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This program of action was drawn up by Workers Power (US) to act as a unifying guide to all workers and, with them, their organizations in the United States struggling to resist attempts by the bosses to make them pay the costs of a crisis they did nothing to commit. The battle cry of the working class can only be at this point in time, "from resistance to revolution!"
Armed with both a series of immediate and transitional demands designed to not only protect the working class from demoralization and decay in the face of a profound, acute crisis of capitalism, it also sets its task to win out the most militant, fighting sectors of the class to the only action which can dispense economic crisis, poverty, war, ecological devastation, and unemployment to the dustbin of history forever: a social revolution against the bosses and their state.
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The current program of the League for the Fifth International, adopted at the sixth congress and published in 2003. This program is essential reading for revolutionaries across the world in the fight for socialism
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U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below by Kim Moody, Verso 2007. Reviewed by Andy Yorke.
Moody's book is a contribution to the debate around the U.S. working class and how it can rebuild its strength in the unions, workplaces, and communities. What kind of answers does he give? Find out -
The city of Minneapolis was once a battlefield in the class war between workers and bosses. Three strikes in 1934 shook the city and American society to their foundations. The feature of these strikes by the Teamster Union Local 574 was that they were led by Trotskyists. Read more... -
What caused the credit crunch? Some said lenders got “too greedy." Others blamed the regulators. Yet more denied it was even happening. The Credit Crunch – A Marxist Analysis offers a radically different explanation.
Charting how the events unfolded, and drawing on Karl Marx’s theory of crisis, Richard Brenner and Michael Pröbsting argue that the credit crunch foreshadows a crisis of globalization.
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Andy Yorke asks, “Why have American workers never had a party of their own?” The answer, he argues, can be found in the historic struggles of the working class.
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- An historic crisis of capitalism Part 1: The crisis of globalisation: overaccumulation and the re-ordering of the world
- An historic crisis of capitalism Part 2: The politics of the new world order
- An historic crisis of capitalism Part 3: The world class struggle, the character of the situation and the tasks of communists
- World economy – heading to a new upswing?
- Hope in retreat: Obama and the US working class
- The Bolsheviks, the Red Army and the Russian Civil War
- Italy on the brink: 1968 and the long hot autumn
- A review of Paul Mason’s Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed
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Bryan D Palmer, a Canadian based professor and writer on the history of the North-American labor movement, has published the first volume of his James Cannon biography, James P Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left (1890-1974) Illinois, 2007.
Simon Hardy reviews its lessons for today. Read more...