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By In Defence of Marxism Editorial Board
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 |
The crisis of world capitalism is unfolding
relentlessly and with gathering speed. First came the financial crisis (the
so-called credit crunch), but now the second phase has begun - the crisis of
the real economy - and it is accelerating as each day goes by. This is leading
to sharp changes in consciousness, rising working class militancy and the
beginnings of polarisation within the labour movement itself.
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By Fred Weston
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Friday, 28 November 2008 |
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We are told that there is not enough food for everyone, that
there are too many human beings on the planet and therefore we must all reduce
consumption - a handy idea in the hands of the bourgeois propagandists. The
real facts and figures reveal that the world produces enough food. So where
does the problem lie?
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By Mick Brooks
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
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"Neoliberalism", sometimes called "market
fundamentalism", i.e. the policy of non-intervention by the state in
the economy, has been the dominant ideology of the bourgeoisie for close to
three decades, involving widespread privatisation and all the
other policies that go with it. The present economic meltdown,
however, is forcing governments to intervene, regulate, and even
nationalise firms because they have no choice. So is "neoliberalism"
dead?
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By Julian Sharpe
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
Paul Mason takes nine examples from labour history over the past 190 years and
compares them to struggles that are taking place today. This is a book that every young activist, trade unionist or socialist
will want to read. Julian Shapre reviews ‘Live working or die
fighting: how the working class went global’.
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By David May
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Monday, 11 February 2008 |
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The big corporations in North America, Western Europe and Japan are moving
more of their factories abroad in search of lower wages. But in the process they
are tying the interests of the international working class more closely
together. In global companies like Ford, the interests of a section of workers
on almost every continent are directly linked. The answer to capitalist
globalization is to link up workers’ struggle
worldwide.
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By Mick Brooks
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
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In Britain and
internationally supermarket chains have come to dominate the food distribution
market. The tendency to monopolisation is evident. But with it go many
practices that literally endanger our health, and with it also working
conditions, wages, the environment and so on. The only answer is to take them
over, remove the profit motive and run them in the interests of all working
people.
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By Barbara Humphries
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
The 'Shock Doctrine', the latest from Naomi Klein, is the story of "blank is beautiful - three
decades of erasing and reinventing the world". It is about how natural disasters have given capitalists the opportunity to
reconstruct cities like New Orleans according to their own whims. But it is not just natural
disasters which have given the capitalists the opportunity to advance their
interests - there are man-made disasters as well - economic crises and wars.
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