"It is 20 years since the death of our much loved comrade Mauro Stefanini (2 May 2005), a loss as premature as it was dramatic for the Internationalist Communist Party (PCInt) that held him among its best prepared and esteemed members, as it was for all the comrades of the Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT) who knew him. Our memory of him has not diminished in all that time."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-05-02/remembering-mauro

Over the past five days CWO members and sympathisers attended numerous May Day events in London, Nottingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Glasgow and Manchester.

"As capitalism’s economic crisis gets more severe our rulers are unleashing a war of impoverishment on the working class at home while gearing up for a hot war on their rivals abroad. The chancellor has proposed to introduce £5bn of cuts to benefits, which is the biggest cut on record. Keir Starmer, justifying the cuts, described the welfare system as “unsustainable,” which indicates that there is worse to come."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-05-06/the-capitalist-response-guns-not-butter

"In 1946 the soon-to-be abolished Italian monarchy designated 25 April as “Liberation Day” referring to the final defeat of fascism in 1945. It has remained a national “anti-fascist” holiday under the Italian Republic ever since, accompanied by patriotic ceremonies and demonstrations. The following leaflet was distributed by our comrades in Battaglia Comunista at this year’s anniversary which had more resonance given that Meloni’s Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) party, the heirs of fascist movements of the past, and the Italian version of the new populist nationalism, is in government..."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-06-10/the-real-anti-fascism-is-anti-capitalism

Last weekend the CWO attended three events with NWBCW banners: an anti-austerity demonstration in London, the Derby Silk Mill Festival, and the Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Bookfair.

"When Russia invaded Ukraine, the world situation changed dramatically. It became clear that the economic crisis was now so deep that the imperialist powers were forced to confront each other on a historic scale and that the world was once again threatened by a general imperialist war. In this new historical situation, the Swedish bourgeoisie was forced to reconsider its imperialist alliances."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-06-14/sweden-and-the-nato-accession-fight-against-rearmament-fight-against-capitalism

"As planned, the Israeli-American imperialist duo has tightened the noose in redefining the balance of power in the Middle East, even if the war question is not yet over. Israel’s strike at the heart of its deadly enemy, given that Trump let it happen with the goal of weakening Iran, its nuclear programme and, by association, its Russian and Chinese allies, tells us a lot."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-06-18/israel-s-attack-on-iran-some-initial-thoughts

"Following a vote in the House of Commons, the group Palestine Action has been officially designated a "proscribed terrorist organisation" in the UK. As of 5 July 2025, both membership of the group as well as support for the group constitutes a criminal offence. The decision has been a major source of controversy and deserves a critical comment."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-07-08/on-the-state-repression-of-the-palestine-solidarity-movement

"Given the way the capitalist world system has been configured in recent decades, it's doubtful, to say the least, that tariffs, in and of themselves, can revive the industrial America of the 1950s and 1960s. They certainly put a heavy burden on competing capital, which, in turn, exacerbates imperialist conflicts and a clear tendency towards global war. Meanwhile, the billionaire president, the one who passes himself off as a friend of America's blue-collar workers, has resumed the work begun in his first term — and left essentially untouched by Biden — confirming tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, claiming to believe that the wealth thus saved by millionaires and billionaires will trickle down; something that, of course, has never happened."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-07-21/the-working-class-will-pay-the-costs-of-the-tariff-war-unless

"In summary, these struggles can be said to be directed against corruption and an increasingly authoritarian development, and against a state that is no longer delivering its basic services in the face of deepening capitalist crisis. These are not purely proletarian struggles, but it is clear that there are extensive elements of the working class involved. They are expressions of a general dissatisfaction and frustration that is steaming under the surface, and sometimes must explode."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-07-22/in-the-wake-of-the-capitalist-crisis-protests-and-riots-and-the-need-for-an

"What is happening in India is not unique. Around the world, states facing economic crisis are turning to repression not as an emergency response, but as a strategic solution. In the face of capitalism's crisis of profitability, it no longer promises growth or employment. Instead, it demands control."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-07-31/from-gurgaon-to-the-globe-why-the-working-class-is-being-attacked

"What we need to do is change the system before it brings us all to destruction. Unless the various struggles against war become more general struggles against the system that causes it, nothing will change."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-08-12/resisting-capitalism-s-road-to-the-next-world-war

"Two years ago, the Resolution Foundation published a report which found that 900,000 British workers had no paid holidays (once a statutory right) whilst 1.8m didn’t get a payslip, and almost one third of workers on minimum wage had been underpaid. Evidence suggests the situation has only worsened. Little wonder, then, that workers in some sectors are refusing to accept the bosses’ latest attempts to worsen their already brutal conditions. CWO militants have joined these workers at picket lines, and here are some of our observations."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-08-15/against-worsening-conditions-and-redundancies-workers-are-starting-to-fight-back

"The problems started with the first industrial revolution, over two hundred years ago. They began burning coal, then moved on to oil and gas, but continued to use coal, as they still do today on a massive scale. The ongoing revolution in the means of production, the increasingly ruthless competition, first predominantly between capitalists in a single country, then between capitalist countries, sparked a global war to increase competitiveness. Thus the civilisation of capitalist society has been established, with the bourgeoisie conducting the orchestra. This frenzy of constant GDP growth, in obeisance to the enrichment of the ruling class, spells the beginning of the end toward which we are all hurtling unless the global proletariat intervenes to stop the parasitic bourgeois class."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-08-18/the-working-class-biggest-victims-of-capitalism-s-environmental-devastation

"The sight of a defenceless population being gradually slaughtered, without ramification, by a regime armed to the teeth has rightly caused moral indignation across the world. But the only way to truly end genocide is to put an end to a system and the social relations which naturally breed it. As workers we remain powerless in the face of this descent into capitalist barbarism until there is a real class movement able to impose its interests on the warmongers, exploiters and oppressors of the world."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-08-19/imperialism-and-genocide-the-failure-of-international-law-to-prevent-mass

"In September this year it will be fifty years since the foundation of the Communist Workers’ Organisation (CWO), so it is therefore an appropriate moment to review the strengths and weaknesses of our perspective over that time before posing our analysis of where we are today. Obviously much has changed in half a century but the central bedrock of our Marxist analysis has not."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-08-20/fifty-years-of-the-cwo-perspectives-for-2025-and-beyond

"For all Sarkar has described herself at various times throughout the book (and her career) as a “communist”, she scarcely offers any specific idea of what this means or could be done about the real problems she has identified. And while in Minority Rule Sarkar does seem to attempt to pose the problem as one of the capitalist system as such, the actual political content of her arguments lead inevitably back down the blind alley of reform."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-08-26/adventures-in-the-culture-wars-a-review-article

"Turchin’s failure to analyse the fundamental economic relationships which underlie the dismal picture he paints means that the solutions he proposes are based on empiricism – he concludes that the future must be made to resemble the past by actions of the capitalist state. A Marxist understanding of the internal relations of capitalist production shows that elite overproduction and working class immiseration are symptoms, not the cause of the instability and violence Turchin predicts."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-09-02/end-times-can-capitalism-be-saved

"Successive governments, in tandem with their mass media, have for decades told workers that we should blame the "other" for our problems. It's the oldest trick in the book. This way politicians and bosses hope to avoid being held responsible for destroying our standards of living with cuts to welfare and services, and attacks on our wages and conditions. Far-right demagogues and snake oil salesmen, who feed the flames of anti-migrant sentiment, pretend to speak for the "common man", but in reality they are funded by investment bankers, property moguls and hedge fund tycoons. If they come to power, they will treat us no better than their Labour and Tory peers."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-09-06/workers-have-no-homeland-don-t-fall-for-capitalist-scapegoating

"For an internationalist communist, the liberation of Palestine is part of the liberation of the Arab world and the global proletariat. It does not come through martyrdom, nor through the restoration of religious symbols, nor under the guidance of charismatic leaders in uniform. It involves building a socialist, secular, materialist, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist project that breaks with both Zionism and the Islamist bourgeoisie. The cult of martyrdom does not liberate, it neutralises. That is why it must be broken. The struggle for liberation does not need dead heroes, it needs the living consciousness of millions, organised and armed with an anti-capitalist political vision."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-09-08/martyrdom-for-the-faith-a-tragic-ideological-variant-of-bourgeois-deceit

"The use and abuse of animals by humans may go back centuries, but today it’s an industrialised process of mass suffering. In ruthless pursuit of profit, the corrupt animal industries cram animals into cages from birth to slaughter, slash natural environments, and still find more ways to squeeze money out of lives."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-09-09/fight-for-animals-fight-the-system