Intransigence journal - a new, ultra-left publication

A very powerful journal to say the least. Their polemic against "le SJWs" is probably among the worst, at a base level it doesn't even look at any specific group or people, on a higher level it is just right-wing talking points("tumblr") and intellectual posing(long explanation about how the brain works for some reason). The essay on eclecticism is purely intellectual posing through just spamming big quotes to discredit marxist-feminism or whatever.

In general I do not understand the "left-communist" and it's regroupings preoccupation with just attacking feminism while rarely actually engaging with any feminist theory or organisations(and if they do they refer to movements from the start of the 20th century to call feminism class collaboration now).

An interesting Issue No4 now up on their site. Some of the articles would justify a separate listing on this site to encourage more discussion amongst a wider readership.

I was almost a bit disappointed by their essay on workplace struggle. It is one of the only essays they have put out that deals with actual practice but it is so severely limited, very untypical of ultra-leftists. There doesn't really seem to be any real conclusion on how to turn workplace struggle into a communist struggle, beyond reformist demands.

The anarchist rejection of “politics”, not only of electoral participation during ascendant capitalism, but of politics in general, reduces anarchism to a merely “expressive”, aesthetic movement, turning its militants in the best of cases into true “liberals with bombs” incapable of contributing anything to the proletariat’s struggle for emancipation from capitalism.

From the article "The birth of socialism in the United States" the article is very poor, it omits quite a lot, it doesn't bother to mention the American section of the IWMA at all, despite wanting to paint a continuity between Marx and Engels, nor the Owenite Labour Colonies, and at one point it claims Lucy Parsons was against organisation because she once gave a speech urging violent action. A woman who had spent many years of her life in multiple organisations.

I suspect the only reason this article was written and the way it was written was to make a case for selling Deleon's Impossibilism to the Ultra crowd.

Not very useful

It also seems to omit that Engels was opposed to the existence of the SLP on the ground that it was a sect with no base on the working-class, and instead prompted them to join the Knights of Labor.

Does anyone have any further info on the split? Like most of the groups left the regroupment.

also curious about this

The groups that remained are either part of the Internationalist Communist Tendency (IWG and Klasbatalo) or at least sympathetic to those perspectives (Los Angeles Internationalist Communists).

the groups that left, did they go off to be involved with Emancipation group?

which groups left?

If I remember right it was Workers' Offensive and the Gulf Coast Communist Fraction. The former got involved with Emancipation, the latter seems to now sympathise with both Emancipation and the IGCL.

I think "workers group" also left