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Written by Dan Read
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Saturday, 31 October 2009 22:32 |
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The European Union, along with powers like the USA and Japan, has long had a policy of establishing economic relations with former colonies that impose the will of imperialism on the economic development of these countries. Supposedly instruments designed for “poverty alleviation”; in reality their main purpose is to open the markets of these poorer countries to goods flowing in from the advanced capitalist nations.
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Written by Eoin Gilligan
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Saturday, 24 October 2009 21:24 |
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Reading the most recent edition of An Phoblacht (15/10/2009) was like a return to ‘the good old days’ with the re-emergence of traditional socialist demagogy and claims to represent the interest of Irish working people. Robbie Smyth slams the Green Party’s recent election
Sinn Féin's manifesto, pointing to its failure to deliver on promises to working class people in the south of Ireland. He claims the Greens say one thing and do another. Is this not like the pot calling the kettle black?
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Written by Séamus Loughlin
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 23:01 |
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IMPACT members have voted 86% to 14% for strike action on a 69% ballot. This is a huge change from the position in March where a similar vote resulted in a 65% Yes vote on a 53% turnout. The vote in March fell just short of the 2/3 barrier that union rules lay down as the minimum threshold for official action to be sanctioned.
This marks a dramatic shift over the past 7 months. But that’s hardly a surprise given the imposition of the levy, the slash and burn budget and the threats of cuts and redundancies and the general economic chaos and political crisis that threatens public sector workers.
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Written by Leon Trotsky
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 08:08 |
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This month celebrates 92 years since the October revolution, which swept away the old oppressive Tsarist dictatorship, brought Russia out of the First World War and capped off 9 months of struggle by the working class with the coming to power of the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin and Trotsky.
In 1932, 8 years after the death of Lenin, Trotsky found himself in exile in Prinkipo, in Turkey, isolated from the entire world and deprived of any means of direct contact with the international labour movement. Therefore, when the youth of the Danish Social Democracy invited Trotsky to speak 15 years after the events of 1917, he accepted the invitation enthusiastically. This was the last time that Trotsky ever spoke at a public meeting.
This article appears on the Marxist Internet Archive
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Written by Fightback Editorial Board
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:39 |
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It might have started out as a strategy, but the ICTU leadership’s profound belief that they can wrest some concessions out of Cowen and Lenihan would be better described as an illusion or perhaps a death wish. We’ve pointed out many times that in a slump social partnership is like the partnership between a cat and a mouse. But at least in Tom and Jerry the mouse was a master of tactics.
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