As the current economic crisis deepens, governments around the globe  are attempting to force savage austerity measures on the working class.  The argument about a different kind of society, one that is run and  controlled by workers and in their interests, is now an urgent one.
Marx  said that capitalism creates its own gravedigger - the working class.  Our history is rich with lessons from past struggles when workers have  challenged for power, sometimes confronting the bosses, sometimes  confronting the capitalist state as a whole.
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