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Durham: Public Meetings, "Occupy the World"
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 first Wednesday of every month at 7.00 p.m. in the
People’s Bookshop - The Attic - Saddlers Yard
70 Saddler St - Durham - DH1 3NP
All Welcome!
The next meeting will (exceptionally) be on Wednesday November 16. Topic: "Occupy the World" Anti-Capitalism and the Working Class.
For more details email: uk@leftcom.org
The Platform of the Committee of Intesa of 1925 is now available once again
With a substantial explanatory introduction this pamphlet outlines the fight of the Italian Left within the Communist Party of Italy against the dictates and impositions of Moscow. Today we recognise it as one of the founding documents of the entire Italian Left tradition in its fight against the degeneration of the Comintern.
46 pages A5 £3.00/€4/$4 plus £1/€2/$2 postage from the group address.
New CWO Pamphlet on the Spanish Civil War
Spain 1934-39 - From Working Class Struggle to Imperialist War
With a new preamble it contains many articles that have long been out of print on the Asturias Soviet of 1934, on Anarchism, Trotskyism and the Communist Left as well as the Barcelona May Days plus reprints from Octobre the organ of the International Communist Left during the war in Spain.
40 pages A4 £3.00/€4/$4 plus £1/€2/$2 postage from the group address
Durham: Meeting about the Spanish Civil War
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 on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.00 p.m. in the People’s Bookshop, The Attic, Saddlers Yard, 70 Saddler St, Durham, DH1 3NP. All Welcome.
The October 5th meeting will be on "The Spanish Civil War and the Working Class"
For more details, email: uk@leftcom.org
Durham Open Meeting
After the Cuts and Riots - What Next for the Working Class?
CWO (North East Section) Durham Open Meeting
19:00-21:00 - Wednesday 7 September 2011
People’s Bookshop - The Attic - Saddlers Yard - 70 Saddler St - Durham DH1 3NP
All Welcome. For more details email: uk@leftcom.org
London: Overcome Capitalism
CWO Public Meeting. Capitalism threatens us with permanent war, massive reductions in living standards and environmental catastrophe. It has long passed the time when it was progressive or useful for the bulk of humanity. The big problem though is: How Can We Overcome Capitalism?
To discuss this and a whole range of political issues the Communist Workers Organisation is hosting a meeting on Saturday 21 May 2011 at The Lucas Arms - 245A Grays Inn Road - LONDON - WC1N 8QY
Meeting starts at 2.00 pm. All Welcome.
Midlands Discussion Forum
The Midlands Discussion Forum is holding an open meeting to debate:
The Current Economic Crisis. What has caused it and what is the solution?
Delegates from the Internationalist Communist Tendency and the International Communist Current will give presentations on the subject, with ample time for discussion afterwards.
Date: Saturday, 5 February, starting at 1.30pm.
Venue: The Directors Room, Bennetts Bar, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham city centre.
Appeal for South Korean Activists
Urgent Appeal: Eight South Korean Labor Activists Face 4-7 Years in Prison
On Dec. 3 of last year, the prosecutor in the Seoul Central District Court demanded prison terms of 5-7 years for Oh sei-chull and other members (Yang Hyo-sik, Yang Joon-seok, Choi Young-ik, Park Joon-seon, Jeong Won-hyun, Oh Min-gyu, and Nam-goong Won) of the Socialist Workers’ Alliance of Korea (SWLK), a revolutionary socialist group. These activists in the Korean working-class movement were indicted under South Korea’s notorious National Security Law (passed in 1948 and theoretically still stipulating the death penalty for “pro-North” activities). The eight militants of the SWLK, who as internationalists advocate working-class revolution in both Koreas, were accused of no specific crime except being socialists, but in reality the indictment resulted from their intervention in several strikes and movements going back to 2007. This is the first instance of such harsh repression under the National Security Law in many years. It occurs in the larger context of the hard-right turn (such as the smashing of the Ssangyong Motor Co. strike of 2009) of South Korean President Lee Myong Bak’s government since he took office in early 2008. (In fact, leaflets of the SWLK distributed during the Ssangyong strike were key evidence in the trial.)
Prosecutors have attempted to indict members of the SWLK several times since 2008, and prior to December, the prosecutors’ case was thrown out of court each time. It is not impossible that a barrage of e-mail protests to Judge Hyung Doo Kim of the Seoul Central District Court will help reduce or obviate the pending sentences altogether, when final sentencing will take place on Jan. 27.
Let Judge Kim know your feelings in your own words about this crackdown on “thought crime” by writing to
The e-mails must be received by 06:00 AM on Monday January 17th 2011 (Seoul time), so that the SWLK’s lawyer can forward them to Judge Kim prior to sentencing.
SaNoRyon (Socialist Workers Alliance) is a left-communist group in South Korea, and has published translations of many key communist texts.
New ICT Publications
This month we have produced 4 new pamphlets. Apart from Class Consciousness and Revolutionary Organisation [see separate advertisement] we have also produced the following (all prices include postage)
- Stalin and Stalinism £1 - The lie that the former USSR was “really existing socialism” remains a potent weapon in the capitalist arsenal against the working class. This pamphlet not only examines the origins of the regime that emerged from the defeat of the October Revolution but also explains the motivations of Stalinism.
- Holocaust and Hiroshima 50p - Examines how the nature of imperialist warfare comes to inflict mass murder on the world through an examination of these seminal events.
- Capitalism and the Environment (by Mauro Stefanini) £1 - Just translated from Prometeo these articles were written some time ago but show that our late comrade was ahead of his time in analysing the unsustainability of capitalist production.
Berlin: workers report on the strike at TEKEL
Our comrades in Turkey at the previously state-owned tobacco and alcohol concern have been in struggle for months, despite massive repression, against wage-cuts, the loss of contractual and social rights and the loss of jobs. Two of the strikers report on their struggle.
Monday 21st June, 19:30
Galerie Kraftwerk - Rungestr. 20 - 10179 Berlin - Mitte (S-Bahnhof Jannowitzbrücke or U-Bahn Heinrich-Heine- Straße)
Revolutionary Perspectives 54 is out
We're publishing three texts, from Revolutionary Perspectives 54, which has just been published. The issue also includes articles on
- The growing global resistance to austerity and exploitation around the world
- The impending austerity programme of the new UK Government
- The crisis in the Eurozone
- The Russian Communist Left 1918-28
- The role of German Imperialism in the Armenian Massacres of 1915
- A review of Michael Moore's "Capitalism - A Love Affair"
To obtain the full issue whilst it is still current why not take out a subscription (see side panel)?
Manchester - Unions: Whose Side Are They On?
Public Meeting of the Communist Workers’ Organisation
The financial bubble has burst and the cost is being pushed onto the working class. Jobs gone, pensions stolen, wages cut and services lost … Workers are starting to realise they have no choice but to fight back. The media are talking about the return of ‘union power’. But is there a new union militancy and if there is, is it the way forward for the working class? Join the discussion at:
Friends’ Meeting House - 6 Mount Street (behind the Central Library) - Central Manchester - 2.00 p.m. Saturday 23 January 2010 - maps.google.com
Birmingham Left Communists
Left Communist literature will be on sale in Birmingham city centre on Saturday, 4 July, 11.30-12.30pm, outside the Pavillions shopping centre. Make contact there with the street-sellers if you wish to buy copies of Internationalist Perspective, Revolutionary Perspectives and World Revolution. Afterwards, you may wish to go on to the next meeting of the Midlands Discussion Forum in Bennetts Bar, Bennetts Hill (1.30-5.00pm) to discuss the ramifications of the current economic crisis.
London - CWO Open Meeting
Capitalism Has No Future
It is Time for Us to Stop Making Sacrifices
How Can We Fight for a Better World?
In just three months fifty million people worldwide have lost their jobs. In the USA 32.2 million people, or more than ten per cent of the population, are now receiving food stamps (worth $83 or £56 per month). This is not just a crisis about deregulated capitalism but the deepest capitalist crisis since the Second World War. Having exploded in the financial sphere, the knock-on effects for the real economy - which is in fact where the crisis was born - are overwhelming. To discuss these facts and the prospects for humanity we invite all revolutionaries to:
Calthorpe Arms - Grays Inn Road (corner of Wren Street) - London WC1
2:00 p.m. Saturday 27 June 2009
Revolutionary Perspectives 50
RP 50 is now out. To receive a copy send £3 to our group address (BM CWO, London WC1N 3XX) . Or to receive whilst each is current why not subscribe (£15 UK, £22 elsewhere). It contains the following articles:
- Capitalism is a State-sponsored Ponzi Scheme
- The Working Class are Paying for the Crisis
- MP’s Expenses Scandal: The System is Bankrupt in Every Sense
- No2EU? Yes to British Capitalist Exploitation!
- The Bankruptcy of General Motors = The Bankruptcy of Capitalism
- Fiat
- Fiat-Chrysler Agreement - Workers Pay the Price
- The Anti-Union Protest in Turin
- Corporate Terrorism at Pomigliano
- The Great Game in Central Asia: US Imperialism Increases its Stakes
- Obama Speech - New Words, Old Policies
- Midlands Discussion Forum Meeting
- The Commune: A Radical New Grouping or Old Left in a New Form?
- The Italian Left - A Brief Internationalist History
Milano - Archivio Mauro Stefanini
Archivio Mauro Stefanini Partito comunista internazionalista - A tool for the history of the Communist Left - PDF: leftcom.org
June 10th 2009 Wednesday at 5.00 p.m. - Archivio di Stato di Milano via Senato 10 - maps.google.com?q=milano+via+senato+10
- Introduction: Barbara Bertini, Archivio di Stato di Milano
- Speech: Andrea Torre, Istituto nazionale per la storia del movimento di liberazione in Italia
- Speech: Fabio Damen, Partito comunista internazionalista, Battaglia comunista
- Speech: Simonetta Di Sieno, Archivio Bruno Fortichiari
- Chairman: Giorgio Galli, Università degli Studi di Milano
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Toronto - The Global Economic Crisis
- What are the Perspectives for the working class?*
A public discussion with Internationalist Perspective (Toronto) and the Internationalist Workers Group (Montreal)
Saturday January 17, 2009 7PM
OISE - 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Room 2295 - maps.google.com?q=canada+toronto+bloor+street+west+252
Revolutionary Perspectives 48 is now out
It contains articles on the Financial Crisis of Capitalism, the War in the Congo, the Struggles in the Education Sector in Italy, Public Sector Workers in the UK, Class Struggle in China, The German Revolution 1918-19, Internationalist Communists in Turkey (review).
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 (see panel for details)?
London - Is capitalism collapsing?
CWO Public meeting: “Is capitalism collapsing? For a revolutionary response to the crisis!”
- What does the meltdown of financial capital really mean?
- What will the effects be for the working class?
- How can a higher form of society be created?
Come to a public meeting on these questions.
Conway Hall - Red Lion Square, Holborn WC1 - Holborn Tube - London - maps.google.it
Saturday 01/11/2008 14:00 hrs
Glasgow - CWO Open Meeting
The contradictions of the capitalist system continue to bring misery to millions. Permanent warfare with all its “collateral damage” (rape, ruin and massacre), the growing inability of a sixth of the world to feed itself amidst an economy of plenty and the growing insecurity of living conditions even in the so-called advanced capitalist countries. On top of this the environmental damage capitalism inflicts on the world cannot be stopped as long as it is too profitable to carry on polluting. In all these ways the very survival of humanity is at stake. Our open meeting is to go beyond critique. It is intended to give discussion space to those who see that we need to find a way to a practical alternative, hence the title:
What is the Revolutionary Perspective?
Communist Workers’ Organisation - Open Meeting - Glasgow
Saturday June 28th 2008 - 2.00-4.00 p.m.
Partick Burgh Halls - 5-9 Burgh Hall Street (nearest Underground Merkland St.) - Glasgow - map: maps.google.com
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London - Ninety Years On...
The Communist Workers’ Organisation invites you to a public meeting
Ninety Years On - What are the lessons of the October 1917 for the Revolution of Tomorrow?
Capitalism is leading the world to ruin. The future of humanity can only be assured if capitalism is replaced with a stateless system of production which produces for needs and production is by freely associated individuals. The question is how can this be achieved.
Today we are told by all kinds of commentators that the Russian Revolution was
A coup d’état which gave rise to the world’ worst tyranny and produced a system which collapsed under the weight of its own economic weakness in 1990
Was the October Revolution an unmitigated disaster which should rightly be consigned to the dustbin of history or, is the total disaster capitalism itself, and the October revolution a glowing beacon in the history of workers' struggle for emancipation from exploitation, poverty and war? Join us to discuss the significance of October.
Place:
Friends Meeting House (Room 10)
173-7 Euston Road
London NW1 2DJ
(opposite Euston Station)
Date:
Saturday Nov 10th 2007 - 2.30 pm
RP 43 - Errata
In the introduction to the "Private Equity Scuppered by Subprime Fallout" article, the sentence "has only wiped out 5% off world GDP" should be replaced by "has only wiped off the equivalent of 5% of world GDP".
CWO - New Address
With immediate effect the CWO has a new postal address. Please only write to:
BM CWO
London
WC1N 3XX
To readers, subscribers and other correspondents
We have to announce that the Post Office have closed down our Sheffield postbox (without informing us) as a result of a dispute over their bureaucratic procedures.
If you have sent anything to the box (such as sub renewals) it should have been returned to you.
We will be announcing the new address for all correspondence within a few days which will appear first on this website and then in Revolutionary Perspectives 42.
We apologise for any expense and inconvenience which this might have caused.
CWO, 4.4.2007Revolutionary Perspectives 41
Quarterly Journal of the Communist Workers’ Organisation
RP 41 was issued on February 16th.
It contains articles on Trident, the strikes in BA and the Civil Service, as well as those of Volkswagen (by our German comrades in the GIS) and the Bangla Desh garment workers. The latest imperialist manoeuvres in Somalia, Iraq, and Lebanon are analysed, alongside a reminder of the significance of the Falklands War twenty five years ago, both for British Imperialism and the working class. The issue also contains correspondence with Turkish communists on imperialism and an exchange on the task of communists today.
Still only £10 for 4 issues in the UK and £15 anywhere in the world, why not take out a subscription to get RP whilst it is current?
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