The internationalists

The last bastion of the Liberal Party is the state of New South Wales. Despite this, Labor has not been able to make the cost-of-living crisis go away, either on a state or national scale. Chris Minns, although condemning the wage cap introduced by the Liberals, has not confirmed whether wages would even increase if the cap were abolished (1).

February saw the first anniversary of the Ukraine war - a year of massive destruction and massive loss of workers’ lives. As the front lines move back and forth, the US and its NATO allies escalate the supply of deadly weapons to Ukraine. Following the artillery, rockets, and Russian tanks from ex-Warsaw Pact countries, it was announced in January that hundreds of Western tanks and longer range...

The sudden rise in prices, combined with decades of attacks on wages, have not only produced a surge in strikes, they have also produced new activist-reformist campaigns. The "Don’t Pay" campaign, launched last June, is one. It calls for capitalism to lower energy prices via state action and its activist methods – demonstrations and a non-payment 'strike' – are familiar to anyone who has...

On 14 February 2023, the "Charter of Minimum Demands of Independent Union and Civil Organisations of Iran" translated below was published with the signatures of 20 organisations and institutions. We don't know much about the background and history of how this Charter has come about, but we have previously reported on the struggles of three of the signatories – Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Workers’...

(Part I ( – Part II ( – Part III ( – Part IV ( · As explained in our previous issue ( we have decided to re-issue a serialised and updated version of an article which appeared almost 50 years ago in only the second edition of the first series of Revolutionary Perspectives, when the group that was to become the CWO was setting out its Marxist political analysis.