Communist Workers' Organisation

In Iran and Elsewhere: Intensifying the Class Struggle is the Only Way Out! An Iranian journalist, in his report on the recent massacre in Tehran, writes: "Not knowing which voice to believe is a horrifying and sorrowful truth; but knowing the truth and yet being unable to sp...

Wherever any movement takes on a character of confrontation with the rule of capital, it is first met with deafening propaganda. If the movement continues, it then faces the iron fist of both “authoritarian” and “democratic” regimes alike.

Review of Their Wars - Our Dead: Anarchist Reflections on Anti-Militarism (Alex Alder and Bill Beech (eds.), Their Wars – Our Dead: Anarchist Reflections on Anti-Militarism (2025, Active Distribution), https://pmpress.org.uk/product/their-wars-our-dead/) Since the war in Uk...

Although the book would have benefited from a deeper framework for contextualising the current drive to war, we nevertheless hope it will spark a wider discussion among anarchists, particularly in the face of current attempts to revive the splintered anarchist scene in the UK.

US Attack on Venezuela: Some Initial Thoughts (The following is adapted from an _article by Battaglia Comunista_ (https://www.leftcom.org/it/articles/2026-01-01/venezuela-si-apre-un-altro-fronte-di-tensione-imperialista) written just before the U...

The US government’s actions against Venezuela in recent days are a huge escalation of tension in the region and another indication of the drive to generalised war across the world that has been evident for several years now.

Report from Germany == 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 co...

The political crisis of German capitalism continues to set the agenda and cause tensions and conflicts within the ruling class.

8 December, Manchester Public Meeting, “Trade Unions or Workers’ Self-Initiative?”. Organised by the Communist Workers’ Organisation. www.leftcom.org/en/adverts/2...

The Working Class is Still Fighting! But What World Are We Fighting For? The picture may seem bleak, but don’t be disheartened! Across the planet, the working class are proving that just as we face the same attacks and conditions everywhere, our struggle is the force that ...

From one side of the world to the other, these protests all have similar complaints: high unemployment and no job security; corruption and inequality; low pay and high prices; cuts and underfunding of social services.

Nationalism: A Weapon of the Ruling Class == Nationalism on the Rise Recent opinion polls put Reform UK well ahead of the parliamentary competition. If an election were held next week, it is possible the ex-banker ex-Tory Nigel Farage would b...

Blaming the failures of capitalism on ‘the other’ is a very old tactic of the ruling class. A divided working class can also be more easily dragooned into accepting war, and the austerity that pays for war.

Nationalism, War, Repression, Austerity: Symptoms of Capitalist Crisis == “Ceasefires” Bring No Respite Since the US-brokered “ceasefire” deal between Israel and Hamas, tens of thousands of Palestinians have returned to Gaza to find their home reduced to rubble, divided ...

In this system whose inexorable need to accumulate profit generates increasingly brutal tyranny and wars without end, the only hope for any way out of the hell humanity has created for itself remains with the working class.

Racism Divides - Class Struggle Unites! No one can have missed the wave of conservative populism, narrow minded nationalism and outright racism that is sweeping across large parts of the world. Even though it hits us very differently, it af...

Capitalism is built on racism, discrimination and ranking of people. In addition to the direct oppression of various individual groups, it is a perfect weapon in the arsenal of the bourgeoisie – to rule by dividing.

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Parliamentary Democracy and Fascism: The Two Faces of the Bourgeoisie (Two Speeches by Onorato Damen from 1925) When Onorato Damen rose to speak in the Italian Chamber of Deputies in March 1925, parliamentary democracy, such as it existed in the Kingdom of Italy, was in its dying days.(1) Three years earlier, B...

The two extracts which follow are from the stenographic record of the sessions of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. When Onorato Damen rose to speak in March 1925, parliamentary democracy, such as it existed in the Kingdom of Italy, was in its dying days.

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France: Mass Protests Against Spending Cuts This leaflet produced by the GRI for the social movement of 2 October follows their previous leaflet distributed on 10 and 18 September.(1) The comrades felt it was important to write another one, mor...

This leaflet produced by the GRI for the social movement of 2 October follows their previous leaflet. The comrades felt it was important to write another one, more critical of the counter-revolutionary role of the left of capital and its dead-end methods.

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11 October, Leicester Public Meeting, “What is Communism?”. Organised by the Communist Workers’ Organisation. www.leftcom.org/en/adverts/2...

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

We are a small organisation, but we try to punch above our weight. And we know that we are, for the most part, swimming against the tide.

Italy: On the "General Strike" for Gaza 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 foll...

In Italy, thousands of workers recently took strike action in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla and against the ongoing massacre in Gaza. The following is based on reports from our comrades in Italy – we also include a flyer they distributed on the day.

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27 September, London Public Meeting, “Why the So-Called Workers' Movement Doesn't Defend the Working Class”. Organised by the Communist Workers’ Organisation. www.leftcom.org/en/adverts/2...

At the London Anarchist Bookfair today.

Statement on the Protests in Nepal (We reproduce this statement from _NWBCW South Asia_ (https://nwbcwsouthasia.com/) as an example of how a new generation in the region is breaking with the legacy of Stalinism and Maoism and trying to...

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.

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

Bayrou’s departure in no way means that the promised austerity will be called into question. To defend ourselves, we cannot count on the trade unions or the institutional parties, which have demonstrated that they are the docile allies of capital.

Fight for Animals: Fight the System! (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 o...

We cannot simply humanise capitalism’s food systems and industries. It will take a lot more than individual lifestyle choices to put an end to this cruel, ecocidal system.

The struggle for liberation does not need dead heroes, it needs the living consciousness of millions, organised and armed with an anti-capitalist political vision.

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

Burning down hotels will not change the fact that our jobs are shit, that our schools are collapsing, or that we can't get decent housing or a GP appointment. As workers, whether "foreign" or "local", we need to recognise our common interests.

"End Times": Can Capitalism be Saved? 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 a...

A Marxist understanding of the internal relations of capitalist production shows that elite overproduction and working class immiseration are symptoms, not the cause of the instability and violence Turchin predicts.

Adventures in the Culture Wars: A Review Article Ash Sarkar, a contributing editor at Novara Media, has this year published her first book, _Minority Rule_, with the provocative subheading “Adventures in the Culture Wars”. Novara Media was founded i...

While in Minority Rule Sarkar does seem to attempt to pose the problem as one of the capitalist system as such, the actual political content of her arguments lead inevitably back down the blind alley of reform.

Imperialism and Genocide: The Failure of International Law to Prevent Mass Killings With airstrikes, controlled explosions and bulldozers Gaza is being razed to the ground. What still remains of it in the ever-shrinking "humanitarian zone" is now a shooting gallery, where starvation ...

The only way to truly end genocide is to put an end to a system and the social relations which naturally breed it.

Fifty Years of the CWO: Perspectives for 2025 and Beyond (This document was originally drafted in May for the Annual General Meeting of the CWO. Since then a number of events have taken place, key among them Israel’s attack on Iran and Trump’s threats to im...

In September this year it will be fifty years since the foundation of the CWO, so it is therefore an appropriate moment to review the strengths and weaknesses of our perspective over that time before posing our analysis of where we are today.

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The Working Class: Biggest Victims of Capitalism's Environmental Devastation == Some General Reflections At last, in 2025 Italy is due to reach its defence spending target of 2% of GDP. Thus prime minister Meloni gleefully announced on 7 May. “Because without defence there is ...

Wars and militarism are often overlooked in discussions about the environment and climate change.

We cannot stress enough that responsibility for the disaster of nature and the environment falls on capitalism with its greed for profit.

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Against Worsening Conditions and Redundancies, Workers are Starting to Fight Back As the bosses’ crisis of profitability deepens, so too does the exploitation of those creating profits for them – the world working class. In every country and every sector, the same arsenal of attack...

There can be no escape from these relentless assaults and inhuman existence under capitalism which is in desperate crisis. The solidarity in workers’ struggle organs will be the foundation of any new society.

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Resisting Capitalism's Road to the Next World War The global economic and political crisis is gaining momentum. We are often told that this crisis started with the financial crash of 2007/2008 or even with Covid. But these were just the latest episod...

"What we need to do is change the system before it brings us all to destruction. Unless the various struggles against war become more general struggles against the system that causes it, nothing will change."

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From Gurgaon to the Globe: Why the Working Class Is Being Attacked (We have received this short report on working conditions in the city of Gurgaon from a sympathiser in India. It demonstrates how all across the world attacks on "foreign" workers are becoming a weapo...

"Around the world, states facing economic crisis are turning to repression not as an emergency response, but as a strategic solution. In the absence of rising profits, capital no longer promises growth or employment. Instead, it demands control."

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In the Wake of the Capitalist Crisis: Protests and Riots - And the Need for an Independent Class Expression The terrible wars in Gaza and Ukraine are both a product of the imperialist death dance of a capitalism in crisis and a trigger for further rearmament and international tensions. Ultimately, a future ...

These are not purely proletarian struggles, but it is clear that there are extensive elements of the working class involved. They are expressions of a general dissatisfaction and frustration that is steaming under the surface, and sometimes must explode.

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