The backward workers - Noel Ignatiev
This article by Noel Ignatiev appeared in the US magazine Urgent Tasks #11, Spring 1981 and looks at how the left have viewed the working class as a passive and backward force.
Archaic and bearer of communism: the class struggle in Ulster - J. Yves Bériou
Analysis of the national liberation movement in 1970s Northern Ireland, its relation to capitalist restructuring, and the possibilities this allows for class struggle.
20 years ago… In China democracy disarmed and slaughtered the proletariat!
Submitted by GCI-ICG on Jul 7 2009 15:09
Draft translation from our central review in French “Communisme” N°30, January 1990.
Ten years since the establishment of the State of Kazakhstan
A look at how capitalist restructuring has effected class struggle in Kazakhstan, following the collapse of the USSR.
The defeat of the old workers movement and the failure of the revolutionary minorities - Antagonism
A look at the level of defeat in the proletariat of mid-90s Britain.
Workerism - Antagonism
A communist critique of workerism, which also partly a self-critique of the authors' own tendencies.
Class analysis for anti-capitalist struggle - Antagonism
Article on the use and necessity of class analysis in the struggle for human community. We do not agree with all of it, for example the comments on the middle class and teachers but reproduce it as an interesting contribution.
1986-1987: France goes off the rails
Submitted by Samotnaf on Jun 20 2009 16:34
Documents about and analysis of the mass workers struggles of students and workers in France from November 1986 to January 1987.
No forgiveness: Algeria 2001
In June 2001 Algeria experienced almost an insurrection which progressively spread throughout the whole country. There was nothing in the media about this, so this text, with the title “Ulach smah” (“No forgiveness”), was translated from the French in July 2001 as a contribution to breaking the silence.
The photo on the left is of a riot in Algeria at this time.
The War On Terror
The following text, written in English by some Greek friends (the TPTG), was published in July 2003 as a discussion document. Though it sometimes has some stodgy ultra-leftist phraseology and thinking, it's generally an extremely interesting summary and analysis of some important aspects of the present epoch such as the ideology of zero tolerance and the dissolution of Keynesianism.
The so-so joke on the left was produced at the end of June 2005
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