The internationalists

(Leaflet distributed by the CWO during the recent protests about the situation in Palestine.) · The war in Gaza is a product of imperialism – just like the wars in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and the other fifty or more conflicts that are raging around the planet. Imperialism is the child of capitalism and the steady stream of barbaric atrocities we are seeing every day represent the true...

Republic, Empire, Kingdom… · Ever since the 1791 Haitian revolution, the state would be plagued by brutal indemnities demanded by France and frequent interregnums. · Haiti was made to pay 90 million gold francs to France in reparations after Charles X sent warships to the island. This devastated the already war ravished economy and took 122 years to repay.

Between the months of January and March 2024, CWO comrades held three public meetings (in Manchester, London and Birmingham) and gave presentations at two other events (an NWBCW Liverpool public meeting and the Sheffield Radical Bookfair). In recognition of the seriousness of the world situation, the topic of discussion at each of these meetings was centred around the drive to war, the meaning of...

(We share here our translation into English of a stellar article by the comrades of Barbaria ( a group based in Spain. This article goes over last fall’s strike in the “Big Three” auto-manufacturing giants in the US: General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford. While examining this strike involving nearly 50,000 workers, the comrades from Barbaria cover how it comes in the context of capitalism’s...

"Only a bourgeois who believes that a war started by the governments must necessarily end as a war between governments and wants it to end as such, can regard as “ridiculous” and “absurd” the idea that the Socialists of all the belligerent countries should wish for the defeat of all “their” governments and express this wish.