The Invisible Slaughter: Study on Work-Related Deaths in France

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(Review of Matthieu Lépine's book, L’Hécatombe invisible : Enquête sur les morts au travail, by a CWO sympathiser.) · It is often said by people disconnected from reality in the UK that ‘we are not in a Dickens novel’. The saying in France is that ‘we are not in Zola’s times anymore’.

East Palestine Chemical Disaster: Capitalism Goes Off the Rails

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Years of deregulation, decaying transportation infrastructure and increasingly unsafe working conditions led to the conditions that created the East Palestine chemical spill. The means used to clean up the spill initially involved burning the chemicals off. The immediate objective for the company was to get cargo moving on the tracks as fast as possible, and burning is faster than pumping.

The Death of Sheila Seleoane: Another Capitalist Housing Scandal

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The tragic death of Sheila Seleoane tells us a lot about modern capitalism. Sheila was a medical secretary who lived alone in a housing association flat. She was an agency worker, so when she died, sometime in 2019, she wasn’t missed at work. In fact the only people who realised something was wrong were her neighbours. One of them recalls being alarmed by the ‘strong smell of death.

Warsaw Ghetto and the Real Cost of Imperialist War

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In September 1939 Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany from the West and Stalinist Russia from the East. Warsaw – a city with a large Jewish population which was further swelled by Jewish refugees fleeing or being expelled from other cities and towns – came under the control of the Nazi administration.

No War but the Class War: Statement from NWBCW Miami

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(We publish here the founding statement of NWBCW Miami ( You can follow their activities: @MiamiNwbcw ( · Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a clear outgrowth of a decaying economic system, whose ever frequent crises oblige states to seek out scarce profits by going to war. Predictably, the ruling class has mobilized all its media and other propaganda apparatuses to drag workers the whole world over...

Two Comments on Recent Bus Strikes in the UK

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A Week on the Buses... · British strikes are very much like British buses. You hang around for ages for one to turn up, then three arrive, you turn away for a minute to sort out your change but when you look up, they’ve all disappeared! · This scenario will have been extremely familiar to bus passengers in the West Midlands over the last week.

No War but the Class War: Statement from NWBCW Chicago

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(We publish here the founding statement of NWBCW Chicago ( You can follow their activities: @NWBCWChicago ( · How is this war different from all others? · It has been just over a year since the initiation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and in that time, as always, the highest price has been paid by the working class: sacrificed as cannon fodder, state oversight suffocating worker...

The "Good War" of WWII: Class Struggle

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Capitalist society is marked by the fundamental antagonism between two classes: the working class and capitalist class. Often, however, especially in times of crisis, the capitalists’ politicians and pundits make appeals to “social peace” to dupe the workers into falling behind the “national” effort.

The Terrace Mutiny of 1944

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Despite being the largest mutiny in Canadian history, the 1944 mutiny of Terrace is given little thought in school textbooks and the general imagination. For us this is no surprise since it is the history of our class. The base around the village of Terrace in British Columbia was quickly constructed for Pacific home defence and to serve as a troop transport hub.

Statement Concerning S., Comrade who is in a Life-Threatening Condition Following the Sainte-Soline Protest

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We reproduce here the statement by the group Camarade ( one of whose members was grievously injured by the police during the demonstration on 25 March. We believe that the brutality of police repression, like something out of a war zone, is no accident. It is linked on the one hand to the gravity of the various crises confronting the bourgeoisie, and on the other hand to the ongoing imperialist...

Trenches of the Tundra

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The media hysteria in February over flying objects and weather/spy balloons flying over American and Canadian airspace points out the increased military importance of the skies of the far north. These objects have left NATO higher-ups embarrassed over the fact they weren’t detected sooner, confirming paranoias of a blind spot in the “underfunded” NORAD system.

From the Zimmerwald Left to the Establishment of the Communist International

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(Translation of an article originally published in The Communist (May 2019 reprinted March 2021), organ of Internationalist Communist Perspective (South Korea).) · September 1915 - March 1919: From the Zimmerwald Left to the establishment of the Communist International · An Event from 102 Years Ago · From 2-6 March 1919, 102 years ago, 52 delegates from more than 40 political groups from various...

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