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The Platform of the ICT - In English, French, Italian, Farsi and Spanish versions. £1
For Communism - An Introduction to the Politics of the ICT. £3
Class Consciousness and Revolutionary Organisation - The issue of “consciousness” is one of the most important for the working class and for revolutionaries. Our approach is unashamedly historical and attempts to draw out the real experience of the working class in its struggles of the last two centuries. £4
1917: Party, Class and Soviets in the October Revolution - The Russian Revolution of October 1917 was unique. It was the only time in history when workers themselves took over the running of the state in a conscious attempt to build socialism. The fact that it eventually failed does not diminish its power to inspire. out of print
1921: Beginning of the Counter-Revolution? - Kronstadt, adoption of the NEP, banning of factions, the failure of the March Action in Germany and the adoption of the united front policy, made 1921 a highly significant year in the degeneration of both the Russian and international revolution. £3
Sylvia Pankhurst's Revolutionary Years - Pankhurst’s time in the East End (1912-24) spanned some of the most traumatic years of capitalism’s existence. 50p
Trotsky, Trotskyism, Trotskyists - How Trotsky, who made such an enormous contribution to revolutionary practice, ended up giving his name to a movement which returned to the counter-revolutionary errors of Social Democracy. £3
Stalin and Stalinism - The lie that the former USSR was “really existing socialism” remains a potent weapon against the working class. This pamphlet not only examines the origins of the regime that emerged from the defeat of the October Revolution but also explains the motivations of Stalinism. £1
Holocaust and Hiroshima - Examines how the nature of imperialist warfare comes to inflict mass murder on the world through an examination of these seminal events. 50p
Capitalism and the Environment - Translated from Prometeo these articles were written some time ago but show that our late comrade was ahead of his time in analysing the unsustainability of capitalist production. £1
Spain 1934-39: From Working Class Struggle to Imperialist War - Reprint of key CWO articles long out of print and translations of contemporary documents from the Italian Left in exile. New introduction. £3
Platform of the Committee of Intesa 1925 - (new edition) The start of the Italian Left’s fight against Stalinism as Fascism increased its grip. £3
South Africa’s New Turmoil - An analysis of class relations in the period after the fall of apartheid thrown into relief by the strike wave which followed the Marikana massacres. £2
Class Consciousness and Revolutionary Organisation - A Correction
Behind the picture of Lenin on p. 36 the following section of text has been covered over. Our apologies – CWO.
topple the Provisional Government. However the rest of the class was not yet ready. The consequences of the failure of the June Offensive had not yet sunk in to a wider layer of the class. This the Bolsheviks, present in the factories, understood so the sailors action left them in a terrible dilemma. Here demonstrating below the balcony of the Kseshinskaia Palace, where the Bolsheviks had their headquarters, were thousands of armed sailors demanding that the Bolsheviks put themselves at the head of the demonstration (which, after all, only repeated the Bolshevik
Public Meeting in the Anarchist Bookfair London
Topic: Anarchism and Marxism
Marxists and anarchist have always shared the view that the antithesis to capitalism is a classless, stateless society. What they have not shared is a clear outline of how this might come about. After the statist cul de sacs of social democracy, Stalinism and Trotskyism many marxists now recognise that the issue is not about replacing the state but destroying it. After the failure of the anarchists in Spain many anarchists recognise that revolution from below cannot just be a nice idea but has to have a deeper material basis. With capitalism now in obvious crisis is this not the time for a more fruitful exchange on revolution and the state than has been possible in the past? The Communist Workers' Organisation and the Commune have already successfully posed this in the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair and the CWO invite you to take the discussion further. All welcome.
Saturday 19 October 2.00 p.m in Room 2.41
The venue is Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS. See anarchistbookfair.org.uk for map and how to get there.
CWO Meetings in the North East
The Communist Workers’ Organisation (North East Section) holds regular meetings open to all who are interested in defending the independence of working class action. These usually take place on the second Wednesday in the month.
The next open meeting will be in Sunderland on September 11. This will be in The Isis, 26 Silksworth Row, Sunderland SR1 3QJ at 7.00 p.m. Topic to be announced shortly.
Class Consciousness and Revolutionary Organisation - A Correction
For anyone who has bought our pamphlet of this title we apologise for the fact that on p. 36 part of the text has been obscured by the photo of Lenin. The missing lines should read
... "topple the Provisional Government. However the rest of the class was not yet ready. The consequences of the failure of the June Offensive had not yet sunk in to a wider layer of the class. This the Bolsheviks, present in the factories, understood so the sailors action left them in a terrible dilemma. Here demonstrating below the balcony of the Kseshinskaia Palace, where the Bolsheviks had their headquarters, were thousands of armed sailors demanding that the Bolsheviks put themselves at the head of the demonstration (which, after all, only repeated the Bolshevik."
Manchester Meeting - "Beyond Protest"
CWO Public Meeting
21 April 2012, 2-5 p.m
Friends' Meeting House
6 Mount St
Manchester M2 5NS
Since the financial explosion of 2007-8 the words ‘capitalism’ and ‘crisis’ have become almost a regular part of everyday parlance. In response to the austerity measures being implemented by governments across the world there has been a myriad of responses to these attacks - the big marches and one-day strikes organised by the trade unions, the Occupy and Indignados movements, as well as the more recent protest and pickets against workfare in Britain. Thus, an increasing number of people are prepared to protest against the present state of affairs. This has manifested itself in one form as opposition to ‘capitalism', defined as ‘unfair’ and ‘anti-capitalism’ being a matter of getting more democracy in order to reverse the growing chasm between the haves and the have-nots. This kind of ‘anti-capitalism’ is epitomised by the Occupy movement which has caught the public imagination with its telling slogan (We Are the 99%) and put itself in the limelight with its ‘tent cities'. This obviously an advance of the trade union organised A-to-B marches.
The meeting is organised in order to facilitate a discussion on the present situation and what a practical orientation in this context might look like.
All are welcome!
Durham - The Politics of the CWO
CWO (North East) monthly meeting, DURHAM. Anyone interested welcome to join the discussion. Please note new date
Wednesday 7 March - 7.00 pm - People's Bookshop
The Attic - Saddlers Yard - 70 Saddlers St - Durham - DH1 3NP
Up alleyway. Ring number below if you arrive late and gate is locked. We're still in there! Tel. 0191 384 4399
Durham - The Current Situation and the Tasks of Communists
CWO (North East) monthly meeting, DURHAM. Anyone interested welcome to join the discussion.
Wednesday 7 December - 7.00 pm - People's Bookshop
The Attic - Saddlers Yard - 70 Saddlers St - Durham - DH1 3NP
Up alleyway. Ring bell if you arrive late and gate is locked. We're still in there! Tel. 0191 384 4399
Durham: Public Meetings, "Occupy the World"
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 first Wednesday of every month at 7.00 p.m. in the
People’s Bookshop - The Attic - Saddlers Yard
70 Saddler St - Durham - DH1 3NP
All Welcome!
The next meeting will (exceptionally) be on Wednesday November 16. Topic: "Occupy the World" Anti-Capitalism and the Working Class.
For more details email: uk@leftcom.org
The Platform of the Committee of Intesa of 1925 is now available once again
With a substantial explanatory introduction this pamphlet outlines the fight of the Italian Left within the Communist Party of Italy against the dictates and impositions of Moscow. Today we recognise it as one of the founding documents of the entire Italian Left tradition in its fight against the degeneration of the Comintern.
46 pages A5 £3.00/€4/$4 plus £1/€2/$2 postage from the group address.
New CWO Pamphlet on the Spanish Civil War
Spain 1934-39 - From Working Class Struggle to Imperialist War
With a new preamble it contains many articles that have long been out of print on the Asturias Soviet of 1934, on Anarchism, Trotskyism and the Communist Left as well as the Barcelona May Days plus reprints from Octobre the organ of the International Communist Left during the war in Spain.
40 pages A4 £3.00/€4/$4 plus £1/€2/$2 postage from the group address
Durham: Meeting about the Spanish Civil War
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 on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.00 p.m. in the People’s Bookshop, The Attic, Saddlers Yard, 70 Saddler St, Durham, DH1 3NP. All Welcome.
The October 5th meeting will be on "The Spanish Civil War and the Working Class"
For more details, email: uk@leftcom.org
Durham Open Meeting
After the Cuts and Riots - What Next for the Working Class?
CWO (North East Section) Durham Open Meeting
19:00-21:00 - Wednesday 7 September 2011
People’s Bookshop - The Attic - Saddlers Yard - 70 Saddler St - Durham DH1 3NP
All Welcome. For more details email: uk@leftcom.org
London: Overcome Capitalism
CWO Public Meeting. Capitalism threatens us with permanent war, massive reductions in living standards and environmental catastrophe. It has long passed the time when it was progressive or useful for the bulk of humanity. The big problem though is: How Can We Overcome Capitalism?
To discuss this and a whole range of political issues the Communist Workers Organisation is hosting a meeting on Saturday 21 May 2011 at The Lucas Arms - 245A Grays Inn Road - LONDON - WC1N 8QY
Meeting starts at 2.00 pm. All Welcome.
Midlands Discussion Forum
The Midlands Discussion Forum is holding an open meeting to debate:
The Current Economic Crisis. What has caused it and what is the solution?
Delegates from the Internationalist Communist Tendency and the International Communist Current will give presentations on the subject, with ample time for discussion afterwards.
Date: Saturday, 5 February, starting at 1.30pm.
Venue: The Directors Room, Bennetts Bar, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham city centre.
Appeal for South Korean Activists
Urgent Appeal: Eight South Korean Labor Activists Face 4-7 Years in Prison
On Dec. 3 of last year, the prosecutor in the Seoul Central District Court demanded prison terms of 5-7 years for Oh sei-chull and other members (Yang Hyo-sik, Yang Joon-seok, Choi Young-ik, Park Joon-seon, Jeong Won-hyun, Oh Min-gyu, and Nam-goong Won) of the Socialist Workers’ Alliance of Korea (SWLK), a revolutionary socialist group. These activists in the Korean working-class movement were indicted under South Korea’s notorious National Security Law (passed in 1948 and theoretically still stipulating the death penalty for “pro-North” activities). The eight militants of the SWLK, who as internationalists advocate working-class revolution in both Koreas, were accused of no specific crime except being socialists, but in reality the indictment resulted from their intervention in several strikes and movements going back to 2007. This is the first instance of such harsh repression under the National Security Law in many years. It occurs in the larger context of the hard-right turn (such as the smashing of the Ssangyong Motor Co. strike of 2009) of South Korean President Lee Myong Bak’s government since he took office in early 2008. (In fact, leaflets of the SWLK distributed during the Ssangyong strike were key evidence in the trial.)
Prosecutors have attempted to indict members of the SWLK several times since 2008, and prior to December, the prosecutors’ case was thrown out of court each time. It is not impossible that a barrage of e-mail protests to Judge Hyung Doo Kim of the Seoul Central District Court will help reduce or obviate the pending sentences altogether, when final sentencing will take place on Jan. 27.
Let Judge Kim know your feelings in your own words about this crackdown on “thought crime” by writing to
The e-mails must be received by 06:00 AM on Monday January 17th 2011 (Seoul time), so that the SWLK’s lawyer can forward them to Judge Kim prior to sentencing.
SaNoRyon (Socialist Workers Alliance) is a left-communist group in South Korea, and has published translations of many key communist texts.
New ICT Publications
This month we have produced 4 new pamphlets. Apart from Class Consciousness and Revolutionary Organisation [see separate advertisement] we have also produced the following (all prices include postage)
- Stalin and Stalinism £1 - The lie that the former USSR was “really existing socialism” remains a potent weapon in the capitalist arsenal against the working class. This pamphlet not only examines the origins of the regime that emerged from the defeat of the October Revolution but also explains the motivations of Stalinism.
- Holocaust and Hiroshima 50p - Examines how the nature of imperialist warfare comes to inflict mass murder on the world through an examination of these seminal events.
- Capitalism and the Environment (by Mauro Stefanini) £1 - Just translated from Prometeo these articles were written some time ago but show that our late comrade was ahead of his time in analysing the unsustainability of capitalist production.
Berlin: workers report on the strike at TEKEL
Our comrades in Turkey at the previously state-owned tobacco and alcohol concern have been in struggle for months, despite massive repression, against wage-cuts, the loss of contractual and social rights and the loss of jobs. Two of the strikers report on their struggle.
Monday 21st June, 19:30
Galerie Kraftwerk - Rungestr. 20 - 10179 Berlin - Mitte (S-Bahnhof Jannowitzbrücke or U-Bahn Heinrich-Heine- Straße)
Revolutionary Perspectives 54 is out
We're publishing three texts, from Revolutionary Perspectives 54, which has just been published. The issue also includes articles on
- The growing global resistance to austerity and exploitation around the world
- The impending austerity programme of the new UK Government
- The crisis in the Eurozone
- The Russian Communist Left 1918-28
- The role of German Imperialism in the Armenian Massacres of 1915
- A review of Michael Moore's "Capitalism - A Love Affair"
To obtain the full issue whilst it is still current why not take out a subscription (see side panel)?
Manchester - Unions: Whose Side Are They On?
Public Meeting of the Communist Workers’ Organisation
The financial bubble has burst and the cost is being pushed onto the working class. Jobs gone, pensions stolen, wages cut and services lost … Workers are starting to realise they have no choice but to fight back. The media are talking about the return of ‘union power’. But is there a new union militancy and if there is, is it the way forward for the working class? Join the discussion at:
Friends’ Meeting House - 6 Mount Street (behind the Central Library) - Central Manchester - 2.00 p.m. Saturday 23 January 2010 - maps.google.com
Birmingham Left Communists
Left Communist literature will be on sale in Birmingham city centre on Saturday, 4 July, 11.30-12.30pm, outside the Pavillions shopping centre. Make contact there with the street-sellers if you wish to buy copies of Internationalist Perspective, Revolutionary Perspectives and World Revolution. Afterwards, you may wish to go on to the next meeting of the Midlands Discussion Forum in Bennetts Bar, Bennetts Hill (1.30-5.00pm) to discuss the ramifications of the current economic crisis.
London - CWO Open Meeting
Capitalism Has No Future
It is Time for Us to Stop Making Sacrifices
How Can We Fight for a Better World?
In just three months fifty million people worldwide have lost their jobs. In the USA 32.2 million people, or more than ten per cent of the population, are now receiving food stamps (worth $83 or £56 per month). This is not just a crisis about deregulated capitalism but the deepest capitalist crisis since the Second World War. Having exploded in the financial sphere, the knock-on effects for the real economy - which is in fact where the crisis was born - are overwhelming. To discuss these facts and the prospects for humanity we invite all revolutionaries to:
Calthorpe Arms - Grays Inn Road (corner of Wren Street) - London WC1
2:00 p.m. Saturday 27 June 2009
Revolutionary Perspectives 50
RP 50 is now out. To receive a copy send £3 to our group address (BM CWO, London WC1N 3XX) . Or to receive whilst each is current why not subscribe (£15 UK, £22 elsewhere). It contains the following articles:
- Capitalism is a State-sponsored Ponzi Scheme
- The Working Class are Paying for the Crisis
- MP’s Expenses Scandal: The System is Bankrupt in Every Sense
- No2EU? Yes to British Capitalist Exploitation!
- The Bankruptcy of General Motors = The Bankruptcy of Capitalism
- Fiat
- Fiat-Chrysler Agreement - Workers Pay the Price
- The Anti-Union Protest in Turin
- Corporate Terrorism at Pomigliano
- The Great Game in Central Asia: US Imperialism Increases its Stakes
- Obama Speech - New Words, Old Policies
- Midlands Discussion Forum Meeting
- The Commune: A Radical New Grouping or Old Left in a New Form?
- The Italian Left - A Brief Internationalist History
Milano - Archivio Mauro Stefanini
Archivio Mauro Stefanini Partito comunista internazionalista - A tool for the history of the Communist Left - PDF: leftcom.org
June 10th 2009 Wednesday at 5.00 p.m. - Archivio di Stato di Milano via Senato 10 - maps.google.com?q=milano+via+senato+10
- Introduction: Barbara Bertini, Archivio di Stato di Milano
- Speech: Andrea Torre, Istituto nazionale per la storia del movimento di liberazione in Italia
- Speech: Fabio Damen, Partito comunista internazionalista, Battaglia comunista
- Speech: Simonetta Di Sieno, Archivio Bruno Fortichiari
- Chairman: Giorgio Galli, Università degli Studi di Milano
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Toronto - The Global Economic Crisis
- What are the Perspectives for the working class?*
A public discussion with Internationalist Perspective (Toronto) and the Internationalist Workers Group (Montreal)
Saturday January 17, 2009 7PM
OISE - 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Room 2295 - maps.google.com?q=canada+toronto+bloor+street+west+252
Revolutionary Perspectives 48 is now out
It contains articles on the Financial Crisis of Capitalism, the War in the Congo, the Struggles in the Education Sector in Italy, Public Sector Workers in the UK, Class Struggle in China, The German Revolution 1918-19, Internationalist Communists in Turkey (review).
Why not subscribe to get the articles whilst they are still current and help the struggle for a society free from exploitation, war and misery (see panel for details)?
London - Is capitalism collapsing?
CWO Public meeting: “Is capitalism collapsing? For a revolutionary response to the crisis!”
- What does the meltdown of financial capital really mean?
- What will the effects be for the working class?
- How can a higher form of society be created?
Come to a public meeting on these questions.
Conway Hall - Red Lion Square, Holborn WC1 - Holborn Tube - London - maps.google.it
Saturday 01/11/2008 14:00 hrs
Glasgow - CWO Open Meeting
The contradictions of the capitalist system continue to bring misery to millions. Permanent warfare with all its “collateral damage” (rape, ruin and massacre), the growing inability of a sixth of the world to feed itself amidst an economy of plenty and the growing insecurity of living conditions even in the so-called advanced capitalist countries. On top of this the environmental damage capitalism inflicts on the world cannot be stopped as long as it is too profitable to carry on polluting. In all these ways the very survival of humanity is at stake. Our open meeting is to go beyond critique. It is intended to give discussion space to those who see that we need to find a way to a practical alternative, hence the title:
What is the Revolutionary Perspective?
Communist Workers’ Organisation - Open Meeting - Glasgow
Saturday June 28th 2008 - 2.00-4.00 p.m.
Partick Burgh Halls - 5-9 Burgh Hall Street (nearest Underground Merkland St.) - Glasgow - map: maps.google.com
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London - Ninety Years On...
The Communist Workers’ Organisation invites you to a public meeting
Ninety Years On - What are the lessons of the October 1917 for the Revolution of Tomorrow?
Capitalism is leading the world to ruin. The future of humanity can only be assured if capitalism is replaced with a stateless system of production which produces for needs and production is by freely associated individuals. The question is how can this be achieved.
Today we are told by all kinds of commentators that the Russian Revolution was
A coup d’état which gave rise to the world’ worst tyranny and produced a system which collapsed under the weight of its own economic weakness in 1990
Was the October Revolution an unmitigated disaster which should rightly be consigned to the dustbin of history or, is the total disaster capitalism itself, and the October revolution a glowing beacon in the history of workers' struggle for emancipation from exploitation, poverty and war? Join us to discuss the significance of October.
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Saturday Nov 10th 2007 - 2.30 pm
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