ICE's Repression Only Ends With Communism

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Below are a few thoughts the Internationalist Workers’ Group has composed on the mass ICE raids directed at the working class. Though they cover different aspects, the political throughline must be made clear: These attacks on our class must be met with a response by our class. This starts with the defense of our interests in stopping the killing and kidnapping of our class siblings and in...

On the Brewing Imperialist War

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Introduction · Once again we turn to the question of war, or rather the tendency towards worldwide conflict, drawing on what we wrote a year ago(1) when we attempted to frame the growing risk of a global conflict in the context of the international economy and the crisis that capital has been grappling with for over half a century.

Two Speeches From the University of Leicester Picket Line

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Hundreds of lecturers at the University of Leicester (UoL) have been out on strike since the start of term in September 2025. This is in reaction to an attempt by the university executives, headed by Vice Chancellor Nishan Canagarajah (chairman of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association), to make large parts of the workforce redundant.

Iran: Workers Face Enemies on All Sides

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There can be no doubt about the reactionary character of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Since seizing power in 1979, it has strangled revolution in the name of “revolution”; crushed workers and toilers in the name of defending the “oppressed”; beaten, jailed, and humiliated women while imposing compulsory hijab(1) in the name of protecting “our culture”; and gagged society—banning speech,...

Nurses Strike - It's Time to Fight as a Class!

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14,000 nurses at Mt. Sinai, NY Presbyterian, and Montefiore hospitals are striking for demands that we share as part of the wider working class. The hospitals are trying to claw back the nurses health benefits and pensions, having them pay for the healthcare they dedicate their working day to out of their pension fund. Already, Mt.

Beyond Venezuela: The Road Toward Generalised War

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(Statement of the Internationalist Communist Tendency) · Internationalists based in the world working class, wherever they are, have known it for some time. The long-running global economic crisis of capitalism, and the expedient policies adopted to combat it, have now reduced all the major powers to desperate measures.

Tesla Strike in Sweden: Only Through United Struggle Can We Fight the Attacks

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The Tesla strike recently passed its two-year anniversary, and the attention and PR war have entered a new phase. The conflict has been described as decisive and is the longest in Sweden in a century. It pits a powerful company owned by one of the world's richest men, Elon Musk, against a Swedish trade union fighting for what it considers to be the most fundamental thing: a collective...

Dispatches from the Uprising in Iran

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The spark of the recent protests in Iran emerged from Tehran’s bazaar. The removal of the preferential exchange rate by the government of President Mahmoud Pezeshkian—which triggered a sudden surge in currency prices—appears to have cut off or seriously threatened the rent-based incomes of sections of the currency mafia and oligarchic layers.

A Critical Juncture for Humanity

(These perspectives were discussed by the CWO at our last General Meeting in December 2025. The new year opened with the US attack on Venezuela, yet another indication of the drive to generalised war across the world. On our website we have commented on these latest imperialist developments and highlighted some of the internationalist statements released by other groups.

US Attack on Venezuela: Some Initial Thoughts

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(The following is adapted from an article by Battaglia Comunista ( written just before the US attack on Venezuela, and expanded upon by the Communist Workers' Organisation in light of the attack.) · The US government’s actions against Venezuela in recent days – massive airstrikes killing at least 40 people, and the apparent abduction of President Maduro by US special forces for a show trial in...

Another Step Towards Imperialist Slaughter

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In this time of crisis for global capitalism, the major imperialist powers become more and more desperate to consolidate their position. Trump’s raid on Venezuela and snatching away of Nicolás Maduro is one expression of imperialist crisis, alongside Israel’s wars in the Middle East, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and China’s preparations for taking Taiwan.

Report from Germany

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Introduction · The document which follows is a compilation of parts of reports delivered to ICT meetings by our comrades from the Gruppe Internationalistischer KommunistInnen (GIK). They have been compiled by our Italian comrades of Battaglia Comunista (PCInt) and translated into English by the Communist Workers’ Organisation (CWO).

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