Prior to our excursion into the attempts of Spanish anarchism to establish “libertarian communism” during the war in Spain of 1936-39, we had published the contribution of the Gauche Communiste de France on the state in the period of transition1, a text based on the theoretical advances of the Italian […]
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Nature and Function of the Proletarian Party, GCF
ICC Introduction The document we are publishing below first appeared in 1947 in the pages of Internationalisme, the press of the small group “Gauche Communiste de France” (Communist Left of France), to which (amongst others) the ICC has traced its origins since its foundation in 1975. It was reprinted at the […]
The Task of the Hour: Formation of the Party or Formation of Cadres, GCF
ICC Preface This article first appeared in Internationalisme no. 12 in August 1946. Although it is a product of the immediate post-Second World War period, it is still remarkably relevant today, 36 years later. It deals with the question of when the formation of the party is both necessary and possible. For those who refuse […]
Theses on the Nature of the State and the Proletarian Revolution, GCF
1. The state appears in history as the expression of antagonistic interests which divide human society; it is the product and result of antagonistic economic relations. Although the state has played an active role in history, it is above all directly determined by the process of economic development. It appears […]
The Russian Experience, GCF
There’s no doubt any more: the first experience of the proletarian revolution, both in its positive acquisitions, and even more in the negative lessons that can be drawn from it, is today at the base of the whole modern workers’ movement. As long as the balance sheet of this experience […]
Bordiga and the Passion for Communism, Camatte
Passion is the essential force of man energetically bent on its object. Karl marx Men are the products of their time: some are capable of representing it, because the invariance of their thought overcomes the ideology of the ruling class or expresses the impetuous assault of the oppressed class; others […]
Legality and Illegality, Georg Lukács, 1920
Another of Lukács’ essays from his famous 1923 collection History and Class Consciousness, Legality and Illegality is an important warning against the diametrically opposed romanticisation or mortal fear of illegality seen in altogether too many so-called “communist” organisations of the modern day, as well as a thorough exploration of bourgeois […]
Global Protests: The Relentless Capitalist Crisis Demands the Overthrow of the System, ICT
The “atrocities” of capitalism are not attributable to this or that form of administration of capitalist production relations, but to the relations themselves. The economic crisis, the ensuing attacks on wages and working conditions, the dismantling of welfare benefits, the ever-widening social divide, the permanent wars that imperialist powers fight […]
The Proletarian Woman (1914) by Rosa Luxemburg
“Proletarian Women’s Day inaugurates the “Week of Social Democracy.” The party of the disinherited places its female columns in the front lines by sending them into the heat of battle for eight days, in order to spread the seeds of socialism onto new fields. And the call for the political […]
Don’t Vote, Internationalist Communist Party
Don’t Vote for any Party or For any of their Fronts That would mean voting for war and for a new triumph of capitalism PROLETARIANS, WORKERS, Again parliamentary democracy grants you the freedom to elect your bosses, and to choose between those who have already shown that they know how […]