Europe

NOVANEWS As workers and campaigners around the country gather to plan their resistance to the aggressive cuts that are now being imposed on pay, pensions and public services, we greet all those who are fighting so hard against the most vicious class assault in generations. They are quite right to say that the current economic crisis is not of our making; that we can't and won't pay for the failings of a system that is set up for the benefit of a tiny handful of super-rich parasites. We need to understand, though, that the government's austerity programme is merely the reflection of the deepest ever crisis of this historically outmoded system. No reform is capable of breaking the downward spiral of crisis and war into which capitalism is dragging us all. The only solution is to orga...