International

Turkey: mass movement against government - general strike needed

Details: Published: Wednesday, 05 June 2013 07:19; Written by Jorge Martin

What started as a small scale protest against the destruction of Gezi Park that stands next to Taksim Square in Istanbul has now developed into a nationwide movement demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Erdogan, of the AK Party.

The War Against Online Piracy - Part 1: The full force of the law

Details: Published: Friday, 26 April 2013 06:00; Written by Niklas Albin Svensson

The cat-and-mouse game between piracy supporters on the one hand and state authorities and major multinational companies on the other is heating up. Over the past few years there has been a marked increase in the persecution of websites and individuals involved in piracy. Democratic rights are being thrown overboard and the full force of the state applied in the media industry’s ruthless pursuit of profits.

After parliament rejects bail-out what is the solution to the crisis in Cyprus?

Details: Published: Friday, 22 March 2013 04:34; Written by Pavlos Agios

Marx wrote in the 18th Brumaire that history repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce. This is what is happening in Cyprus. We are witnessing a situation similar to two years ago when the EU put pressure on Greece to accept a bail-out, but this time around 56 Cypriot politicians have created a huge problem for capitalists across Europe.

Margaret Thatcher: Bourgeois miscalculations and working class hatred

Details: Published: Thursday, 18 April 2013 05:05; Written by Ben Peck

Since the death of Margaret Thatcher last week the British Establishment have been revelling in their past. In a similar manner to the death of Princess Diana, the Royal Wedding and the London Olympics, they believe that this event could serve as another circus to distract working class people from their problems. We would all come together as one nation and forget our class differences. This has been a serious miscalculation.

What the Assad regime was and what it has become – Part Three

Details: Published: Friday, 22 March 2013 04:32; Written by Fred Weston

Although there had been some concessions to private capital under the old Assad, what was to rapidly accelerate the process and lead to a qualitative change was the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1989 and the Soviet Union in 1991. The system the Assad regime had modelled itself on collapsed like a house of cards. And just as the Soviet model attracted the young officers who carried out the coup in 1963, now its collapse shook their confidence in that same regime.

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