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Greece: What now? By Fred Weston and Stamatis Karagiannopoulos In the recent period the response of the Greek working class to a series of severe austerity packages has been magnificent. We have seen mass mobilisations, public sector strikes and general strikes. In spite of all this, the PASOK government has pushed through several austerity packages and is preparing even more attacks. The question is therefore posed as to where the movement goes from here. What is the next step? First issue of "Mobareze Tabaqati" Published by Iranian Marxists By Mobareze.org We, a group of supporters of the International Marxist Tendency, are happy to declare that the first issue of our 16-page communist paper, "Mobareze Tabaqati" (Class Struggle) has been published and in the recent days, around the anniversary of the beginning of the revolutionary movement in Iran, it was distributed in a few of the largest cities in Iran by our supporters. [Video] China: Communist or Capitalist? By Fred Weston Fred Weston, from the editorial board of Marxist.com, spoke to a packed house at May Day Books in Minneapolis, MN, USA on June 1st. Around 30 people came to hear Fred present a Marxist analysis of the state of the Chinese economy and the future of 1/5 of humanity. We present here a video of Fred's presentation and the question and answer session, which covered topics as varied as the difference between socialism and communism to an explanation of the Asiatic mode of production. After victory... the war goes on By Ted Grant in 1978 In 1978 war broke out between Vietnam and Cambodia, two countries that were supposed to be "socialist". This bemused – and embarrassed – the Stalinist Communist parties, who could not explain this phenomenon. Ted Grant explained that the two regimes involved in war were bureaucratic, deformed workers' state, with a one party, military-police dictatorship in power. Marxists supported the nationalised, planned economies in these countries, but raised the need for genuine workers' democracy.		OTHER LANGUAGES «انتشار اولین شماره از نشریه «مبارزه طبقاتی By Mobareze.org - بیانیه گرایش بین‌المللی مارکسیستی ما٬ جمعی از هواداران «گرایش بین‌المللی مارکسیستی» خوشحالیم اعلام کنیم که اولین شماره از نشریه کمونیستی «مبارزه طبقاتی» در ۱۶ صفحه منتشر شده است و در چند روز اخیر٬ در سالگرد آغاز جنبش انقلابی در ایران٬ توسط فعالین ما در چند تا از بزرگترین شهرهای ایران توزیع شده است. من يستفيد من كأس العالم؟ By Steve Jones عندما تتأسس دولة ما غالبا ما يكون لها طموحان مباشران هما أولا أن تصير عضوا في الأمم المتحدة وأن تنتمي ثانيا إلى الفدرالية الدولية لكرة القدم، الفيفا، وأحيانا يكون الهدف الثاني هو الأول! تظل كرة القدم اللعبة المهيمنة عالميا، حيث يمارسها الملايين ويتابع مبارياتها الملايير. ومن حيث المداخيل، تجاوزت كرة القدم إلى حد بعيد جميع الرياضات الأخرى وهو الشيء الذي لا يمر دون أن تلاحظه كبريات الشركات الرياضية.
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