A proletarian note

On February 8 this year the American Defense Secretary, former CIA chief Leon Panetta, made a strange statement when he appeared on TM News [Italian version of CNN – translator].

The struggle of the working class must be the fight to assert the interests of the class against the capitalist system of oppression and exploitation.

_This documents and the one preceding it on Basic Programmatic Theses were prepared in English by the Internationalist Comrades in Greece and offered by them for discussion._

1. In the present capitalist social system of exploitation of labour by capital, the conflict between productive forces and productive relations -which is due to the contradiction

CWO Introduction

... the most optimistic economic forecast is for a year of stagnation. The ‘jobs recovery’ has fizzled out and even the IMF is calling on the government to slowdown its austerity programme.

"There’s class warfare,all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning..."