18 April, London Public Meeting, “Iran and the Road to World War”. Organised by the Communist Workers’ Organisation. www.leftcom.org/en/adverts/2...

As reactionary commentators celebrate the "death of woke", it bears repeating that the communist critique of identity politics in its various forms (including the most successful identity of all, nationalism), comes from a very different place.

30 March, Manchester Public Meeting, “Revolutionary Defeatism: The Task of Workers in Wartime”. Organised by the Communist Workers’ Organisation. www.leftcom.org/en/adverts/2...

We publish here a translation from our comrades in Battaglia Comunista on the condition of the working class in Italy. Much of it will make for familiar reading to workers beyond Italy as well.

The drums of war are beating again, this time along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, This is not a border issue; it is another tremor within the global crisis of capitalism and a step towards imperialist slaughter.

Increasingly, the anarchy of nations trying to scramble for advantage is risking full scale war. There are plenty of limited wars going on which constantly threaten to spill out of their regional limitations. The war in the Middle East is doing just that.

Our new book, "The Economic Foundations of Capitalism's Rise and Decline", is out now! Order at: www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

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. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

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. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

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

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.

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. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

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. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

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. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

"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." www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

"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." www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

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. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

Trump's tariffs are indicative of an acceleration in US imperialism's aggressiveness toward both enemies and "friends." In turn, it shows just how deep the crisis facing US-made capitalism and, more generally, the process of global accumulation, is. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

Following a vote in the House of Commons, the group Palestine Action has been officially designated a "proscribed terrorist organisation" in the UK. The decision has been a major source of controversy and deserves a critical comment. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

As planned, the Israeli-American imperialist duo has tightened the noose in redefining the balance of power in the Middle East, even if the war question is not yet over. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

When Russia invaded Ukraine, the world situation changed dramatically. In this new historical situation, the Swedish bourgeoisie was forced to reconsider its imperialist alliances. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

Last weekend the CWO attended three events with NWBCW banners: an anti-austerity demonstration in London, the Derby Silk Mill Festival, and the Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair.

It is time to channel all the energies that are spent on anti-fascism into an anti-capitalist perspective of overcoming this filthy social system. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

As capitalism’s economic crisis gets more severe our rulers are unleashing a war of impoverishment on the working class at home while gearing up for a hot war on their rivals abroad. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

Over the past five days CWO members and sympathisers attended numerous May Day events in London, Nottingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Glasgow and Manchester.

It is 20 years since the death of our much loved comrade Mauro Stefanini. Our memory of him has not diminished in all that time. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

To celebrate May Day, we've made our book on the Russian Revolution available to download for free. Learn more about this key chapter in the struggle for working class emancipation: www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

2025 May Day Statement of the Internationalist Communist Tendency www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...

Today we are at the Cambridge Radical Bookfair.

Communism Or Barbarism, based in South Korea and with contacts across East Asia, is trying to build a nucleus of the ICT in the region. As they take the next steps in establishing themselves as a group, we publish here their founding statement. www.leftcom.org/en/articles/...