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NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
More than 170 years ago, the Communist Manifesto raised the banner: “workers of the world, unite!” It became the guiding motto of the First, Second and Third Internationals. And yet the national question continues to divide would-be-revolutionaries to this very day.
What does it mean to be an internationalist? Can the Marxist debates of the past inform our perspectives today? What should communists say about national liberation, independence referenda, and international wars?
Join us to discuss these questions and more at the first public meeting of the CWO in Wales.
When: Saturday, 16 October 2021, at 2:00pm
Where: Cornerstone, Charles St, Cardiff, CF10 2GA
Communist Workers' Organisation
London Public Meeting
RUSSIA: REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION
BOOK LAUNCH AND DISCUSSION
Our first public meeting post-lockdown will be a launch of the CWO's new book – Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924 - A View from the Communist Left – followed by a discussion.
The Russian Revolution remains a landmark event in history. For the bourgeois historians, the October Revolution is thought to be a tragedy that set back the achievements of the “democratic” February Revolution, and allowed the Bolsheviks to wreak havoc on their citizens and the world. For the Stalinists, the events of 1917 paved the way for the birth of the USSR, which they point to as a prototypical example of “socialism in one country”.
In reality, the February and October Revolutions were both part of the same proletarian revolution. The whole of 1917 was a struggle of the working class to prevent their revolution from being stolen by a series of unelected Provisional Governments. The October Revolution finally smashed the capitalist state and put power into the hands of the soviets (workers’ councils). But this world-historic achievement couldn’t last forever, if the revolution of the working class was to survive, it needed to become an international revolution. As the proletariat failed to gain power in Europe, the Bolsheviks found themselves needing to build up their own state power to defend the revolution in a civil war. When the civil war was finally over, the soviets had withered to barely anything.
The Bolsheviks, for their part, had been vital in bringing down the bourgeois Provisional Government, but by the time of the Kronstadt Revolt in March 1921, they held all the power in Russia and were about to capitulate to the peasantry via the New Economic Policy. The revolution had died and the Communist International adopted the strategy of a united front with the same Social Democrats who had been behind the murders of so many workers across Europe.
But, while the Russian Revolution failed to build an international communist society, it did not just leave a negative legacy. The revolution was the work of the proletariat, and in the workers’ councils they found an instrument to ensure the running of their own affairs. Once we have smashed the capitalist state globally, and abolished exploitation and wage labour for good, the workers’ councils will be the foundation through which the international working class will create a society based on the satisfaction of the needs of the many, rather than the accumulated wealth of a few.
When: Saturday, 11 September 2021, at 2:30pm
Where: Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Rd, London, WC1X 8JR
Communist Workers' Organisation
Liverpool Public Meeting
DAYS OF HOPE? CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE 1970s
FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
As the post-war accumulation cycle was coming to an end, capitalist states of the West and the East alike were facing a crisis of stagnation. They responded in the only way they could: by extracting more and more value out of the working class and reducing its share of national product. In practice this meant layoffs, unemployment, deskilling, reduced job security, lower wages and higher prices for basic necessities.
The working class did not take this lying down. A wave of protests, strikes and occupations spread across the industrial centres of the world, with some workers beginning to pose the social question. The 1970s gave birth to a plethora of organisations – including in Britain, where the ideas of the Communist Left were revived for the first time since the 1920s.
Alas, as harsh state repression was meted out and the initial enthusiasm died down, the class was diverted into political dead-ends, and the trade unions re-established their control. By the 1980s the capitalist class found a temporary solution: massive restructuring of production, as manufacturing was exported to the low-wage periphery of countries like China, changing the composition of and disorganising the class for decades.
Join us for a screening of two documentaries on class struggle in 1970s Italy and Poland, and a discussion on what we can learn from that decade and how internationalists should relate to future struggles to come.
When: Monday, 17 February 2020, at 6pm
Where: Next to Nowhere, Liverpool, L1 4HY
Communist Workers' Organisation
Liverpool Public Meeting
COMMUNIST ABSTENTION – NOT ELECTORAL CON TRICKS
PUBLIC MEETING/DISCUSSION
Whoever You Vote For... The Bosses Still Win!
Once again the working class is being urged to play a part in keeping up the pretence that electing M.P.s can provide us with a better future. This is a lie that we need to resist.
In Britain there has been almost a century of "Universal Suffrage". Now, in 2019, the working class is faced with the "gig economy", Universal Credit, queues for Food Banks, shortage of housing, hospitals and schools creaking at the seams, and working class communities continuously being destroyed with young people prey to the fantasies and poisons peddled by both social media and drug dealers.
The Labour Party and all its supporters hope that they can again become Her Majesty's Government by relying on working class votes. Like every other Labour Government, the next one will run the bosses' system not help to overthrow it. The Blair Government waged wars to try and preserve British influence in the imperialist world order and Brown's Government used billions of pounds to prop up the capitalist banking system. Further back, as the capitalist system moved into crisis, it was Callaghan's Labour Government in the 1970's that cut spending on public services to get a loan from the International Monetary Fund.
Any improvements that working people get from a Labour, or any other Government, will always be limited by the need to maintain the bosses' system based on profit not need. Any steps forward will be clawed back or disappear when capitalism sees a need.
Don't Fall for Capitalism's Election Con Trick! For Communist Abstention!
When: Saturday, 30 November 2019, at 12pm
Where: The Caledonia, Liverpool, L7 7DX
Communist Workers' Organisation
Oxford Public Meeting
COMMUNISM NOT CORBYNISM
PUBLIC MEETING/DISCUSSION
Working class people have seen their living conditions under attack for many years. In Britain, benefits continue to be slashed, people work in increasingly precarious situations and are not being paid enough to cover their food bills. Homeless people are sleeping rough in every town and city, health services are creaking at the seams and schools are not given enough resource to buy basic necessities. Life for many is turning into a living nightmare while the loan sharks and drug pushers leech off the most vulnerable. These hardships are no accident but flow directly from the crisis of the bosses’ system, capitalism.
For the boss class any hardship, war or ecological disaster is worthwhile as they desperately try to boost their profits. This grim situation has developed whether Parliament and the Town Halls are filled with Tory or Labour. Hoping that we will be fooled by “old wine in new bottles” Momentum has dragged many desperate people back into the deceit that electing well-meaning representatives can somehow challenge the horrors of capitalism. Organising ourselves to start a fight back has never been more important. If we want to start on the road to a better future then we have to make sure sure that the Labour Party and their hangers on don’t lock us into the bosses’ system.
Join us to discuss these ideas and the way forward.
When: Saturday, 26 October 2019, at 3pm
Where: Hall Garden Room, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, OX4 1DY
Communist Workers' Organisation
Sheffield Public Meeting
ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER - NO SOLUTION WITHIN CAPITALISM!
Evidence of the crisis threatening the entire planet is increasingly stark. Desertification, flooding, hurricanes and cyclones, uncontrolled forest fires all destroy the very basis of life for the "women and men of no property" - the worldwide working class. This, of course, is massively increased by the spreading "wars without end". Whole communities are forced to migrate while the bosses' states raise barriers and walls.
The ecological devastation has been highlighted by the mushrooming mass actions around the School Students' Strikes and the activities of groups such as Extinction Rebellion (XR). Their campaigning focuses on a wish for Governments to save the planet, for corporations to be more considerate and for those who neither own nor control to alter their consumption patterns.
Such arguments put forward by those who seek a "kinder capitalism" are fatally flawed. The root causes of this ultimate ecological crisis are not about gaps in the democratic facade, neither can it be solved by tweaking our lifestyles while the bosses' system based on profit and ruination leads us to the brink of an abyss.
In the latest edition of our broadsheet Aurora the main article is headed "Climate Change: Capitalism is the Problem". CWO has called this meeting to highlight the unbreakable link between the continuation of capitalism and the accelerating degradation of the planet.
Many thousands of people have begun to realise that we cannot allow "business as usual" to continue. The meeting will explore the "hows and whys" of the vital need to move towards a truly sustainable future for humanity. At the core of the required change is the need for a revolutionary replacement of the capitalist system with a world-wide association of freely associated producers - a world without alienation or exploitation.
We welcome anyone interested in joining the discussion.
When: Saturday, 22 June 2019, at 3pm
Where: Rutland Arms, 86 Brown St, Sheffield, S1 2BS
Hosted by: Communist Workers' Organisation (CWO)
London Public Meeting
TOWARDS THE FUTURE INTERNATIONAL!
From Iran to Mexico, a rising tide of strike actions across the globe shows that class resistance to the horrors of capitalism is still the "spectre that haunts" the capitalist class.
At the same time we are also encouraged by the appearance of new militants attracted to the ideas of Internationalist Communism — the only alternative to the abyss towards which capitalism is dragging the entire planet.
This meeting aims to deepen and extend that communist understanding in the convinced belief that without a clear communist political organisation the international working class will be left without a compass in the tumult ahead.
The CWO and our comrades in the ICT wrote some years ago: The revolutionary programme serves no purpose at all if it exists only in the minds of a limited number of “thinkers” who are deluded into assuming their ideas are being transmitted “to the class” when they appear in a journal of equally restricted readership, or on the html files of some site on the Internet.
More recently we have written: Our earnest hope is to engage with those new forces which do come to a consciousness of the need to overthrow the system, to give them a political compass, something to rally around, whilst at the same time, we seek dialogue with those forces which already exist to actively cooperate where possible, agree to disagree where necessary, and ultimately to unite as history inexorably moves on and a real class movement develops.
We welcome anyone interested in this vital task to come and discuss with us.
When: Saturday, 11 May 2019, at 3pm
Where: Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Rd, London, WC1X 8JR
Hosted by: Communist Workers' Organisation
Liverpool Public Meeting
COMMUNISM NOT CORBYNISM
PUBLIC MEETING/DISCUSSION
Working class people have seen their living conditions under attack for many years. In Britain, benefits continue to be slashed, people work in increasingly precarious situations and are not being paid enough to cover their food bills. Homeless people are sleeping rough in every town and city, health services are creaking at the seams and schools are not given enough resource to buy basic necessities. Life for many is turning into a living nightmare while the loan sharks and drug pushers leech off the most vulnerable. These hardships are no accident but flow directly from the crisis of the bosses’ system, capitalism.
For the boss class any hardship, war or ecological disaster is worthwhile as they desperately try to boost their profits. This grim situation has developed whether Parliament and the Town Halls are filled with Tory or Labour. Hoping that we will be fooled by “old wine in new bottles” Momentum has dragged many desperate people back into the deceit that electing well-meaning representatives can somehow challenge the horrors of capitalism. Organising ourselves to start a fight back has never been more important. If we want to start on the road to a better future then we have to make sure sure that the Labour Party and their hangers on don’t lock us into the bosses’ system.
Join us to discuss these ideas and the way forward.
When: Wednesday, 17 April 2019, at 7pm
Where: The Black-E, 1 Great George St, Liverpool L1 5EW. Ask for the 'communist' meeting at the reception.
Communist Workers' Organisation
Leicester Public Meeting
NO WAR BUT THE CLASS WAR
PUBLIC MEETING/DISCUSSION
As capitalism’s economic crisis deepens our rulers are determined to make the working class pay for it by increasing exploitation and reducing wages and living conditions.
All across the world, the capitalists and their political puppets are also trying to prevent any united working class fightback by widening divisions in the working class, such as nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexual preference. The xenophobia whipped up before and after the Brexit campaign, the Trump election campaign and the election campaigns of nationalist governments in Hungary and Poland are a few recent examples of what is happening and what is to come.
At the same time national states are trying to push the crisis onto capitalists of other states or blocs of states by trade wars. And history tells us that trade wars are the prelude to shooting wars. While imperialist proxy wars continue to rage in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe, and while a new conflict with Iran is being stoked up, increasingly intense global conflicts are being prepared.
Nationalism is the main tool being used to recruit workers to support their rulers in these wars. No faction of the capitalist class is worth supporting and none is “a lesser evil”! The alternative is not to do nothing. There are already voices being raised under the banner of “No war but the class war!” to challenge the fate that the capitalists are preparing for us.
Join them in a public meeting to find out more and make your own contribution:
When: Saturday, 6 April 2019, at 2pm
Where: Upstairs, Regent Sports and Social Club, 102 Regent Road, Leicester LE1 7DA. Ask for the 'libsoc' meeting at the bar.
Speakers from Communist Workers' Organisation & Anarchist Communist Group.
Dorking Public Meeting
NO WAR BUT THE CLASS WAR
PUBLIC MEETING/DISCUSSION
As capitalism’s economic crisis deepens our rulers are determined to make the working class pay for it by increasing exploitation and reducing wages and living conditions.
All across the world, the capitalists and their political puppets are also trying to prevent any united working class fightback by widening divisions in the working class, such as nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexual preference. The xenophobia whipped up before and after the Brexit campaign, the Trump election campaign and the election campaigns of nationalist governments in Hungary and Poland are a few recent examples of what is happening and what is to come.
At the same time national states are trying to push the crisis onto capitalists of other states or blocs of states by trade wars. And history tells us that trade wars are the prelude to shooting wars. While imperialist proxy wars continue to rage in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe, and while a new conflict with Iran is being stoked up, increasingly intense global conflicts are being prepared.
Nationalism is the main tool being used to recruit workers to support their rulers in these wars. No faction of the capitalist class is worth supporting and none is “a lesser evil”! The alternative is not to do nothing. There are already voices being raised under the banner of “No war but the class war!” to challenge the fate that the capitalists are preparing for us.
Join them in a public meeting to find out more and make your own contribution:
When: 26 January 2019 at 1300hrs
Where: The Lincoln Arms, Station Approach, Dorking RH4 1TF
Hosted by: Communist Workers' Organisation & Anarchist Communist Group
London CWO Meeting
Lessons of the German Revolution
Public Meeting/Discussion organised by the Communist Workers’ Organisation
On November 9 1918 the soldiers, sailors and workers of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven rose in revolt at the continuation of a war which had brought nothing but death, disease and food shortages. Within hours the Kaiser was overthrown and workers’ councils sprang up all over Germany in imitation of those that had taken power in Russia only a year earlier.
For communists at the time it offered the hope of a further step in the world proletarian revolution. That hope even survived the crushing of the Spartakist Revolt and the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in January 1919. The revolutionary resistance of the working class carried on for some years but in the end the German state was not overthrown. The meeting will explore the failure of the German revolution, the consequences for the world working class then and the lessons for current revolutionaries.
A comrade of the Gruppe Internationaler SozialistInnen will be making a presentation alongside the CWO.
Time: 17 November, 2.30pm
Place: Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Rd, London WC1X 8JR
Manchester Meeting 'Trade Wars to Military Wars'
The meeting will take place on Saturday the 29th Sept from 1pm to 5pm at the Friends Meeting House (room F18) 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS, which is just behind the central library near Manchester Town Hall.
There will be a short introduction that provides an overview of 20th century wars and their underlying economic and social conditions as these changed from the 19th into the 20th century with a reference to the Marxian analysis of the 'formal and real domination of capital', with plenty of time for discussion.
Organised by the Midlands Discussion Forum
All Welcome.
Newcastle upon Tyne Public Meeting
Are we returning to the 1930s?
Public Meeting/Discussion
organised by the Communist Workers’ Organisation
Trade wars, torn up treaties supposed to prevent more weapons of mass destruction, an endless series of local wars which now directly involve the great powers, the rise of nationalism everywhere: all underpinned by a global economic crisis and stagnation which have echoes of the past. Back in the Thirties such developments led to the Armageddon of the Second World War. Are we en route for World War Three? To discuss these, and other questions facing the working class today, join us on
Time: Tuesday July 24 2018 at 7.00 p.m.
Place: Bar Loco, 22 Leazes Park Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4PG
Sheffield Public Meeting
NO WAR BUT THE CLASS WAR
PUBLIC MEETING/DISCUSSION
As capitalism’s economic crisis deepens our rulers are determined to make the working class pay for it by increasing exploitation and reducing wages and living conditions.
All across the world, the capitalists and their political puppets are also trying to prevent any united working class fightback by widening divisions in the working class, such as nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexual preference. The xenophobia whipped up before and after the Brexit campaign, the Trump election campaign and the election campaigns of nationalist governments in Hungary and Poland are a few recent examples of what is happening and what is to come.
At the same time national states are trying to push the crisis onto capitalists of other states or blocs of states by trade wars. And history tells us that trade wars are the prelude to shooting wars. While imperialist proxy wars continue to rage in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe, and while a new conflict with Iran is being stoked up, increasingly intense global conflicts are being prepared.
Nationalism is the main tool being used to recruit workers to support their rulers in these wars. No faction of the capitalist class is worth supporting and none is “a lesser evil”! The alternative is not to do nothing. There are already voices being raised under the banner of “No war but the class war!” to challenge the fate that the capitalists are preparing for us.
Join them in a public meeting to find out more and make your own contribution:
When: 30 June 2018 at 1400hrs
Where: The Rutland Arms 86 Brown St. Sheffield S1 2BS
London Public Meeting
NO WAR BUT THE CLASS WAR
PUBLIC MEETING/DISCUSSION
As capitalism’s economic crisis deepens our rulers are determined to make the working class pay for it by increasing exploitation and reducing wages and living conditions.
All across the world, the capitalists and their political puppets are also trying to prevent any united working class fightback by widening divisions in the working class, such as nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexual preference. The xenophobia whipped up before and after the Brexit campaign, the Trump election campaign and the election campaigns of nationalist governments in Hungary and Poland are a few recent examples of what is happening and what is to come.
At the same time national states are trying to push the crisis onto capitalists of other states or blocs of states by trade wars. And history tells us that trade wars are the prelude to shooting wars. While imperialist proxy wars continue to rage in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe, and while a new conflict with Iran is being stoked up, increasingly intense global conflicts are being prepared.
Nationalism is the main tool being used to recruit workers to support their rulers in these wars. No faction of the capitalist class is worth supporting and none is “a lesser evil”! The alternative is not to do nothing. There are already voices being raised under the banner of “No war but the class war!” to challenge the fate that the capitalists are preparing for us.
Join them in a public meeting to find out more and make your own contribution:
When: 2 June 2018 at 1400hrs
Where: Richard Hoggart Building, Room 138 in the London Radical book fair, Goldsmiths University, 8 Lewisham Way, SE14 6NW
Hosted by: Communist Workers Organisation & Anarchist Communist Group
Also supported by Guildford Solidarity-IWW
CWO Durham Meeting
The Communist Workers’ Organisation (North East Section) holds regular meetings in Durham open to all who are interested in defending the independence of working class action. These are usually on the third Tuesday of every month at 7.30 p.m. in
Alington House
4 North Bailey — Durham — DH1 3NP
The next meeting will be on:
Tuesday 19 September 2017
Main topic: Identity Politics and Class War
What unites the world working class is its common experience of exploitation regardless of colour, creed or gender. Because of this workers everywhere also oppose all oppressions both in defence of certain sectors of the class and against attempts to divide the working class. How far though is this being manipulated by the Left parties of the capitalist system (like the Democrats in the US) which no longer have anything to offer the class as a whole? These and other questions will be part of our discussions.
MDF Meeting Birmingham
MDF Meeting Birmingham Saturday July 15 2017.
The next open discussion meeting of the Midlands Discussion Forum will be 2-6pm at 'The Woodman' pub, New Canal Street (next to the parkway at the Curzon St end), Birmingham, B5 5LG, (15min walk from New Street or Moor Street Station)
The headline title is 'Corbynism, Anarchism and the Left - Something New or Something old?' and will try to look at the apparent 'anti-austerity change of mood' amongst many workers as reflected in the improved Labour Party vote and street anger following the Grenfell tower disaster but with a still persisting low level of effective collective class struggle.
To help the discussion along maybe read these short texts beforehand;
libcom.org and an anarchist criticism of it here:
Other arguments against supporting and voting Labour are collected here;
All welcome.
Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair
The Communist Workers' Organisation and Midlands Discussion Forum will holding a meeting in the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair on May 20 2017. The meeting will be from 4.00 - 5.30 p.m.
Venue:
Showroom Workstation
15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX
Topic: How will Capitalism End?
Charlatans of the capitalist right and left offer quack solutions in response to the toxic crises of late capitalism. No ruling class has ever voluntarily given up their wealth, power and control. Discussion of arguments for the revolutionary alternative – the overthrow of the bosses’ system leading to genuine human liberation.
For more information on all the bookfair activities see sheffieldbookfair.org.uk
IWG online public meeting
Follow the link below to an online public meeting of the IWG held in the USA, Thurs April 6, (7pm/1900hrs -6 UMT). The topic is the reorganization of the IWG in the US as well as a political introduction for any sympathizers where they can ask as direct questions. Anyone who is interested may PM me on reddit for connection info.
London CWO Meeting in the Anarchist Bookfair
Saturday October 29 2016
at 12.00 noon
CWO Meeting on
After Brexit, Populism, Corbynism etc …
Political crisis in the capitalist class, way forward for the working class?
The global capitalist system has reached an economic impasse. This is reflected in a sense of political uncertainty in ruling class political circles everywhere. Where does this leave the working class and how do we respond to the overlapping crises?
The Bookfair takes place at Park View School West Green Road London N15 3QR and the CWO meeting is in Room F5.
The nearest underground stations are Seven Sisters and Turnpike Lane but more details on getting there as well as the programme of meetings can be found on the bookfair website at anarchistbookfair.org.uk
Bordiga Beyond the Myth is now available as a PDF
Bordiga Beyond the Myth by Onorato Damen is now available in English translation (it already exists in Italian, French and Spanish). It contains 168 pages and includes 114 footnotes to guide English readers plus 4 appendices, one of which is the first full translation in English of Bordiga's famous letter to Karl Korsch. The price of £7.25 includes postage and packaging in the UK.
It is also now available as a pdf:
Midlands Discussion Forum Sheffield Meeting
Midlands Discussion Forum presents an afternoon of discussion on ‘The Left and the Working Class – ideology and practice in both opposition and power – a critical perspective’
There will be a introduction looking at how left relates to both the working class and bourgeois ideology both in theory and practice with plenty of time for discussion.
In Sheffield on the 6th of February from 2pm till 6pm upstairs at the Rutland Arms, 86 Brown St, Sheffield, S1 2BS. Which is 5 minutes walk away from both the train and bus station.
Sheffield Public Meeting (with the Free Communist)
The CWO (Yorkshire) section will be holding a discussion forum in the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair with the Free Communist (and possibly others). We don't yet have all the details as the organisers obviously have to coordinate a lot of different requests but the working title is
So many varieties of nationalism. Why we oppose them all.
The bookfair is on 16 May 2015 and you can find out more from www.sheffieldbookfair.org.uk
London Public Meeting
Public Meeting on Islamism and Imperialism: The Rise of the Islamic State
Saturday April 18th 2015
at 2.00 p.m (note not 1.00 as erroneously stated earlier)
245A Lucas Arms
Grays Inn Road
London
WC1X 8QY
nearest underground Kings Cross
London Anarchist Bookfair Meeting
As last year the CWO will have a stall in the London Anarchist Bookfair on October 18 and we will be holding a public meeting in the event. Details of the full programme and how to get there can be found at anarchistbookfair.org.uk
Our meeting will be at 12.00 (till 1.00) and is in Room 321
It is on
From the Somme to Syria via Stalingrad
“The Only War Worth Fighting is the Class War” (internationalist graffiti from the cells of Richmond Castle 1916). It is 100 years after the First World imperialist slaughter began. We not only oppose the justifications and lies about that war but commemorate how the working class, especially across Europe, brought that war to an end 1917-18 in a revolutionary wave which lasted for years. Capitalism survived. It has gone on to repeat its murderous wars ever since. There are no “just causes” in the era of imperialism. All wars are war against workers. As the populations of Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and Gaza (to name only the most notorious) suffer yet further atrocities we need to have a perspective on how to end this infernal cycle."
Durham Open Meeting
The Communist Workers’ Organisation (North East Section) holds regular meetings in Durham open to all who are interested in defending the independence of working class action These are usually on the third Wednesday of every month at 7.00 p.m.
Room 3
Alington House
4 North Bailey — Durham — DH1 3HT
Main topic: No War but the Class War: with the slaughter of the innocents in Gaza, Ukraine and Syria (to name but the most obvious) going on as our rulers "commemorate" (celebrate?) the First World War we look at how nationalism has become one of capitalism's main ideological weapons against the working class and how it has to be opposed.
The next meeting will be on Wednesday August 20, 2014. The previously planned discussion on the period of transition has been postponed until September 17.
"The only war which is worth fighting is the class war" Sheffield Meeting
Joint meeting with the Free Communist in the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair.
This year is the one hundredth anniversary of the first great imperialist slaughter of 1914. The fiftieth anniversary was greeted in 1964 with a wave of anti-war cultural and historical events and comment. In the wake of the rising militarism at home (how many military charities have mushroomed in the last decade), and the changing nature of war (we don’t need to directly suffer over a war in Afghanistan or Iraq whereas every family was touched by the slaughter of the First World War) that this will be repeated. The current crisis in the wake of the nationalist orgy of last year’s Olympics mean that celebration rather than reflection are what the ruling class are what the ruling class want. In the face of all that would it not make sense to revive the idea of revolutionary defeatism, of “no war but the class war” amongst the revolutionary groups of today? Who knows we might even collectively make a small contribution to fighting the wave of nationalism which the ruling class are already swamping us with?
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Hamilton - Marxism and Anarchism
Hamilton, Canada, Saturday June 21st, 5pm, The Tower, 281 Cannon St. E
Marxism and Anarchism - The real divide
The real divide today is not between anarchism and marxism. It is between, on one side, those «marxists» who want to reform capitalism and those anarchists who think they can find a «lifestyle» inside the system, and on the other hand, those amongst both tendencies who's goal is to abolish capitalism and it's state.
The speaker, Jock from the Communist Workers Organization (UK), will be presented by Richard St-Pierre of the Internationalist Workers Group (Canada/USA)
Toronto - The global economic crisis
Toronto, Friday June 20th 2014, 7pm, 55 Gould Street, Thomas Lounge.
The global economic crisis, a marxist perspective
Austerity is everywhere. The capitalist recovery is a myth. But this crisis is not a product of debt. Debt is a product of this crisis. It is global and it will not spare the workers of Québec and Ontario.
The speaker, Jock from the Communist Workers Organization (UK), will be presented by Richard St-Pierre of the Internationalist Workers Group (Canada/USA)
London Public Meeting
The London CWO comrades will be holding a public meeting at 2.00 p.m. on April 26. It will be in the Lucas Arms, Grays Inn Road. Topic: Over Our Dead Bodies - Austerity and the Working Class Today
All welcome
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