Wildcat Strikes in the UK: Getting Ready for a Hot Autumn

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Documents

The climate crisis may have brought record heat to the UK this summer but it is not the only way temperatures are rising. After more than ten years of austerity in which real wages have been slashed, after more than four decades in which workers’ earnings as a share of the wealth their labour creates have fallen, there are a few signs that the latest attempt to make us pay is the last straw.

The Cost-of-Living Crisis is a Capitalist Crisis

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(Editorial for Revolutionary Perspectives 20 ( (Series 4).) · It is easy to forget that when COVID-19 restrictions were first relaxed economists were eagerly awaiting a bounce back of the economy. There was a general clamour among business owners, landlords, and Tory backbenchers to ‘let the economy breathe’.

No War but the Class War: Statement from NWBCW Rome

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No War But The Class War
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2022: Russo-Ukrainian War
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(We publish here a translation of the founding statement of NWBCW Rome ( You can follow their activities: @nwbcw.roma ( · Founding Manifesto of the Rome NWBCW Committee · The Russian invasion of Ukraine has opened a new phase of imperialist war. The current war is part of the general rivalry between the great imperialist powers across the world (there are 60 wars going on on the planet right now).

Striking Starbucks Workers: When Our Conditions Are Under Attack, Stand Up & Fight Back!

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United States of America
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Workers' conditions and struggles
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Documents

(Leaflet distributed by the IWG in Hopewell, New Jersey.) · Short-staffing, hour cuts, demands for hour “flexibility”, denials of wage raises and benefits to unionized/unionizing stores, stone-walling of contract negotiations with unionized stores, not to mention the cuts in workers’ real wages through sky-rocketing inflation of basic goods.

New Prime Minister? Or New System?

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Parliamentary Center-Right
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British Isles
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Elections and polls
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Documents

Across the political spectrum of the ruling class, Boris Johnson’s much-anticipated resignation has been received with relief. It’s easy to see why. As the only Prime Minister to break the law in office, and blatantly lie repeatedly to Parliament, he has certainly left a legacy, though not the one he hoped for.

NWBCW and the "Real International Bureau" of 1915

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No War But The Class War
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1914-18: World War I
2022: Russo-Ukrainian War
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Documents

The International Socialist Commission was created in 1916 after Zimmerwald, after the existence of a “real international bureau”(1) created in 1915 by the Italian Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland. · The war raging anew in Europe between the great imperialist powers – Russia on the one side and NATO, the USA and Ukraine on the other – leads us to recall the action of...

Class Solidarity with the Arrested Workers in Piacenza

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Base Unionism
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Italy
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Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Documents

Early yesterday morning (19 July) several leading members of the rank and file, or grassroots, unions in Piacenza were put under house arrest by the police. We have reported on the struggles of the workers in the logistic hub of Piacenza (which services Amazon, IKEA, TNT and FedEx) several times previously (1).

The Social Tensions in Ecuador

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South America
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Social unrest
Workers' conditions and struggles
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Documents

For the last 30 years Ecuador has been subject to recurring social conflicts in which CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, founded in 1986 and representing 1,550 communities from the Ecuadorian Amazon) has played a prominent part, thanks above all to its network of militants deeply rooted in the territory and to its ability to repeatedly obstruct the neo-liberal policies...

Class Solidarity for the Victory in the Struggle of Subcontracted Workers in Daewoo Shipbuilding

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Eastern Asia
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Workers' conditions and struggles
Publications: 
Documents

(The world working class have paid too long for the crisis of a system which is demonstrably failing, whether it is to suffer the consequences of their imperialist wars or the collapse of living standards. As part of our work of revolutionary opposition to both, is is necessary for revolutionaries everywhere to share the news of struggles where they are and to publicise these as widely as...

Uncle Sam's "Socialists" and the War in Ukraine

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Parliamentary Left and Reformism
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United States of America
History: 
2022: Russo-Ukrainian War
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1919

(Article from 1919 #3 ( the journal of the North American affiliates of the ICT.) · The US never developed a social democratic party with a share in power on the national level as social democrats in other countries had. However, there was a broad socialist movement in the US. In 1910 it was looking like it would one day be ensconced in the halls of Congress as a solid third ruling party.

The Impossible Aspirations of Reformism During Capitalism's Decadence

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Parliamentary Left and Reformism
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United States of America
Publications: 
1919

(Article from 1919 #3 ( the journal of the North American affiliates of the ICT.) · Politicians continue to put out programs containing provisions for worthwhile reforms while the crisis-stricken capitalist system has already decided that life-saving safety measures to decrease the spread and mortality of covid has continued longer than what is acceptable from the perspective of profit-making.

Malignant Ulcers of Capitalism: The Proletarian Struggle for Reproductive Freedom (Part 3)

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Feminism
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Discriminations
Health and social assistance
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1919

(Article from 1919 #3 ( the journal of the North American affiliates of the ICT.) · In our first two pieces on reproductive struggles in class society we highlighted the family unit, prostitution, sex-selective abortions, sterilization, religion, bourgeois laws, and some of the facts and dangers surrounding abortion and contraception.

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