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Anti-capitalist Initiative In the midst of the deepest economic crisis since the 1930s the working class is facing a massive assault on living standards and rights. The capitalists are well organised at a national an international level, when a government looks like it is to fall and break the austerity consensus it is quickly propped up. In Europe this has come through technocratic governments in Italy and Greece and budgetary oversight by the core capitalist powers Germany and France. In Britain we have faced a concerted onslaught yet our movement has offered little in reply. The trade unions in their current state have proved to be no shield to the Conservative-led government attacks. The Labour Party, rarely a fighter for the working class is positioning itself as the “little-less” party. A little-less austerity. A little-less racism. A little-less environmental destruction. A little-less of everything the current government is doing. Ultimately they offer more of the same medicine on a smaller spoon.