Permanent Revolution

Unite: Jerry Hicks statement on GS election

Bill J — 2010-03-13 10:57:33

I write to you about the election for General Secretary (GS) of Unite which this time round will involve the whole union, unlike last year’s election for Joint General Secretary which was only held in the Amicus section.

"Dawn raids" on union branches.

Bill J — 2010-03-13 02:28:25

Full time officials from Unison's London Regional Office led teams of staff into branch offices in Bromley and Woolwich in South East London taking control away from locally elected officials.
The Tenant Services authority branch was also placed under regional control.

All Out for Bolton! Smash the EDL!

Addisalem — 2010-03-10 08:02:24

The fascist EDL is coming to Bolton. This statement of Bolton trade unionists calls for antiracists and trade unionists from across the country to mobilise against the EDL.

International Women's Day in Argentina

Bill J — 2010-03-08 21:20:27

The radical left in Argentina is organizing a demonstration in Buenos Aires for international women's day. An interview with Andrea D'Atri, spokeswoman for the Argentinean women's organization "Pan y Rosas (Bread and Roses), connected with the "Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas" (Socialist Workers' Party).

Chile: Earthquake - eyewitness update

Bill J — 2010-03-08 17:53:35

This earthquake at 8.8 at the epicentre on the Richter scale was one of the most powerful Chile has ever witnessed, and lasted almost three minutes….writes Diego Mocar… even though the city of Santiago is several hundred kilometres from the epicentre, the level of intensity for us here in Santiago was 7.8 on the Richter scale.

Permanent Revolution 15, Winter 2010 for download!

Keith H — 2009-12-09 18:46:16

The winter 2010 issue of Permanent Revolution is out now featuring articles on the retooling of British fascism, finance capital after the credit crunch, the Left Party in Germany, a critique of Robert Brenner and much more.. Order your copy now online

Robert Brenner and the current crisis: polemic

Bill J — 2010-03-08 17:18:22

The US Marxist economist Robert Brenner has been highly influential as a leading stagnation theorist of modern capitalism. Bill Jefferies lays bare some fundamental flaws in Brenner’s understanding of the world economy in a review of a recent paper...writes Bill Jefferies

Chile: Merseyside TUC solidarity

Bill J — 2010-03-08 13:43:59

A Joint effort has been established to help the people of Chile after the earthquake which left over 700 dead and thousands homeless and destitute.

Merseyside TUC has joined the Merseyside Chilean Solidarity Campaign and the F.B.U (Fire-fighters) in launching a massive aid programme to help the people of Chile to resolve and rebuild their lives and communities.

The Inner London Executive elections and St Paul’s Way

Eleanor — 2010-03-06 18:30:58

NUT members will be receiving ballot papers this week in elections for the Union’s Executive. It is obviously crucial that left candidates are elected and put to the test of office.

In the Inner London Executive elections, however, there are no right wing candidates. PR is calling for a critical vote for the Socialist Party’s Martin Powell-Davies and the SWP’s Sara Tomlinson. Why are we calling on NUT members not to vote for the other “left” candidate, Alex Kenny of the Socialist Teachers Alliance (STA)?

Permanent Revolution 16 Spring 2010 out this week

Keith H — 2010-03-04 20:20:40

A new issue of Permanent Revolution is out with articles on the British general election, New Labour and the Tories. Plus much more...

The world economy and the recovery

Bill J — 2010-03-03 17:20:35

Over the winter of 2008/9 as trade plunged and industrial production followed it the Great Depression seemed to have arrived. According to Chris Harman capitalism faced either a Great Depression at worst or ten years of stagnation at best. How wrong can you get?....writes Bill Jefferies....

Socialists and soldiers – the Bolsheviks and the Red Army: Francesco Benvenuti: Review

Bill J — 2010-02-28 11:39:20

This is one of those priceless books. Not valuable, just with no price printed anywhere on it. So it is not the sort you are likely to happen upon by chance in Borders or Waterstones. It is rather the sort of worthy academic treatise you will find tucked away in the history or politics section of a university bookshop which, as anyone who has been in one recently will agree, are thankfully free of any students at all. That bloody internet . . .

¡No pasaron! - anti Nazi demo in Dresden

Bill J — 2010-02-27 09:44:35

They didn't pass! The planned Nazi demonstration on February 13 in Dresden was blocked by more than 10,000 people. At 5 o'clock that morning, 25 fully-loaded buses set off from Berlin to go to the blockades – all in all, more than 100 buses from across Germany and neighboring countries arrived in Dresden.

Marxism and the rate of profit debated

Bill J — 2010-02-26 16:54:49

Marx noted that the tendency for the rate of profit to fall was the most important law in political economy. Every recession since WWII has been proceeded by a fall in the rate of profit and every recovery a rise. During the latest period of capitalist development, globalisation, the restoration of capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe, the ex-USSR and China, doubled the world’s working class that could be exploited by capital....writes Bill Jefferies....