The internationalists

On January 23 2009 the CWO held its first public meeting in Manchester for some years as a result of requests from local readers. The text which follows was given as the introduction to the meeting. Its basic framework was broadly accepted by the meeting, despite the apparent attendance of sympathisers and members of a number of different currents (including the Anarchist Federation, the...

After two days of clashes in Rosarno 66 people have treated in hospital, 17 locals, 19 police and 30 immigrants. Two of the latter were beaten with metal bars on the night of January 7-8 and remain in a serious condition. Others were run over by cars. This was the response to the sudden explosion of anger the day before, after two immigrants were wounded by a coward with an airgun.

Déjà vu · On the night of 4-5 November the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) carried out their own plot to blow up the workers’ resistance to the one of the most aggressive managements in Britain. The postal strikes were called off in the early evening of 4 November but the actual agreement with the Royal Mail management was not signed until after 1.00 a.m. on 5 November.

The fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago heralded a new era, a Golden Age of capitalism. · Communism was dead, the Cold War was over and years of peace and prosperity lay ahead. At least that’s what workers were told at the time. When Gorbachev embarked on the road of Perestroika and Glasnost in the ‘80’s, little did he realize where it would end.

(4th Dec. 1893 - 14 Oct. 1979) · “Without the revolutionary party, every revolt will exhaust itself within the system.” · Onorato Damen was one of the most representative and prestigious figures of the International Communist Left. When still very young, he fought against revisionism in the PSI and the opportunism of Turati, Treves and Modigliani.