BRADFORD ANARCHIST / RADICAL BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Anarchist / Radical Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 3 September 2022
Where: 1in12 Club, 21-23 Albion Street, Bradford, BD1 2LY
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Liverpool Bookfair
LIVERPOOL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Liverpool Anarchist Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 14 May 2022
Where: Black-E, Great George Street, Liverpool, L1 5EW
Glasgow Bookfair
RED AND BLACK CLYDESIDE BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Red and Black Clydeside Bookfair. At 17:50pm there will also be a public meeting on the topic of...
NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
With an eye towards the current war in Ukraine, presenting a "No War but the Class War" perspective with the CWO in the Electron Club or Cinema.
When: Saturday, 7 May 2022
Montreal Public Meeting
OPEN MEETING ON THE HOUSING CRISIS
Join us at pub Le Trèfle in Verdun to discuss the housing crisis and working class struggle! The meeting is open to all concerned and will be on the second floor.
27 March 2022, at 4:00pm
4718 Rue Wellington, Verdun, QC H4G 1X3, Canada
Liverpool Public Meeting
NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
More than 170 years ago, the Communist Manifesto raised the banner: “workers of the world, unite!” It became the guiding motto of the First, Second and Third Internationals. And yet the national question continues to divide would-be-revolutionaries to this very day.
Zoom Public Meeting
WAR IN UKRAINE: THE INTERNATIONALIST POSITION
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
The drums of war are sounding again in Europe. Russia's invasion of Ukraine opens up a new historical phase. NATO powers have responded with increased sanctions and indirect support to Ukraine, while Putin is threatening the world with the prospect of nuclear war.
How did we get here? What does this mean for the working class and the future of humanity? What should internationalists say about the war?
Cardiff Public Meeting
NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
More than 170 years ago, the Communist Manifesto raised the banner: “workers of the world, unite!” It became the guiding motto of the First, Second and Third Internationals. And yet the national question continues to divide would-be-revolutionaries to this very day.
London Public Meeting
RUSSIA: REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION
BOOK LAUNCH AND DISCUSSION
Our first public meeting post-lockdown will be a launch of the CWO's new book – Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924 - A View from the Communist Left – followed by a discussion.
Liverpool Public Meeting
DAYS OF HOPE? CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE 1970s
FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
As the post-war accumulation cycle was coming to an end, capitalist states of the West and the East alike were facing a crisis of stagnation. They responded in the only way they could: by extracting more and more value out of the working class and reducing its share of national product. In practice this meant layoffs, unemployment, deskilling, reduced job security, lower wages and higher prices for basic necessities.
Liverpool Public Meeting
COMMUNIST ABSTENTION – NOT ELECTORAL CON TRICKS
PUBLIC MEETING/DISCUSSION
Whoever You Vote For... The Bosses Still Win!
Once again the working class is being urged to play a part in keeping up the pretence that electing M.P.s can provide us with a better future. This is a lie that we need to resist.
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Internationalism and the War in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is now approaching the two month mark. Like other imperialist conflicts in the past, it has put the internationalist convictions of revolutionaries to the test.
No War but the Class War - A Call for Action
- The Russian invasion of Ukraine is no isolated act. It is the beginning of a new period of imperialist competition which threatens more generalised war in a way not seen since 1945.
No to Capitalism's Wars
Leaflet given out by comrades of the Internationalist Communist Party (Battaglia Comunista) at a demonstration in Florence on 26 March.
Against Capitalism, As Always!
Leaflet distributed by the PCInt during the "No Draghi Day" protests in Italy.
Striking Kellogg's Workers: Don't Settle for Crumbs!
Leaflet distributed by the IWG during the Kellogg's strike in Lancaster, PA.
Striking Kellogg's Workers: Don't settle for crumbs! Demand the abolition of the 2-tier system & more!
Report from the Kellogg's Workers Strike
Since October 4, 1,400 workers at the four Kellogg’s plants in the United States have been on strike in response to a two-tier wage system and the company’s efforts to permanently classify workers out of receiving better wages and benefits. The IWG has been able to intervene at the strike at the Lancaster plant several times over the last month, distributing leaflets and collecting information from the workers there.(1) What follows is a brief report and analysis on the situation.
The Generalized Crisis Requires a Generalized Struggle
Leaflet distributed by Klasbatalo during the CPE daycare workers' strike in Quebec.
Striking Kellogg's Workers: Take Control of the Struggle!
Leaflet distributed by the IWG during the Kellogg's strike in Lancaster, PA.
Let's Get Political!
Leaflet distributed by the CWO at recent strikes and protests happening around the UK.
Pay and pension cuts, redundancies, fire and re-hire, health & safety violations, precarity, evictions, anti-protest bills... The attacks are varied but they all point in the same direction: as always, it is the working class who will bear the cost of the crisis.
Sparks' Power in Tyne & Wear: Wildcat Action Wins Back Jobs
On construction sites around the UK, contractors such as Balfour Beatty and NG Bailey have already tried to de-skill the sparks’ (electrician) trade earlier this year. These contractors remain unpopular among many workers in the electrical industry due to this, though ultimately they failed to achieve their goal after much resistance from the sparks throughout the country.(1) However, this has not stopped other contractors from trying to do the same. Most recently we have seen an example of this in Gateshead.
Workers' conditions and struggles
Italy: The Lions of Piacenza Have Been Caged
The FedEx workers’ struggle in Piacenza ended on 10 January. The "lions” – as the warehouse workers of Piacenza have been appropriately dubbed by SI Cobas(1) – have suffered yet another blow from the bosses thanks to the union rabbits (to stick to zoological metaphors) of SI Cobas, who might claim to be running a rank and file union but look damn like their big brothers in the traditional union federations of CGIL, CISL, and UIL.(2)
Turkey: Workers are Trying to Find Their Own Voice All Over the World
As in the rest of the world, the deepening crisis of capitalism plus the pandemic continue to affect the working class in Turkey. In recent months out-of-control inflation has brought endless exorbitant price rises which have deepened the financial difficulties of the working class. With the pandemic came extremely high rent rises. In this situation where basic nutrients double their price every day, the effects of the 125% rise in electricity bills have also been a heavy blow. In Turkey, people pay one quarter of the minimum wage on electricity bills alone.
Striking Kellogg's Workers: Don't Settle for Crumbs!
Leaflet distributed by the IWG during the Kellogg's strike in Lancaster, PA.
Striking Kellogg's Workers: Don't settle for crumbs! Demand the abolition of the 2-tier system & more!
News
2019-01-16
At least 70,000 workers from 45 factories—including tens of thousands of auto parts and assembly workers at companies that supply GM, Ford and Fiat-Chrysler—have launched a wildcat strike in the US-Mexico border town of Matamoros.
The strike is a rebellion against both the “maquiladora” manufacturing corporations and the pro-company trade unions. Over 1 million workers endure low wages and sweatshop conditions at the 3,000 “maquiladora” factories that line the Mexican side of the border and account for 65 percent of Mexican exports. It looks like it has the potential to escalate.
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2018-11-15
China has detained student organisers and factory workers in at least three cities as a crackdown against labour protests spreads across the country. Security forces stormed student and worker dormitories in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen on Friday night, according to student activists, taking away five university students, three workers in Guangdong province, as well as several employees at a Shenzhen-based labour rights organisation.
For more from the Financial Times article see: ft.com
2018-09-25
It has now spread to other cities.
2018-06-29
2018-05-21
2018-04-03
Thousands of teachers on strike in both states following the strike in West Virginia
In Kentucky its the pensions issue again but in Oklahoma the continual cuts in the state budget due to tax cuts has forced schools to shut an extra day a week and some schools find they cannot buy textbooks despite sacking teaching assistants and teachers en masse. edition.cnn.com
2017-12-15
More than 200 workers at the flagship rail construction project have downed tools today in solidarity with more colleagues who have been sacked and locked out.
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BRADFORD ANARCHIST / RADICAL BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Anarchist / Radical Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 3 September 2022
Where: 1in12 Club, 21-23 Albion Street, Bradford, BD1 2LY
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