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Leicester 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: Saturday, 6 April 2019, at 2pm
Where: Upstairs, Regent Sports and Social Club, 102 Regent Road, Leicester LE1 7DA. Ask for the 'libsoc' meeting at the bar.
Speakers from Communist Workers' Organisation & Anarchist Communist Group.
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
Manchester Meeting 'Trade Wars to Military Wars'
The meeting will take place on Saturday the 29th Sept from 1pm to 5pm at the Friends Meeting House (room F18) 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS, which is just behind the central library near Manchester Town Hall.
There will be a short introduction that provides an overview of 20th century wars and their underlying economic and social conditions as these changed from the 19th into the 20th century with a reference to the Marxian analysis of the 'formal and real domination of capital', with plenty of time for discussion.
Organised by the Midlands Discussion Forum
All Welcome.
Newcastle upon Tyne Public Meeting
Are we returning to the 1930s?
Public Meeting/Discussion
organised by the Communist Workers’ Organisation
Trade wars, torn up treaties supposed to prevent more weapons of mass destruction, an endless series of local wars which now directly involve the great powers, the rise of nationalism everywhere: all underpinned by a global economic crisis and stagnation which have echoes of the past. Back in the Thirties such developments led to the Armageddon of the Second World War. Are we en route for World War Three? To discuss these, and other questions facing the working class today, join us on
Time: Tuesday July 24 2018 at 7.00 p.m.
Place: Bar Loco, 22 Leazes Park Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4PG
Sheffield 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: 30 June 2018 at 1400hrs
Where: The Rutland Arms 86 Brown St. Sheffield S1 2BS
London 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: 2 June 2018 at 1400hrs
Where: Richard Hoggart Building, Room 138 in the London Radical book fair, Goldsmiths University, 8 Lewisham Way, SE14 6NW
Hosted by: Communist Workers Organisation & Anarchist Communist Group
Also supported by Guildford Solidarity-IWW
CWO Durham Meeting
The Communist Workers’ Organisation (North East Section) holds regular meetings in Durham open to all who are interested in defending the independence of working class action. These are usually on the third Tuesday of every month at 7.30 p.m. in
Alington House
4 North Bailey — Durham — DH1 3NP
The next meeting will be on:
Tuesday 19 September 2017
Main topic: Identity Politics and Class War
What unites the world working class is its common experience of exploitation regardless of colour, creed or gender. Because of this workers everywhere also oppose all oppressions both in defence of certain sectors of the class and against attempts to divide the working class. How far though is this being manipulated by the Left parties of the capitalist system (like the Democrats in the US) which no longer have anything to offer the class as a whole? These and other questions will be part of our discussions.
MDF Meeting Birmingham
MDF Meeting Birmingham Saturday July 15 2017.
The next open discussion meeting of the Midlands Discussion Forum will be 2-6pm at 'The Woodman' pub, New Canal Street (next to the parkway at the Curzon St end), Birmingham, B5 5LG, (15min walk from New Street or Moor Street Station)
The headline title is 'Corbynism, Anarchism and the Left - Something New or Something old?' and will try to look at the apparent 'anti-austerity change of mood' amongst many workers as reflected in the improved Labour Party vote and street anger following the Grenfell tower disaster but with a still persisting low level of effective collective class struggle.
To help the discussion along maybe read these short texts beforehand;
libcom.org and an anarchist criticism of it here:
Other arguments against supporting and voting Labour are collected here;
All welcome.
Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair
The Communist Workers' Organisation and Midlands Discussion Forum will holding a meeting in the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair on May 20 2017. The meeting will be from 4.00 - 5.30 p.m.
Venue:
Showroom Workstation
15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX
Topic: How will Capitalism End?
Charlatans of the capitalist right and left offer quack solutions in response to the toxic crises of late capitalism. No ruling class has ever voluntarily given up their wealth, power and control. Discussion of arguments for the revolutionary alternative – the overthrow of the bosses’ system leading to genuine human liberation.
For more information on all the bookfair activities see sheffieldbookfair.org.uk
IWG online public meeting
Follow the link below to an online public meeting of the IWG held in the USA, Thurs April 6, (7pm/1900hrs -6 UMT). The topic is the reorganization of the IWG in the US as well as a political introduction for any sympathizers where they can ask as direct questions. Anyone who is interested may PM me on reddit for connection info.
London CWO Meeting in the Anarchist Bookfair
Saturday October 29 2016
at 12.00 noon
CWO Meeting on
After Brexit, Populism, Corbynism etc …
Political crisis in the capitalist class, way forward for the working class?
The global capitalist system has reached an economic impasse. This is reflected in a sense of political uncertainty in ruling class political circles everywhere. Where does this leave the working class and how do we respond to the overlapping crises?
The Bookfair takes place at Park View School West Green Road London N15 3QR and the CWO meeting is in Room F5.
The nearest underground stations are Seven Sisters and Turnpike Lane but more details on getting there as well as the programme of meetings can be found on the bookfair website at anarchistbookfair.org.uk
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:
Midlands Discussion Forum Sheffield Meeting
Midlands Discussion Forum presents an afternoon of discussion on ‘The Left and the Working Class – ideology and practice in both opposition and power – a critical perspective’
There will be a introduction looking at how left relates to both the working class and bourgeois ideology both in theory and practice with plenty of time for discussion.
In Sheffield on the 6th of February from 2pm till 6pm upstairs at the Rutland Arms, 86 Brown St, Sheffield, S1 2BS. Which is 5 minutes walk away from both the train and bus station.
Sheffield Public Meeting (with the Free Communist)
The CWO (Yorkshire) section will be holding a discussion forum in the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair with the Free Communist (and possibly others). We don't yet have all the details as the organisers obviously have to coordinate a lot of different requests but the working title is
So many varieties of nationalism. Why we oppose them all.
The bookfair is on 16 May 2015 and you can find out more from www.sheffieldbookfair.org.uk
London Public Meeting
Public Meeting on Islamism and Imperialism: The Rise of the Islamic State
Saturday April 18th 2015
at 2.00 p.m (note not 1.00 as erroneously stated earlier)
245A Lucas Arms
Grays Inn Road
London
WC1X 8QY
nearest underground Kings Cross
London Anarchist Bookfair Meeting
As last year the CWO will have a stall in the London Anarchist Bookfair on October 18 and we will be holding a public meeting in the event. Details of the full programme and how to get there can be found at anarchistbookfair.org.uk
Our meeting will be at 12.00 (till 1.00) and is in Room 321
It is on
From the Somme to Syria via Stalingrad
“The Only War Worth Fighting is the Class War” (internationalist graffiti from the cells of Richmond Castle 1916). It is 100 years after the First World imperialist slaughter began. We not only oppose the justifications and lies about that war but commemorate how the working class, especially across Europe, brought that war to an end 1917-18 in a revolutionary wave which lasted for years. Capitalism survived. It has gone on to repeat its murderous wars ever since. There are no “just causes” in the era of imperialism. All wars are war against workers. As the populations of Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and Gaza (to name only the most notorious) suffer yet further atrocities we need to have a perspective on how to end this infernal cycle."
Durham Open Meeting
The Communist Workers’ Organisation (North East Section) holds regular meetings in Durham open to all who are interested in defending the independence of working class action These are usually on the third Wednesday of every month at 7.00 p.m.
Room 3
Alington House
4 North Bailey — Durham — DH1 3HT
Main topic: No War but the Class War: with the slaughter of the innocents in Gaza, Ukraine and Syria (to name but the most obvious) going on as our rulers "commemorate" (celebrate?) the First World War we look at how nationalism has become one of capitalism's main ideological weapons against the working class and how it has to be opposed.
The next meeting will be on Wednesday August 20, 2014. The previously planned discussion on the period of transition has been postponed until September 17.
"The only war which is worth fighting is the class war" Sheffield Meeting
Joint meeting with the Free Communist in the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair.
This year is the one hundredth anniversary of the first great imperialist slaughter of 1914. The fiftieth anniversary was greeted in 1964 with a wave of anti-war cultural and historical events and comment. In the wake of the rising militarism at home (how many military charities have mushroomed in the last decade), and the changing nature of war (we don’t need to directly suffer over a war in Afghanistan or Iraq whereas every family was touched by the slaughter of the First World War) that this will be repeated. The current crisis in the wake of the nationalist orgy of last year’s Olympics mean that celebration rather than reflection are what the ruling class are what the ruling class want. In the face of all that would it not make sense to revive the idea of revolutionary defeatism, of “no war but the class war” amongst the revolutionary groups of today? Who knows we might even collectively make a small contribution to fighting the wave of nationalism which the ruling class are already swamping us with?
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Hamilton - Marxism and Anarchism
Hamilton, Canada, Saturday June 21st, 5pm, The Tower, 281 Cannon St. E
Marxism and Anarchism - The real divide
The real divide today is not between anarchism and marxism. It is between, on one side, those «marxists» who want to reform capitalism and those anarchists who think they can find a «lifestyle» inside the system, and on the other hand, those amongst both tendencies who's goal is to abolish capitalism and it's state.
The speaker, Jock from the Communist Workers Organization (UK), will be presented by Richard St-Pierre of the Internationalist Workers Group (Canada/USA)
Toronto - The global economic crisis
Toronto, Friday June 20th 2014, 7pm, 55 Gould Street, Thomas Lounge.
The global economic crisis, a marxist perspective
Austerity is everywhere. The capitalist recovery is a myth. But this crisis is not a product of debt. Debt is a product of this crisis. It is global and it will not spare the workers of Québec and Ontario.
The speaker, Jock from the Communist Workers Organization (UK), will be presented by Richard St-Pierre of the Internationalist Workers Group (Canada/USA)
London Public Meeting
The London CWO comrades will be holding a public meeting at 2.00 p.m. on April 26. It will be in the Lucas Arms, Grays Inn Road. Topic: Over Our Dead Bodies - Austerity and the Working Class Today
All welcome
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Class Consciousness and Revolutionary Organisation - A Correction
Behind the picture of Lenin on p. 36 the following section of text has been covered over. Our apologies – CWO.
topple the Provisional Government. However the rest of the class was not yet ready. The consequences of the failure of the June Offensive had not yet sunk in to a wider layer of the class. This the Bolsheviks, present in the factories, understood so the sailors action left them in a terrible dilemma. Here demonstrating below the balcony of the Kseshinskaia Palace, where the Bolsheviks had their headquarters, were thousands of armed sailors demanding that the Bolsheviks put themselves at the head of the demonstration (which, after all, only repeated the Bolshevik
Public Meeting in the Anarchist Bookfair London
Topic: Anarchism and Marxism
Marxists and anarchist have always shared the view that the antithesis to capitalism is a classless, stateless society. What they have not shared is a clear outline of how this might come about. After the statist cul de sacs of social democracy, Stalinism and Trotskyism many marxists now recognise that the issue is not about replacing the state but destroying it. After the failure of the anarchists in Spain many anarchists recognise that revolution from below cannot just be a nice idea but has to have a deeper material basis. With capitalism now in obvious crisis is this not the time for a more fruitful exchange on revolution and the state than has been possible in the past? The Communist Workers' Organisation and the Commune have already successfully posed this in the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair and the CWO invite you to take the discussion further. All welcome.
Saturday 19 October 2.00 p.m in Room 2.41
The venue is Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS. See anarchistbookfair.org.uk for map and how to get there.
CWO Meetings in the North East
The Communist Workers’ Organisation (North East Section) holds regular meetings open to all who are interested in defending the independence of working class action. These usually take place on the second Wednesday in the month.
The next open meeting will be in Sunderland on September 11. This will be in The Isis, 26 Silksworth Row, Sunderland SR1 3QJ at 7.00 p.m. Topic to be announced shortly.
Class Consciousness and Revolutionary Organisation - A Correction
For anyone who has bought our pamphlet of this title we apologise for the fact that on p. 36 part of the text has been obscured by the photo of Lenin. The missing lines should read
... "topple the Provisional Government. However the rest of the class was not yet ready. The consequences of the failure of the June Offensive had not yet sunk in to a wider layer of the class. This the Bolsheviks, present in the factories, understood so the sailors action left them in a terrible dilemma. Here demonstrating below the balcony of the Kseshinskaia Palace, where the Bolsheviks had their headquarters, were thousands of armed sailors demanding that the Bolsheviks put themselves at the head of the demonstration (which, after all, only repeated the Bolshevik."
Manchester Meeting - "Beyond Protest"
CWO Public Meeting
21 April 2012, 2-5 p.m
Friends' Meeting House
6 Mount St
Manchester M2 5NS
Since the financial explosion of 2007-8 the words ‘capitalism’ and ‘crisis’ have become almost a regular part of everyday parlance. In response to the austerity measures being implemented by governments across the world there has been a myriad of responses to these attacks - the big marches and one-day strikes organised by the trade unions, the Occupy and Indignados movements, as well as the more recent protest and pickets against workfare in Britain. Thus, an increasing number of people are prepared to protest against the present state of affairs. This has manifested itself in one form as opposition to ‘capitalism', defined as ‘unfair’ and ‘anti-capitalism’ being a matter of getting more democracy in order to reverse the growing chasm between the haves and the have-nots. This kind of ‘anti-capitalism’ is epitomised by the Occupy movement which has caught the public imagination with its telling slogan (We Are the 99%) and put itself in the limelight with its ‘tent cities'. This obviously an advance of the trade union organised A-to-B marches.
The meeting is organised in order to facilitate a discussion on the present situation and what a practical orientation in this context might look like.
All are welcome!
Durham - The Politics of the CWO
CWO (North East) monthly meeting, DURHAM. Anyone interested welcome to join the discussion. Please note new date
Wednesday 7 March - 7.00 pm - People's Bookshop
The Attic - Saddlers Yard - 70 Saddlers St - Durham - DH1 3NP
Up alleyway. Ring number below if you arrive late and gate is locked. We're still in there! Tel. 0191 384 4399
Durham - The Current Situation and the Tasks of Communists
CWO (North East) monthly meeting, DURHAM. Anyone interested welcome to join the discussion.
Wednesday 7 December - 7.00 pm - People's Bookshop
The Attic - Saddlers Yard - 70 Saddlers St - Durham - DH1 3NP
Up alleyway. Ring bell if you arrive late and gate is locked. We're still in there! Tel. 0191 384 4399
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