"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

"Despite the fact that our living and working conditions have been deteriorating for years and that we have no control whatsoever over political and economic decisions, it is up to us to pay — THEIR debt. They demand that we work for less pay, less healthcare… simply put less time to live with dignity. Bayrou’s departure in no way means that the promised austerity will be called into question."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-09-10/no-sacrifices-to-replenish-the-state-coffers-let-s-fight-to-defend-ourselves-not

"We reproduce this statement from NWBCW South Asia as an example of how a new generation in the region is breaking with the legacy of Stalinism and Maoism and trying to chart an internationalist course. In Nepal, a popular movement has managed to reverse the hated social media ban and bring down the current government. However, as the comrades point out, in the absence of a political organisation, which can serve as a reference point to the wider working class, and organs of class power, which could take the place of capitalist state structures, other factions of the ruling class will brutally re-establish their control."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-09-11/statement-on-the-protests-in-nepal

As the economic crisis gets worse the class war is intensifying. Everywhere workers’ wages are being reduced, social services cut and workers are being made redundant. This is a slow but sustained war of attrition against the working class which has been going on for years. The effect is that now 14.3 million people in the UK live in poverty, 8.1 million of these are actually in work and 4.3 million are children. There have been fight-backs in sectors like rail, Royal Mail, hospitals, universities and other sectors, but these struggles have been impeded by the tactics of the trade unions. The unions have prevented strikes from taking place, prevented strikes uniting or closed them down. Where they have negotiated with the bosses they have negotiated redundancies, worse conditions and wage rises less than inflation. Why are the unions unable or unwilling to defend their members? Come to our public meeting to discuss this.

"Parties like Reform UK and their leaders try to present themselves as being of the white British working class and for the working class. This could not be further from the truth… Let’s dispel these commonly repeated myths."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-09-23/worker-resist-the-snake-of-nationalist-populism

"In Italy, thousands of workers recently took strike action in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla, the initiative attempting to deliver aid to Gaza, and against the ongoing massacre in Gaza. The following is based on reports from our comrades in Italy, who intervened in the strikes in a number of cities – below we also include a flyer they distributed on the day."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-10-02/italy-on-the-general-strike-for-gaza

"The Communist Workers’ Organisation (CWO), today the UK affiliate of the Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT), was originally formed from the merger of two groups, named for their publications – Workers’ Voice and Revolutionary Perspectives – at a meeting in Liverpool in September 1975 – fifty years ago."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-10-03/fifty-years-of-struggle-fifty-years-of-swimming-against-the-tide

As the economic crisis gets worse, the class war is intensifying. Everywhere workers’ wages are being reduced, social services are cut and workers are being made redundant. There are 101 different parties and groups that propose solutions, many of them calling themselves socialist or communist – but providing answers that stay within the framework of the state, the nation, the international order – in short, capitalism. The Communist Workers’ Organisation bases its understanding of society and its dynamics on the insights of Marx, Engels and other revolutionaries who realised that capitalism cannot be reformed, it must be overthrown. What is the revolutionary perspective? Come to our public meeting to discuss this.

"This leaflet produced by the GRI for the social movement of 2 October follows their previous leaflet distributed on 10 and 18 September. The comrades felt it was important to write another one, more critical of the counter-revolutionary role of the left of capital and its dead-end methods, whether they be ‘blocking everything’ or arranging leisurely trade unionist walks."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-10-06/france-mass-protests-against-spending-cuts

"When Onorato Damen rose to speak in the Italian Chamber of Deputies in March 1925, parliamentary democracy, such as it existed in the Kingdom of Italy, was in its dying days. Three years earlier, Benito Mussolini had been installed as Prime Minister by King Victor Emmanuel after the “March on Rome”, despite the Fascists having only 35 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. This was a reward for Fascist violence against striking workers, and offices and members of workers' organisations, which was being unleashed on the streets of Italy since the Biennio Rosso (the Two Red Years, 1919-20)."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-10-07/parliamentary-democracy-and-fascism-the-two-faces-of-the-bourgeoisie-two

"No one can have missed the wave of conservative populism, narrow minded nationalism and outright racism that is sweeping across large parts of the world. Even though it hits us very differently, it affects us all – and it is therefore a crucial aspect to address for our class."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-10-26/racism-divides-class-struggle-unites

"In this system whose inexorable need to accumulate profit generates increasingly brutal tyranny and wars without end, the only hope for any way out of the hell humanity has created for itself remains with the working class: the class whose labour produces the goods and provides the services from which all profit is produced and through which the system is reproduced. The class who across all nations of the world are sent to kill and be killed by one another in defence of the profits of our exploiters; yet who have no inherent quarrel with one another."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-11-10/nationalism-war-repression-austerity-symptoms-of-capitalist-crisis

"The far-right – backed by investment bankers, property moguls and hedge fund tycoons – hopes to capitalise on people’s misplaced anger. Blaming the failures of capitalism on ‘the other’ is a very old tactic of the ruling class. As long as workers are divided against each other we will not unite to defend our interests as a class. A divided working class can also be more easily dragooned into accepting war, and the austerity that pays for war. In fact, the drive to war is what underpins the current rise in nationalism."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-11-12/nationalism-a-weapon-of-the-ruling-class

"In the mainstream press, some of these have been dubbed ‘Gen Z protests’. In fact, these are revolts that cannot be limited to generational or national boundaries. From one side of the world to the other, they all have similar complaints: high unemployment and no job security; corruption and inequality; low pay and high prices; cuts and underfunding of social services (especially healthcare and education), and the needless deaths they cause."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-11-14/the-working-class-is-still-fighting-but-what-world-are-we-fighting-for