. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 01 March 2006 |
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“La rivolta della Ragione – Filosofia marxista e scienza moderna” è stato pubblicato per la prima volta a Cuba. Il marxista britannico Alan Woods, autore del libro assieme a Ted Grant, si è recato nell’isola per presentarlo. L’iniziativa principale è stata sicuramente un dibattito durante la Fiera internazionale del Libro de l’Avana, ma sono state organizzate anche altre assemblee, all’università della capitale e a Santiago de Cuba. |
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By Marie Frederiksen
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Wednesday, 01 March 2006 |
Russian translation of Denmark - a faraway northern fairytale country? by Marie Frederiksen (February 15, 2006)
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 01 March 2006 |
Russian translation of Massive mobilization of youth in Kashmir (February 21, 2006)
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