Pannekoek on Organisation (Introduced by John Holloway)
Anton Pannekoek on the question of organisation, introduced by John Holloway. This article was first published in 1938.
Council communism: reading guide
Libcom.org's reading guide on council communism, a tradition of anti-Leninist Marxism which rejects the role of the vanguard party and argues instead for workers' councils as forms of working-class organisation and struggle.
Le Prolétaire – The Tragedy of the German Proletariat in the First Post-War Period
We present here in English the International Communist Party’s account and analysis of the struggles of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary forces in Germany in the first post war period, published in eight separate parts in 1972.
Proletarian internationalism and the war in Syria
Submitted by Fredo Corvo on Apr 17 2018 11:51
An anti-criticism by Fredo Corvo
Theses on Bolshevism - Rudolf Sprenger
Rudolf Sprenger's 1934 critique of the Bolsheviks and their role in the 1917 Russian Revolution, arguing they were ultimately a movement of bourgeois revolution in a predominantly peasant country and therefore not only unserviceable as a revolutionary practice for the international working class, but also one of its heaviest and most dangerous impediments.
The movement in Iran is a practical refutation of Leninism
Submitted by Fredo Corvo on Mar 1 2018 12:53
A critique of the positions defended by some groups of the communist Left
Capitalism and ecology: from the decline of capital to the decline of the world - Paul Mattick
'Kapitalismus und Okologie' (1976) by Paul Mattick, translated by Paul Mattick Jr. This article looks at ecological crisis, the Club of Rome's 'The Limits to Growth', and the work of East German philosopher Wolfgang Harich.
Left communism in Australia: J.A. Dawson and the "Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils" - Steve Wright
Steve Wright on Jim Dawson and the 'Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils'. First published in 'Thesis Eleven' #1 (1980), pp. 43-77.
Anti-Bolshevik communism – Paul Mattick
A collection of works by Paul Mattick. Communism aims at putting working people in charge of their lives. A multiplicity of Councils, rather than a big state bureaucracy is needed to empower working people and to focus control over society. Mattick develops a theory of a council communism through his survey of the history of the left in Germany and Russia. He challenges Bolshevik politics: especially their perspectives on questions of Party and Class, and the role of Trade Unions.
Militancy: highest stage of alienation - Part 2
Published in France 2 years after part 1, part 2 puts part 1 in into the political context it was published in and expands on its themes.
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