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Sparks' Power in Tyne & Wear: Wildcat Action Wins Back Jobs

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On construction sites around the UK, contractors such as Balfour Beatty and NG Bailey have already tried to de-skill the sparks’ (electrician) trade earlier this year. These contractors remain unpopular among many workers in the electrical industry due to this, though ultimately they failed to achieve their goal after much resistance from the sparks throughout the country.

Italy: Class Solidarity with the FedEx and Texprint Workers

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The capitalist attacks continue. We present here two translations from our comrades in Italy about the recent events. They are self-explanatory. For reference to our previous articles on the struggles of workers in the logistics sector in Italy see: Italy: The Capitalist Attacks Are Already Beginning ( Demonstration and Strike of Peroni Workers at Tor Sapienza (Rome) ( Two Comments on Recent...

The Bosses' Assault is the Bosses' Recovery!

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(Klasbatalo leaflet for the dockworkers' strike in Montreal.) · Frantic are the Ministers, the CEOs and the media personalities to cry out that the Montreal Port workers threaten the economic “recovery”. They claim that everyday, the strike will cost 30 million dollars, which the “recovery” cannot manage.

Solidarity with Firefighters, Paramedics, and Hospital Workers!

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(Leaflet distributed by the ICO at a protest rally in South Australia for firefighters and paramedics.) · THE SITUATION · While the South Australian Marshall government announces the building of a new $700 million indoor stadium and just recently provided an additional $93.2 million in funding for the police whose prime role is to defend property, the people who put their lives on the line to...

Solidarity and Self-Organisation are the Weapons of the Working Class

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(Leaflet distributed by the CWO during the last round of strikes at universities across the UK.) · More than 170 years ago, Marx, whose work has helped us understand the basic dynamic of capitalism and the historical ebb and flow of the class struggle, wrote that: · "The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe.

Class Struggle and Gender Trouble

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(Leaflet distributed by the CWO at protests around the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) happening around the UK last year.) · Throughout human history societies have enforced different norms, expectations and categorisations of gender, sex and sexuality, which corresponded to the needs of the different modes of production.

Kill the Bill? Change the System!

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(Leaflet distributed by the CWO at various Kill the Bill protests happening around the UK.) · The heavy handed police response to a vigil in memory of Sarah Everard and the protest in Bristol against the new Police and Crime Bill have again drawn attention to the role of the police in society as it exists today. · All over the globe the pandemic has sharpened class divisions.

Closing Intransigence

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(Editorial from 1919 ( the new journal of the North American affiliates of the ICT.) · Intransigence as a project started in 2017. The publication was a vehicle that brought disparate and geographically separated communists together to engage with one another in debate and discussion. The goal was to identify common ground and to identify areas of disagreement, both to clarify commonly held...

Italy: The Capitalist Attacks Are Already Beginning

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The following articles are translations of a statement and a leaflet issued by our sister organisation in Italy, Battaglia Comunista (Internationalist Communist Party). Migrant workers in the TNT-FedEx warehouse in Piacenza (Emilia-Romagna) have been on strike for over a fortnight to simply win the same pay and conditions as other workers. Their picket line has been attacked by the police.

Communist Work in a Covid Crisis: A Framework

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(Perspectives for the CWO as discussed in its AGM, November 2020) · A pandemic is a test for any mode of production. It is a particular test for a system mired in economic, political and social crisis. SARS-CoV-2 has thus found the capitalist system wanting. Not only were most countries across the world slow to respond to the swiftly spreading contagion, but the last few decades of cuts and...

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