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Manchester Public Meeting
TRADE UNIONS OR WORKERS' SELF-INITIATIVE?
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
Attacks on wages, working conditions and public spending are an inevitable response by capitalists to their profit crisis. According to most on the left, joining a trade union is an imperative for socialists: the workers’ only hope of resistance. And yet, while austerity is in full-blown force, trade unions prevaricate and stall over their only useful tool – strike action. Everything within their power is done to minimise disruption to business or the country at large. Is the problem just bad leadership or should we be thinking outside the trade union framework?
We will discuss these ideas and more at our public meeting in Manchester.
When: Monday, 8 December 2025, at 6:30pm
Where: Briton's Protection, 50 Great Bridgewater St, Manchester, M1 5LE
Communist Workers' Organisation
Swansea Bookfair
SWANSEA RADICAL COMMUNITY FESTIVAL
There will be an NWBCW stall at the Swansea Radical Community Festival.
When: Saturday, 22 November 2025
Where: Elysium, 210 High St, Swansea SA1 1PE
Bristol Bookfair
BRISTOL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 1 November 2025
Where: Elmgrove Centre, Elmgrove Rd, Bristol BS6 6AH
Peterborough Bookfair
PETERBOROUGH RADICAL BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a meeting and a stall at the Peterborough Radical Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 18 October 2025
Where: The George Alcock Centre, Whittlesey Rd, Stanground, Peterborough PE2 8QS
Leicester Public Meeting
WHAT IS COMMUNISM?
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
As the economic crisis gets worse, the class war is intensifying. Everywhere workers’ wages are being reduced, social services are cut and workers are being made redundant. There are 101 different parties and groups that propose solutions, many of them calling themselves socialist or communist – but providing answers that stay within the framework of the state, the nation, the international order – in short, capitalism.
The Communist Workers’ Organisation bases its understanding of society and its dynamics on the insights of Marx, Engels and other revolutionaries who realised that capitalism cannot be reformed, it must be overthrown.
What is the revolutionary perspective? Come to our public meeting to discuss this.
When: Saturday, 11 October 2025, at 2:00pm
Where: Madison’s, 128 London Rd, Leicester LE2 1EB
Communist Workers' Organisation
London Public Meeting
WHY THE SO-CALLED WORKERS' MOVEMENT DOESN'T DEFEND THE WORKING CLASS
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
As the economic crisis gets worse the class war is intensifying. Everywhere workers’ wages are being reduced, social services cut and workers are being made redundant. This is a slow but sustained war of attrition against the working class which has been going on for years. The effect is that now 14.3 million people in the UK live in poverty, 8.1 million of these are actually in work and 4.3 million are children. There have been fight-backs in sectors like rail, Royal Mail, hospitals, universities and other sectors, but these struggles have been impeded by the tactics of the trade unions.
The unions have prevented strikes from taking place, prevented strikes uniting or closed them down. Where they have negotiated with the bosses they have negotiated redundancies, worse conditions and wage rises less than inflation.
Why are the unions unable or unwilling to defend their members? Come to our public meeting to discuss this.
When: Saturday, 27 September 2025, at 2:00pm
Where: Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Road, WC1X 8JR
Communist Workers' Organisation
London Bookfair
ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR IN LONDON
The CWO will have a stall at the Anarchist Bookfair in London.
When: Saturday, 20 September 2025
Where: Waterloo Graffiti Tunnel, Leake St, London SE1 7NN
2025 NYC Anarchist Book Fair
2025 NYC Anarchist Book Fair
The IWG will have a table at the 2025 NYC Anarchist Book Fair.
When: September 13th, 11am-7pm
Where: La Plaza Community Garden, E 9th St and Avenue C - New York
No War But The Class War Public Meeting Montreal
No War But The Class War Public Meeting Montreal
When: September 7th 2pm
Where: 3516 av parc Montreal
Newcastle Bookfair
NEWCASTLE EWAN BROWN ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 7 June 2025
Where: Star and Shadow Cinema, Warwick St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1BB
Derby Festival
DERBY SILK MILL FESTIVAL
The CWO will have a presence at the Derby Silk Mill Festival.
When: Saturday, 7 June 2025
Where: Derby Market Place, Lower High Street, Derby DE1 3AE
Teesside Bookfair
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
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
Today’s wars are not a product of ego, religion or human nature. They are a necessary feature of capitalism, along with the earth’s ruin, the poverty of the “developing” world, and our very own workplace exploitation. ‘Imperialism’ is thrown around as a leftist buzzword with confused meanings, as if it’s a behaviour performed by certain bad countries. But it's no more nor less than the final phase of capitalism. The competition of businesses has become the competition of nations, for materials and strategy, for profits and power.
Imperialism is part and parcel of the global capitalist system, and no country exists outside of its reach. The devastations of imperialism will not end either with the independence of new nations or an international court of justice. Only the end of capitalism through a working-class revolution can put an end to the senseless barbarity.
Come and hear more on imperialism, what it is, what it isn't and how it ends.
When: Monday, 18 November 2024, at 7:00pm
Where: Briton's Protection, 50 Great Bridgewater St, Manchester, M1 5LE
Communist Workers' Organisation
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.
Decades of racist propaganda from mainstream news sources, which blame immigrants for workers’ decline in their standard of living, have led to many thinking that immigration into Britain is the cause of reduced wages, homelessness, a collapsing health service, failing schools etc. rather than increased exploitation of the working class and capitalism’s economic crisis.
The response to this from capitalism’s political left has been to organise against fascism, with national demonstrations of the ‘great and good’ against the riots and against racism in defence of democratic freedoms. But fascism and democracy are simply strategies of the capitalist class to continue exploiting us. Strategies they use to recruit us to fight their wars. Organising specifically against fascism, amounts to supporting one section of the capitalist class against another. It is still in favour of the capitalist system. What we need is to oppose the entire capitalist system through the broader class struggle, leading to the eventual overthrow of capitalism itself.
While other approaches to anti-fascism involve small groups, engaged in physical confrontations with fascists, it is an approach that similarly offers no solutions to a system that breeds racism.
We argue that only the end of capitalism can put an end to poverty, misery and racism and only the working class can achieve this.
Come join us in a public meeting to discuss this.
When: Saturday, 9 November 2024, at 2:00pm
Where: The Lucas Arms, 245A Grays Inn Rd, London, WC1X 8QY (nearest tube: King's Cross)
Communist Workers' Organisation
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
London Bookfair
ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR IN LONDON
The CWO will have a stall at the Anarchist Bookfair in London.
When: Saturday, 12 October 2024
Where: four venues in East London (see link below)
Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair
ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR IN HAMILTON
Klasbatalo will be present at the Anarchist Bookfair in Hamilton.
When: Saturday, 28 September 2024, 10 AM-6 PM
Where: 51 Stuart Street, Hamilton, ON. Workers Arts & Heritage Center
IWG Meetings
IWG MEETINGS
The IWG will be holding regular in-person meetings where sympathizers are encouraged to come and get in contact.
New York: Last Saturday of every month. Please contact to get in touch.
Philadelphia: Last Saturday of every month. Please contact to get in touch.
Columbus: Last Sunday of every month. Please contact to get in touch.
Los Angeles: Please contact to get in touch.
Means of contact:
Email: us@leftcom.org
Instagram: @iwg.official
Facebook: @iwgusa
Twitter: @IWGOfficial
London Public Meeting
WORKERS HAVE NO COUNTRY! FIGHT IMPERIALIST WARS WITH CLASS WAR!
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
Imperialist proxy wars are raging in Ukraine, the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere. Behind these wars stand the major imperialist powers who threaten to extend the conflicts into a global confrontation – a new world war. The capitalist class worldwide are screaming ever louder for nationalism and demanding sacrifices. The truth is that the atrocities we see today are the true face of capitalism. They are a preview of what is to come if capitalism is not overthrown.
What stance should workers and revolutionaries take on these wars and the drift towards global war?
Come to a public meeting to discuss these issues.
When: Saturday, 20 July 2024, at 2:00pm
Where: The Lucas Arms, 245A Grays Inn Rd, London, WC1X 8QY (nearest tube: King's Cross)
Communist Workers' Organisation
Montreal NWBCW Meeting
NWBCW MONTREAL PUBLIC MEETING
When: Sunday, July 7th 2024, at 16:00
Where: 3516 Av Park
Contact nwbcwmontreal@gmail.com for more info.
Ontario Public Meeting
MARXIST READING GROUP
ALL STUDENTS AND WORKERS WELCOME
On June 15th at 6pm, there will be two reading groups held by Klasbatalo, one in Hamilton Ontario, and the other in Toronto Ontario. The text we will discuss is the first chapter of The Workers Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925, the chapter is ‘The Maritimes: Expanding the Circles of Resistance” and focuses on the miners' strike in Cape Breton, if you are interested in discussing or learning about the history of the class struggle in Canada, please message us for more information, either on our Instagram @Klasbatalo or email us at klasbatalocollective@gmail.com.
Location: message us
KLASBATALO
Newcastle Bookfair
NEWCASTLE EWAN BROWN ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 1 June 2024
Where: Star and Shadow Cinema, Warwick St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1BB
Montreal Bookfair
MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
When: Saturday, May 25th.
Where: CEDA 2515 Rue Delisle, Montréal, QC H3J 1K8, table outside the anarchist bookfair.
Klasbatalo
NYC Public Meeting
THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE CLASS STRUGGLE
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
Discussion on women's liberation and the modern role women have played in the class struggle. Open to all!
When: Sunday, May 19th at 3:30 PM.
Where: 876 Riverside Dr. & 160th St. New York, NY.
Link to register: withfriends.co
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