"While various reactionary and imperialist forces continue to exploit the situation, the latest protests in Iran have been drowned in blood. Current estimates of the death toll vary from at least 3,000 to over 30,000. Tens of thousands more have been injured or arrested. We are yet to find out the real scale of the violence. Now, as the Internet blockade eases up, more stories emerge from workers’ organisations in Iran about the bloody repression unleashed by the regime. Here we publish just some of them in English."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-01-31/workers-testimonies-of-the-bloody-repression-in-iran

"Despite our political differences, the fact that some anarchists are still attempting to excavate an internationalist tendency within their tradition is a positive development. Although the book would have benefited from a deeper framework for contextualising the current drive to war, we nevertheless hope it will spark a wider discussion among anarchists, particularly in the face of current attempts to revive the splintered anarchist scene in the UK."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-02-01/review-of-their-wars-our-dead-anarchist-reflections-on-anti-militarism

"Wherever any protest, any movement, or any struggle takes on a character of confrontation with the rule of capital, it is first met with deafening propaganda from the guardians and supporters of capital, who fuel intellectual confusion by presenting shallow and false narratives. If the movement continues, it then faces the iron fist of both “authoritarian” and “democratic” regimes alike."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-02-11/in-iran-and-elsewhere-intensifying-the-class-struggle-is-the-only-way-out

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"For the Iranian working class this massive bloodletting is a setback. It amounts to a huge loss of life, but caused by the interests of rival imperialisms. The class struggle has been undermined, and the end result has been large pro-regime demonstrations amounting to workers rallying to the nation and strengthening the barbaric capitalist Islamic regime. The few rays of light in this dark situation are the statements we have received from workers’ groups in the country."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-02-21/iranian-workers-raise-the-banner-of-class-war

"The quality of life for the worldwide working class is plummeting as the burden of the international crisis of capital is placed on our shoulders. This burden is felt all the more acutely by the people who are made to suffer for the crime of living in contested territory. US sanctions on Venezuela have contributed to a complete crash in living standards, with the average Venezuelan losing 11kg of body weight, reaching near-famine levels as even inputs for agriculture become scarce."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-02-23/venezuelans-suffer-under-the-scramble-for-oil

"Whatever vehicle the left in Britain uses for its electoral and reformist aims, it will have the same effect. They may call for solidarity with migrant workers, yet by funnelling popular anger into the parliamentary morass, they rob the working class of the ability to actively create solidarity with all workers through our own struggle. They call for wealth taxes yet don’t question the system that robs that wealth from workers in the first place. Worse yet, they take from us the very words to describe our situation and the means by which we may free ourselves, by describing “capitalism” as merely a few of the most obvious injustices of the system, and “socialism” as a few superficial tweaks to a fundamentally oppressive system."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-02-24/your-party-and-the-green-party-two-more-dead-ends

"Roy’s positions cannot be understood alone but only in context of the social movement across the world at that time. If anything, Roy’s life allows us to draw some important lessons for political activity in our own time."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-02-25/m-n-roy-and-the-national-question

"Increasingly, the anarchy of nations trying to scramble for advantage is risking full scale world war. There are plenty of limited wars going on – the civil wars in Sudan and Congo, the war in Ukraine, and many others – which constantly threaten to spill out of their regional limitations. The war in the Middle East is doing just that. After the attack on Israel by Hamas and other allied militant groups in Gaza on 7 October 2023, we warned that this risked a widening of the conflict. Since then Israel has attacked Iran, Lebanon, Qatar, Syria; the US has attacked Iran; Iran has attacked Israel, Syria, the UAE, Saudi Arabia; and Yemen has attacked Israel. All these attacks increase the risk of widening and intensifying the conflict. This is the inevitable result of a capitalist system that has no solution to its own contradictions, which have been building since the end of the ‘post-war boom’, the period of reconstruction after the Second World War."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-03-05/middle-east-in-flames-next-step-toward-global-capitalist-war

"The drums of war are beating again, this time along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the impact is far beyond the mountains of the Durand Line. This is not a border issue; it is another tremor within the global crisis of capitalism and a step towards imperialist slaughter."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-03-07/no-side-to-choose-along-the-durand-line

"We publish here a translation from our comrades in Battaglia Comunista on the condition of the working class in Italy. Much of it will make for familiar reading to workers beyond Italy as well."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-03-17/wages-employment-and-the-out-of-tune-trumpets-of-the-bourgeoisie

We, as internationalists, consistently oppose taking sides in imperialist war. Instead, we advocate for working class struggle against war. Time and again, we are asked what this looks like on a practical level. (As though sacrificing oneself for a national flag is practical!). At our next public meeting in Manchester, we will talk about revolutionary defeatism – fighting the class war instead of national war. We will trace the history of working class resistance to both world wars and beyond, and discuss its importance to us today as war fever spreads.

"As a multitude of reactionary commentators now celebrate the "death of woke", it bears repeating that the communist critique of identity politics in its various forms (including the most successful identity of all, nationalism), comes from a very different place. It is not about driving a wedge further between workers of different identities – something which only benefits the ruling class of both the left and the right – but of finding a way to overcome such divisions through class unity."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-03-23/the-american-ideology-intersectionality-against-the-working-class

With unprecedented strikes by the US, Israel and Iran spilling across the Persian Gulf and disrupting the international supply of oil and gas, we are closer than ever to a new global conflagration which is drawing in forces from across the world. The way to a new world war is already littered with the bodies of workers across the Middle East, Eastern Europe and beyond. How many more will be lost before the working class can reconstitute itself as a political force? Join us to discuss the roots of the current imperialist war in the capitalist system and most importantly what internationalist communists can do in response.

"This reform, supported by a broad parliamentary coalition ranging from the centre-left to the far-right, was notably backed by the libertarian president Javier Milei, elected in November 2023. The stated objective was to definitively break with the Peronist legacy of labour relations, characterised by the significant influence of corporatist and collaborationist unions and the centralisation of collective bargaining under the auspices of the state, by massively deregulating and making labour law more flexible. This law, in reality, is part of a long series of anti-worker attacks by a government that proudly proclaims itself "anarcho-capitalist"."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-03-30/labour-reform-in-argentina-capitalism-imposes-slavery-on-us-let-s-impose-class

"When accumulation faces a profitability crisis of sufficient depth, democratic forms become a cost rather than a benefit, and the bourgeoisie finds representatives willing to say so. Understanding the Kast victory requires revisiting the October 2019 revolt and its aftermath."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-04-03/chile-from-constituent-assembly-to-emergency-state

"A hundred years on, the general strike of 1926 remains a mythical event – in the face of relatively low levels of class struggles in recent decades, many today look upon it with the rose-tinted glasses of misplaced nostalgia. Arguably the largest industrial dispute in Britain's history, it lasted only ten days (nine if counting from 4 May) before being called off by the union leadership. Grasping the lessons of 1926 means understanding why it concluded the way it did: with dashed hopes and failure to accomplish its aims."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-04-16/1926-general-strike-ten-days-that-failed-to-shake-the-world

"From time to time, within the Communist Left, but more often in radical reformist circles, there appear criticisms against our – supposed – position on intervention in “economic” struggles; that is to say the struggles for the defence of daily working conditions (wages, hours, work rhythms and workloads, against sackings, etc.). These criticisms are quite unfounded, because they ignore or, if they are acting in good faith, mistakenly interpret what we have always said on this question. In fact they claim that we deny the importance of the “guerrilla struggle” against the bosses, limiting ourselves to abstract calls for the class to make the revolution."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-04-13/on-the-daily-struggle-of-the-working-class-and-the-role-of-communists-for-the

"The Second World War officially ended in 1945. Despite episodes of mass struggle in a few select countries, there was no widespread working class movement to end it like that in Russia in 1917, and Germany in 1918. The war only ended with the total victory of one imperialist camp over another ("unconditional surrender") which brought about a new world order. A world order in which the capitalist states of both East and West played an ever more active role in mediating the relations between the classes, completely integrating the social democratic and labour mass parties and trade unions which claimed to represent workers' interests. Revolutionaries who survived the war had to re-examine the changes in the terrain of struggle and what that meant for the working class and the fight for a new society."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-04-20/damen-s-critique-of-pannekoek-s-five-theses

"On April 13, a massive strike erupted in Noida, India, drawing the participation of an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 workers. This overwhelming show of force by the working class brought the entire industrial zone to a complete standstill. Countless factory workers walked out in unison, deeply frustrated by the crushing reality of brutal 12-hour shifts and starvation wages."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-04-21/on-the-noida-strike

"The working class – the majority of people of the planet – is the only force capable of halting our further immiseration, the degradation of the planet, and the forward march of all-out war. Workers’ economic demands already run up against capitalism’s drive for war. When workers fight for higher wages, safer conditions of work, shorter hours, or better staffing, they are met with stiff resistance from the bosses and their state. In various countries, governments declare strikes illegal in the name of national defence, while on the “home-front” of warring capitalist states workers are put through misery in the war economy. The capitalist attack on workers’ standards of living has a direct political character. Once the working class’s defensive fight also takes on an offensive, political, anti-capitalist character, it will have the tools necessary to end forever the cycle of imperialist slaughter."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-04-24/may-day-2026-no-sacrifices-for-this-system-against-war-and-all-forms-of