"The war is not worth a drop of workers’ blood. In imperialist war there are no good sides or lesser evils. Any political support for either side, no matter how qualified, is support for imperialism; it represents abandoning the interests of the working class and supporting those of the capitalists and the crossing of class barricades."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-03-17/ukraine-war-no-to-imperialist-war-yes-to-class-war

"We don't have to show why it is imperative to reject this new attack, nor is it up for us to propose a more just reform. The balance of the budgets of the bourgeois state, the health of the companies or that of the national economy are none of our business! The concessions, rights or advantages obtained in the interest of the workers are determined by the struggle, the balance of power between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie whose interests are radically opposed. Nothing is secured, as long as capitalism lasts, it will try to take back what it was forced to give up. Instead, we must think about organising our fightback!"

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-03-20/inflation-pensions-war-spiral-only-open-mass-struggle-can-stop-the-descent-into

"No matter what promises politicians and their parties make to working people to secure our support, we know that these promises, whether kept or unkept, will not make a single dent in the crisis of capitalism or improve our living conditions one bit under this system. Indeed, there is no law that could sate capital’s “vampire thirst for the blood of living labour”. And consequently, no method for running a competitive capitalist economy in the interest of the working class."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-03-24/nsw-elections-no-matter-which-party-gets-in-power-it-s-capital-who-wins

"We workers have to recognise that "there is no homeland to defend" and that "the only war worth fighting is the class war". We have to take up the struggle of the world proletariat, not that of some nation or ethnicity. The internationalist communists of the world must patiently reorganise their revolutionary forces to build a future international revolutionary party, just as the Zimmerwald left did over a century ago."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-03-25/from-the-zimmerwald-left-to-the-establishment-of-the-communist-international

"The working class across the globe is being asked to pay for the economic effects of its supply chain disruptions be it heating in Berlin or food security in Cairo. The deterioration of real wages is being met by a more proactive state in crushing strikes from the American rail workers to Ontario educators and Newfoundland paramedics. And with the above, it becomes clear that, in the tundra, both the NATO alliance and Russia are digging in as ICBMs in the Kola Peninsula and Nebraska aim at each other."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-03-27/trenches-of-the-tundra

"We reproduce here the statement by the group Camarade, one of whose members was grievously injured by the police during the demonstration on 25 March. We believe that the brutality of police repression, like something out of a war zone, is no accident. It is linked on the one hand to the gravity of the various crises confronting the bourgeoisie, and on the other hand to the ongoing imperialist war."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-03-28/statement-concerning-s-comrade-who-is-in-a-life-threatening-condition-following

"The mutiny of Terrace is just one of many in our class’s history which dismisses the myth that the Second Imperialist War was a period of social peace on the home front. With today’s imperialist tensions, it serves as a reference against the notion of national unity for the great, justified and heroic slaughter of our class. When the veneer of civilization was coming apart, two class perspectives opposed each other."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-03-29/the-terrace-mutiny-of-1944

"Pitched battles in the class war were fought across the country; shipyard workers in Quebec and the Maritimes, workers at the transit system, steel mills, and an aircraft plant in Montreal, steelworkers in Sault-Sainte-Marie, ON, Trenton, ON, and Sydney, Nova Scotia, miners in Kirkland Lake, ON, and Ford auto workers in Windsor all took to illegal strikes in defence of their living conditions."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-03-31/the-good-war-of-wwii-class-struggle

"We must demand our wages, demand no sacrifices for the nation or its wars, and struggle to bring an end to the capitalist system that divides humanity into national-imperialist blocs. The working people of Chicago have not been passive through all of this. From health workers at Howard Brown Health Clinic to the service workers at the United Center, workers have shown the courage to stand up and strike. However this effort so far has only taken the form of unionizing efforts which are by design actively limiting and counterproductive to working class organization. In order to see real results we need independent working class organization from all third parties that act only as functionaries and middle management for capitalism and only negotiate wages, benefits, and concessions."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-04-04/no-war-but-the-class-war-statement-from-nwbcw-chicago

"But to truly win workers need to draw the political lessons of these strikes. No matter how many %s our wages increase we will still be at the mercy of capital and its wars. We need to overthrow it and take charge of our own destinies, which will ultimately mean challenging the unions as well as the bosses, but who knows what’s going to happen next week? A return of the wildcat and walkouts? To misquote Lenin, ‘There are weeks where nothing happens; and there are days where weeks happen’."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-04-06/two-comments-on-recent-bus-strikes-in-the-uk

"Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a clear outgrowth of a decaying economic system, whose ever frequent crises oblige states to seek out scarce profits by going to war. Predictably, the ruling class has mobilized all its media and other propaganda apparatuses to drag workers the whole world over into a bloody conflict from which we have nothing to gain and everything to lose. Whether in Russia, or in Ukraine and NATO member countries, our exploiters—those who eat and live luxuriously off the wealth that our work creates—expect us to hurl ourselves into the meatgrinder of war for their personal benefit."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-04-08/no-war-but-the-class-war-statement-from-nwbcw-miami

"The uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, which broke out on 19 April 1943, was a response to the final push to deport the remaining Jews to the death camps. The suppression of the ghetto lasted a month during which some 13,000 died as a result of the fighting. Most of the survivors were then deported. In this context, we present below a translation of a document written by a socialist participant of the uprising. It does not draw any political conclusions, but as an eye-witness report it is of historical interest for its presentation of the events."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-04-11/warsaw-ghetto-and-the-real-cost-of-imperialist-war

"Over the decades, decent, affordable housing has been promised by successive governments and delivered by none. Housing policies have either been totally ineffectual or have made the problem worse. There isn’t a simple ‘get the Tories out’ solution to this. It’s a systemic problem and goes right to the heart of capitalism itself."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-04-14/the-death-of-sheila-seleoane-another-capitalist-housing-scandal

"The cleanup and coverup had as its only priority to get the freight rolling again. There is a military aspect in keeping rail freight running as surely as there was during Wilson's nationalization of the rails. The same reason that last year the federal government forced a settlement to avoid a rail strike is the same reason that Norfolk Southern incinerated the toxic mess left in the wake of the train crash. Disasters like these are recurring reminders of why capitalism must be overthrown."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-04-21/east-palestine-chemical-disaster-capitalism-goes-off-the-rails

"Each year, about 1 million workers in France are victims of work-related accidents. The media’s silence on the question is deafening. France counts the most work deaths in Europe, with 3.25 deaths for every 100,000 workers. In 2019, there were 804 deaths, double that of Germany and the EU average. France is the only EU country where the number of deaths is increasing, currently at 1,200 work-related deaths (including from work-related diseases) per year. Precarious work, negligent job training, use of temp workers, subcontracting, the gig economy, companies dodging judicial responsibility and the degradation of working conditions are to blame."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-04-23/the-invisible-slaughter-study-on-work-related-deaths-in-france

"We reproduce here an appeal from Gondolkodó Antikvárium, an internationalist bookshop and archive in Budapest, which is being evicted from its current premises."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-04-24/gondolkod%C3%B3-antikv%C3%A1rium-solidarity-call-for-aid

"The balance sheet below is an initial reflection on the wave of struggles against the pension reform introduced by the government. It may, on first reading, come across as pessimistic. However, while on the one hand only the truth is revolutionary, and that’s what we describe, on the other hand, given the movement’s size and the anger it has demonstrated against the current living conditions imposed by the capitalist crisis, it remains necessary to draw positive lessons from it, lessons such as how to struggle, and how to build a balance of forces."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-04-25/pension-reform-in-france

The UK is experiencing the biggest wave of strikes for a generation. Hit by inflation over 10%, cuts in the social wage and precarious employment, large sectors of workers had enough and started to fight. However, the unions are keeping the strikes separate from each other when a united strike would be the start of a real fight. Instead, the unions recommend bosses’ offers below the rate of inflation. What is the way forward for the working class’ struggles? Come to a public meeting to discuss this.

"What is above all impressive and important about this strike is the degree of self-organization where, at a general assembly on Friday, April 14, they elected their own strike committee and prepared the strike. As we see it, it is imperative that we organize our own struggle outside the unions. We can only rely on our own strength. This is obviously also how the train drivers see it, and that is why they have developed such an impressive degree of self-organization."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-04-28/sweden-the-wildcat-strike-on-the-commuter-trains-shows-the-way-forward

"Whilst they are stepping up their violence at home and abroad, we have to step up the resistance. Whilst their weapons are tear gas, batons, bombs and missiles, ours are consciousness that a new world is yet possible, and our collective organisation. The latter involves not only creating organisations of struggle wherever wage workers live and work but also an international political organisation to coordinate and guide that struggle against not just this or that state but the entire global system."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-04-30/may-day-2023-there-is-no-right-side-in-an-imperialist-war-no-war-but-the-class

"In short, all attempts which push the workers and their organs towards identifying with the current state of affairs ideologically through reformism and throwing support behind this or that capitalist—or even “anti-capitalist”—politician are to be combatted. Historically this sort of parliamentary cretinism has only resulted in defeat and capitulation, alongside attracting all sorts of non-socialist, revisionist forces to the party that are merely interested in self-gain."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-05-04/reformism-and-its-discontents