Austerity for the Essential: The Struggle of Personal Support Workers
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 10 2020 22:04
Mainstream news sources, for the last decade, have been reporting on the increased frequency of the “hallway healthcare” phenomena in Ontario hospitals. Over this time the problem has grown into a norm, rather than an alarming exception.
Covid-19 Exposes the Irrationality of Capitalism
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 3 2020 21:58
The realities of life under Covid-19 lockdown, whatever the specifics, are strange. Over the last two months or so, many of us will have seen empty shelves in supermarkets where once-familiar products like flour, eggs, soap and toilet roll are seemingly in short supply. Is this because there are not enough of these products being produced? Have the supply lines broken down, so that existing products aren’t reaching the shelves? Are customers buying these things in a panic, leading to temporary shortages? Are speculators buying them, to sell at a profit later?
May Day 2020: Against the Virus that is Capitalism
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 30 2020 13:05
The world proletariat has in the past celebrated May Day in some dramatic situations: from the imperialist world wars which forced workers to kill, die and produce for their class enemy — their own capitalist class — to the many occasions when the ruling class has unleashed its repressive machine to crush those struggles aimed at making exploitation less onerous, and the chains of the bosses’ oppression a little less heavy.
What Does the Communist Left Do?
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 24 2020 11:55
What we will focus on in the following is how we understand the inseparable link between theory and practice and how that reflects on our activity.
Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus: An Incomplete Chronicle of Events (16-21 March)
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 23 2020 19:37
The following review is a small depiction of what’s happening in the world, outside Italy (for the situation in Italy, see: leftcom.org).
The Four Horsemen of Capitalist Decay
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 22 2020 16:24
Capitalism – the current social system based on private property, wage labour and production for profit – is at a turning point. Day by day it becomes clearer that the existing relations of production have become fetters preventing humanity from addressing the urgent problems facing the whole planet. Unable to resolve its own contradictions, capitalism is instead hurtling us towards barbarism.
Class War Not on Pause
Submitted by Serge Forward on Mar 22 2020 14:19
The Anarchist Communist Group (ACG) responds to the "all in it together" approach of the media and political class.
Italy: "We're not Lambs to the Slaughter!" Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 15 2020 13:08
The line that divides this entire society into two social classes is today, in the time of coronavirus, clearer than ever.
Demonstration and Strike of Peroni Workers at Tor Sapienza (Rome)
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 14 2020 17:27
On February 29th we (comrades from the CWO and Battaglia Comunista) were at the solidarity demonstration with the warehouse workers of the Italian-Japanese company Peroni in Tor Sapienza, Rome. The workers there are carrying on a bitter struggle for better working conditions which started with a week-long strike.
Strikes Against Pension Reform in France
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 5 2020 09:29
Governments and bosses have divided the class, between “national” and “foreign” workers, young and old, public and private, all in the name of the so-called national interest. But workers in France have given an inspiration to workers everywhere.
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