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After the PSUV founding congress, the Venezuelan revolution
is back on the agenda. This is even more important than ever considering the
current world economic turmoil and the uncertainty surrounding Cuba's future
since Castro announced he was not standing for president. In Norwich the Hands Off Venezuela campaign has enjoyed success on campus, now for the first time the campaign has branched into the city. At the recent Stop the War march HoV, along with other solidarity campaigns, offered a revolutionary alternative to a capacity meeting.
Last Thursday it was Carlyle Capital’s turn to
go belly-up, a corporation that has George Bush and John Major on its board and
has done very well out of the Iraq war. It is a private equity company - firms
that borrow other people’s money in order to take over other firms and loot
their assets. Under capitalism firms do eat each other. Now it can be argued
that, without jackals, the veld would be full of wildebeests that had died.
Jackals keep the place tidy. But you wouldn’t really praise jackals as wealth
creators.
As young men, Marx and Engels came
out of the German philosophical tradition. They were at this time groping their
way to becoming revolutionary activists. In 1845 Marx and Engels set out their
revolutionary world view for the first time in a book, The German Ideology, that
settled accounts with the Hegelian tradition from which they had just emerged.
It points the way to the clear language of the Communist Manifesto, published in 1848 and addressed to the workers
of the world.
Five years ago the USA, Britain and various wretched bribed
‘allies’ invaded Saddam’s Iraq. Saddam Hussein was a monster – but imperialism
knew that when it backed him in his aggressive war against Iran and supplied
the chemicals for him to gas Iraqi Kurds. The invasion was justified by the lie
that Saddam had ‘weapons of mass destruction.’ He didn’t.
Milions of workers came out on strike in defence of their pensions. This was the biggest such action for decades. The fight goes on!
