Communist Workers' Organisation
@cwouk.bsky.social
Founded 1975 // Affiliate of the Internationalist Communist Tendency
8 December, Manchester Public Meeting, “Trade Unions or Workers’ Self-Initiative?”. Organised by the Communist Workers’ Organisation. www.leftcom.org/en/adverts/2...
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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.
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 ...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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.
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...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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.
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 ...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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.
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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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October 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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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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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October 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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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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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October 6, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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/...
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11 October, Leicester Public Meeting, “What is Communism?”. Organised by the Communist Workers’ Organisation. www.leftcom.org/en/adverts/2...
October 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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.
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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October 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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.
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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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October 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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...
September 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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.
September 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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.
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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September 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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.
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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September 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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.
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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September 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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.
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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September 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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.
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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September 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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.
"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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September 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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.
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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August 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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.
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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August 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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.
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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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August 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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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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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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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August 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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/...
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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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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August 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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/...
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"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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August 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"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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"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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July 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"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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