It was not the immediate crisis on Wall Street that has “caused” the public outrage against the Big Business bail out. This was only the “straw that broke the camel’s back.” This has simply brought to the surface deep-seated discontent that had been brewing for years.
Last weeks' rallies in New York against the proposed bail-out of failed banks revealed a very angry mood. Comrades of the Workers' International League were on the rallies and they provide here an interesting insight into the real mood that is developing among US workers as capitalism plummets into crisis.
The Brazilian comrades of Esquerda Marxista have published a new issue of their journal Luta de Classes. It contains a 4-page special edition about the affiliation of Esquerda Marxista as the Brazilian section of the IMT. We provide here a PDF to download.