TEESSIDE RADICAL BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Teesside Radical Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 10 May 2025
Where: Dormans Club, Oxford Rd, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough TS5 5DT
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Cambridge Bookfair
CAMBRIDGE RADICAL BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Cambridge Radical Bookfair.
When: Sunday, 27 April 2025
Where: East Barnwell Community Centre, Newmarket Rd, Cambridge CB5 8RS
Cardiff Bookfair
CARDIFF RADICAL BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Cardiff Radical Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 29 March 2025
Where: g39, Oxford St, Cardiff CF24 3DT
No War But The Class War meeting in Toronto
No War But The Class War meeting in Toronto
When: Feb 15th 1pm
Where: 54 Dundas Street East - Upstairs
Montreal Public Meeting
NO WAR BUT THE CLASS WAR
Topics:
- Strikes v. the Capitalist State
- Imperialism and Canadian Capital: Beyond the NATO Summit
When: Sunday, 12 January 2025, at 2:00pm
Where: 3516 av du parc
NWBCW Montreal
Glasgow Bookfair
RED AND BLACK CLYDESIDE BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Red and Black Clydeside Bookfair, there will also be an NBWCW meeting.
When: Saturday, 7 December 2024
Where: Quaker Meeting House, 38 Elmbank Cres, Glasgow G2 4PS
Belfast Bookfair
BELFAST RADICAL BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Belfast Radical Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 30 November 2024
Where: Peter Froggatt Centre (3rd Floor), 7-9 College Park E, Belfast BT7 1PS
Manchester Public Meeting
IMPERIALISM: WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT ISN'T AND HOW IT ENDS
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
London Public Meeting
ANTI-FASCISM AGAINST THE WORKING CLASS
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
On 30 July riots broke out across the UK which targeted Muslim neighbourhoods and places sheltering migrants, following a stabbing in Southport the day before. The riots were fuelled by fascist groups and far right websites spreading the conspiracy theory that the attacker was a Muslim asylum seeker.
Peterborough Bookfair
PETERBOROUGH RADICAL BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a meeting and a stall at the Peterborough Radical Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 19 October 2024
Where: The George Alcock Centre, Whittlesey Rd, Stanground, Peterborough PE2 8QS
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Welcome to Communism or Barbarism
As the capitalist system increasingly engulfs the world in imperialist wars and climate catastrophes, more and more young people are looking for an alternative. The revolutionary ideas defended by the Communist Left over the last century are once again gaining wider exposure and as a consequence we see new groups appear around the world.
Universities in Crisis: The Fight is On
The higher education sector is, by all accounts, a sinking ship. Lack of government support and a decrease in the number of international students have created a serious funding crisis. Some 80% of institutions could soon be at risk of deficit. Many have already announced redundancies, course closures, are scaling down catering provisions, changing work patterns or trying to outsource services. All the while we face the now-standard real terms pay cuts to our wages.
Welcome to Kompass-gruppen
New group of sympathisers in Sweden
A number of comrades in Sweden sympathetic to the Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT) have, after years of contact with the organisation, decided to formalise their work in a group. We have taken the name Kompass-gruppen after the broadsheet Kompass, of which we have already produced two issues. The ambition is to continue the work of propagating ICT politics in Sweden.
Imperialism: What it Is, What it Isn't and How it Ends
On Monday 18 November, the CWO held a public meeting in Manchester on the topic of imperialism. We publish here the presentation followed by notes from the discussion.
Anti-Fascism Against the Working Class
On Saturday 9 November, the CWO held a public meeting in London on the topic of anti-fascism. We publish here the presentation followed by notes from the discussion.
CWO Public Meetings on Internationalism: A Balance Sheet
Between the months of January and March 2024, CWO comrades held three public meetings (in Manchester, London and Birmingham) and gave presentations at two other events (an NWBCW Liverpool public meeting and the Sheffield Radical Bookfair). In recognition of the seriousness of the world situation, the topic of discussion at each of these meetings was centred around the drive to war, the meaning of internationalism, and the tasks of revolutionaries.
Yes, Fight and Strike Against War: But Against All Capitalist Factions!
Leaflet distributed by the PCInt, in Italian and English, during the recent protests and strikes about the situation in Palestine.
Presentation and Reports from the Public Meetings in Paris and Saint-Nazaire
Paris Meeting (22 September 2023)
Welcome to the Revolutionary Internationalist Group as French Affiliate of the Internationalist Communist Tendency
Birth of the Revolutionary Internationalist Group
Everyday we receive the confirmation of what we wrote in issue 22 of Bilan et Perspectives: the renewal of workers’ struggles.(1) In the past few years, the long retreat of over five decades, seems to be approaching its end. This is evident from:
Workers' conditions and struggles
Universities in Crisis: The Fight is On
The higher education sector is, by all accounts, a sinking ship. Lack of government support and a decrease in the number of international students have created a serious funding crisis. Some 80% of institutions could soon be at risk of deficit. Many have already announced redundancies, course closures, are scaling down catering provisions, changing work patterns or trying to outsource services. All the while we face the now-standard real terms pay cuts to our wages.
Decant the Strike from Union Control!
It has been four months since the two day walk out of the SAQ workers at the end of April of 2024. Since then the strike has been effectively stalled as the union indefinitely ‘negotiates’. Despite a fifteen day strike mandate overwhelmingly approved by the workers, the union seems entirely disinterested in pursuing any real militant action, leaving the workers themselves in a state of limbo. But in the face of a cost of living crisis, perhaps represented best by 70% of SAQ workers having part time status, it’s clear that what is required is militant working class action.
The Healthcare Strike in Sweden: Unions NEVER Fight for Real!
The strike by the Vårdförbundet (Swedish Association of Health Professionals) is over. However, the nurses, biomedical analysts and midwives have no reason to celebrate.
The conflict has been going on since April and has escalated in several stages: first a blockade of new hires and overtime (not insignificant for occupational groups with a lot of overtime), then a strike, and finally additional groups, and increased numbers, on strike.
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.
Ant
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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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September 2024
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The Russian Revolution remains a landmark event in history. For the bourgeois historians, the October Revolution is thought to be a tragedy that set back the achievements of the “democratic” February Revolution, and allowed the Bolsheviks to wreak havoc on their citizens and the world. For the Stalinists, the events of 1917 paved the way for the birth of the USSR, which they point to as a prototypical example of “socialism in one country”. In reality, the February and October Revolutions were both part of the same proletarian revolution.
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