The internationalists

Twenty two anarchist political prisoners in Greece began a hunger strike on 2nd March demanding the abolition of type C high security prisons, the abolition of "antiterrorist" laws, the abolition of concentration camps for migrants, the abolition of the so-called "hoodie law", a radical change in the process of taking and identification via DNA samples (which can then be used to plant...

The article which follows is a translation of the main item in L’Internationale (March 2015) the French-language intervention broadsheet of the Internationalist Workers’ Group (GIO) which was distributed in the current student demonstrations in Montreal and Québec in which thousands turned out to protest not only over cuts in the education budget by the PLQ ((Parti Liberal Québecois or the...

After the Budget it is clear that whoever wins the election so-called “welfare reform” will go on. Once upon a time “reform” meant improvement but since the post-war boom ended, as far as the working class is concerned, it now means “make things worse”. Capitalism in a historic crisis at the end of a cycle of accumulation can no longer afford what workers forced it to concede after World War Two.

The CWO presents a (shortened) translation of reflections by a comrade of Battaglia Comunista on the anti-fascist demonstration in Rome on February 28. Nothing surprising, since we regularly translate our Italian comrades’ thoughts. However, on this occasion the Rome demonstration took place on the same day as CWO comrades were at the anti-PEGIDA demonstration in Newcastle so its message is...

In this short piece Damen goes right back to the revolutionary period sparked by the October Revolution in Russia and considers why it took so long for revolutionaries in Italy to break from the Socialist Party (PSI). This is not an academic question, especially for someone who lived through those turbulent times when, as he says, the situation was ‘incandescent’.