"In fact, it is impossible to understand the history of the last half century without understanding the essential role that entities like Macquarie play in perpetuating capitalist society in conditions of stagnating and decreasing global rates of profit through the restructuring of essential assets like Thames Water. At the same time however, poor conditions in the water industry far predate the “financialisation” of water. Therefore, we review below the evolution of water supply in the UK and trace how it has gone from private ownership to public, and then to public with reorganisation on a wider scale, and then back to private ownership in 1989. All changes have been driven by the problems of profitability which affect the capitalist system as a whole."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2024-11-01/thames-water-macquarie-and-the-false-choice-of-nationalisation

"Ever since the war in Ukraine, the world has seen a sharp rise in imperialist tension the world over, indicating a push towards generalized war. Lebanon is notably important in this development. The roots of this clash span almost a century, though the systemic cause remains imperialism as a condition of capitalism."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2024-11-07/war-in-lebanon-another-massacre-of-the-working-class

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.

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"The 1970s were a period of political questioning and reawakening. As capitalism’s post-war boom drew to a close the working class as a whole suddenly faced economic hardship and, increasingly, unemployment. For a critical minority from a new generation of working class youth, a whole panoply of questions was raised — from the nature of the USSR to the possibility or otherwise of the overthrow of capitalism. Now the evidence that capitalism, even with state protection, was still subject to economic crisis, and the reappearance of workers battling en masse in both the East and the West, sparked a wider political rethink. The formation of Revolutionary Perspectives, forerunner of the Communist Workers’ Organisation, was part of that. The following leaflet which we distributed in Glasgow in 1974 gives a flavour of the time."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2024-11-21/blast-from-the-past-revolutionary-perspectives-on-strikes-in-scotland

"Labour’s turn to do the political managing coincides with a batch of results of public enquiries over scandals that go back years. The trick is to prolong the whole process until the original issue is out of the public eye and there are other, more pressing matters to hit the headlines."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2024-11-23/the-real-scandal-is-capitalism

"This is the barbarism that unites Russia, Ukraine, the USA, Iran, the whole gamut of Islamic jihadism and Israel, against which we have to fight. But not with phantom and impracticable "solutions" of peace, or sentences of an International Criminal Court which will never be put into practice, but with the class struggle, the only force that can act on an international scale, as the crisis of capitalism is international, and reverse the inertia of the current course towards generalised war."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2024-11-25/the-middle-east-crisis-an-update

"Today, after decades of class retreat we are not starting from a great place. However, start we must. We do not know how long we have, but we must use the time to prepare a response. Thousands of workers already understand that the system is failing – capitalism’s peace fails them every day. Internationalists everywhere have to reach out to them to give a lead in building a movement capable of achieving enough critical mass to reach every section of the working class in all lands."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2024-11-27/against-imperialist-war-against-capitalist-peace

"A lot of Western analysts are applauding the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel as a moment of stasis in the bombings, and as a premise for a peace process. It is possible but only if a series of conditions that have not been fully evaluated are met. In the Middle East, it is not just another war between Zionism and Islamist-style anti-Zionism that is being fought. It is a war of multiple scenarios with the direct involvement of regional interested parties plus the indirect presence of imperialist powers outside the area who play a significant role."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2024-11-30/the-ceasefire-between-hezbollah-and-israel

"As the date indicates, the article below was written by our Italian comrades before the fall of the Assad regime, but has been updated since. It gives some indication as to what this latest piece of the imperialist puzzle might mean for the future."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2024-12-08/syria-imperialist-barbarism-flares-up-again

"On Saturday 9 November, the CWO held a public meeting in London on the topic of anti-fascism. We publish here the presentation followed by notes from the discussion."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2024-12-13/anti-fascism-against-the-working-class

"On Monday 18 November, the CWO held a public meeting in Manchester on the topic of imperialism. We publish here the presentation followed by notes from the discussion."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2024-12-14/imperialism-what-it-is-what-it-isn-t-and-how-it-ends

In 2024 we published 85 articles on the English section of our website. Here’s a rundown of the 5 most read ones.

1. Workers Have No Country: Fight War with Class Unity and Class Struggle!
2. Two Parties, One Rotten System
3. Marx's Newly Unearthed Letter Reaffirms the Necessity of Internationalism and the Party
4. Revolutionary Communist Party: Out With the Old, In With the Old
5. May Day 2024: Down with Nationalism and War - Workers Have No Country!

"The world stands at a crossroads. Economic crisis, the drive to war, ecological disasters, and societal collapse signpost a future full of suffering and destruction which is already the reality for many around the globe. Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan and Ukraine serve as a warning of what's to come. As new horrors confront us each time we switch on the TV, listen to the radio or check our social media, it is easy to become despondent. The one question that few seem to be asking is: what's the alternative?"

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-01-04/communism-an-idea-whose-time-has-come

"The movement of workers outside the trade union framework is promising, but we need to move from words to action. Moreover, demands and strategies must be designed in a way that can draw in more workers from different sectors and workplaces – building on our strength in the short term and paving the way for stronger solidarity and steps towards greater class consciousness in the longer term."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-01-06/class-struggle-in-sweden-anger-and-dissatisfaction-with-trade-unions-and-then

"January 2025 marks 120 years since the 1905 revolution broke out across the Russian Empire. For this occasion, we publish here an article which originally appeared back in 2005 in Revolutionary Perspectives 34 (Series 3) but had been previously unavailable on our site in text form."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-01-08/a-majestic-prologue-the-russian-revolution-of-1905-part-i

"It is obvious that the bourgeoisie will more readily allocate the resources it has at its disposal – or that it hopes to have at its disposal – to things that strengthen its class domination as well as its position on the imperialist chessboard. Just as obvious, at least for us, is that the war on wages did not begin with the attack on Ukraine, but rather a few decades ago. If anything the wars that are now bloodying the former USSR, Palestine, Sudan, Congo and other areas of the world are a harbinger of the greater carnage to come. So far capitalism is winning this war on the working class, but it is not winning the war within itself, against the inescapable contradictions of the capitalist mode of production."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-01-20/war-the-economy-the-proletariat-notes-on-the-war-economy

"To commemorate the 120th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1905 revolution we publish here some translations of contemporary flyers released by the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) during the course of that revolution. They are a historical document of the events as they happened."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-01-22/1905-in-poland-documenting-the-revolution

"Whether it is the further extension of the effects of global warming or the prospect of nuclear war capitalism offers us only an increasingly uncertain and unsustainable future. The alternative today remains the same as in 1905 – socialism or barbarism. Either a world where all humans can have a dignified and worthwhile existence without social classes, exploitation and war, or greater subjugation of the mass of the population to the whims of the world’s richest as they take us towards armageddon."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-07/a-world-on-fire

"One might think that the behaviour of the Biden Administration and Trump's arrogant statements on the future destinies of Canada, Mexico, Greenland and the Panama Canal, to which Russia has already raised opposition as China surely will, are a sign of power. Yet they rather hide the symptoms of an intrinsic weakness deriving from a structural crisis that has affected the entire capitalist world for decades, starting with the US."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-09/trump-and-the-new-golden-age

"Days of mourning were declared and vigils for the victims were held. But grief quickly turned to anger. As the first mass demonstrations, student occupations and road blockades started, the authorities responded with violence and provocation – tear gas, arrests, and attacks on protesters (including a few cases of government sympathisers ramming their cars into crowds). This only inflamed the tensions and brought more people out onto the streets."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-11/serbia-protests-politicians-resign-the-problems-endure