12 November 2008

World financial crisis undercuts Russia’s economic boom

By Vladimir Volkov, 12 November 2008

The development of the world financial crisis over the last two months has revealed the immense impact of shifts in world markets on Russia’s economy.

French Socialist Party to elect new leadership

By Peter Schwarz, 12 November 2008

Eighteen months after their defeat in the 2007 presidential election, the French Socialist Party is still deeply divided. On November 14-16 the party will hold a congress in Reims to elect a new leadership.

Italy: Student protests escalate

By Robert Stevens, 12 November 2008

Students, teachers and lecturers in Italy are continuing to protest the attacks on the right to education and 130,000 sackings being proposed by the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Widespread unease, opposition as Indonesian government executes Bali bombers

By Patrick O'Connor, 12 November 2008

News of Indonesia’s execution early last Sunday of three men convicted of the 2002 Bali bombings has been met around the world with widespread expressions of unease, concern, and open opposition, including from many family members of the 202 people killed.

Sri Lankan police re-arrest relative of SEP member

By Nanda Wickramasinghe, 12 November 2008

Sri Lankan police last month re-arrested Santhiralingam Ilancheliyan, who was detained along with Socialist Equality Party (SEP) member Velummailum Kamalthasan in September.

Seven US executions scheduled in next 10 days

By Kate Randall, 12 November 2008

Seven death row inmates are scheduled to be executed in the US over the next 10 days, five of these in Texas.

Declining social conditions of students and youth in the US

By Ed Hightower, 12 November 2008

As the world financial crisis deepens, young workers and students in the US face increasing economic hardship and declining job prospects.

Labour government dumped in New Zealand elections

By John Braddock, 12 November 2008

New Zealand’s Labour government was ousted in last Saturday’s election after losing to the conservative National Party and its leader, the multi-millionaire former currency trader and new Prime Minister John Key. Significant layers of the working class repudiated Labour’s pro-business program by staying at home and abstaining from the poll.

New in French

L’industrie de l’automobile canadienne ravagée par les mises à pied et les fermetures d’usines

Par Carl Bronski, 12 novembre 2008

Le constructeur allemand Daimler AG a annoncé le mois dernier qu’il allait fermer très bientôt son usine d¹assemblage de camions Sterling de St-Thomas en Ontario, juste au sud de la ville de London. La fermeture sera effective en mars prochain et 1300 travailleurs viendront grossir les rangs des chômeurs de la province.

New in German

Ein vernichtendes Urteil über den Georgienkrieg

Von Alex Lantier, 12. November 2008

Ein Bericht der OSZE ist ein schwerer Schlag gegen die offizielle Darstellung des russisch-georgischen Krieges vom August 2008 durch die USA, der zufolge der Krieg ein russischer Aggressionsakt war

Ölpreisverfall untergräbt die Stabilität des Regimes im Iran

Von James Cogan, 12. November 2008

Der Ölpreisverfall an den Weltmärkten verschärft die Finanzkrise im Iran und bringt das Regime von Mahmoud Ahmadinedschad unweigerlich in scharfen Konflikt mit großen Teilen der Bevölkerung

Frankreich: Sozialistische Partei wählt neue Führung

Von Peter Schwarz, 12. November 2008

Eineinhalb Jahre nach ihrer Wahlniederlage bei der Präsidentenwahl bleibt die Sozialistische Partei Frankreichs tief gespalten.

Perspective

Bailouts for banks: Layoffs for workers

12 November 2008

Working people in the United States are confronting a wave of layoffs that is sweeping through every sector of the economy, with devastating social implications. The same prospect confronts workers in a host of other countries.

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Workers Struggles

France: Renault workers march to defend jobs as recession deepens

By Antoine Lerougetel, 12 November 2008

Some 3,000 people, including Renault workers from the Sandouville plant, joined a regional demonstration in Le Havre last Saturday in defence of jobs and social services.

Marxist Archive

Trotsky 1940Marxism in Our Time
Leon Trotsky, 1939

Today we are posting Trotsky’s introduction to The Living Thoughts of Karl Marx, Based on Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Presented by Leon Trotsky. The text posted here served as the introduction to this one-volume abridgement of Marx’s Capital.


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