According to Tom Harris in The Daily Telegraph on 17 March, “we are all socialists now”. This was before the UK government’s announcement of a £330bn package to help the economy through…
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(Perspectives for the CWO as discussed in its AGM, November 2019)
== Overview
Capitalism, the most dynamic mode of production in history, has created a world economy and the material…
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Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (which did not quite make its own thirtieth anniversary). It will be accompanied by the usual capitalist paeans to the wonders…
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A spectre haunts the world today. It is the spectre of “socialism”. Commentators of left and right, of reactionary or reformist inclination, agree that “after three decades in the wilderness,…
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In March 2006 we wrote in _Revolutionary Perspectives_ 38 in the conclusion of an article on “The New Economy”
"We have had to clarify how capital’s extortion of unpaid labour from the…
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State-capitalism is a description of capitalist reality - not a theory. As we have seen with the course of events of the 20th Century that both "private" and "state"…
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The Evasions and Sophistry of the ICC
== Introduction
It is no secret that one of the factors in the formation of the Communist Workers’ Organisation in 1975 was the…
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== Introduction
The role which war plays in the present phase of capitalist society is something which was extensively discussed by left communists in the 1970's. This was the period…