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Communist Workers' Organisation

Communist Workers' Organisation

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Founded 1975 // Affiliate of the Internationalist Communist Tendency

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · 8d

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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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...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · 28d

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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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...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · 29d

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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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...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Oct 3

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

Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Oct 3

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.

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 – ...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Oct 2

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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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...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Sep 21

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...

Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Sep 20

At the London Anarchist Bookfair today.

Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Sep 11

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.

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...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Sep 10

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.

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 ...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Sep 9

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.

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...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

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

(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 ...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

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...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

"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...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Aug 27

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.

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...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

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 ...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Aug 21

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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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...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Aug 18

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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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 ...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Aug 15

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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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...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Aug 12

"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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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...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Jul 31

"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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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...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Jul 23

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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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 ...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Jul 22

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.

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The Working Class will Pay the Costs of the Tariff War, Unless...

"Dear friend, I'm writing to you..." This is, more or less, how Trump's letter to von der Leyen starts. In it, the US president announces the imposition of a 30% tariff on European goods imported into...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Jul 8

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.

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On the State Repression of the Palestine Solidarity Movement

Following a vote in the House of Commons, the group Palestine Action has been officially designated a "proscribed terrorist organisation" in the UK. As of 5 July 2025, both membership of the group as ...

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Communist Workers' Organisation @cwouk.bsky.social · Jun 18

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.

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Israel's Attack on Iran: Some Initial Thoughts

(A brief comment from our comrades in Battaglia Comunista written in the immediate aftermath of Israel's attack on Iran.) On the night of 13 June, Israel attacked Iran. Tehran, and seven other cities,...

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