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 […]
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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 […]
Capitalism under the Red Banner: Seventy Years of the People’s Republic of China, ICT
Seventy years ago, on 1 October 1949, the People’s Republic of China was proclaimed by Mao. Here we reproduce an article which originally appeared in Communist Review 8 (January 1990), published by the ICT (or IBRP as it was then) in the aftermath of the suppression of the Tiananmen Square […]
American Civilization on Trial: Black Masses as Vanguard [Excerpt], Raya Dunayevskaya
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March on Washington The outbreak of World War II in 1939 and the gearing of the American factories for war output very nearly wiped out unemployment – white unemployment. But nearly 25 per cent of the Negro work force remained unemployed in 1940. The very fact that, both South and […]
The Degeneration of the Russian Revolution, John
An essay examining the causes of the degeneration of the Russian Revolution, as well as the symptoms of the switch from dictatorship of the proletariat, to dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat
One of the essays from ‘History and Class Consciousness’, Lukács’ best known and most influential work, Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat introduces his concept of reification, how reified consciousnesses have influenced philosophy and political thought, and the standpoint of the proletariat in history from a Marxian point of view.
The Defeat of Brest-Litovsk, Karl Radek
A 1918 article criticising the foreign policy of Soviet Russia as an abandonment of internationalism.
The Red Army, Karl Radek
This 1918 article criticises the formation of the Red Army as a replacement of the Red Guard militia, a crucial turning point in the degeneration of the Russian Revolution.