The internationalists

The document below is based on the introduction to the meeting the CWO held in the Red and Black Clydeside Bookfair on 7 May 2022. It was an inaugural event in Glasgow and though in a very central location on Sauchiehall St, the numbers in attendance were not great. The CWO was the only organisation which was holding a meeting on the current war but it was timed to coincide with the ACG (one of...

China-Solomon Islands Accords · Following the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine, the recent security pact between China and the Solomon Islands has put American imperialism on edge, making the whole Indo-Pacific area volatile. · In early April preliminary talks for a "security agreement" were held, intended to come into force in May of this year.

(We publish here a statement from NWBCW Liverpool ( You can follow their activities: @NWBCWliverpool ( · War, Poverty, Crisis and Disease: The True Face of the Capitalist System · Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is bringing the world ever closer to its boiling point. Once again the working class across the world are being asked to take sides in a conflict from which we have nothing to gain and...

The article which follows is translated from the current edition of Battaglia Comunista. It is a timely reminder that the death and devastation in Mariupol, Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities are not the only features of total imperialist wars. As the article suggests, the power struggle is not primarily over gas supplies but financial control.

Right from the start of the war in Ukraine, Western imperialism has insisted it is all about an aggressor and a victim, and the defence of democracy against dictatorship. For its part, Russian imperialism tries hard to appear anti-Nazi, as if we were still in World War II. Meanwhile, this criminal war continues, with its tragic toll of death and devastation.