Fifty years after the workers’ uprising in the city of Córdoba, it is still necessary to reflect on its meaning, because throughout those same fifty years the left apparatus of capital has been presenting distorted versions of its origins and the political responses it generated, preventing the working class from […]
Capitalism
Works laying out the Left’s view of contemporary capitalism.
Address to the Revolutionaries of Algeria and of All Countries – Situationist International
distributed clandestinely in Algiers, July 1965reprinted in Internationale Situationniste #11 (October 1967) Translated by Ken Knabb COMRADES, The collapse of the revolutionary image presented by the international Communist movement is taking place forty years after the collapse of the revolutionary movement itself. This time gained for the bureaucratic lie — that supplement […]
Address to All Workers – Enragés-Situationist International Committee, Council for Maintaining the Occupations
Paris, 30 May 1968 Translated by Ken Knabb COMRADES, What we have already done in France is haunting Europe and will soon threaten all the ruling classes of the world, from the bureaucrats of Moscow and Peking to the millionaires of Washington and Tokyo. Just as we have made Paris dance, the […]
What distinguishes revolutionaries from Trotskyism ? – ICC
What distinguishes revolutionaries from Trotskyism? Submitted by International Review on 5 November, 2009 We are publishing two articles from Internationalisme, organ of the Gauche Communiste de France[1] dedicated to the question of Trotskyism and written in 1947. At this time, Trotskyism had already abandoned proletarian internationalism by participating in the Second World War, unlike the […]
1917 – The Proletariat Takes Power, ICT
“On the evening of October 24th the Provisional Government had at its disposal little more than 25,000 men. On the evening of October 25th, when preparations were underway for the storming of the Winter Palace, the Bolsheviks assembled about 20,000 Red Guards, sailors and soldiers before that last refuge of […]
Capitalism and communism – Gilles Dauvé
Communism is not a programme one puts into practice or makes others put into practice, but a social movement. Apart from perhaps a clearer understanding, those who develop and defend theoretical communism are moved by the same practical personal need for communism as those who are not especially concerned by […]
The Dual Power, Vladimir Lenin
The basic question of every revolution is that of state power. Unless this question is understood, there can be no intelligent participation in the revolution, not to speak of guidance of the revolution. The highly remarkable feature of our revolution is that it has brought about a dual power. This […]
On the Union Question, Amadeo Boridga and Onorato Damen
An extract from the book ‘Bordiga: Beyond the Myth’, published by the CWO/ICT, available in multiple languages, on the question of working with unions. All italics in this article are the commentaries from the ICT. What follows are two further extracts from the book by Onorato Damen “Bordiga: Beyond the […]
The Destruction of Nature, Anton Pannekoek
This early article by the renown socialist scholar, as well as respected astronomer, Anton Pannekoek, goes a long way to dispel the idea that socialists have held a very productivist view about mankind’s relationship with the environment. It deserves a wide circulation within the ecology movement. There are numerous complaints […]
Rosa Luxemburg’s: The Russian Revolution, Onorato Damen
To mark the anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth 147 years ago (5 March) we offer this translation of Onorato Damen’s introduction to the Italian translation to her famous work on the Russian Revolution. Note: this was translated by Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT). An introduction by Onorato Damen It is fashionable […]