Public meeting on Canada's militarism, WWII, and the class struggle.
When: 26 March 2023, 6pm
Where: Bibliothèque DIRA (3rd floor), 2035 Saint-Laurent Blvd, Montreal, QC H2X 2T3
NWBCW Montreal
The Covid lockdowns and restrictions have produced a very unusual situation for the ICT. We’ve almost stopped face-to-face meetings, though we have managed to attend and address some demonstrations and had a small number of suitably socially-distanced meetings in various places. We’ve cut back on our physical publications, because we don’t have as many opportunities at the moment to distribute them — though, again, we have managed to intervene with leaflets and papers in some places, most notably Aurora#52 at demonstrations over NHS pay, and the leaflet produced jointly by the comrades of the Internationalist Workers’ Group and Klasbatalo in North America in response to the murder of George Floyd and the wave of protests sparked by it.
The curtailing of opportunities for physical meetings had led to a rise in our online activity. The internet is of course a very useful communication tool. It allows revolutionary organisations to make contact with people who are in locations where there are no militants. We have been holding more meetings on the internet, which has allowed comrades from different countries and regions to interact in a way not possible with physical meetings. We’ve also been concentrating on publishing more than usual on the website and trying harder to share our content, including some written by sympathisers, on social media.
Of course, many of our sympathisers and contacts, and the people we don’t know who read what we publish, have been spending more time on the internet due to Covid restrictions, reading, thinking about, and discussing, the ICT’s analysis.
Perhaps it is aspects of the world situation that people are seeking perspectives on, whether that’s capitalism’s responsibility for the rise of viruses like Covid and the ecological catastrophe that is ravaging the planet; or the social and economic consequences for a global capitalist economy in deep economic crisis and weighed down by debt; the imperialist proxy wars that continue at the same time as the ominous sharpening of rivalry between the waning US super-power and the rising challenge from China; or simply the declining prospect for the world's wage-workers and the majority of humanity which in itself indicates the need for the capitalist profit system to be replaced by a world community which decides for itself what and how to produce on the basis of social need and impact on the wider environment. This, of course, cannot be done without a political and social revolution and without a revolutionary organisation able to exert a clear political and practical guide. This is what the ICT is working to bring into existence.
And this is why, beyond the increasing tally of internet readers, we have been encouraged in recent months by a growing number of people contacting us to discuss, to help, and to join the organisations that make up the ICT. The latter is an important decision: to coin a phrase it is "one small step for the individual", but eventually it will lead to "a giant leap for humankind."
We publish in a variety of formats. Apart from the paper publications of the ICT’s constituent organisations, our main publishing tool is the website – leftcom.org. If you like our output, if you read our articles and think we are saying sensible things, then please, consider opening up a dialogue with us. You can contact us in many different ways.
We currently are holding discussions with contacts on Zoom and Discord; if you would like to talk to us on either of these platforms, please contact us and we can try to arrange a meeting.
If you’re not in the UK, you can get in touch with the various affiliates or sympathiser groups of the ICT directly:
For anywhere not on that list, you can contact the nearest affiliate and we might be able to put you in touch with comrades speaking languages beyond English, Italian, German and French, including: Swedish, Spanish, Farsi, Polish, Russian, Dutch, and Portuguese.
If there is a CWO section nearby, you can simply join our comrades in their activities. But even if you are the only left communist in your city or village you can still contribute:
If you have already been in contact with us and think you want to join the CWO, and you haven’t already done this, or if you are new to us but already convinced that you want to join the organisation, we’d ask you to read our Political Platform and our basic document For Communism. You can then either write or email us to discuss what you think before you go any further, or just make contact with the organisation which will put you in touch with the local section; you can start taking part in their activities if you are not already doing so. If you are still comfortable with that, and the local organisation is with you, then you are given the Statutes, which are our rules for members. If you can live with them you are then proposed for candidacy as a CWO member. After this candidacy period if you still want to be a member of the organisation, the question of you becoming a full member is decided by a general meeting of the organisation.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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Public meeting on Canada's militarism, WWII, and the class struggle.
When: 26 March 2023, 6pm
Where: Bibliothèque DIRA (3rd floor), 2035 Saint-Laurent Blvd, Montreal, QC H2X 2T3
NWBCW Montreal
NEWCASTLE EWAN BROWN ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 13 May 2023
Where: Star and Shadow Cinema, Warwick St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1BB
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