"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

"The failure to unite the struggles and strikes, the usual practice of the so-called base unions (not to mention the traditional unions ...), is evidence enough of this tendency of trade unionism to fragment the proletariat. For them the fight against the common class enemy takes second place to the a numerous manoeuvres to strengthen their own organisation, with a political perspective, therefore, which does not go beyond the now innate opportunism of the unionised form of class struggle."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-05-06/base-unionism-political-struggle-or-struggle-against-politicians

"Teaching strikes in Scotland and Wales have already ended with below inflation pay rises of 7% and 8% respectively as across the board what started as a huge strike wave is fizzling out, a series of compromises between a government unwilling to pay and union leaders unwilling to fight. For any strike to succeed it must be led by the workers themselves, organised across workplaces and able to freely discuss their concerns, put forward their own demands and keep up pressure against management instead of surrendering its autonomy to a middle-man, only interested in getting them back to work. Can you afford to wait for the next round of balloting?"

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-05-08/education-funding-crisis-or-structural-crisis

"In the book Evans attempts to show that anarchist resistance to this process of state reconstruction was more widespread and serious than generally assumed. To this end, over the 200 or so pages we are presented with a chronological overview of the struggle between the oppositional and collaborationist currents within the Spanish anarchist movement that took place between the years 1931 and 1939. It is worth summarising that history before we comment on some of its political implications."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-05-11/revolution-and-the-state-anarchism-in-the-spanish-civil-war

"Elections are often touted as the cornerstone of democracy, the means by which people exercise their political power and shape the future of their society. However, under capitalism, the realities are far from this idealistic image. The working class will not see its own emancipation on the ballot paper, but only the parties and representatives of various bourgeois factions that are candidates for our exploitation."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-05-14/turkish-elections-the-crisis-of-capitalism-will-not-be-resolved-at-the-ballot

"The strike is yours! Decide on these tactics together, union mandated or not. Your greatest strength is your solidarity which cannot be reduced to the union. The generalized assault on our class requires a generalized struggle! While the prospect may seem far-off, nobody is going to initiate it for us."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-05-16/montreal-why-are-the-banq-workers-on-strike