The mysterious trial of the POUM—Juan Peiró
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Mar 22 2017 22:59
A brief polemical article intended for publication in Solidaridad Obrera in November 1938, but suppressed by the government censors of Loyalist Spain, in which one of the leaders of the CNT expresses his outrage at the vindictive kangaroo trial of the leaders of the POUM, and issues a resounding appeal to bring the kidnappers and presumed murderers of Andrés Nin to justice in a real court, and to subject them to real laws and proceedings rather than the extraordinary practices of the secret judicial proceedings of the politically privileged Communist Party, to whom he only refers indirectly and with prudent circumlocutions.
Looking back at 1956 from 30 years after - Ken Weller
Submitted by Steven. on Oct 26 2015 16:29
Ken Weller from the Solidarity group is interviewed 30 years after the Hungary 56 events about their ramifications within the Communist Party in the UK.
The latest deception - Gabriel Miasnikov
In this essay first published in 1930 in France, the founder of the Workers Group denounces the bureaucracy that he claims seized power in a “coup d’état” in 1920 at the Ninth Congress of the CPSU(b)—its “latest deception” being its fraudulent appeals for “freedom of criticism” and “self-criticism” after a series of revolts by workers and peasants in the early to mid-1920s—and calls for a restoration of proletarian democracy (as exemplified by the Paris Commune) by democratizing the functions exercised by bureaucratic State institutions (production, distribution, oversight) and replacing them with Soviets (“Councils”), cooperatives and trade unions.
Spain, 1936: the exorcism of the ghost of the revolution - Andrés Devesa
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Nov 28 2013 14:37
A brief 2006 essay on the topic of the “domestication of memory” perpetrated by the mainstream Spanish historians with regard to the Spanish Civil War, with particular emphasis on the whitewashing of the role of the Stalinists in the counterrevolution.
An interview with Noam Chomsky on the Spanish revolution - Jorell A. Meléndez Badillo (2009)
In this 2009 interview originally published in Spanish, Noam Chomsky answers questions about military options and international factors in the Spanish Civil War, the role of the Stalinists in suppressing the revolution in Spain, the attitudes of intellectuals with regard to the revolution and their historical role more generally, and the chances for another libertarian revolution.
Poor Lenin - Bob Darke
Extracts from the 1952 book "The communist technique in Britain" by a former leading member of the Communist Party exposing their authoritarian, power-seeking methods.
Towards a Communist party - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst discusses the problems of regroupment facing British left groups, and the proposals to affiliate to the Communist International.
Freedom of discussion - Sylvia Pankhurst
Article on the necessity of free, open discussion within the CPGB, and the need for Workers' Dreadnought to remain independent of the party Executive.
Our point of view - Sylvia Pankhurst
Explanation of the principles of the Workers' Dreadnought group, and their reasons for joining the Communist Party of Great Britain.
Left-wing communism in Britain 1917-21...An infantile disorder? - Bob Jones
Submitted by Red Marriott on Dec 1 2007 19:44
A survey of the anti-parliamentarist communist movement in Britain during and after WWI, and the effects of Comintern/Bolshevik directives on the efforts at organisational unity.
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