Posts by: CWG-USA

The Long Depression: A Review

The following is reprinted from our comrades of the Communist Workers’ Group of Aotearoa/New Zealand: Michael Roberts new book The Long Depression (TLD) brings together much of his previous work from his blog and articles. It follows his previous book The Great Recession (TGR) that looked at the causes and effects of the so-called Global…

Teachers’ Strike in Mexico

Brutal Mexican State Repression Against Striking Teachers: Victory to the Mexican Teachers! For United Working Class Struggle Across Borders Throughout the Americas! Educators, students and school employees in Mexico are approaching a watershed moment of struggle against union busting, austerity and the wholesale privatization and/or junking of public education. Already in some quarters this struggle…

Workers Struggle in Haiti

Workers Struggle in Haiti: Victory to the Haitian Working Class! Reinstate All Fired Workers! The CWG demands immediate rehiring with full retroactive pay and benefits for Telemarque Pierre, General Coordinator of Apparel and Textile Workers Union (SOTA-BO), Clergé Félixon, Cadet Mackenzie and Adrien Jean Anslo, trade unionists of the Textile Factory Union Platform-Batay Ouvriye (PLASIT-BO)…

Corbyn and Sanders: Reformism and Social Imperialism

Corbyn and Sanders: Reformism and Social Imperialism We don’t suppose Jeremy Corbyn had to pay much of a political price for the flap caused by former London mayor Ken Livingstone, but it does highlight the creepy racist thinking of British ruling class circles that even the Labour Party “left” has entered into.  Along with the…

Reply to the Militant (SWP-US)

Reply to The Militant Forty-five years ago the many-times SWP candidate Hedda Garza told us that the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) was in the anti-democratic grip of Jack Barnes and his clique of friends from Carlton College. The occasion was the ruling by the National Executive Committee that the Proletarian Orientation Tendency was to have…