Over the weekend, June 13-15, the Venezuelan Revolutionary
Marxist Current (CMR) held its 5th Congress at the Inveval factory -
presently being run under workers' control. One hundred comrades attended the
congress, where all the reports confirmed significant growth over the past
year, both in terms of numbers and influence within the Bolivarian movement and
the wider workers' and youth movement.
The year 1848 is turning out well , wrote
Engels. By this glorious revolution the French proletariat has again placed
itself at the head of the European movement. All honour to the workers of Paris! That revolution
spread across the whole of Europe, marking an
important development in the class struggle.
Millions of working people are waking up to the harsh reality that the Bush stimulus package is not working and that the U.S. economy is already in a recession. Many economic indicators are revealing that the economy is in serious trouble. Just last week the U.S. Labor Department reported the lost of 49,000 jobs for the month of May, it was the highest lost of jobs since 1986; and as inflation continues to spread, the cost of energy and food will continue to weaken the U.S. economy.
Read more »In spite of all the main parties, big business, the media
and even most of the trade union leaders campaigning for a yes vote in
yesterday's referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, the No won the day. This was a
slap in the face for the Irish government and the European Union bosses.
A huge protest
movement has erupted in the mining area of Gafsa in Tunisia, and it is spreading. An
enormous gulf has opened up between an exasperated people and the authorities.
The response of the Ben Ali regime has been brutal repression with some workers
being killed.
The mood of the workers was
very militant and it is quite clear that they are willing to remain on the
picket lines for as long as it takes to win. Terry McDonald, a member of the
Oshawa Local's bargaining committee, told Fightback, We're right.
We're going to stay as long as it takes for them to realise that.
The political landscape in Britain is changing before our
very eyes. This morning’s prominent TV news is of the tanker drivers’ strike,
showing scenes of pickets with Red Flags turning away lorries at Shell
refineries. The next item is the deepening government crisis, followed by a
warning from Gazprom that oil prices could reach $250 a barrel. It was like a
typical news bulletin of the 1970s.
Yesterday, the Canadian
Auto Workers local 222 held a solidarity rally outside the gates of the Oshawa
GM truck plant. There was a real sense of anger amongst the workers present,
most of whom were from union families, but this was not the normal crowd that
attends demonstrations. These are people who either directly or indirectly will
be hit hard by the lay offs.
There has been brutal repression of the workers in Sidi Ifni
in Morocco.
At least seven protestors have been killed by the police. Please raise a
protest, write to the Moroccan authorities and take this issue up with your
local Moroccan embassy/consulate.
In any historical period, the dominant ideas are those of the ruling
class. In 1989 the world was treated to the words of Francis Fukuyama,
who published an essay with the title 'The end of history?' His
argument was not that historical events had literally stopped happening
but that the collapse of so-called 'communism' in the Soviet union
meant that western liberal democracy had successfully established
itself as the ultimate and ideal form of government. Marxism lay totally discredited he declared, gloatingly.
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