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1. Underneath the housing crisis, the crisis of the capitalist economy

   ... it crazy sums of money in the form of credit and debt. The economic history of the last forty years forms a sort of infernal cycle: ... levels. The total debt of the United States, the first world economic and military power, has gone from $630 billion in 1970 to $36,850 ...

   World Revolution - 2007-12-03 10:33

2. Does the Working-Class Vote Against Its Own Interests?

   ... in which it votes for politicians who act against its economic interests. The conclusion is that the industrial working class cannot ... the future. [3] An interesting debate has been raging for some time now among bourgeois pollsters and ...

   ICConline - 2011-01-19 22:39

3. Marxism and ethics (part 2)

   ... of the working class, than to hold this very general debate at a moment for which it was not yet ripe. Questions of morality ... from the growing social insecurity brought forth by the economic crisis, which can become a powerful impulsion of class solidarity in ...

   International Review - 2007-02-28 23:28

4. False theories of the party - Conclusion

   ... any political position which rests on a separation between economic and political struggles implies the negation of the proletariat as a ... by pretending that when the working class struggles for economic demands it is a ‘c1ass-for-capital’, that is, an economic category ...

   ICC - 2019-04-28 22:10

5. Response to Internationalist Voice on strikes in Iran

   ... to frame those specifics: the irresolvable and fundamental economic crisis of capitalism (and not its "... imperfect and corrupt ... since and it's the strength of IV's analysis of capitalist decadence that gives them their strong theoretical basis for its development. ...

   ICConline - 2019-06-01 17:20

6. What are workers' councils? (Part 3): The revolution of 1917 (July to October)

   ... from the ownership of the means of production and has no economic power. Its struggle is one of convulsions and contradictions, with ... " [14] The writings of Lenin contributed to a stormy debate in the ranks of the Bolshevik Party, which crystallised during the Sixth ...

   International Review - 2010-11-21 17:48

7. Pensions crisis shows capitalism has no future (2006)

   ... crisis shows unequivocally is that capitalism is mired in economic crisis, is bankrupt and offers no future for humanity. It is no longer fit to rule. In response to growing global economic crisis, the capitalist state in every country pursues policies ...

   Internationalism USA - 2019-04-29 00:57

8. Unemployment in UK: The crisis can no longer be hidden

   ... that has given Britain an apparently better economic performance over the last few years than many of its European ... General and theoretical questions:  Economic crisis ...

   World Revolution - 2006-07-04 11:58

9. The oldest hotspot and the danger of contagion towards the East

   ... eyes this with great suspicion. Beijing too has signed major economic contracts with Kabul. The sharpening of the conflict around Iran ... to the USA inevitably had to receive Chinese backing. On an economic level, China has benefited from the space left vacant by sanctions ...

   International Review - 2012-11-11 18:20

10. The 'new economy' is no solution to the capitalist crisis

    ... that’s what the bourgeoisie and its media are telling us. Economic growth is charting an unlimited upward course and unemployment is ... speculative bubble which has nothing to do with real economic activity, and whose very existence is a classic expression of the ...

    World Revolution - 2005-02-11 18:31

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