Inflation Cuts Workers' Real Wages With No End in Sight

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United States of America
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Financial market
Workers' conditions and struggles
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Internationalist Notes

Inflation that was supposed to be "transitory" has been cutting away at workers’ real wages for more than a year now. The September inflation report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that inflation has predictably continued to rise. Consumer prices increased 0.4% over September, and are 8.2% more expensive than this point last year.

Weyerhaeuser Workers: Not Finished Yet!

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No War But The Class War
Regions: 
United States of America
Facts: 
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Documents

(As an example of the kind of activity that No War but the Class War committees are involved in, we reproduce here an article from NWBCW Pacific Northwest ( on the latest developments in the struggle of the Weyerhaeuser workers.(1)) · Workers Fight On Despite Sell Out Contracts and Union Bureaucrats! Solidarity With Weyerhaeuser Workers and the 46%ers! · The Pacific Northwest No War But Class War...

Iran: Imperialist Rivalries and the Protest Movement of "Woman, Life, Freedom"

Regions: 
Middle East
Basics: 
Imperialism
Facts: 
Social unrest
Publications: 
Documents

After six weeks of bloody protests in Iran, which resulted in the death of more than 200 people, what is going on in the minds of the protesters on the streets of Iran? What is the next step? Will the Islamic Republic be overthrown as the saying goes: "dictators neither listen nor reform, dictators are only overthrown"? If yes, how? And the more important question, what will replace it? This note...

1944 Appeal of the Internationalist Communist Party for the Creation of a United Proletarian Front Against the War

Politics: 
Italian Communist Left
No War But The Class War
History: 
1939-1945: World War II
1943: P.C.Internazionalista
Publications: 
Documents

Just to show that the No War but the Class War (NWBCW) initiative ( supported by the ICT is neither immediatist nor something new in our political methodology, we are republishing here the appeal for a united proletarian front against the war that the Internationalist Communist Party put out during the Second World War.

Business as per Emergency Bill: Strike at Achema Plant in Lithuania

Regions: 
Russia and Eastern Europe
History: 
2022: Russo-Ukrainian War
Facts: 
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Mutiny / Mutinerie

On the 8th of February, 100 workers at the chemical plant complex ‘Achema’ in Jonava, Lithuania voted in favour of a strike to negotiate a collective agreement. The complex is one of the economic powerhouses of the Baltics, contributing to 3.4% of the country’s GDP. The strike marked a turning point in the Lithuanian class struggle, being the first in a private enterprise in the country’s...

Tighten Your Belts and Forward March!

Regions: 
Canada
History: 
2022: Russo-Ukrainian War
Facts: 
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Mutiny / Mutinerie

As the stock markets veer towards collapse, so does military rivalry flare up across the world. With the bloody war in Ukraine, the military standoffs in the air and seas around Taiwan, and a new wave of conflicts between regional powers, the imperialist actors are descending into bloody barbarism and toying with threats of nuclear warfare.

As Protests Continue, Workers Strike in Iran

Regions: 
Middle East
History: 
2018: Haft Tappeh Struggle
2021: Iran Oil Workers' Strike
Publications: 
Documents

As the protest movement in Iran develops, we publish here a few more translations of recent statements from the Council for Organising Protests by Oil Contract Workers and the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Workers’ Syndicate. Their decision to go on strike has inevitably been met with repression by the regime.

Russia's Annexations in Ukraine are Another Step Towards Global Imperialist War

History: 
2022: Russo-Ukrainian War
Basics: 
Imperialism
Publications: 
Documents

(Statement of the Internationalist Communist Tendency) · Nuclear Russian Roulette in Ukraine … · On 21 September, under pressure from the Ukrainian counter-offensive, Putin gave a speech in which he made two key announcements. The first was the declaration of a "partial mobilization" of 300,000 military reservists destined for the war in Ukraine.

No War but the Class War: Statement from NWBCW Montreal

Politics: 
No War But The Class War
Regions: 
Canada
History: 
2022: Russo-Ukrainian War
Publications: 
Documents

(We publish here the founding statement of NWBCW Montreal. You can follow their activities: @NwbcwM ( · The Main Enemy is at Home! · Empty are the capitalists’ slogans of democracy, national self-determination, rule of law, and peace between nations. What do these abstract ideals mean in reality except as an excuse for food shortages in Africa, the coming cold winter in Berlin, cities reduced to...

Rojava: The Myths and the Reality

Regions: 
Middle East
History: 
2011: War in Syria
Publications: 
Documents

Let us be clear from the outset: Rojava is not a product of a revolution, but simply of one “special armed body” stepping in for another “special armed body”. Enough has been written about the influence on Rojava of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), and the alleged Damascene conversion of its leader Abdullah Öcalan from Stalinism to “libertarian municipalism”, so we will not delve into this...

Iran: On the Hijab as Labour Discipline, and the Slogan of "Woman, Life, Freedom"

Regions: 
Middle East
Facts: 
Social unrest
Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Documents

… How Did it Start? · On Tuesday 13 September, Mehsa Amini (Zina), a 22-year-old Iranian woman from the city of Saqez of the province of Western Kurdistan who was visiting Tehran with her brother, was arrested by the “morality police”. Shortly after her arrest, she suffered a fractured skull and brain damage as a result of being beaten by the officers of the “morality police”, and three days...

No War but the Class War: Statement from NWBCW Toronto

Politics: 
No War But The Class War
Regions: 
Canada
History: 
2022: Russo-Ukrainian War
Publications: 
Documents

(We publish here the founding statement of NWBCW Toronto.) · No War but Class War! The Main Enemy is at Home! · The current progressive impoverishment of the working class is occurring on an international scale. This process has been violently accelerated by the economic warfare launched against Russia in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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