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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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

swlk@jinbo.ne

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.

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)

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

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

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

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)?

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