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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Montreal Public Meeting
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
Liverpool Bookfair
LIVERPOOL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Liverpool Anarchist Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 18 March 2023
Where: Black-E, Great George Street, Liverpool, L1 5EW
Zoom Public Meeting
IWG EDUCATION GROUP MEETING
Discussion of part II of the Class Consciousness and Revolutionary Organisation pamphlet.
When: Monday, 13 March 2023, at 7:00pm (EST)
Where: Zoom (request an invite by contacting us through our social media: linktr.ee)
Internationalist Workers’ Group
Zoom Public Meeting
IWG EDUCATION GROUP MEETING
Discussion of part I of the Class Consciousness and Revolutionary Organisation pamphlet.
When: Monday, 27 February 2023, at 7:00pm (EST)
Where: Zoom (request an invite by contacting us through our social media: linktr.ee)
Internationalist Workers’ Group
Sheffield Bookfair
SHEFFIELD RADICAL BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Sheffield Radical Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 4 February 2023
Where: DINA, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield S1 2AZ
Derry Bookfair
DERRY RADICAL BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Derry Radical Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 28 January 2023
Where: Pilots Row Centre, Rossville St, Londonderry BT48 6LP
London Public Meeting
WORKERS' FIGHTBACK, IMPERIALIST WAR IN UKRAINE AND TASKS OF REVOLUTIONARIES
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
Manchester Bookfair
MANCHESTER & SALFORD ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a presence at the Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 5 November 2022
Where: People’s History Museum, Left Bank, Manchester M3 3ER
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Don't Let Them Deal You a Bad Hand!
Leaflet distributed by Klasbatalo during the croupiers' strike in Montreal.
Internationalism and the War in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is now approaching the two month mark. Like other imperialist conflicts in the past, it has put the internationalist convictions of revolutionaries to the test.
No War but the Class War - A Call for Action
- The Russian invasion of Ukraine is no isolated act. It is the beginning of a new period of imperialist competition which threatens more generalised war in a way not seen since 1945.
No to Capitalism's Wars
Leaflet given out by comrades of the Internationalist Communist Party (Battaglia Comunista) at a demonstration in Florence on 26 March.
Against Capitalism, As Always!
Leaflet distributed by the PCInt during the "No Draghi Day" protests in Italy.
Striking Kellogg's Workers: Don't Settle for Crumbs!
Leaflet distributed by the IWG during the Kellogg's strike in Lancaster, PA.
Striking Kellogg's Workers: Don't settle for crumbs! Demand the abolition of the 2-tier system & more!
Report from the Kellogg's Workers Strike
Since October 4, 1,400 workers at the four Kellogg’s plants in the United States have been on strike in response to a two-tier wage system and the company’s efforts to permanently classify workers out of receiving better wages and benefits. The IWG has been able to intervene at the strike at the Lancaster plant several times over the last month, distributing leaflets and collecting information from the workers there.(1) What follows is a brief report and analysis on the situation.
The Generalized Crisis Requires a Generalized Struggle
Leaflet distributed by Klasbatalo during the CPE daycare workers' strike in Quebec.
Striking Kellogg's Workers: Take Control of the Struggle!
Leaflet distributed by the IWG during the Kellogg's strike in Lancaster, PA.
Let's Get Political!
Leaflet distributed by the CWO at recent strikes and protests happening around the UK.
Pay and pension cuts, redundancies, fire and re-hire, health & safety violations, precarity, evictions, anti-protest bills... The attacks are varied but they all point in the same direction: as always, it is the working class who will bear the cost of the crisis.
Workers' conditions and struggles
Statement on the US Rail Workers' Struggle
Rail workers are the most overt targets of the bosses' offensive in the class war. On November 28th, Biden issued a statement in which he called on Congress to “avert” a strike of 100,000 rail workers by “adopting” the Tentative Agreement that had been reached back in September between the unions supposedly representing these workers and the railroad companies employing them. In subsequent days, and with the support of both parties in both houses of Congress, the contract was ratified and sent to Biden's desk, where he signed it into law.
Iran: Workers Respond to the Executions
In their latest attempt to scare the participants of anti-government protests into submission, the Iranian authorities have resorted to public executions. Mohsen Shekari, accused of injuring a member of the Basij militia, and Majidreza Rahnavard, accused of fatally stabbing two Basij militia volunteers, were both charged with “moharebeh”, or "waging war against God", and hanged.
Notes on the Union Demonstration of 3 December in Rome
This demonstration was supposed to unite the various rank and file trade unions, but turned instead into a competition as to who would "win" the battle to lead the procession. Specifically, that between its most numerous and significant animators: the SI Cobas and the USB.(1)
Ontario Education Strike: No Union Wants to Walk the Picket Line!
For a brief moment, the Ontario education workers’ struggle imposed itself on the public consciousness. News reporters addressed it with a serious tone, young Trotskyists took to Twitter giving empty slogans, union representatives extended Halloween and put on their costumes as labour leaders, Doug Ford came to tears pleading: “please, and I’m begging you, don’t go on strike!”, and Trudeau spoke of his love of collective bargaining to a stunned audience of postal and port workers!
Iran: Towards a General Strike?
After more than 75 days of protests, the regime's barbaric repression has resulted in over 450 deaths and more than ten thousands arrests. Yet the working class in Iran continues to fight back. The regime's alleged disbandment of the “morality police” seems to have had little effect, as sectors of the oil workers have already begun to strike and many workers are now preparing for a general strike.
The two statements translated below were issued in support of three days of action and strikes commencing on 5 December.
News
2019-01-16
At least 70,000 workers from 45 factories—including tens of thousands of auto parts and assembly workers at companies that supply GM, Ford and Fiat-Chrysler—have launched a wildcat strike in the US-Mexico border town of Matamoros.
The strike is a rebellion against both the “maquiladora” manufacturing corporations and the pro-company trade unions. Over 1 million workers endure low wages and sweatshop conditions at the 3,000 “maquiladora” factories that line the Mexican side of the border and account for 65 percent of Mexican exports. It looks like it has the potential to escalate.
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2018-11-15
China has detained student organisers and factory workers in at least three cities as a crackdown against labour protests spreads across the country. Security forces stormed student and worker dormitories in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen on Friday night, according to student activists, taking away five university students, three workers in Guangdong province, as well as several employees at a Shenzhen-based labour rights organisation.
For more from the Financial Times article see: ft.com
2018-09-25
It has now spread to other cities.
2018-06-29
2018-05-21
2018-04-03
Thousands of teachers on strike in both states following the strike in West Virginia
In Kentucky its the pensions issue again but in Oklahoma the continual cuts in the state budget due to tax cuts has forced schools to shut an extra day a week and some schools find they cannot buy textbooks despite sacking teaching assistants and teachers en masse. edition.cnn.com
2017-12-15
More than 200 workers at the flagship rail construction project have downed tools today in solidarity with more colleagues who have been sacked and locked out.
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Montreal Public Meeting
Public meeting on Canada's militarism, WWII, and the class struggle.
When: 26 March 2023, 6pm
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NEWCASTLE EWAN BROWN ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
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When: Saturday, 13 May 2023
Where: Star and Shadow Cinema, Warwick St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1BB
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