The SPA: Dashed on the Rocks of Compromise
Submitted by jondwhite on Aug 22 2016 15:40
Other than in our Socialist Party, way too much thought on revolutionary socialist organisation gets written advocating Lenin’s way as the one and only way and applying historic conditions under Russian feudalism to Western democracies today, and whose justification amounts to thinly veiled apologetics for ‘history is written by the victors’. The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History by Jack Ross, published last year, joins the comparatively smaller range of literature not from this vanguard perspective, and even opposed to it.
Turfs, and also clumps
Submitted by Nate on Jul 24 2016 03:30
Blog post on tensions around organizing campaigns encouraging or discouraging contact with the life of the larger organization
Resistance Vol. 12, No. 3 (August-October 1954)
The Vol. 12, No. 3 (August-October 1954) issue of Resistance, an anarchist publication produced out of New York.
Communist organisation and discipline - Amadeo Bordiga (1924)
Article by Amadeo Bordiga from Prometeo no. 5, May 15th 1924, on the structure and functioning of communist parties, and the International.
We Can Learn to Live Free
Give the human race a little credit. We can surely learn to live free, neither dominant nor submissive.
An Interview with Karl Marx
A reporter for the New York World interviews Karl Marx in 1871 about the goals and organizational methods of the First International.
From Greenford with love: an interview with the Angry Workers of West London's warehouses
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on May 21 2016 16:50
libcom.org catches up with the excellent Angry Workers of the World to discuss their ongoing agitation in the West London warehouses and surrounding communities.
The Vest Pocket Chairman by R. Heathwood and G. Horsman 1960
The National Council of Labour Colleges (NCLC) was an organisation set up in the United Kingdom to foster working class self-education.
Bolshevism or communism - United Workers Party of America
1934 article by the council communist UWPA and the National Committee of the Communist League of America, Left Opposition on the question of a new Party and a new (Fourth) International.
Combative unionism: waging class war within labour - Prairie Struggle
After putting much of our efforts in the cross Canada Speaking Tour on Combative Unionism, a debate on Combative unionism took place inside and outside of Prairie Struggle giving way to PSO's first position paper. In this position paper we hope to contribute to the relevant work and theoretical development that has been done or is already underway. We salute our comrades within the revolutionary left that are active in undermining bureaucratic control over working class power.
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