Amazon: A new business model better able to manage the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production
An attempt to understand the functioning of one the world's most powerful companies using marxist categories - explaining how Amazon manages to combine the functions of productive, comercial and finance capital. The intention is, of course, to try to work out the implications for class strugle...
Kuwaiti government's brutal crackdown on ‘stateless’ people
Submitted by working class s... on Jan 16 2012 00:52
Kuwaiti security forces use dogs, tear gas, armoured vehicles, and water cannons, against protesting 'stateless' people, who are demanding citizenship and basic human rights.
Gang warfare in the Gulf
Libertarian/council communist group Subversion argue against support for either side in the Gulf War.
We won't pay for the bosses' war - No War But The Class War
Submitted by Spassmaschine on Aug 14 2009 10:10
Leaflet from 1991, looking at the logic behind the impending Gulf War, and its meaning for the working class, both in the UK and internationally.
In the Gulf, in the North Sea, we won't die for oil profits. Support North Sea strikers! Class war not oil war!
Submitted by Spassmaschine on Aug 14 2009 07:02
Leaflet produced in the lead-up to the 1990 Gulf War, linking the deaths of workers on North Sea oil rigs, and workers at war.
Bangladesh: migrants export class struggle
Submitted by Red Marriott on Aug 7 2008 23:40
In recent days over 800 Bangladeshi workers have been deported by the Kuwaiti government for organising strikes and violent protests.
1991: The South Iraq and Kurdistan uprisings
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 9 2006 15:05
The history of the uprisings in Southern Iraq and Kurdistan in 1990-91 which involved large numbers of mutinous troops who had deserted during the Kuwait Gulf War.
1990-1991: The Gulf War
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 9 2006 14:08
Noam Chomsky on the 1991 US and UK war with Iraq following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1990-1991: Resistance to the Gulf War
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 9 2006 14:04
An account of the worldwide movement of resistance to the 1990-91 Gulf War. The resistance mainly took the form of strikes, marches, base blockades and refusals to fight.
Iraqi mass mutiny in the Gulf War, 1990-1991
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 9 2006 13:58
History of the widespread desertion and mutiny in the Iraqi military which saw the rapid end of the occupation of Kuwait and the Gulf War of 1990-1 with the US and its allies.
