On February 10, 2010, Eduardo Samán was informed by state authorities that he had been removed from his position as Minister of Trade by the National Executive. Samán was known in Venezuela as a Minister very close to the revolutionary people, very much in touch with its problems and concerns. He was also very popular with the workers, because he had promoted workers' control in factories such as La Gaviota in Sucre state.
A new national day of action against the pensions reform brought 3.5 million demonstrators to the streets of France on October 12, the largest number so far in this movement. The massive character of the demonstrations can only be compared with the strikes of 1995/96 when the government attempted to cut social security and pension rights of some sections of workers.
The Sunday Independent carried several articles in its October 10th edition leaving absolutely no room for doubt that the knives are being sharpened and the target is the Croke Park Agreement. Such is the venom for the trade unions and the working class that even James Connolly was dragged into the argument – on the side of the bosses! Here we outline some of the arguments from the Sunday Independent and we also let James Connolly speak for himself.
News that Green Party Leader John Gormley would like to see a National Government to sort out the crisis in the economy has now been replaced with the revelation that he believes it’s “too early” to talk about such things. However, it appears that moves are afoot on behalf of the Green Party to draw the opposition parties into cross party talks around plans for the €7bn super budget which will be presented by Brian Lenihan to cover the next four years.
Overnight the world has woken up to intimate knowledge of the process of extracting aluminium from bauxite and its by-product the red mud, which devastated several villages, including Kolontár and Devecser, in the SouthWest of Hungary on Monday, 4th October 2010, bringing with it a long term threat of environmental pollution in several countries.
Hungary is not normally a place with a lot of strike action, not nowadays at least. However, one firm down in the Southern sandy parts of the country is facing a courageous fight by its workforce.
We are making available to our readers the final version of the 2010 World Perspectives document, which was amended and passed unanimously by the World Congress of the IMT in Marina di Massa on August 7, 2010. Part One analyses the world economic crisis, looking into the different factors that led to the most serious crisis of capitalism since the 1930s.
The struggle against the attacks on pensions in France is perhaps moving onto a higher stage. After mass demonstrations mobilising between two and three million workers, on 7th and 23rd September and on the 2nd October, a new demonstration is planned for the 12th. The national leadership of the trade unions intends to limit the action to “days of action” of this kind, but rank-and-file pressure is growing in favour of indefinite strike action.
The international solidarity campaign organised by the Hands Off Venezuela campaign and the Bolivarian Congress of the Peoples coinciding with the National Assembly elections in Venezuela was a resounding success. More than 30 events were organised in 20 different countries, and nearly 1500 people from 65 different countries signed the solidarity appeal.
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Una nueva jornada nacional de lucha contra la reforma de las jubilaciones sacó a las calles de Francia a 3,5 millones de manifestantes el 12 de octubre, el número más grande que este movimiento ha movilizado hasta la fecha. El carácter masivo de las manifestaciones sólo se puede comparar con las huelgas de 1995/96, cuando el Gobierno intentó aplicar recortes en la seguridad social y en los derechos jubilatorios de algunos sectores de trabajadores.
A poco más de seis meses de iniciada la presidencia de José Mujica, se concretó una huelga general en Uruguay el pasado jueves 7 de octubre. Organizada por la central sindical PIT-CNT, responde a la propuesta de Presupuesto Quinquenal presentada por el gobierno ante el parlamento. La iniciativa contempla la postergación de salarios y jubilaciones, una reforma del estado privatizadora y la flexibilización de las relaciones laborales en el sector público.
López Obrador está realizando una gira por los 125 municipios del Estado de México en una batalla franca contra el ala de derechas del PRD, representada por Nueva Izquierda y ADN, que están impulsando una alianza con el PAN para la elección gubernamental. AMLO ha defendido que no podemos aliarnos con el enemigo, con un partido que ha atacado al pueblo de México como lo hizo al aplicar toda una serie de reformas contra los trabajadores o despedir a más de 40 mil electricistas. Ha señalado que el candidato del Estado de México debe provenir de las bases de los partidos PRD, PT y Convergencia y que es la alianza de estas bases la que buscamos.
Sumario y principales artículos del número de octubre - noviembre del periódico de la Corriente Marxista Internacional en Bolivia.
A diferencia de los países de nuestro entorno, la clase trabajadora argentina carece de un partido político propio que exprese o refleje sus intereses particulares. Por el momento es un hecho irrebatible que para una gran parte de la clase trabajadora el kirchnerismo aparece como la única alternativa viable frente a la oposición de derecha y sus políticas reaccionarias.
“Hay que construir una corriente radical dentro del PSUV”. El 10 de febrero del 2010 se le informó a Eduardo Samán que el Ejecutivo Nacional había decidido sustituirlo en el cargo de Ministro para el Poder Popular del Comercio. Samán era conocido en Venezuela cómo un ministro muy cercano al pueblo revolucionario, muy atento con sus problemas e inquietudes. Era además muy popular entre los trabajadores por el hecho de haber trabajado por el control obrero en fábricas como La Gaviota, Edo. Sucre.
Balance del 26-S: Ciertamente se ha obtenido mayoría simple en la AN, pero como muestran las cifras es innegable que la derecha ha avanzado. Publicamos en formato PDF un nuevo volante donde el Comité de Redacción de Lucha de Clases hace un balance de las elecciones y las tareas de los revolucionarios ahora en adelante. Hacemos un llamado a nuestros luchadores lectores para que reproduzcan este materíal y sea divulgado en sus comunidades, barrios, fábricas, organizaciones, etc.
The first volume of Ted Grant's collected writings is at the printer's and will soon be available to order from Wellred Books. Here we provide the Introduction which gives an outli... Read More
The second edition of Marxism and the U.S.A. is now available from Wellred Books. The new edition is greatly expanded, including all new appendices and this new introduction by John Peterson, National Secretary of the Workers International League.
Read MoreNew from Wellred USA! The first US edition of Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution by Alan Woods. This monumental 500+ page study of the history of growth and development of Bolshevism demolishes the myths of both Stalinist and pro-capitalist historians of the Russian Revolution. Read More
The Pakistan Revolution of 1968-69 was one of the greatest revolutionary movements of the 20th century. It is rich in lessons and Lal Khan's book is an outstanding summing up of these lessons. It deserves most careful study by every revolutionary.Read More
A new book has come out recently, written by Maziar Razi of the Iranian Marxists' Revolutionary Tendency, with an Introduction by Alan Woods. It is a collection of articles on the crisis of the Iranian regime and the perspecti... Read More
The crisis capitalism has entered globally is having a deep impact on the real living conditions of billions of workers all over the world. With this comes a growing consciousness among ordinary working people and youth that something is seriously wrong with this system, that this cannot be the way human bei... Read More
This book by Alan Woods is a polemic against a well-known (in Latin American terms) intellectual Heinz Dieterich. Dieterich claims to have invented a new "Socialism of the 21st Century" and much else into the bargain. He offers a great deal of advice to those involved in the Venezuelan Revolution dressed... Read More
Wellred Publications is pleased to announce the publication of a new book on Trotsky's famous theory of the Permanent Revolution, written by John Roberts. This work critically analyses and compares Lenin and Trotsky's writings in relation to the theory of the Permanent Revolution and defends that theory against revi... Read More
In 1918-33 revolution and counter-revolution followed hot on each others' heels. The barbarity of the Nazis is well documented. Less well known are the events that preceeded Hitler's rise to power. Rob Sewell gives a picture of the tumultous events - the 1918 revolution, the ... Read More
This book by Ted Grant is a unique contribution to the history of British Trotskyism. It begins with the debate on Trotskyism in the British Communist Party in 1924 and ends with the break-up of the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1949 and the beginning of more than thir... Read More
There have been many books and potted histories of Russia, either written from an anti-Bolshevik perspective, or its Stalinist mirror image, which paint a false account of the rise of Bolshevism. For them, Bolshevism is either an historical "accident" or "tragedy". Or it is portraye... Read More
It is now more than thirty years since the publication of the first edition of this work. It was written as a reply to Monty Johnstone, who was a leading theoretician of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Johnstone had published a reappraisal of Leon Trots... Read More
This book represents an important contribution to our understanding of the Iranian revolution. This work will be particularly useful in the West where it is universally believed that the revolution of 1979 was a movement of Islamic fundamentalists led by the Ayatollah Khomeini to push Iran b... Read More
This text was originally written by Alan Woods as a part of the book Reason in Revolt: Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science, but eventually the book became too long and this part had to be left out. Therefore this history of philosophy is published here for the first time. With chapters on: Do we Need Philosophy?, The ... Read More
The comrades in Pakistan were just about to publish a new book on Kashmir when the devastating earthquake hit a month ago. The comrades have been hard at work on their solidarity and relief operations. Given the current crisis in Kashmir, they have decided to go ahead with the publication of the book. Over the weeks we will pu... Read More
There are many narrative histories of the struggles of British workers. However Rob Sewell’s book is different. The purpose of this history of British trade unionism is not only to recite the wrongs inflicted on working people, or simply to describe their heroic struggles. It is an attempt to draw out the lessons of the events that helped ... Read More
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