http://www.marxist.org.uk Journal of the Internationalist Workers' Tendency Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:53:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The world's most self-important neckbeard and nanosect theoretician delivers his verdict on autonomist Marxism: We have no interaction with, or rivalry with, Principia Dialectica. They are simply not in our part of the political universe and not in the workers’ movement. Neckbeard and his two friends are the vanguard. Après moi -- ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2008/09/29/the-golden-age-ii/ Scenario: A wealthy man opens his office safe and removes the title deeds to your house and those of others. He takes them to the casino to use as collateral and loses everything. He then arrives on your doorstep demanding cash from you to make good the loss -- or you ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2008/09/29/killing-the-goose/ Statement by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) on the crisis of casino capitalism The world financial crisis must be a turning point and cause a complete change in the way the financial world works. The dominant model of financial capitalism is close to collapse. This capitalism, liberated from long-standing restraints ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2008/09/28/crisis-of-casino-capitalism/ Agencies report that Burma's longest serving political prisoner, journalist and dissident U Win Tin, along with six other political prisoners, has been freed in an 'amnesty' calculated to cool potential unrest during the first anniversary of the Burmese junta's murderous suppression of pro-democracy protests. http://www.marxist.org.uk/2008/09/23/u-win-tin-freed/ There will be counter demonstration against the preposterous Islamic Republic of Iran sponsored 'Al Quds Day' march at Piccadilly Circus, this Sunday 28 September at 1300hrs.'Al Quds Day' was instituted by the Ayatollah Khomenei, supposedly in support of Palestinians, but in reality to promote the backward and murderous clerical fascist ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2008/09/22/oppose-barbarism/ Disrupting the flow of the spectacle, René Viénet's detournement Can Dialectics Break Bricks? and Guy Debord's 'manifesto' Society of the Spectacle. http://www.marxist.org.uk/2008/09/22/vienet-and-debord-films/ Gholamreza Gholamhosseini, a member of the Vahed Syndicate Executive Board, has been released from Evin Prison. He was arrested on 24 June while attending an Iran Women's Day event. http://www.marxist.org.uk/2008/09/17/gholamreza-gholamhosseini-released/ Mansour Osanloo and the Vahed Syndicate (Tehran Bus Drivers' Union) are to receive the Solidar Silver Rose Award. Mac Urata, Secretary of the ITF's Inland Transport Section, commented: "We and everyone else who supports the campaign for justice for workers in Iran can be justifiably pleased at the news of this ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2008/09/15/osanloo-and-vahed-receive-human-rights-award/ To its shame, Britain is a state which imprisons without trial children who have committed no crime. Children of people who have applied for asylum are taken from friends and family and locked up without education or proper healthcare in detention centres. The government which launched the Every Child Matters ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2008/09/15/against-fortress-britain/ Orwell's 1945 essay Notes on Nationalism, is still clearly relevant in the present. This is especially true of the section on transferred nationalism, after recent cheerleading by political degenerates for Russian imperialism and the Chinese dictatorship's ongoing suppression of independent workers' organisations and national independence movements. . Somewhere or other Byron makes ... http://www.marxist.org.uk/2008/09/04/notes-on-nationalism/