The internationalists

Georgia has been normalizing relations with Russia since the start of the invasion of Ukraine. The Caucasian state has limited its support for Ukraine to diplomatic and humanitarian aid, and has not joined its traditional, Western allies in sanctioning Russia. In return, Russia has resumed direct flights to Georgia and lifted visa requirements for Georgian nationals.

(We share here the translation ( of a document on the conclusion of the recent UAW autoworkers' strikes, written by a comrade from our sister organization in Italy. You can read the leaflet that we prepared for the struggle here ( Like the UPS struggle, on which we wrote here ( this is another struggle taking place in a key industry for capital in the US as it prepares to go to war.

The wave of strikes which erupted in Britain in June last year have mostly ended in defeat overseen by the unions. Trade union membership continues to decline and it’s easy to see why. Although consecutive governments have attacked the rights of workers to organise, to strike and to picket, the unions have proven themselves both unwilling and unable to fight against this legislation, enforcing it...

After the hottest September on record, the government of Rishi Sunak has recently announced broad reductions of the already tepid climate policies they inherited from the previous government. These include: pushing back the phasing out of petrol and diesel cars by five years to 2035, relaxing the phasing out of oil-powered boilers by the same timescale, and removing plans to introduce taxes for...

The raid by Hamas militants which overran two military bases and various Israeli municipalities killing soldiers and civilians and taking hostages, has set off the predictable response from the Israeli ruling class: the murder of Palestinian civilians by carpet bombing (including of hospitals), tightening the siege on the enclave (which has been in force since 2007), cutting off power, water,...