Hilton Fights For Profit, Workers Fight For Survival

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(Leaflet distributed by IWG members and sympathizers to workers on strike at the Hilton-Americas in Houston, Texas.) · When the Hilton Americas management walked out of months of contract negotiations, they demonstrated a complete lack of interest in the lives and conditions of the Hilton workers. Hilton aims to maximize their profit through increasing the exploitation of their workers, and in...

Fifty Years of Struggle, Fifty Years of Swimming Against the Tide

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The Communist Workers’ Organisation (CWO), today the UK affiliate of the Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT), was originally formed from the merger of two groups, named for their publications – Workers’ Voice and Revolutionary Perspectives – at a meeting in Liverpool in September 1975 – fifty years ago.

Italy: On the "General Strike" for Gaza

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In Italy, thousands of workers recently took strike action in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla, the initiative attempting to deliver aid to Gaza, and against the ongoing massacre in Gaza. The following is based on reports from our comrades in Italy, who intervened in the strikes in a number of cities – below we also include a flyer they distributed on the day.

Worker, Resist the Snake of Nationalist Populism!

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(A CWO sympathiser comments on the resurgence of the far-right in the UK.) · In 2024, riots and anti-migrant protests broke out across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The spark that set it all off was a lie about the religion and ethnicity of the perpetrator of a mass stabbing in Southport; far-right media claimed the murderer was an immigrant Muslim, when in fact he was a Welsh...

Moscow and Tel Aviv: "Anti-Imperialism" is an Aesthetic

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Russian president Vladimir Putin commented that “Israel is almost a Russian-speaking country” in a press release when he was asked why Russia would not be providing Iran with military aid. This may surprise some observers when Russia, which is in an alliance of convenience with Iran, didn't provide direct military support in the wake of IAF air strikes and indiscriminate missile and drone...

Statement on the Protests in Nepal

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(We reproduce this statement from NWBCW South Asia ( as an example of how a new generation in the region is breaking with the legacy of Stalinism and Maoism and trying to chart an internationalist course. In Nepal, a popular movement has managed to reverse the hated social media ban and bring down the current government.

No Sacrifices to Replenish the State Coffers! Let's Fight to Defend Ourselves, Not to Save the National Economy!

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(Leaflet produced by the GRI for demonstrations in France on 10 and 18 September.) · According to the likes of Macron, Bayrou(1), and co., we can no longer afford a decent pension and the time to enjoy it, or proper healthcare, a good education, and even less compensation in the event of unemployment...

Fight for Animals: Fight the System!

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(Flyer distributed at the National Animal Rights March.) · The use and abuse of animals by humans may go back centuries, but today it’s an industrialised process of mass suffering. In ruthless pursuit of profit, the corrupt animal industries cram animals into cages from birth to slaughter, slash natural environments, and still find more ways to squeeze money out of lives.

Martyrdom for the Faith, a Tragic Ideological Variant of Bourgeois Deceit

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(Our comrades in Italy received the following contribution from a sympathiser who reflects on the so-called Palestinian resistance embodied, in this case, by the Islamist organisation Hamas which, as is well known, has anti-communism as one of its distinguishing features.) · As an internationalist communist, I firmly reject the rhetoric of MARTYRDOM as the foundation of liberation.

Workers Have No Homeland: Don't Fall for Capitalist Scapegoating!

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(Flyer for distribution at protests around migration.) · From our hunter-gatherer ancestors who, long before there was such a thing as nations or states, roamed across the lands in search of food, to the modern working class, which moves where it can find employment to make a living, the history of humanity has always been that of migration.

"End Times": Can Capitalism be Saved?

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Peter Turchin’s book End Times is another bourgeois academic’s attempt at understanding history and the trajectory of capitalist society.(1) His method of analysis, though initially ridiculed, has attracted some interest and respect after he predicted in 2010, via his multipath forecasting (MPF) model, that the 2020s would be a period of sharp instability for the US.

Labor Day 2025: Three Attacks on the Working Class, One Way Forward

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The time since last year’s Labor Day has shown that capitalism continues down its death march. This year, Klasbatalo and the Internationalist Workers Group reflect on three attacks launched by the bosses in the last 12 months and prospects for workers in Canada and the US. None of these attacks have emerged out of the ether - they are the convulsions of a dying system.

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