The year the long war began
The outbreak of war in Ukraine in 2022 has changed the imperialist game, opened up an epoch of war economy and global militarism, transformed the terms of the class struggle and renewed the ideological arsenal of the left and the unions to be wielded against the workers´ struggle. In 2023 conscious workers have an arduous, necessarily patient and seemingly thankless job ahead of us. But it is absolutely necessary.
The class struggle in Iran
The development of the wildcat strikes and the organization of the workers in Iran has not taken place in "solidarity" with the students and the petty bourgeoisie. It is the result of years of struggles and is itself a political struggle of its own against the state and the classes that sustain it. Including the protesting petty bourgeoisie who support the "reformists" of the regime.
Barometer of struggles November 2022
Summary of strikes collected in our Strike Channel during the month of November 2022
Power outages ahead
In France, the risk of blackouts due to an inability to meet electricity demand «becomes real» from January onwards... provided temperatures do not drop before then. Companies are stocking up on diesel generators, but neither the mobile network nor emergency telephones can withstand power failures, and even chain outages are possible. How could one of the major European powers come to this?