communism
Invisible Politics - An Introduction to Contemporary Communisation - John Cunningham
In the wake of the organised left and the demise of working class self-identity, communisation offers a paradoxical means of superseding capitalism in the here and now whilst abandoning orthodox theories of revolution. John Cunningham reports from the picket line of the ‘human strike'.
As we apprehend it, the process of instituting communism can only take the form of a collection of acts of communisation, of making common such-and-such space, such-and-such-machine, such-and-such-knowledge. - The Invisible Committee, Call, 2004
Review: Non-market socialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - The Red Menace
The Red Menace reviews Maximilien Rubel and John Crump's book, Non-Market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Communism has got nothing to do with state control of the economy (as leninists suggest) nor for that matter with workers owning their own factories and exchanging products with other workers (as advocated by some anarchists). Communism, as the authors of this book make clear, is the abolition of all forms of the state, exchange (buying and selling) and property- including "collective property".
Address to revolutionaries in the USSR - The Red Menace
Discussion of the political and economic reforms in the USSR of the late 80s, and the real meaning of communism.
Ever since the Bolshevik counterrevolution the struggle against capitalism has been flung into confusion. It came five years after the collapse of the belief in social democracy as an expression of international solidarity of the working class, five years after the various national social democratic parties supported their respective nation-states against the working class.
Anarchy and community in the UK
Article examining the meaning of 'community' in the current society, and what it would mean under communism.
This article deals with some aspects of community in British society today and in the hoped for revolutionary period. It does not touch on "primitive" or feudal communities.
Interventions by the KAPD at the 3rd Congress of the Communist International (1921), parts 1-5; Part Five: Declaration Presented at the Conclusion of the Interventions of the KAPD
Declaration presented at the conclusion of the interventions by delegates of the KAPD at the Third Congress of the Communist International in 1921.
We protest with extreme firmness the attempt to put us in the same sack as the Dittmanns and Serratis by means of some quotations taken out of context.
Interventions by the KAPD at the 3rd Congress of the Communist International (1921), parts 1-5; Part Four: Discussion of Lenin's Report on the Tactics of the Russian Communist Party
Interventions by delegates of the KAPD at the Third Congress of the Communist International in 1921 in response to Lenin's report on the tactics of the Russian Communist Party
HEMPEL(Jan Appel): It is first necessary that I ask something of comrade Radek who is apparently absent (cries: he is there). I ask comrade Radek to spare us his jokes in identifying us with the Mensheviks, because these jokes when they become repeated often become ridiculous.
Interventions by the KAPD at the 3rd Congress of the Communist International (1921), parts 1-5; Part Three: Discussion of Trotsky's Report on the World Economic Situation
Interventions by delegates of the KAPD at the Third Congress of the Communist International in response to Trotsky's report on the world economic situation.
SACHS(Alexander Schwab): The expositions that I have to give here do not simply concern comrade Trotsky's discourse here; they concern, all the same, if not more so, the theses that he jointly presented with comrade Varga.
Interventions by the KAPD at the 3rd Congress of the Communist International (1921), parts 1-5; Part Two: Discussion of Zinoviev's Report on the Trade Union Question
Intervention by delegates of the KAPD at the Third Congress of the Communist International in 1921 in response to Grigory Zinoviev's report on the trade union question.
BERGMANN (MEYER): Comrades, yesterday, in his report, comrade Zinoviev insisted on the fact that the question of attitude vis-a-vis the trade unions has a preponderant importance for the development, for the progress of the revolution.
Interventions by the KAPD at the 3rd Congress of the Communist International (1921), parts 1-5. Part One: Discussion about Radek's Report on the Tactics of the International
Interventions by members of the KAPD at the Third Congress of the Communist International in 1921 in reply to Karl Radek's presentation on the tactics the CI should employ.
HEMPEL (Jan Appel): Comrades!
A brief history of the Red Menace
A summary of the The Red Menace newsletter, published in London from 1989-1990 by a group of individuals as a contribution to the movement for a stateless, moneyless and classless world human community – communism.
The Red Menace (TRM) was a newsletter published in London from 1989 to 1990, with articles on social struggles and other political developments from a communist perspective (1).
Those involved in TRM were clear that communism had nothing to do with the bureaucratic capitalist dictatorships then on their last legs in Eastern Europe:
