organisation
Outside and Against the Unions
Focusing on the example of the NUM in the UK miners strike of 1984-5, Wildcat argue that far from helping workers, unions actually act as a barrier to workers' struggles.
OUTSIDE AND AGAINST THE UNIONS
A communist response to [URL=/tags/Dave-Douglass] Dave Douglass' [/URL] text "Refracted Perspective"
by Wildcat (UK)
INTRODUCTION
Root and Branch
Organisational statement of the Root and Branch collective outlining their libertarian take on communist theory and practice.
ROOT AND BRANCH (From #7; undated - probably late 70s) With the 1960s the eternal prosperity, the managed economy, and the attendant "death of ideology" of the post-World War II period came to an end.
Some Thoughts on the Re-organization of the Revolutionary Left
Some Thoughts on the Re-organization of the Revolutionary Left
Some Thoughts on Organisation - Henri Simon
Henri Simon discusses the relationship between permanent and more fluid forms of organisation.
The Refusal of Work
Article about the movement towards the refusal of work in the 1970s.
FOREWORD This pamphlet is the translation of a pamphlet published in 1978 in France. It is neither a complete nor a definitive study on the 'refusal of work. (this title itself seems not very relevant to the authors). It most be the opening of a debate on this subject with a view to a more developed work.
Fundamental Theses of the Party - Amadeo Bordiga
At the Lyons Congress of the Communist Party of Italy in 1926, shortly before the Communist International adopted the theory of "socialism in one country", the Left presented a draft theses (The Lyons Theses) which predictably was rejected by the largely Stalinised party.
In these theses our current drew not only the balance sheet of the situation in Italy, of its activity when it was in the leadership of the Communist Party of Italy, and of the activity of the Gramsci-Togliatti leadership which was imposed on the party by the Communist International in the years after 1924.
Proletarian dictatorship and class party
Bordiga's text on the role of the workers' party in the class struggle and enforcement of proletarian power.
I
Every class struggle is a political struggle (Marx).
A struggle which limits itself to obtaining a new distribution of economic gains is not yet a political struggle because it is not directed against the social structure of the production relations.
Party and class - Amadeo Bordiga
Amadeo Bordiga's thesis on the relationship of communist militants to the rest of the working class.
[i]The text published here appeared in 1921 in the theoretical review of the Communist Party of Italy, Rassegna Comunista ("Partito e classe", Rassegna Comunista no 2, April 15, 1921).
Class struggle and "bosses' offensives" - Amadeo Bordiga
Amadeo Bordiga's critique of revisionist forms of Marxism arguing against reformism and in favour an offensive communist politics.
Yesterday
The mistakes in the practice of the proletarian struggle and the ruinous deviations from it, which are a feature of the First World War period, the Second World War and this postwar period, are closely linked to confusion about the cardinal points of the Marxist method.
The Zapatistas and the International Circulation of Struggle - Lessons Suggested and Problems Raised
A variation of this Paper, originally prepared for the conference on "Globalization from Below" at Duke in February 1998, presented to the INET'98 Conference in Geneva in July 1998.
For a long, long time many activists have recognized two things: first, that capitalism operates on a global level and second, that to achieve enough power to overthrow capitalism the working class must find ways to organize its own struggles at the same level.
