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On transitional economics ‑ Why and how China went capitalist (Part One)

Does the development of China on a
capitalist basis deny the theory of permanent revolution? Does it mean
that capitalism on a world scale has a new lease of life? What was China
under Mao? In this first part of a two part article, which we publish
as a contribution to the discussion, Jeppe Druedahl looks at these and
other questions and draws lessons from the development of the Soviet
Union after the revolution and under the Stalinist bureaucracy.

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Fianna Fáil looters to raid the family silver

IRELAND: There’s
been a steady procession of attacks on the public sector over the last
couple of years. Wage cuts, levies and a deluge of propaganda. We’ve
made the point elsewhere that the FF and the Greens are in a cul de
sac, they are most likely going to be slaughtered in the next general
election. So by all accounts they have nothing to lose. They have
launched a one sided civil war against the working class at the behest
of the bourgeois, the home grown variety of course, but also the multi
nationals based in London and New York.

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Marxism and the state

Standing between the working class and the socialist transformation of society is a colossal state machine. In order to carry out this transformation, we must have a clear understanding of what the state is, and what must replace it. 

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Marxism and the state

Standing between the working class and the socialist transformation of society is a colossal state machine. In order to carry out this transformation, we must have a clear understanding of what the state is, and what must replace it. 

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“Big Society?” Big Profits more like it!

When David Cameron announced "The Big Society" (a name nicked from the
American President LBJ who used it in the ’60s) during the election,
most people laughed and assumed that would be the last we would hear of
it. Tory spokespeople said that they had no idea what it meant and one
Tory MP described it as "Bollocks." Indeed. However, now safely inside
Number 10, Cameron has brought up it up again.

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Deepwater Horizon – a unionised workforce would stop these environmental disasters

Much is said in the news about the disastrous situation that now
exists in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon
explosion. An ecological disaster of gigantic proportions has been
created by the profit motive, which is what drives the BP executives.
However, were the company to be thoroughly unionised, with workers’
representatives controlling every level of safety, this disaster could
have been averted.

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Ted Grant (1913 – 2006)

Today, July 20th, is the fourth anniversary of the death of Ted Grant, Marxist, Revolutionary, defender of the banner of Trotskyism. In the next few days we will be publishing the first volume of the collected writings of Ted Grant cover the period from 1938 to 1942.

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