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Why an Italian meltdown threatens the world economy Print E-mail
By Alan Woods   
Monday, 14 November 2011
The Eurozone is passing through the most serious crisis in its entire history. After Greece comes the Italian crisis. This places a big question mark over the future of the euro. We predicted long ago that in a serious crisis all the national contradictions come to the fore, as we now see with the fractious relations between Greece, France, Germany and Italy. The European Union is facing the day of reckoning.
 
The limitations and contradictions of the ‘Chinese Model’ Print E-mail
By Daniel Morley   
Wednesday, 09 November 2011
The bourgeoisie has never, anywhere, been able to find the key to unlock the mysteries of their own economic system. The only way to understand capitalism is to accept and to explain its contradictory, crisis-ridden nature. It cannot be perfected; its riddle will never be solved from within its confines. Precisely because the apologists of capitalism can never accept this fact, they are forever shifting from one side of the problem to the other. 
 
"Lose-your-PM" contagion hits Italy Print E-mail
By Fred Weston   
Wednesday, 09 November 2011
Berlusconi has lost his majority in the lower house of the Italian parliament. Although he won a vote on the latest round of austerity measures included in the budget, he did so with less than half the votes of the MPs in parliament. The result of the vote was 308 in favour, 1 abstention, but with the majority of MPs not voting. This means the budget was approved but now Berlusconi stands naked having lost his parliamentary majority. His days are numbered and the pressure is mounting for him to go - something we are told he has now promised.
 
Greek government on verge of collapse: no to “national unity”, for a workers’ government Print E-mail
By Alan Woods   
Friday, 04 November 2011
As we write these lines the Papandreou government is staggering towards collapse. In a matter of days the whole situation has been thrown into turmoil. Only last week, eurozone leaders were congratulating each other on agreeing a 100bn-euro loan to Athens and a 50% write-off of its mountain of debt. Governments cheered. Stock exchanges rose on the announcement of the deal. And politicians breathed a sigh of relief. A few days later and everything turned into its opposite.
 
The case of Iceland – the illusion of an amicable default Print E-mail
By Luca Lombardi   
Friday, 04 November 2011
As Europe teeters once more, staring financial collapse and slump in the face, we provide an analysis of what happened in Iceland, the first country to go under as a result of the global crisis of capitalism.
 
Greece: revolutionary anger turns parades into protests! Print E-mail
By Stamatis Karagiannopoulos   
Wednesday, 02 November 2011
October 28 is a National holiday in Greece marking ΟΧΙ (No) Day – the refusal of Greece in 1940 to accept the Italian ultimatum advanced by Mussolini, to allow the Italian fascist troops to enter the country. Not only did Greek forces stop the Italian invasion, but actually forced Mussolini's troops back into Albania. Every year it is celebrated as a day of “national pride”. Not so this year! The masses took over the celebrations and used them to express their anger at the Greek ruling class. Here we publish a report from Athens written on the day of the “celebrations”
 
USA: #Occupy Oakland answers police violence with call for general strike Print E-mail
By Juan Rojas and Antonio Palmer, Bay Area WIL   
Wednesday, 02 November 2011
On October 25, people on the streets were confronted by hundreds of riot police launching anti-riot grenades. Plumes of tear gas rose as protesters fled from the rubber bullets of the police. The scene we have described was not in the streets of Tunis, Cairo or Homs, but occurred in the streets of Oakland, California in the United States. On that Tuesday, the police forcefully evicted the occupation taking place in Oscar Grant plaza, renamed so after the police killing of Oscar Grant on New Year’s Eve 2009 in the city of Oakland.
 
USA: “We Are the 99%” Print E-mail
By John Peterson in the USA   
Thursday, 27 October 2011
USA: The mainstream media has made much ado about the fact that #OccupyWallStreet does not have a unified, cohesive message. In trying to belittle it, they smugly point out that the occupy movement is an amorphous and heterogeneous mix of people. Every shade of political opinion and ideology is present: Makhno anarchists and Ron Paul libertarians; Trotskyist socialists and New Age neo-hippies; Anonymous and Zeitgeist; atheists and hard core believers; the homeless and those who have quit their jobs to become full time protesters against unemployment.
 
Greece: The first death, but millions are in an all-out struggle Print E-mail
By Editorial Board of Marxistiki Foni   
Monday, 24 October 2011
On Thursday in Athens during the mass workers' protests we saw the state collaborating with hooligans and provocateurs against the labour movement. What is now required is a political general strike! Here we publish a statement by the Greek Marxists of Marxistiki Foni.
 
After the death of Gaddafi: Revolution and counterrevolution in Libya Print E-mail
By Alan Woods   
Monday, 24 October 2011
The death of Gaddafi and the final collapse of his regime closes one chapter. However, this merely marks one turning point in the situation. Now that the old regime is finally gone, a struggle will open up over the future of Libya. In this struggle we will see the forces of both revolution and counter-revolution trying to get the upper hand. Here we publish an analysis of the situation by Alan Woods.
 
Greece October 19-20: After earth-shattering general strike –what next? Print E-mail
By Marxistiki Foni   
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Today (October 19), the first day of the 48-hour general strike in Greece was sensational. Apart from the government and public utilities workers that participated in the strike massively, hundreds of thousands of workers from the private sector came out on strike for the first time, and also joining the millions of striking workers were tens of thousands of small businesspeople and shopkeepers who closed the shutters to their shops in solidarity.
 
Portugal: right wing government’s austerity cuts prepare social explosion Print E-mail
By Jorge Martin   
Thursday, 20 October 2011
As Portugal’s right-wing government announced the harshest austerity cuts in the country’s history, economic forecasts were revised down and the main trade union confederations CGTP and UGT announced the calling of a general strike.
 
Rome: October 15 – half a million people protest against the ECB and austerity measures Print E-mail
By Roberto Sarti, Editorial Board of FalceMartello   
Thursday, 20 October 2011
On October 15, Rome saw one of the biggest demonstrations of the last few years in Italy. Up to half a million people flooded the streets of the capital. Not only was this a huge demonstration in terms of the numbers taking part, but even more significantly you could hear the most radical slogans of the last decade. The masses, inspired by Athens, Madrid and New York, chanted “we don’t want to pay the debt”, “No to austerity”, “No to the dictatorship of the ECB and the banks”, etc.
 
Occupy Wall St. - Letter from a participant Print E-mail
By Cecilia Gingerich, NYU   
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Today ULU Marxists received a letter from a student at New York University (NYU), Cecilia Gingerich, who was a member of the University of London Marxist Society while studying in London in the spring of 2010. She is now a participant in Occupy Wall Street and in her letter gives a first hand account of her experience of the movement from the beginning, her narrowly escaping the mass arrest of the 700 protestors on October 1st and the impact that had on the movement in the following days. Now the unions have joined the protestors on Wall Street, along with walk-outs from high schools and colleges, which Cecilia has participated with students from her own university.
 
The impending default and the new wave of working class revolt in Greece Print E-mail
By Marxistiki Foni Editorial Board   
Monday, 10 October 2011
The financial crisis in Greece is constantly in the headlines and focusing everyone’ attention on what it could lead to. As we have explained before, the reason for this is not due to the objective economic weight of the Greek economy within European and world capitalism. In absolute terms Greece only accounts for 2% of the European Union’s GDP and even its public debt is only 3% of the total public debt of the Eurozone. The point is, however, that Greece is the weakest link in European capitalism which is now at the centre of the global capitalist crisis.
 
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