International Council Correspondence
Early 20th century council communist journal, acting as a correspondence hub between (mainly) European council communists. The journal changed its name to Living Marxism in 1938 and again to New Essays in 1942.
The Brownshirts of Zionism - Abner Barnatan
An article by a council communist on the Fascistic qualities of 1930s Zionist Revisionism.
Originally published in "International Council Correspondence", Chicago, USA, Vol. III, No. 4, April 1937.
Reprinted by Unpopular Books, London, March 1989.
The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group (Sam Moss, 1930s, USA)
"It is the writer's conviction that the day of the revolutionary party is over; the revolutionary groups under present conditions are tolerated, or rather ignored, only as long as they are impotent; that nothing is so symptomatic of their powerlessness as the fact that they are permitted to exist. We have often stated that the working class which will endure while capitalism lasts, and which cannot be obliterated under this system can alone wage a successful struggle against capitalism and that the initiative can not be taken out of its hands.
We may add here after all the conservatism of the working class today, only reflects the still massive strength of capitalism, and that this material power cannot be cast out of existence by propaganda but by a material power greater than that of capital."
From International Council Correspondence.
State capitalism and dictatorship (alternate translation)
On the limits of state capitalism as a strategy for the ruling class.
This article was apparently first published in Raete Korrespondenz. This translation was published unsigned in the American journal International Council Correspondence Vol. III No. 1 January 1937.
Trade Unionism
"... there comes a disparity between the working class and trade unionism. The working class has to look beyond capitalism. Trade unionism lives entirely within capitalism and cannot look beyond it. Trade unionism can only represent a part, a necessary but narrow part, in the class struggle. And it develops aspects which bring it into conflict with the greater aims of the working class."
Pannekoek's text first appeared under his pen name "J Harper" in the American journal International Council Correspondence, (Vol II No 2, Jan 1936).
