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By Harris Azhar, Aslam Ansari, PTUDC Multan
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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Pakistan's infrastructure is in a state of collapse.
Instead of things getting better, they are getting worse. Power cuts are
severely affecting the livelihood of many workers. In Multan this has erupted in militant action
which has been met by police opening fire on unarmed workers.
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By Rui Faustino in Portugal
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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Portuguese capitalism is one of the sick men of Europe. The "cure" the capitalists have in mind involves
severe attacks on wages and working conditions. But now a backlash is taking
place with huge strikes and demonstrations shaking the country, which is also
producing radicalisation on the left.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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When the Special Forces clamped down on the Kian Tyre
workers they also ordered firefighters to aim boiling water at the workers. Six
firefighters refused to do so. Because of this they have been held at the
Ahmadabad Mastoofi detention centre for over 48 hours.
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By Ricardo Ayala
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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By Tendencia Marxista Militante - México
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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By Diana Aziza - Penulis adalah Koordinator PRP Internasional
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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Berikut adalah wawancara PRP dengan Jorge Martin-Sekretaris
Internasional "Hands Off Venezuela" (HOV). Selain di HOV, Jorge juga
adalah anggota pusat International Marxist Tendency (IMT), sebuah
partai Marxist internasional yang terlibat secara langsung dengan
revolusi.
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By Fernando D’Alessandro
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 |
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Berlusconi has won. We can already hear the wailing voices
about "black reaction" and a "turn to the right". A closer look at the
situation reveals a different picture. It reveals a polarisation between the
classes of an unprecedented nature.
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By Claudio Bellotti - www.marxismo.net
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 |
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Il risultato elettorale della Sinistra arcobaleno è al di
sotto delle peggiori aspettative. Comincia ora una lunga marcia verso i
lavoratori, le fabbriche, i conflitti, gli immigrati, le donne, le periferie, per ricostruire il Prc dall'opposizione, per costruire un partito comunista e di
classe.
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By Mick Brooks
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Monday, 14 April 2008 |
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Japan is
the second biggest industrial economy in the world. In the 1980s it
experienced
a huge speculative bubble, just like the housing bubble that has burst
in the USA and is on the point of bursting in Britain now.
When the bubble burst, the Japanese people, who up till then were
regarded as
living in a ‘miracle economy,’ experienced a decade of recession - a
‘lost
decade’.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Monday, 14 April 2008 |
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A Special Forces unit using bulldozers
broke through the walls of Kian Tyre (formerly Alborz Lastic) and abducted 1000
workers, who had been protesting about unpaid wages. No one has any knowledge
of their whereabouts.
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By Rui Faustino
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Monday, 14 April 2008 |
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Portugal está en crisis y van casi siete años. Esto se refleja no sólo
en los raquíticos índices de crecimiento del PIB (siempre por debajo de
la media europea, registrando incluso crecimientos negativos) sino
también en el creciente aumento del desempleo, que probablemente
alcanza más del 10%, y en la explosión de la precariedad, que ya afecta
a la mitad de los trabajadores de menos de 35 años.
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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Six years after the coup against the
democratically elected government of Hugo Chávez was defeated
by the magnificent mobilization of the masses, the contradictions
within the Venezuelan revolution are as sharp as ever. Either the
revolution goes all the way and breaks the power of the oligarchy or
this will make a comeback and eventually crush the movement.
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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After the announcement that SIDOR has been nationalised, the owners have been manoeuvring, with the clear intention of sabotaging the steel plant. The workers have responded immediately by going on the offensive and taking control of the situation.
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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On April 3, Chávez announced the
nationalisation of the cement industry. This measure, which
accompanies the nationalisation of a dairy plant in the Andean region
and now the nationalisation of SIDOR, is clearly to be welcomed by
revolutionaries and socialists. It will encourage the workers in
other companies to struggle; it will make them more confident in
raising their demands for nationalisation.
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By Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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Resisting the attempt of the company to
replace contract workers with cheap labour, the SADRA shipbuilding
workers have come out on strike again, facing a brutal intervention
on the part of the police.
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By Marxy.com
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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An appeal from the Arabic
Marxist website, Marxy.com, for solidarity with the Egyptian workers.
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By Marxy.com
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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Appel du site arabe, Marxy.com, pour la
solidarité avec les ouvriers égyptiens.
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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Portuguese translation of Chavez re-nationalises SIDOR – historic victory for the workers (April 9, 2008)
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By Julian Sharpe
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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This is a book that every young activist, trade unionist or socialist will
want to read. The book, based on historical examples from the past 190 years,
shows that the workers are facing basically the same problems as ever, in spite
of what any of our "post-modernist" friends would like us to believe.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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An interesting video that shows the level of
conflict that erupted in Egypt a few days ago.
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By Jorge Martin - www.marxist.com
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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Italian translation of Chavez re-nationalises SIDOR – historic victory for the workers (April 9, 2008)
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By Fred Weston and Alan Woods
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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Greek translation of Vultures hovering over Cuba after Fidel Castro steps down (February 20, 2008)
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