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The Death Ship - B. Traven

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One of B. Traven's best known and earliest novels (first written in 1923 or '24). It's the story of a sailor who loses his papers and, unable to prove his very existence, ends up working on a "death ship" which is destined to be sunk for the insurance money. A cry from the heart against capitalist exploitation and all the bureaucratic paraphernalia of border control that goes with it. Working class grim humour at its finest!

Here presented in MOBI (Kindle format) and PDF.

On radical-leftist strategy

Article about strategic orientations for radicals, including discussion of how to orient toward the state's repressive power.

On Radical-Leftist Strategy: Propositions for Discussion
by Alonzo Alcanzar

Misfit, A Revolutionary Life by Captain Jack White

Submitted by Irish Rambler on May 21 2012 12:17
A review

A review of the Captain Jack White book, Misfit (Dublin, Livewire Publications, 2005) by his son Derrick White. The review has never before been published.

MISFIT
An autobiography
By
Capt. Jack White

Reviewed by his son,Derrick White (1942-2007). Derrick was a writer and a candidate for both the Westminster and Scottish Parliaments (first with the SNP then with the SSP). He wrote this review (never published) for the [i]Livewire Publications edition of Misfit, Dublin 2005.[/i]

Anarchist Federation statement on the Informal Anarchist Federation and terrorist tactics

Logo of the Anarchist Federation (Britain and Ireland)

A statement from the Anarchist Federation on recent actions by the Informal Anarchist Federation in Italy and why the AF does not support terrorist tactics.

On the 11th of May Roberto Adinolfi, CEO of an Italian state controlled nuclear engineering company, was shot and wounded. A cell of the insurrectionist Informal Anarchist Federation have claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement, saying that it was an act of vengeance for deaths and environmental damage caused by the nuclear industry.

SWP - the Party of God - Wildcat

leaflet front page

Leaflet produced by Wildcat in 1988 concerning the First Gulf War (that is, Iran versus Iraq). It compares the position of the Socialist Workers Party in the UK with that of Hezbollah. Not unreasonable, given that the SWP supported the Iranian regime at the time!

SWP - The Party of God

When it comes down to it there is little difference between the position of the SWP on the Gulf War and that of Hezbollah. Both call for the working class to rally to the support of the Iranian regime and fight imperialism.

Preoccupying - an interview with Paul Mason

Newsnight's economics editor and author of Meltdown and Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere, talks to The Occupied Times about Occupy, the financial crisis and the role of the media

The Occupied Times: The Occupy movement saw protestors initially gather, en masse, at significant financial centres across the globe, but the movement received heavy criticism – with claims that protestors failed to present an alternative to what the Financial Times later conceded was “capitalism in crisis”.

The right to resistance under a controlled democracy regime

The faith that another world is possible and the courage to challenge and resists are not radicalism; they are only symptoms for sanity and consciousness.

This article is radicalism. Nowadays every effort, however peaceful it is, to bring social and political change is labeled as radical so we will agree on this term. Let’s be radicals. But what is radicalism?

The Detective Novel by Joao Bernardo

Detective Novel and the Thriller

An original thought-provoking essay on the Detective Novel and in particular the thriller, as regards action and isolation by Joao Bernardo translated from the Portuguese.

The Detective Novel
By João Bernardo.

(Translated from the Portuguese by Phil Meyler)

1. The Action.

The Actuality of the Revolution: Reflections on Lenin’s State and Revolution

Submitted by osacsa on May 19 2012 16:37

How Lenin wrote State and Revolution in order to extract the political project advanced by the autonomous struggles of the Russian proletariat during the July Days.

By the first days of July 1917, tensions in the Russian capital were the highest they had been since the February Revolution that deposed the Tsar, announced a Provisional Government, and gave birth to a new wave of soviets.

On the Blaumachen presentation for the ‘communismos’ conference: a note on communism as real movement (2011), - Coghnorti

Coghnorti

An English translation of a 2011 critique by the Greek communist group Coghnorti of theories presented by the Greek communist group Blaumachen.