"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

"Trump assumed the Iran operation would last a few weeks. He hoped to gain maximum advantage at minimum expense. A barrage of missiles in strategic military and civilian areas and the game would be over. But things didn't pan out that way."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-04-28/us-israeli-attack-on-iran-and-more

"We sympathise with all those who are fed up with this wage slavery. But such individual acts of revenge will not change the fundamental reality we live under. The loss of one billionaire or warehouse is effortlessly absorbed by the giant stinking pool of capital, while the workers who are now free from the Ontario Kimberly-Clark Distribution Centre will have to go find another workplace to shackle themselves to. To really change our lot, we need to get organised as workers. Both in the workplace and in a political sense, putting forward our own alternative."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-04-29/forget-the-kimberly-clark-warehouse-the-system-is-one-big-fire-time-to-put-it

This year CWO members alongside other internationalists attended May Day events in Leicester, Nottingham, Cardiff, Manchester, Liverpool and London.

Our pamphlet, "1921: Beginning of the Counter-Revolution?", is out now in a revised and expanded edition!

The pamphlet can be ordered by emailing us at uk@leftcom.org and asking for our banking details, or by donating the cost of the publications required via Paypal using the “Donate” button. For more info, see: https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-05-06/1921-beginning-of-the-counter-revolution

"Local elections are traditionally occasions for votes against incumbent parties. What is (relatively) new is that neither of the old Labour/Tory dichotomy have found any solution to a capitalist crisis which has now gone on for decades. Thus the electoral path is now open for not just one, but two ‘upstart’ parties."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-05-06/here-in-the-uk-there-s-no-escaping-the-capitalist-crisis

"The UK’s problems are not unique. Since the post-war boom ended in the 1970s every state in the world is faced with the consequences of ‘declining growth’ (aka profit rates). Workers’ share of the national income in all the rich countries has been declining for over four decades. Services such as the NHS, school budgets, social benefits, pensions — all funded by deductions from workers’ pay — have all been cut. Finance capitalist outfits which speculate on international markets run the utility companies, meaning we get higher bills, as rivers and coasts are polluted with sewage. But you would think only “Britain is Broken” if you listened to the lies of the likes of Reform or UKIP. For them the cause is simple – it is all the fault of immigrants and asylum seekers."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-05-08/more-than-a-fight-against-the-far-right-we-need-a-fight-against-capitalism

"Our strength comes from acting as a class. This necessarily involves organising our own struggle – not leaving it to union officials or politicians (even leftist ones!), whose job it is to impose capitalist crisis on us."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-05-10/lessons-of-the-university-of-leicester-strike

"Peace with Iran, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the Ayatollahs’ nuclear programme, trade agreements — all important aspects, but they are merely the contingent and instrumental screen behind which looms the spectre of the final clash between the two imperialisms."

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2026-05-19/updates-on-imperialism-uae-quits-opec-the-beijing-summit