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Glasgow Bookfair
RED AND BLACK CLYDESIDE BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Red and Black Clydeside Bookfair, there will also be an NBWCW meeting.
When: Saturday, 7 December 2024
Where: Quaker Meeting House, 38 Elmbank Cres, Glasgow G2 4PS
Belfast Bookfair
BELFAST RADICAL BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Belfast Radical Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 30 November 2024
Where: Peter Froggatt Centre (3rd Floor), 7-9 College Park E, Belfast BT7 1PS
Manchester Public Meeting
IMPERIALISM: WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT ISN'T AND HOW IT ENDS
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
Today’s wars are not a product of ego, religion or human nature. They are a necessary feature of capitalism, along with the earth’s ruin, the poverty of the “developing” world, and our very own workplace exploitation. ‘Imperialism’ is thrown around as a leftist buzzword with confused meanings, as if it’s a behaviour performed by certain bad countries. But it's no more nor less than the final phase of capitalism. The competition of businesses has become the competition of nations, for materials and strategy, for profits and power.
Imperialism is part and parcel of the global capitalist system, and no country exists outside of its reach. The devastations of imperialism will not end either with the independence of new nations or an international court of justice. Only the end of capitalism through a working-class revolution can put an end to the senseless barbarity.
Come and hear more on imperialism, what it is, what it isn't and how it ends.
When: Monday, 18 November 2024, at 7:00pm
Where: Briton's Protection, 50 Great Bridgewater St, Manchester, M1 5LE
Communist Workers' Organisation
London Public Meeting
ANTI-FASCISM AGAINST THE WORKING CLASS
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
On 30 July riots broke out across the UK which targeted Muslim neighbourhoods and places sheltering migrants, following a stabbing in Southport the day before. The riots were fuelled by fascist groups and far right websites spreading the conspiracy theory that the attacker was a Muslim asylum seeker.
Decades of racist propaganda from mainstream news sources, which blame immigrants for workers’ decline in their standard of living, have led to many thinking that immigration into Britain is the cause of reduced wages, homelessness, a collapsing health service, failing schools etc. rather than increased exploitation of the working class and capitalism’s economic crisis.
The response to this from capitalism’s political left has been to organise against fascism, with national demonstrations of the ‘great and good’ against the riots and against racism in defence of democratic freedoms. But fascism and democracy are simply strategies of the capitalist class to continue exploiting us. Strategies they use to recruit us to fight their wars. Organising specifically against fascism, amounts to supporting one section of the capitalist class against another. It is still in favour of the capitalist system. What we need is to oppose the entire capitalist system through the broader class struggle, leading to the eventual overthrow of capitalism itself.
While other approaches to anti-fascism involve small groups, engaged in physical confrontations with fascists, it is an approach that similarly offers no solutions to a system that breeds racism.
We argue that only the end of capitalism can put an end to poverty, misery and racism and only the working class can achieve this.
Come join us in a public meeting to discuss this.
When: Saturday, 9 November 2024, at 2:00pm
Where: The Lucas Arms, 245A Grays Inn Rd, London, WC1X 8QY (nearest tube: King's Cross)
Communist Workers' Organisation
Peterborough Bookfair
PETERBOROUGH RADICAL BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Peterborough Radical Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 19 October 2024
Where: The George Alcock Centre, Whittlesey Rd, Stanground, Peterborough PE2 8QS
London Bookfair
ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR IN LONDON
The CWO will have a stall at the Anarchist Bookfair in London.
When: Saturday, 12 October 2024
Where: four venues in East London (see link below)
Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair
ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR IN HAMILTON
Klasbatalo will be present at the Anarchist Bookfair in Hamilton.
When: Saturday, 28 September 2024, 10 AM-6 PM
Where: 51 Stuart Street, Hamilton, ON. Workers Arts & Heritage Center
IWG Meetings
IWG MEETINGS
The IWG will be holding regular in-person meetings where sympathizers are encouraged to come and get in contact.
New York: Last Saturdays of the month 3:30pm at Peculier Pub (145 Beecker St)
Philadelphia: Last Saturdays of the month 11am at B2 cafe (1500 E Passyunk Ave)
Columbus: Last Sunday of every month, from 8PM-10PM, at Kafe Kerouac (2250 N High St, Columbus, OH).
Los Angeles: Please contact to get in touch.
Means of contact:
Email: us@leftcom.org
Instagram: @iwg.official
Facebook: @iwgusa
Twitter: @IWGOfficial
London Public Meeting
WORKERS HAVE NO COUNTRY! FIGHT IMPERIALIST WARS WITH CLASS WAR!
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
Imperialist proxy wars are raging in Ukraine, the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere. Behind these wars stand the major imperialist powers who threaten to extend the conflicts into a global confrontation – a new world war. The capitalist class worldwide are screaming ever louder for nationalism and demanding sacrifices. The truth is that the atrocities we see today are the true face of capitalism. They are a preview of what is to come if capitalism is not overthrown.
What stance should workers and revolutionaries take on these wars and the drift towards global war?
Come to a public meeting to discuss these issues.
When: Saturday, 20 July 2024, at 2:00pm
Where: The Lucas Arms, 245A Grays Inn Rd, London, WC1X 8QY (nearest tube: King's Cross)
Communist Workers' Organisation
Montreal NWBCW Meeting
NWBCW MONTREAL PUBLIC MEETING
When: Sunday, July 7th 2024, at 16:00
Where: 3516 Av Park
Contact nwbcwmontreal@gmail.com for more info.
Ontario Public Meeting
MARXIST READING GROUP
ALL STUDENTS AND WORKERS WELCOME
On June 15th at 6pm, there will be two reading groups held by Klasbatalo, one in Hamilton Ontario, and the other in Toronto Ontario. The text we will discuss is the first chapter of The Workers Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925, the chapter is ‘The Maritimes: Expanding the Circles of Resistance” and focuses on the miners' strike in Cape Breton, if you are interested in discussing or learning about the history of the class struggle in Canada, please message us for more information, either on our Instagram @Klasbatalo or email us at klasbatalocollective@gmail.com.
Location: message us
KLASBATALO
Newcastle Bookfair
NEWCASTLE EWAN BROWN ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 1 June 2024
Where: Star and Shadow Cinema, Warwick St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1BB
Montreal Bookfair
MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
When: Saturday, May 25th.
Where: CEDA 2515 Rue Delisle, Montréal, QC H3J 1K8, table outside the anarchist bookfair.
Klasbatalo
NYC Public Meeting
THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE CLASS STRUGGLE
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
Discussion on women's liberation and the modern role women have played in the class struggle. Open to all!
When: Sunday, May 19th at 3:30 PM.
Where: 876 Riverside Dr. & 160th St. New York, NY.
Link to register: withfriends.co
Internationalist Workers' Group
IWG Online Meeting
IWG online meeting on state capitalism in the USSR.
DATE
April 22nd, 7 PM EST
WHERE
Online
CONTACT INFO
IG: @iwg.official | Twitter: @IWGOfficial | FB: @iwgusa | Email: us@leftcom.org
Sheffield Bookfair
SHEFFIELD RADICAL BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a meeting and a stall at the Sheffield Radical Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 9 March 2024
Where: Sheffield Trades & Labour Club, 200 Duke St, Sheffield S2 5QQ
Birmingham Public Meeting
THE DRIVE TO WORLD WAR
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
Capitalism is pushing us to war. From Ukraine to Gaza, Yemen and beyond, powers large and small are enrolling workers to kill and die in defence of the interests of capital as their system is unable to throw of its permanent economic crisis. The British state – along with other NATO partners – is now openly warning the population that a new World War is coming. Parties right and left urge us to support this or that warring faction but the interests of the workers are global not local. We have no property to defend and no nation is worth one drop of workers' blood. The only war that workers have any interest in is the class war.
In this meeting, we'll give an overview of how we see the current imperialist proxy wars and how they relate to the 'crisis of capitalism', and we'll discuss what can be done by workers in the face of these wars.
When: Saturday, 2 March 2024, at 2:00pm
Where: Cherry Reds (in the Map Room), 88-92 John Bright St, Birmingham B1 1BN
Communist Workers' Organisation
London Public Meeting
CLASS WAR AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
Imperialist war is raging in Ukraine, in Gaza and the Middle East. Cities are reduced to rubble, millions are refugees and millions more are starving and homeless. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed, while over half a million workers in uniform have been slaughtered. For what? All for the benefit of the capitalist class and for the benefit of their profits. Workers are being mobilised as cannon fodder by the howls of nationalism coming from our rulers. Now we are being told to prepare for conscription in a future world war. All this is the outcome of capitalism and the only way this can be stopped is by the overthrow of capitalism. Only class struggle and international class unity directed to turning capitalism’s wars into class wars of workers against capitalists can achieve this. For a start this means unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers, unity of Palestinian and Israeli workers against their own capitalists. It means no support for any section of the capitalist class and their wars.
Come to a meeting to discuss:
- How imperialism is leading us to world war;
- How class unity, regardless of national origin, is the fundamental first step towards avoiding this war and turning it into a class war to build a communist world;
- To discuss the political implications of all this.
When: Saturday, 24 February 2024, at 2:00pm
Where: The Lucas Arms, 245A Grays Inn Rd, London, WC1X 8QY (nearest tube: King's Cross)
Communist Workers' Organisation
Online Public Meeting
IWG EDUCATION GROUP MEETING
PREPARING FOR THE THIRD WORLD WAR; SUSTAINABLY... BIDEN'S "WAR ECOLOGY"
IWG Education Group online meeting on "war ecology", the bourgeoisie's "sustainable" preparation for a Third World War. We suggest reading our leaflet "War Ecology Will Not Save the Planet", on leftcom.org, before the meeting.
When: Meeting had to be postponed, it will now take place on Monday, 26 February 2024, at 7:00pm (EST)
Where: Online (request an invite by contacting us through our social media: linktr.ee)
Internationalist Workers’ Group
Montreal Public Meeting
READING GROUP
Introductory meeting to a worker/student reading group of Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924 - A View from the Communist Left by Jock Dominie. Copies will be available at the meeting, but to order online see: leftcom.org
When: Sunday, 21 January 2024 at 2:00pm
Where: Montreal, Canada (contact us through our social media for location details: linktr.ee)
Klasbatalo
Manchester Public Meeting
INTERNATIONALISM IN A TIME OF WAR
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
Internationalism is never more crucial than during wartime. The big imperialists use the smaller nations as pawns and send the working-class to die to protect the wealth of their ruling-class, while the world working class has neither property nor nation to defend. So-called revolutionaries and reformists show their true colours and line up behind one country or another in the name of social justice, national liberation, or anti-fascism. In truth, they are only participating in the capitalist drive to war. Our viewpoint, as internationalist communists, is always rooted in class struggle. We fight for no nation, only for the working-class in revolution. Class war is the war to end war.
In this meeting, we'll give an overview of internationalism and what it means to communists; we'll provide a history of the relation between Marxism, our tendency, and nationalist war; we will bring this context to today's situation and the current imperialist proxy wars; and we'll discuss what can be done by internationalists in the face of these wars.
When: Tuesday, 16 January 2024, at 7:00pm
Where: Briton's Protection, 50 Great Bridgewater St, Manchester, M1 5LE
Communist Workers' Organisation
Lambertville, NJ Public Meeting
IMPERIALIST BARBARISM IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
Nearly three months and 20,000 massacred Palestinian proletarians later, capitalism continues to push humanity into the abyss. The imperialist barbarism in Palestine and Israel is only the latest manifestation of capital's march towards world war. Workers have no interest in sacrificing themselves for either capitalist gang in this war; instead, only fraternization between Palestinian and Israeli proletarians, and the renewal of workers' initiative across the world, has any chance at stopping the descent into generalized conflict.
Come hear the perspective of internationalists on the latest round of barbarism in the Middle East, and how we can fight against capitalism's bloody plans for humanity, in Lambertville, NJ, on Monday, January 15th, MLK Jr. Day, 3 PM, at the Lambertville Public Library, 6 Lilly St.
When: Monday, January 15th 2024, at 3 PM.
Where: Lambertville Public Library, 6 Lilly St., 08530, Lambertville, NJ.
Internationalist Workers' Group
Online Public Meeting
IWG EDUCATION GROUP MEETING
Readings: The No War but the Class War Initiative and 1944 Appeal of the Internationalist Communist Party for the Creation of a United Proletarian Front Against the War
When: Monday, 18 December 2023, at 7:00pm (EST)
Where: Online (request an invite by contacting us through our social media: linktr.ee)
Internationalist Workers’ Group
Online Public Meeting
IWG EDUCATION GROUP MEETING
Readings: Radek's Theses on Imperialism (1915) and The Latest Butchery in the Middle East is Part of the March to Generalised War
When: Monday, 27 November 2023, at 7:00pm (EST)
Where: Online (request an invite by contacting us through our social media: linktr.ee)
Internationalist Workers’ Group
London Bookfair
LONDON RADICAL BOOKFAIR
The CWO will have a stall at the London Radical Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 4 November 2023
Where: Great Hall and adjoinging rooms at Goldsmiths University, 8 Lewisham Way, London, SE14 6NW
Online Public Meeting
IWG EDUCATION GROUP MEETING
Discussion of part X of the Class Consciousness and Revolutionary Organisation pamphlet.
When: Monday, 23 October 2023, at 7:00pm (EST)
Where: Zoom (request an invite by contacting us through our social media: linktr.ee)
Internationalist Workers’ Group
New York Public Meeting
NO WAR BUT THE CLASS WAR: WHAT OPPOSITION TO IMPERIALIST WAR REALLY MEANS
PUBLIC MEETING AND DISCUSSION
Topics of discussion:
- The communist perspective against nationalism and imperialist war
- What "No War but the Class War" and internationalism actually mean
- Historical lessons, the war in Ukraine, and other imperialist conflicts
- Our role as militants and what we can do to combat the drive towards world war
When: Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 2:00pm
Where: 134 W 29th St, Fl. 2, Conference Room 3-4, New York, NY
Internationalist Workers’ Group
Hamilton Public Meeting
READING GROUP
This meeting's text: Theses on the Tasks of International Social-Democracy by Rosa Luxemburg
When: Saturday, 7 October 2023 at 6:00pm
Where: Hamilton, Canada (contact us through our social media for location details: linktr.ee)
Klasbatalo
London Bookfair
ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR IN LONDON
The CWO will have a stall at the Anarchist Bookfair in London.
When: Saturday, 7 October 2023
Where: four venues in East London (see link below)
Hamilton Bookfair
HAMILTON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
Klasbatalo will have a presence at the Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair.
When: Saturday, 30 September 2023
Where: Hamilton Craft Studios, 121 Princess St, Hamilton, ON L8L 8B7, Canada
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