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Sheffield Bookfair

SHEFFIELD RADICAL BOOKFAIR

The CWO will have a meeting and a stall at the Sheffield Radical Bookfair.

When: Saturday, 9 March 2024

Where: Sheffield Trades & Labour Club, 200 Duke St, Sheffield S2 5QQ

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Birmingham Public Meeting

THE DRIVE TO WORLD WAR

PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION

London Public Meeting

CLASS WAR AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR

PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION

Online Public Meeting

IWG EDUCATION GROUP MEETING

PREPARING FOR THE THIRD WORLD WAR; SUSTAINABLY... BIDEN'S "WAR ECOLOGY"

IWG Education Group online meeting on "war ecology", the bourgeoisie's "sustainable" preparation for a Third World War. We suggest reading our leaflet "War Ecology Will Not Save the Planet", on leftcom.org, before the meeting.

Montreal Public Meeting

READING GROUP

Introductory meeting to a worker/student reading group of Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924 - A View from the Communist Left by Jock Dominie. Copies will be available at the meeting, but to order online see: leftcom.org

When: Sunday, 21 January 2024 at 2:00pm

Manchester Public Meeting

INTERNATIONALISM IN A TIME OF WAR

PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION

Lambertville, NJ Public Meeting

IMPERIALIST BARBARISM IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL

PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION

Online Public Meeting
Online Public Meeting

IWG EDUCATION GROUP MEETING

Readings: Radek's Theses on Imperialism (1915) and The Latest Butchery in the Middle East is Part of the March to Generalised War

When: Monday, 27 November 2023, at 7:00pm (EST)

London Bookfair

LONDON RADICAL BOOKFAIR

The CWO will have a stall at the London Radical Bookfair.

When: Saturday, 4 November 2023

Where: Great Hall and adjoinging rooms at Goldsmiths University, 8 Lewisham Way, London, SE14 6NW

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Activities

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:

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
  1. 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!

Workers' conditions and struggles

The Big Three and the False Union Perspective
Turkey: Massacre of Mine Workers in Erzincan

As the crisis of capitalism deepens and the world drifts towards another war, more dangerous and brutal working conditions are making massacres of workers in the workplace commonplace.

Misplaced Enthusiasm: On the Auto Strike in the USA
Lessons from the Strike Wave

Cost of Living Crisis = Capitalist Crisis

USA: Renewal of Workers' Initiative is Real

To Throw a Wrench in the Bosses' Plans, We Need to Take Control of the Struggle!

IWG flyer for distribution during the auto-workers’ strike.

Utilizing deceit and dirty tricks, the individuals that are supposed to defend the auto-workers’ interests are the first to betray them…

The Real Fight is Yet to Come

Balloting on Tentative Agreement at UPS: Workers' Mobilizations in the USA are Subordinated to the Exigencies of Crisis and Rearmament

UPS Struggle: Strike While the Iron is Hot!

The recent situation of the working class has been treacherous, to say the least. Inflation, war, and instability prevail, while wages stay down and things only get worse.

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.

notesfrombelow.org

2018-05-21

bbc.co.uk

For a fuller investigation see Sarah O Connor here:

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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

libcom.org

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.