CWO Public Meeting
21 April 2012, 2-5 p.m
Friends' Meeting House
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Manchester M2 5NS
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| Article | Red Squares: The Student Strike in Quebec Poses the Question, Only the Working Class Can Answer It | Cleishbotham (editor) | Thu, 2012-05-17 23:27 | |
| Publication | Revolutionary Perspectives #61 | webmaster | Thu, 2012-05-17 20:05 | |
| Forum topic | My Positions | Cleishbotham (editor) | 12 | Thu, 2012-05-17 17:22 |
| Article | Attenzione alla violenza stupida | mic (editor) | Thu, 2012-05-17 16:51 | |
| Article | L’allarme cresce e i “tecnici” del capitale sono inquieti | webmaster | Tue, 2012-05-15 21:36 | |
| Forum topic | I fascisti hanno distrutto il CSA Cartella | Gek (editor) | Tue, 2012-05-15 17:48 | |
| Article | The Eurozone Crisis:There is an Alternative but it is not on Any Electoral List | Cleishbotham (editor) | Tue, 2012-05-15 16:52 | |
| Article | Diaz, il film | webmaster | Mon, 2012-05-14 21:12 | |
| News | Axe falls on UK disabled | stevein7 (editor) | Mon, 2012-05-14 08:55 | |
| Publication | Aurora #2012-05-01 | webmaster | Sun, 2012-05-13 21:44 |
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Durham Meeting CWO
The Communist Workers’ Organisation (North East Section) holds regular meetings in Durham open to all who are interested in defending the independence of working class action
The next meeting will be on Wednesday June 13 at 7.00 p.m. in the
People’s Bookshop — The Attic — Saddlers Yard
70 Saddler St — Durham — DH1 3NP
All Welcome!
The topic is Revolutionary Organisation and the Fight Against Capitalism
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For more details email: uk@leftcom.org
Durham - The Politics of the CWO
CWO (North East) monthly meeting, DURHAM. Anyone interested welcome to join the discussion. Please note new date
Wednesday 7 March - 7.00 pm - People's Bookshop
The Attic - Saddlers Yard - 70 Saddlers St - Durham - DH1 3NP
Durham - The Current Situation and the Tasks of Communists
CWO (North East) monthly meeting, DURHAM. Anyone interested welcome to join the discussion.
Wednesday 7 December - 7.00 pm - People's Bookshop
The Attic - Saddlers Yard - 70 Saddlers St - Durham - DH1 3NP
Durham: Public Meetings, "Occupy the World"
The Communist Workers’ Organisation (North East Section) holds regular meetings in Durham open to all who are interested in defending the independence of working class action These are usually on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.00 p.m. in the
People’s Bookshop - The Attic - Saddlers Yard
70 Saddler St - Durham - DH1 3NP
All Welcome!
The next meeting will (exceptionally) be on Wednesday November 16. Topic: "Occupy the World" Anti-Capitalism and the Working Class.
New CWO Pamphlet on the Spanish Civil War
Spain 1934-39 - From Working Class Struggle to Imperialist War
Durham: Meeting about the Spanish Civil War
The Communist Workers’ Organisation (North East Section) holds regular meetings in Durham open to all who are interested in defending the
independence of working class action.
Durham Open Meeting
After the Cuts and Riots - What Next for the Working Class?
CWO (North East Section) Durham Open Meeting
19:00-21:00 - Wednesday 7 September 2011
People’s Bookshop - The Attic - Saddlers Yard - 70 Saddler St - Durham DH1 3NP
All Welcome. For more details email: uk@leftcom.org
London: Overcome Capitalism
CWO Public Meeting. Capitalism threatens us with permanent war, massive reductions in living standards and environmental catastrophe. It has long passed the time when it was progressive or useful for the bulk of humanity. The big problem though is: How Can We Overcome Capitalism?
To discuss this and a whole range of political issues the Communist Workers Organisation is hosting a meeting on Saturday 21 May 2011 at The Lucas Arms - 245A Grays Inn Road - LONDON - WC1N 8QY
Activities
Workers' conditions and struggles
Open Letter To Our Fellow Workers in Germany
The following document was written by comrades in Greece and as a contribution to the internationalist fight of the working class has been translated in to German. It has been distributed as a bilingual leaflet in several factories in Berlin and elsewhere by comrades of the GIS - German affiliate of the Internationalist Communist Tendency
Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Change the names, and the story is about you].
Solidarity with the Greek Proletariat
The Greek crisis: Bosses united, Workers Divided. For How Much Longer?
For the Greeks, who are paying for the economic catastrophe of their country, their enemies have a name and a surname: They are called the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, and together form the so-called troika , the capitalist leadership of the Old Continent that won’t allow any further "autonomy" for the Greek parliament or its Government.
Solidarity with the Kazakh Working Class!
On the massacre of the Zhanaozen strikers
For decades the working class has been largely ignored by the media as a fringe element in society. However, it still frightens the ruling class, so much so it speaks of its existence and its struggles as little as possible. When it does acknowledge its existence it does so in ways that reduce our "subversive", ie, anti-capitalist potential, to harmless short bursts confined to world of the working class. The "cordon sanitaire" out around this world is so tight that at times it becomes almost unbreachable.
Unilever Workers Isolated by Unions
From 7pm on Thursday until 7am on Saturday over 2,500 Unilever workers at various sites from Port Sunlight on Merseyside to Purfleet in Essex manned picket lines as they mounted the first ever all-out strike over plans to axe the company's final salary pension scheme.
November 30: Unions Follow the Rules while the Bosses and Government Tear up the Rule Book
While the government’s arbitrary changes mean that everyone has to work longer to get a state pension, while the capitalist crisis is wiping out private pensions, when every day brings news of more job losses, when workers in general are facing wage cuts and harder working conditions the public sector unions are doing their best to limit 30 November to a single ‘day of action’ over a single issue - pensions - by workers in a single sector [state employees].
Don’t Kid Yourself This is One Crisis that Will Not Go Away
Listen to the news on any day and there is no shortage of crisis talk. The bulletins tell us that we are in a mess for many reasons. Greedy bankers, corrupt politicians, unbalanced state budgets (so-called sovereign debt), or the Euro, all get a mention. But the truth is that this crisis is much more serious than any of these.
This is not a crisis caused only by “greedy bankers”. The speculation and bad loans of the last 20 years or so are the result of a much deeper crisis going back years. Ever since 1971, when the post-war boom came to a final end, the system has stagnated.
And for those without a job ... The Work Programme
Workfare - the idea that claimants should work for their benefits now that capitalist economic crisis and corporate moves to exploit Far Eastern cheap labour has thrown them on the dole - was imported from America by the last Labour Government [the so-called Flexible New Deal]. Naturally, the ConDems have picked up this nasty anti-claimant baton and have refined it as the Work Programme, pledging to throw £5 billion at the corporate vultures waiting to feed on our misfortune.
The Oakland General Strike
The following articles are from Battaglia Comunista with an update from Internationalist Notes - US
It was very unusual general strike that occurred on Wednesday, November 2 in Oakland, where thousands of people marched through the city centre for hours and blocked port activities (the city, with about 400,000 inhabitants, is in the heart of San Francisco Bay. It is the fifth biggest U.S. port).
News
2012-05-14
Half a million people are set to lose their disability benefits under government plans.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said he was determined to introduce radical reforms to disability allowances which could slash the annual cost by £2.24 billion.
Around 500,000 people in the UK who receive disability living allowance (DLA) could no longer be eligible for the replacement personal independence payment (PIP) under the plans, which are outlined in a report by the Department for Work and Pensions this month.
2012-03-31
A 21-year-old black man records his encounter with police on his mobile phone during his arrest the day after the London riots begin. The recording captures his exchange with two officers after he is handcuffed and put in the back of a police van.
Scotland Yard is facing a racism scandal after a black man used his mobile phone to record police officers subjecting him to a tirade of abuse in which he was told: "The problem with you is you will always be a nigger".
2012-03-27
VIENNA — An unemployed Austrian man on Monday deliberately sliced off his left foot with a mechanical saw and threw it into an oven ahead of a health check on whether he was fit to work, police said.
When police arrived the "desperate" 56-year-old from Mitterlabill in southern Austria was still conscious but had lost a lot of blood, local police chief Franz Fasching told AFP.
The man had mounted the mitre saw on two stools in his boiler room using nails and removed the guard plate before slicing off the foot above the ankle and around 5:00 am (0300 GMT).
Emergency services "looked in the oven and were able to recover the foot ... The foot was taken the hospital but it was so badly burned that it cannot be sewn back on," Fasching said.
2012-02-14
Unemployment could be as high as 6.3 million in the UK if a different counting measure was used, highlighting the true scale of joblessness, according to a new report.
The TUC said the higher figure - more than twice the official total - was revealed using an American measure, which includes people in part-time jobs because they cannot find full-time work and recent redundancies.
2012-02-10
For the first time in history, Spanish unemployment is over 5 million, with 5.273.600 without work, 22.85% of the active population.
2012-01-29
Workers at the Regency Ceramics factory in the Yanam (Andra Pradesh) killed their boss, K. C. Chandrashekhar. They raided his home and beat him with led pipes. This happened after their union leader, M. Murali Mohan, was killed by baton-wielding riot police. Police was called by management to attack a workers' picket line. Workers ask for higher pay and reinstatement of previously laid off workers since October.
2012-01-25
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed its growth forecasts for most major countries, warning the eurozone crisis threatens to pull the global economy into a slump.
It downgraded the world's growth forecast from 4.1% to 3.3%, and cut the UK's growth outlook from 1.6% to 0.6%.
The IMF also expects the eurozone to experience a recession in 2012, with the region's economy shrinking by 0.5%.
2012-01-19
Until at least the middle of the next decade, global growth is likely to slow to approximately 3 percent per year on average–a rate somewhat below the average of the last two decades. A recovery in advanced economies will be more than offset by a gradual slowdown in emerging ones as they mature, with the net result that global growth will slow. But the biggest risk ahead for the global economy is not this slower overall growth in output but a slowdown in average output per capita, which will determine how fast living standards can be supported and raised.
2011-12-06
The pay gap between the highest and lowest earners in the UK has grown more quickly than in any other high-income country since 1975, a report has said.
Research by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found the sharp increase in income inequality, which began in 2005, leaves Britain well above the group's average.
The study - Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising - published by the forum of 34 countries that earn the most, said the annual average income of the top 10% was almost £55,000 in 2008, nearly 12 times higher than that of the bottom 10%, who earned an average of £4,700. This is up from a ratio of 8 to 1 in 1985, the OECD said.
2011-10-15
ROME (AP) — Protesters in Rome smashed shop windows and torched cars as violence broke out during a demonstration in the Italian capital, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures.
The "Occupy Wall Street" protests that began in Canada and spread to cities across the U.S. moved Saturday to Asia and Europe, linking up with anti-austerity demonstrations that have raged across the debt-ridden continent for months.
Black smoke billowed into the air in downtown Rome as a small group of violent protesters broke away from the main demonstration. They smashed car windows, set at least two vehicles on fire and assaulted two news crews of Sky Italia, the TV reported. Others burned Italian and EU flags
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Axe falls on UK disabled
2012-05-14
Half a million people are set to lose their disability benefits under government plans.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said he was determined to introduce radical reforms to disability allowances which could slash the annual cost by £2.24 billion.
Around 500,000 people in the UK who receive disability living allowance (DLA) could no longer be eligible for the replacement personal independence payment (PIP) under the plans, which are outlined in a report by the Department for Work and Pensions this month.
Racist police
2012-03-31
A 21-year-old black man records his encounter with police on his mobile phone during his arrest the day after the London riots begin. The recording captures his exchange with two officers after he is handcuffed and put in the back of a police van.
Scotland Yard is facing a racism scandal after a black man used his mobile phone to record police officers subjecting him to a tirade of abuse in which he was told: "The problem with you is you will always be a nigger".
Forced labour
2012-03-27
VIENNA — An unemployed Austrian man on Monday deliberately sliced off his left foot with a mechanical saw and threw it into an oven ahead of a health check on whether he was fit to work, police said.
When police arrived the "desperate" 56-year-old from Mitterlabill in southern Austria was still conscious but had lost a lot of blood, local police chief Franz Fasching told AFP.
The man had mounted the mitre saw on two stools in his boiler room using nails and removed the guard plate before slicing off the foot above the ankle and around 5:00 am (0300 GMT).
Emergency services "looked in the oven and were able to recover the foot ... The foot was taken the hospital but it was so badly burned that it cannot be sewn back on," Fasching said.
UK unemployment
2012-02-14
Unemployment could be as high as 6.3 million in the UK if a different counting measure was used, highlighting the true scale of joblessness, according to a new report.
The TUC said the higher figure - more than twice the official total - was revealed using an American measure, which includes people in part-time jobs because they cannot find full-time work and recent redundancies.
Spanish unemployment
2012-02-10
For the first time in history, Spanish unemployment is over 5 million, with 5.273.600 without work, 22.85% of the active population.
India: workers kill company president
2012-01-29
Workers at the Regency Ceramics factory in the Yanam (Andra Pradesh) killed their boss, K. C. Chandrashekhar. They raided his home and beat him with led pipes. This happened after their union leader, M. Murali Mohan, was killed by baton-wielding riot police. Police was called by management to attack a workers' picket line. Workers ask for higher pay and reinstatement of previously laid off workers since October.
IMF negative outlook
2012-01-25
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed its growth forecasts for most major countries, warning the eurozone crisis threatens to pull the global economy into a slump.
It downgraded the world's growth forecast from 4.1% to 3.3%, and cut the UK's growth outlook from 1.6% to 0.6%.
The IMF also expects the eurozone to experience a recession in 2012, with the region's economy shrinking by 0.5%.
Global growth down for a decade at least say the capitalists
2012-01-19
Until at least the middle of the next decade, global growth is likely to slow to approximately 3 percent per year on average–a rate somewhat below the average of the last two decades. A recovery in advanced economies will be more than offset by a gradual slowdown in emerging ones as they mature, with the net result that global growth will slow. But the biggest risk ahead for the global economy is not this slower overall growth in output but a slowdown in average output per capita, which will determine how fast living standards can be supported and raised.
The World Bank’s forecasts of world economic growth (Jan 2012) has been “significantly downgraded” from its previous assessment six months ago. It now expected the global economy to expand by only 2.5 percent and 3.1 percent in 2012 and 2013, compared to the previous prediction of 3.6 percent for both years. Any rate below 3 percent is generally considered to be a recession for the world economy as a whole. Europe was now in a recession and growth in high-income countries was expected to be only 1.4 percent. Even these weak results may not be achieved.
GB leads the world (in inequality)
2011-12-06
The pay gap between the highest and lowest earners in the UK has grown more quickly than in any other high-income country since 1975, a report has said.
Research by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found the sharp increase in income inequality, which began in 2005, leaves Britain well above the group's average.
The study - Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising - published by the forum of 34 countries that earn the most, said the annual average income of the top 10% was almost £55,000 in 2008, nearly 12 times higher than that of the bottom 10%, who earned an average of £4,700. This is up from a ratio of 8 to 1 in 1985, the OECD said.
OCT 15 -global protests against "corporate greed and austerity measures"
2011-10-15
ROME (AP) — Protesters in Rome smashed shop windows and torched cars as violence broke out during a demonstration in the Italian capital, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures.
The "Occupy Wall Street" protests that began in Canada and spread to cities across the U.S. moved Saturday to Asia and Europe, linking up with anti-austerity demonstrations that have raged across the debt-ridden continent for months.
Black smoke billowed into the air in downtown Rome as a small group of violent protesters broke away from the main demonstration. They smashed car windows, set at least two vehicles on fire and assaulted two news crews of Sky Italia, the TV reported. Others burned Italian and EU flags
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