left communism

The 1918 treaty of Brest-Litovsk: curbing the revolution - Guy Sabatier

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A detailed historical account and political analysis of the treaty that marked the official conclusion of the First World War on the Eastern Front, in which the author stridently advocates the position of the “left communists” who opposed the treaty and instead called for international revolutionary war, with extensive discussion of the connection between the opposing views on this question in the Bolshevik Party and crucial domestic controversies concerning revolutionary social organization and economic policy.

Towards a new labor movement (principles of left communism) - For the Workers' Opposition

A manifesto written and presented in Spring 1981 by For the Workers' Opposition, a small group of anarchists and council communists from Chicago, IL inspired by the German/Dutch communist left.

What Next For The American Workers?

Pamphlet from the United Workers Party of America

World Wide Fascism or World Revolution?

Manifesto and Program of the United Workers Party of America

Bolshevism or Communism: On The Question of a New Communist Party and the "Fourth" International

A piece discussing the Left Opposition and Trotksyism from the point of view of left communists around the IWW in the United Workers Party of America

Democratic Centralism - Eduard Dune

Eduard Martynovich Dune, a member of the opposition group "Democratic centralism". For his opposition activities he was arrested and spent many years in Vorkuta. Fled during the Second World war. Analysis made in 1947 for the Menshevik émigré organ "Socialističeskij Vestnik". Died in 1953. Source: Archive of L.D. Trotsky, vol. 2 ; Chernyavskiy, Felshtinsky.

Imperialism and the tasks of the proletariat - Anton Pannekoek

Influential text by council communist Anton Pannekoek published for the first time in English. Originally published in 1916 the journal of Zimmerwald Left (Verbote).

Left Communism: an anarchist perspective

Wayne Price compares his conception of anarchism with tendencies in left communism.

New forgery - decists

Rejection of an underground leaflet falsely ascribed to the decists. Source used for this translation was Stephen Shenfield's upload: Collection of documents on the Decists (p. 71-73)

Gorter’s open letter: The details - Serge Bricianer

Serge Bricianer on German left communist Herman Gorter's Open Letter to Lenin.