
The world has been shocked by the
news of the bloody massacre in Norway. At least 91 people have been
killed, including 84 members of the Labour Youth Organization (AUF) in a
summer camp.

Socialist Appeal joins others in the British Labour and trade union movement in sending condolences and solidarity to the

The
classical view of how capitalism develops is that within feudal society a
class emerges made up of merchants, bankers, early industrialists, i.e.
the bourgeoisie, and that for this class to be able to develop its full
potential a bourgeois revolution is required to break the limits
imposed by the landed feudal aristocracy. That is how things developed,
more or less, in countries like France and England, but not in Japan.