Autumn 2018
Recent posts
| Type | Title | User | Replies |
Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forum topic | The Party, Fractions and Periodisation | Cleishbotham (editor) | 9 | Sun, 2019-02-17 12:02 |
| Article | Un po’ di rumore attorno all’ultimo libro di C. Formenti: “Il socialismo è morto. Viva il socialismo” | webmaster | Wed, 2019-02-13 18:03 | |
| Article | Rolle und Struktur der revolutionären Organisation | ikt (editor) | Tue, 2019-02-12 20:01 | |
| Article | Introduction to Bukharin's Anarchy and Scientific Communism | stevein7 | 6 | Tue, 2019-02-12 13:13 |
| Forum topic | Obesity | stevein7 | 10 | Mon, 2019-02-11 16:51 |
| Article | The Formation of the Red Army 1918 | Dyjbas (editor) | Mon, 2019-02-11 11:32 | |
| Article | Humanitarian Aid... for War | Dyjbas (editor) | Sun, 2019-02-10 13:16 | |
| Article | Die Krise in Venezuela | ikt (editor) | Fri, 2019-02-08 16:30 | |
| Advert | GIS Jour fixe am 14.2.2019 | ikt (editor) | Thu, 2019-02-07 17:01 | |
| Article | The Venezuelan Crisis | Fredo Corvo | 6 | Thu, 2019-02-07 11:23 |
Contact us
In evidence
The Communist Workers’ Organisation is (unsurprisingly!) a not-for-profit organisation. We have no so-called “professional revolutionaries”, nor paid officials. Our sole funding comes from the subscriptions and donations of members and supporters. Anyone wishing to donate (to “Prometheus Publications”) can now do so safely using the Paypal button below.
Subscriptions to Revolutionary Perspectives (3 issues) and Aurora (at least 4 issues) are:
- UK £15 (€18)
- Europe £20 (€24)
- World £25 (€30, $30)
Take out a supporter’s sub by adding £10 (€12) to each sum. This will give you priority mailings of Aurora and other free pamphlets as they are produced.
Publications. CWO publications are not copy-righted and we only ask that those who reproduce them acknowledge the original source on our website www.leftcom.org. Purchasing any of the publications listed on this site or in our various documents can be done in several ways:
- By emailing us at uk@leftcom.org and asking for our banking details
- By writing a cheque to the “CWO” and sending it to BM CWO, London WC1N 3XX
- By donating the cost of the publications required via Paypal using the “Donate” button
- The book “Bordiga Beyond the Myth” by Onorato Damen can also be ordered via Amazon
Adverts
Dorking Public Meeting
NO WAR BUT THE CLASS WAR
PUBLIC MEETING/DISCUSSION
As capitalism’s economic crisis deepens our rulers are determined to make the working class pay for it by increasing exploitation and reducing wages and living conditions.
All across the world, the capitalists and their political puppets are also trying to prevent any united working class fightback by widening divisions in the working class, such as nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexual preference. The xenophobia whipped up before and after the Brexit campaign, the Trump election campaign and the election campaigns of nationalist governments in Hungary and Poland are a few recent examples of what is happening and what is to come.
At the same time national states are trying to push the crisis onto capitalists of other states or blocs of states by trade wars. And history tells us that trade wars are the prelude to shooting wars. While imperialist proxy wars continue to rage in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe, and while a new conflict with Iran is being stoked up, increasingly intense global conflicts are being prepared.
Nationalism is the main tool being used to recruit workers to support their rulers in these wars. No faction of the capitalist class is worth supporting and none is “a lesser evil”! The alternative is not to do nothing. There are already voices being raised under the banner of “No war but the class war!” to challenge the fate that the capitalists are preparing for us.
Join them in a public meeting to find out more and make your own contribution:
When: 26 January 2019 at 1300hrs
Where: The Lincoln Arms, Station Approach, Dorking RH4 1TF
Hosted by: Communist Workers' Organisation & Anarchist Communist Group
London CWO Meeting
Lessons of the German Revolution
Public Meeting/Discussion organised by the Communist Workers’ Organisation
On November 9 1918 the soldiers, sailors and workers of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven rose in revolt at the continuation of a war which had brought nothing but death, disease and food shortages. Within hours the Kaiser was overthrown and workers’ councils sprang up all over Germany in imitation of those that had taken power in Russia only a year earlier.
For communists at the time it offered the hope of a further step in the world proletarian revolution. That hope even survived the crushing of the Spartakist Revolt and the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in January 1919. The revolutionary resistance of the working class carried on for some years but in the end the German state was not overthrown. The meeting will explore the failure of the German revolution, the consequences for the world working class then and the lessons for current revolutionaries.
A comrade of the Gruppe Internationaler SozialistInnen will be making a presentation alongside the CWO.
Time: 17 November, 2.30pm
Place: Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Rd, London WC1X 8JR
Bordiga Beyond the Myth is now available as a PDF
Bordiga Beyond the Myth by Onorato Damen is now available in English translation (it already exists in Italian, French and Spanish). It contains 168 pages and includes 114 footnotes to guide English readers plus 4 appendices, one of which is the first full translation in English of Bordiga's famous letter to Karl Korsch. The price of £7.25 includes postage and packaging in the UK.
It is also now available as a pdf:
Recent publications
Aurora is the broadsheet of the ICT for the interventions amongst the working class. It is published and distributed in several countries and languages. So far it has been distributed in UK, France, Italy, Canada, USA, Colombia.
Summer 2018
Journal of the Communist Workers’ Organisation -- Why not subscribe to get the articles whilst they are still current and help the struggle for a society free from exploitation, war and misery? Joint subscriptions to Revolutionary Perspectives (3 issues) and Aurora (our agitational bulletin - 4 issues) are £15 in the UK, €24 in Europe and $30 in the rest of the World.
- Introduction
- Idealism and Bourgeois Materialism
- How Working Class Consciousness Develops
- Marx, Engels and Proletarian Organisation
- The Era of Social Democracy and the Fight Against Revisionism
- On the Eve of Revolution: the Debate Between Luxemburg and Lenin
- Class Consciousness and Working Class Political Organisations
- Party and Class in the Revolutionary Wave 1917-1921
- The Decline of the Russian Revolution and the Cult of the Party
- The Idealism of Bordigism
- By Way of Conclusion: Towards Proletarian World Revolution
Links
Brief news
Strikes are rapidly spreading beyond of the maquiladoras in Matamoros, Tamaulipas
2019-02-07
Strikes are rapidly spreading beyond of the maquiladoras in Matamoros, Tamaulipas as workers are demanding better pay and working conditions. Workers at more than 27 non-maquiladora businesses walked off the job yesterday alone. As noted previously, this strike action represents the real threat to the bourgeoisie who fear it will spread not only to other border state maquiladoras but across the country.Over the last several weeks workers at 48 maquiladoras in Matamoros, many making as little $1 US and hour, had walked off the job demanding a 20% wage increase and a 30,000-peso bonus. A paltry demand for impoverished workers virtually enslaved in oppressive working conditions with the lowest wages in the Western World. With this new spread of strike action yesterday, workers are referring to their growing “movement” as Movimiento 20/30 to reflect the previous demands of the maquiladora workers.But behind the immediate demand for higher wages is a growing protest directed against the union taskmasters who work at the behest of the boss. mcclatchydc.com At Blanquita, a water purification company, 170 workers walked off the job as they denounced not only exploitation of their employer but the indifference of the union to their cause as well.
70,000 workers strike at US-Mexico border sweatshops
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
- 1.19
User login
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.