As Protests Continue, Workers Strike in Iran

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As the protest movement in Iran develops, we publish here a few more translations of recent statements from the Council for Organising Protests by Oil Contract Workers and the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Workers’ Syndicate. Their decision to go on strike has inevitably been met with repression by the regime.

Russia's Annexations in Ukraine are Another Step Towards Global Imperialist War

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(Statement of the Internationalist Communist Tendency) · Nuclear Russian Roulette in Ukraine … · On 21 September, under pressure from the Ukrainian counter-offensive, Putin gave a speech in which he made two key announcements. The first was the declaration of a "partial mobilization" of 300,000 military reservists destined for the war in Ukraine.

No War but the Class War: Statement from NWBCW Montreal

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(We publish here the founding statement of NWBCW Montreal. You can follow their activities: @NwbcwM ( · The Main Enemy is at Home! · Empty are the capitalists’ slogans of democracy, national self-determination, rule of law, and peace between nations. What do these abstract ideals mean in reality except as an excuse for food shortages in Africa, the coming cold winter in Berlin, cities reduced to...

Rojava: The Myths and the Reality

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Let us be clear from the outset: Rojava is not a product of a revolution, but simply of one “special armed body” stepping in for another “special armed body”. Enough has been written about the influence on Rojava of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), and the alleged Damascene conversion of its leader Abdullah Öcalan from Stalinism to “libertarian municipalism”, so we will not delve into this...

Iran: On the Hijab as Labour Discipline, and the Slogan of "Woman, Life, Freedom"

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… How Did it Start? · On Tuesday 13 September, Mehsa Amini (Zina), a 22-year-old Iranian woman from the city of Saqez of the province of Western Kurdistan who was visiting Tehran with her brother, was arrested by the “morality police”. Shortly after her arrest, she suffered a fractured skull and brain damage as a result of being beaten by the officers of the “morality police”, and three days...

No War but the Class War: Statement from NWBCW Toronto

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(We publish here the founding statement of NWBCW Toronto.) · No War but Class War! The Main Enemy is at Home! · The current progressive impoverishment of the working class is occurring on an international scale. This process has been violently accelerated by the economic warfare launched against Russia in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Italian Elections Bring Far Right to Power

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The article which follows is a translation from Battaglia Comunista, paper of our sister organisation in Italy. Its title refers to the slogan that Giorgia Meloni, leader of the ultra-right Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia) party, repeated throughout the electoral campaign: “I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am a Christian”.

Workers' Voices on the Protests in Iran

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In protest against the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the “morality police” in Tehran for failing to properly wear the hijab, we have witnessed continuous demonstrations for the last two weeks all over the country, as usual with a barbaric response from the Islamic Republic of Iran. · So far it has been reported that 76 people have died and hundreds have been arrested.

Demonstrations Against the Mobilisation - Great! Getting Rid of Capitalism that Demands our Blood - Even Better!

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In an address to the nation from Moscow on Wednesday 21 September, Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation of 300,000 reservists, with a view to launching a new offensive on Ukraine, which first began on 24 February. · This means the war has just reached a new, higher level. The mobilisation of the population is a very serious issue indeed.

War in Ukraine: No War but the Class War!

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(Note - this article was written around a week before Russia announced that they were implementing a (partial) mobilization of 300,000 reservists to be sent to the war in Ukraine, as well as referendums in the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine that are all but certain to result in votes for annexation to Russia.

Juche: Stalinism and Maoism with Feudal Characteristics

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(The following article is our translation of a critique of Juche by the group Internationalist Communist Perspective in South Korea. We publish it here as a contribution to the analysis of a Stalinist legacy which still “weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living” (Marx).) · A Critique of Kim Il-sung's Juche Ideology · The charter of the Workers’ Party(1) enacted in August 1946...

The Meaning of Workers' Councils in the 21st Century

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Workers’ councils have a prominent place in our agitation. Recently we have received a number of questions regarding what we mean by workers’ councils, what we think is the relationship between political organisations and workers’ councils, and what might workers’ councils look like today. Our answers to these questions are, as always, informed by the experience of the class struggles of the past.

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