The internationalists

It is now over fifty years since the return of the economic crisis, which marked the end of the reconstruction phase after the end of the Second World War. It triggered a wave of class struggle that culminated in the class struggles in Poland and the militant miners' strike in England. The defeats of these class struggles influenced the will and ability of the working class to develop its...

It has been over a month since the workers of Canada Post began their strike in defence against the crown corporations plans to attack wages; a paltry 11% increase after years of inflation! This is in addition to schemes to Uber-ize weekend work to further drive down wages in the long term and to increase precarity.

(On Monday 18 November, the CWO held a public meeting in Manchester on the topic of imperialism. We publish here the presentation followed by notes from the discussion.) · The Presentation · ‘Imperialism’, in Marxist terms, has a specific definition. It is an economic definition that explains how capitalism came to dominate the world and how it continues to survive.

(As the date indicates, the article below was written by our Italian comrades before the fall of the Assad regime, but has been updated since. It gives some indication as to what this latest piece of the imperialist puzzle might mean for the future.) · Syria: Imperialist Barbarism Flares Up Again · The civil war has restarted in an already devastated Syria.

The current situation has been described as worse than Cuba’s special period after the collapse of the USSR. The Antonio Guiteras power plant in the western province of Matanzas, failed shortly before midday on Friday October, 18 2024. At a time when the island was already coming off of the destruction from hurricane Milton. Power was temporarily restored but was cut again on the following Sunday.