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  • Bob Lee: The Inner cities erupt – what lies ahead for blacks in Britain?

    [Militant International Review, No. 31, Spring 1986, p. 14-18] Eighty per cent of blacks who vote support Labour. But this instinctive class solidarity could ultimately give way to despair if the Labour leaders fail to offer a way forward. Last summer’s inner-city upheavals highlighted the plight of the oppressed minorities. They also provided a fresh…

  • Margaret Creear: Women in Revolt

    [Militant International Review, No 28, Winter 1985, p. 4-8] For Marxists, the movement of the miners’ wives and the many thousands of other women who have supported the miners in this dispute, is a welcome continuation on a higher level of the upsurge of militancy amongst working class women in recent years. It underlines the…

  • Lynn Walsh: Kürzungspolitik stranguliert Wachstum

    [Eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in The Socialist, Nr. 685, 14. September 2011] Lynn Walsh, Herausgeber von Socialism Today, schaut auf die Auswirkungen der Konservativ-Liberaldemokratischen Kürzungen auf die britische Wirtschaft. Einbruch der Nachfrage Pfandleihhäuser boomen, Ein-Pfund-Läden vervielfachen sich. Aber die Ausgaben für Dienstleistungen und den Einzelhandel (mit Ausnahme von Lebensmitteln) sanken bis zum Stillstand. Der…

  • Lynn Walsh: Neue Phase der großen Rezession

    [Eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Socialism Today, No 151, September 2011] Die kapitalistischen Strateg*innen sind angesichts der Aussicht auf einen neuen Wirtschaftsabschwung voller Trübsinn. Furcht vor Rezession in den USA, die Herabstufung von deren Kreditwürdigkeit und die politische Dysfunktion, ganz zu schweigen von der anhaltenden Krise in der Eurozone, der japanischen Stagnation und der…

  • Lynn Walsh: Das Jahr aller Risiken

    [Eigene Übersetzung des englischen Textes in Socialism Today, Nr 155, Februar 2012] „2012 wird kein Parkspaziergang“, warnt Christine Lagarde, Chefin des IWF. Die kapitalistische Weltwirtschaft ist am Rande eines neuen Abschwungs, mit einer Rezession in Europa und einer deutlichen Verlangsamung in China, Indien und anderen halb entwickelten Wirtschaften. Die Schuldenkrise der Eurozone ist bei weitem…

  • Peter Taaffe: Marxism in Today’s World

    [CWI Publications and Socialist Publications Ltd 2006, First Edition November 2006] Answers on War, Capitalism and Environment The Committee for a Workers’ International Preface and Acknowledgements 1 9/11 and After 2 The World Situation 3 The Middle East 4 Ireland and the National Question 5 The Permanent Revolution Today 6 The Working Class Today 7…

  • History – Militant and the CWI

    Could you sum up the history, firstly, of Militant and, secondly, of the CWI? What were the major landmarks? Militant did not drop from the sky. We trace our antecedents back to the Revolutionary Communist Party in Britain and, of course, to Trotsky’s International Left Opposition. My generation joined in the early 1960s, others later.…

  • China

    | want to ask about workers’ states. Two questions about China. The first question: I read your material. I read that at your last world congress that the nature of the Chinese state is not so definite, the process is not finished, and your Swedish section, or a majority of your Swedish section, supports the…

  • Russia, Eastern Europe and State Capitalism

    On the question of Eastern Europe, what was the process of the counter-revolution and why was there not a serious revolutionary movement of the Russian working class? We have written a lot of material on this. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was one of the greatest setbacks for the working class…

  • The Working Class Today

    In the 1990s there was a big ideological attack from the bourgeoisie with the claim that the working class no longer existed! This ideological attack was a sign of a real process. Before the process of globalisation began, there was the process of deindustrialisation in many countries. In Milan there used to be ten factories…