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How to combat the worldwide offensive of capitalism
against the rights and conditions of the working class? This is a big
issue facing the trade unions today. So also is the absence of a
distinct political voice for working-class people as former ‘workers’
parties have abandoned a working-class and socialist perspective, like
New Labour in Britain. PETER TAAFFE shows that in the writings of Marx
and Engels are to be found many answers to begin overcoming these
problems confronting trade unions today.
While the grand coalition government of the
conservative CDU/CSU and social democratic SPD carries on with
neo-liberal attacks on the working class, a big debate is taking place
within the German left about the unification of different forces and
parties. SASCHA STANICIC, general secretary of Sozialistische
Alternative (SAV – CWI Germany) and active member of the Party for Work
and Justice - The Electoral Alternative (WASG) analyses the background
and perspectives for this debate.
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