The May days: Barcelona 1937
Submitted by Anonymous on Jun 17 2016 22:25
Interesting collection of writings on the May days in Barcelona: the combination of the "civil war within the civil war" as workers fought back against a counter-revolutionary Communist Party takeover.
The SPEW and me
Submitted by Reddebrek on May 15 2016 03:57
A brief catalogue of my encounters with the lesser spotted subspecies of the British Trot in the wild. Careful it may bite you.
What Problems in Bolivarian Venezuela? What Tumeremo Massacre?
Submitted by Crossly on Apr 1 2016 22:17
While the left press continues to praise the "Bolivarian Revolution," it has brought the country to the edge of a humanitarian disaster. Here are just a few of the problems, and not even the major ones. And then there's the Tumeremo massacre...
Bolshevism or communism - United Workers Party of America
1934 article by the council communist UWPA and the National Committee of the Communist League of America, Left Opposition on the question of a new Party and a new (Fourth) International.
International Council Correspondence Volume 1, Number 11
The Volume 1, Number 11 (September 1935) issue of International Council Correspondence.
News from Bolivarian gangland
Submitted by Crossly on Mar 9 2016 20:35
Written a week before the shocking murder of 28 miners in Tumeremo, Venezuela by the 'El Topo' (The Mole) gang with the evident complicity of police and military, this article provides some background to the current wave of violence in the country. The Bolivarian government seems more hesitant to work with the opposition National Assembly, elected December 6, 2015 with 2/3 support among 3/4 of the voters than with the growing mega-gangs and the corrupt military...
How Lenin led to Stalin - Workers Solidarity Movement
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 5 2016 11:13
Good short account of how the foundations of Stalinist terror were laid by the policies of Lenin and Trotsky in the early days of the Russian Revolution.
The postmodern left and the success of neoliberalism
The international Left promotes its own image rather than engaging in the bitter reality of resistance against neoliberalism. It does not need to believe in postmodernism because it is postmodernism.
Why the KKE is not an alternative for Greece
Submitted by deathspiritcommunist on Dec 29 2015 21:57
An outline and critique of the Greek Communist Party (KKE)'s politics by RageAgainstCapital from an Anarchist perspective.
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