"Because the path to the Third World War goes through the progressive impoverishment of the working population, the way to oppose this march to the slaughterhouse is to resolutely advance our needs as a class. Today, the priority need for workers everywhere is higher wages. The cost of living is shooting through the roof. The price of rent is outrageously high in Toronto and the surrounding area. Food and energy costs have increased. These are issues that affect the entire working class. The only way to push back this assault from the capitalists against the working class is for us to unify as a class, across all divisions, be they industrial sector or identity."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-10-08/no-war-but-the-class-war-statement-from-nwbcw-toronto

"In the coming days, we will likely see more protests, however the repression will certainly continue with more violence and more arrests. The announcement and call of the teachers' coordinating council on the eleventh day of the protests had a positive effect and brought more students to the square. The idea of a general strike among militants is floating about. As we are writing, social activists are distributing flyers to "link strikes to protests". A large number of worker-leaders and activists are in prison, a new chapter has begun, political Islam has been hit by protesters, the scope of this assault can cover not only all of Iran but the entire region. And it has the potential to fuel the class struggle, as this movement progresses and develops, or on the contrary, as it declines and recedes."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-10-11/iran-on-the-hijab-as-labour-discipline-and-the-slogan-of-woman-life-freedom

"The claims about the revolutionary nature of what has been happening in Northern Syria are essentially based on two assertions: 1) the progressive political agenda of the authorities, and 2) the existence of a grassroots social movement on the ground. The Communist Left has from the very beginning been highly critical of attempts to portray Rojava as some kind of alternative to capitalism. However, after 10 years of existence, there is now enough information out there to test the claims of the believers against reality and answer the question of what kind of society actually exists in Rojava."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-10-12/rojava-the-myths-and-the-reality

"Empty are the capitalists’ slogans of democracy, national self-determination, rule of law, and peace between nations. What do these abstract ideals mean in reality except as an excuse for food shortages in Africa, the coming cold winter in Berlin, cities reduced to rubble in Ukraine, and mass refugees? Empty are all the capitalist slogans of national unity and social peace when it is only the working class at the forefront of this suffering, as we clearly see here in Montreal and is apparent all around the world. Empty are the Russian slogans of “de-nazification,” equal partnership, and sovereignty next to civilian bombings, energy profiteering, and the slaughter of a generation of young Russian and Ukrainian workers."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-10-19/no-war-but-the-class-war-statement-from-nwbcw-montreal

"As we get to grips with the destruction that capitalism is capable of inflicting on the world and humanity, and which it looks increasingly likely to turn towards, as militant internationalists we must not fall into the pessimism of saying that all is lost and waits for the final collapse. We must not go down the road that some have taken, which says that the working class has lost its ability to fight, ignoring the growing evidence to the contrary."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-10-22/russia-s-annexations-in-ukraine-are-another-step-towards-global-imperialist-war

"As the protest movement in Iran develops, we publish here a few more translations of recent statements from the Council for Organising Protests by Oil Contract Workers and the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Workers’ Syndicate. Their decision to go on strike has inevitably been met with repression by the regime. Despite this, as they say themselves, they remain hopeful that workers "can play their historical role in directing and uniting the street protests, in order to herald emancipation from oppression and exploitation.”"

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-10-27/as-protests-continue-workers-strike-in-iran

"Facing its own deep crisis, the capitalist class has one message to the world working class: tighten your belts and forward march! Offloading their losses onto workers and imperialist rivalry are the two solutions to the crisis the ruling class has formulated."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-10-28/tighten-your-belts-and-forward-march

"As the war progresses, the intensity of the bosses’ attacks at the workers becomes more frequent and severe. Ukrainian courts have recently pushed through Law 2136 and Law 5371, enabling employers to bypass national labour laws entirely. The Ukrainian state makes it clear that even when workers are not marched off to the front, they remain disposable pawns for capital. Russian workers are also crushed under the same double conflict. A spontaneous strike broke out in June at the Ural Compressor Plant in Yekaterinburg, led by hundreds of workers over more than 20 million roubles in unpaid wages. The recent partial mobilisation and the size of post-sanction fossil fuel windfalls reaped by the Russian state spells urgent danger for workers on both sides of the conflict. The ‘Achema’ strike offers us a snapshot of the need for workers’ struggle by their own means and to oppose imperialist war on that basis."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-10-29/business-as-per-emergency-bill-strike-at-achema-plant-in-lithuania

The working class worldwide is fighting massive cuts in its living standards while in Ukraine workers are being press-ganged and sent to be slaughtered as cannon fodder in an imperialist war. The Ukraine war is a dress rehearsal for a Third World War, the inevitable outcome of competing imperialist interests. The root cause of all this is the capitalist system itself which has now become a threat to human existence. How should revolutionaries react to the present situation? Come to a discussion of these issues at our public meeting.

"Just to show that the No War but the Class War (NWBCW) initiative supported by the ICT is neither immediatist nor something new in our political methodology, we are republishing here the appeal for a united proletarian front against the war that the Internationalist Communist Party put out during the Second World War."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-10-31/1944-appeal-of-the-internationalist-communist-party-for-the-creation-of-a-united

The war in Ukraine has intensified the antagonism between rival imperialisms, with neither side willing to back down. NATO's decision to integrate Sweden and Finland, and Russia's recent annexations of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaphorizhia, are leading both into a more generalised, possibly nuclear war. Meanwhile, closer to home, wages continue to fall in real terms against inflation, and many will soon have to choose between whether to eat or keep the heat and lights on this winter. The working class have begun to fight back, but the usual suspects are cynically co-opting the rage and fury for their own ends. The working class needs its own internationalist organisations to dismantle the capitalist system and create a new world without war or immiseration. Join us in Glasgow to discuss the future of the class war and what the working class must do to win it!

"After six weeks of bloody protests in Iran, which resulted in the death of more than 200 people, what is going on in the minds of the protesters on the streets of Iran? What is the next step? Will the Islamic Republic be overthrown as the saying goes: "dictators neither listen nor reform, dictators are only overthrown"? If yes, how? And the more important question, what will replace it? This note tries to briefly review the background of imperialist rivalry in the region and the attempts of various imperialist camps to use the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protest movement in line with their own goals."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-11-02/iran-imperialist-rivalries-and-the-protest-movement-of-woman-life-freedom

"The contract passed with a slim margin of 54%, with 46% of workers bitterly rejecting it. Due to the underhanded tactics of union bureaucrats in collaboration with the Weyerhaeuser corporation, one of the largest strikes in over a decade in the Pacific Northwest has been broken, resulting in a miserable sellout contract. Despite a massive propaganda and intimidation campaign by union officials, the company and local media outlets, a large number of workers are beginning to see the controlled opposition (aka the union apparatus) for what it is — just another tool of the companies to thwart effective strike action. In response, workers have already begun to self-organize by forming independent forums from which to voice their opposition."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-11-05/weyerhaeuser-workers-not-finished-yet

"Biden's austerity isn't anything new. In fact, it's been the go-to method for the capitalist class in the US and all over the world for half a century. Faced with diminishing returns of profits from their system, world capitalism has resorted to ever more vicious methods of breaking the backs of workers through forcing us to work longer hours while our wages are cut or devalued through inflation."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-11-06/inflation-cuts-workers-real-wages-with-no-end-in-sight

"Taking any step in pursuing workers’ demands, in the hellish capitalist system of the Islamic Republic, is not without risks, nor without countless obstacles. It is especially so for the Iranian workers today, those who are trying to link the workers’ strikes to the current protest movement. The oil workers with their organising council and the sugarcane workers of Haft Tappeh have taken the courageous initial steps. The statements below show how the oil workers are struggling to overcome these obstacles."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-11-10/oil-workers-in-iran-continue-to-resist-despite-repressions

"Months of soaring inflation and stalling wages are the latest effects of the crisis inherent to the capitalist system. The ruling class’ attacks on our living and working conditions are just one more attempt to make us pay for it. As winter approaches, the havoc wreaked by the failures of the system shows no signs of letting up."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-11-17/capitalist-crisis-survival-of-the-richest

"The capitalist crisis is intensifying and with it come the inevitable attacks on the working class. Cost of living and fuel protests have broken out in more than 90 countries already and the UK is no exception here. Nearly 2 million workers (one in sixteen) are expected to be balloted for strike action in the coming months. The struggle for wages to keep up with inflation is on. Even before the pandemic, which killed more than 200,000 in the UK, finally eased up, and the Covid-19 restrictions were lifted in February 2022, the first signs of the coming resistance were making their appearance."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-11-19/class-struggle-is-back-on-the-agenda

"The most recent wave of protests and strikes in Iran are the continuation of more than a decade of struggles. Though the working class in Iran faces many obstacles, as the events take on an international dimension, they could potentially begin a spark that ignites a wider working class movement beyond just Iran."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-11-22/workers-in-iran-show-the-way

"The blue and yellow flags may now be tattered and torn, and the war in Ukraine may now make only fleeting headlines on UK news networks, but the violence rages on, as does Western support for Ukraine. Given the nature of the Kremlin regime which murders Russian journalists and dissidents, and given the brutality of the invasion, it is an easy sell. It is however a mistake to just see this war in isolation. Behind the Russian-Ukrainian confrontation lies a much bigger conflict – that for imperialist control of the planet."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-11-24/war-in-ukraine-the-other-attack-on-the-working-class

"We share here a translation of an article from MovAut (short for Movimento Autogestionário – Movement for Self-Management, in English) in Brazil about the results of the recent presidential election, which, we think, throws some much needed light upon an issue that has been subject to so much distortion, from the left as well as the right-wing of capital, both of whom have thrown their whole ideological and political apparatus behind supporting their preferred candidate to represent the capitalist system in Brazil."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-11-25/on-the-brazilian-elections

"For many years now the grassroots or base unions (sindacati di base) have called a strike at this time of year appealing to workers from all sectors of production to mobilise, and as usual, we will once again take part. However, we cannot ignore the fact that this seasonal mobilisation has become something of a ritual."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-11-26/on-the-2-december-strike-in-italy-especially-in-times-of-war-normal-strikes-are