NEW WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS

Imperialism faces its worst financial, economic and political crises since the 1930s

Statement by the Liaison Committee for the Fourth International - LCFI

The British riots that began in Tottenham on Aug. 6 after police shot Mark Duggan were the result of contention of the class struggle by the trade union bureaucracy in favor of the capitalist class

The US is still the only major superpower in terms of military might. The emerging rival imperialist powers bloc of Germany and the BRICS countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, who abstained in the Libya no fly zone vote at the UN (apart from South Africa who was not then a member) have been intimidated into accepting the situation; pressure on Germany has cowed that rival and in turn Russia and China has been forced to accept that the military might of the US and its allies Britain, France and other smaller European imperialist countries cannot be challenged on a global scale. It is clear that this is very much the weaker Imperialist power bloc; they do not have the economic might to replace the dollar and they do not have anything like the military strength to oppose the US and its allies in a war. And there are really only two rival theories of world Imperialism and we are Leninists; it will not be possible ultimately to resolve these inter-imperialist conflicts as Karl Kautsky thought. These will inevitably lead to WWIII and great revolutionary upheavals where the world revolution of decent into generations of barbarism will again be sharply posed.

09/11/2001-2011 SPECIAL - 2 / 3

The mathematics of the Imperialist butchers’ terrorism
Article of the Communist League of Brazil published in the Socialist Fight # 7

Versão em português

On September 11, 2001 less than 3000 people died in the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. According to the Unknown News site, which provides a detailed statistical number of deaths in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, 919,967 people were killed between civilians and military in both countries since the invasion and occupied first by the imperialist coalition from 2001 until August 2010. During the same period, the site records that 1,739,547 people injured in the two countries. In Iraq alone the death toll is 900,338. http://www.unknownnews.org/casualties.html.

The Iraq Body Count, which uses a different methodology, which counts only the deaths of civilians in Iraq that are recorded in newspapers or on TV, has much more conservative numbers: 111,937 civilians were killed in Iraq alone. In a country ravaged by daily violence, it seems unlikely that the report of every man, woman and child dead - or even most Iraqi deaths - were mentioned in the media of that country.

LIBYA

The fall of Tripoli reveals the new global balance of class forces

Statement by the Liaison Committee for the Fourth International - LCFI

NATO takes Tripoli under the mask of the

'rebel' royalists of the CNT

On the night of 21-22 August 2011 Tripoli fell to the NATO-rebel forces of world Imperialism, with the assistance of NATO bombs and Special Forces from several imperialist countries and troops from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

Despite the fact that powerful resistance continues it is clear that NATO and their stooges, the TNC rebels, have dealt a major blow at the independence of Libya. It is no satisfaction to have our direst predictions confirmed.

In the Statement on Libya by the Liga Comunista of Brazil, the Revolutionary Marxist Group of South Africa and Socialist Fight of Britain on 21 April 2011, DECLARATION TO THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD AND THEIR INTERNATIONALIST VANGUARD we said: