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Interventions by the KAPD at the 3rd Congress of the Communist International, 1921

Interventions by delegates of the left communist KAPD (Communist Workers Party of Germany) at the Congress of the Third International.

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What is Council Communism?

Wage Slave X outlines the history and theory of Council communism.

As a distinct political current within the radical workers’ movement, council communism arose in the 1920s and ‘30s, originally in Germany and Holland. The revolutionary uprising in Germany from 1918 to 1921 provided the original impulse.

Notes on Capitalist Globalization

Wage Slave X on capitalist globalisation.

Note One: Why Globalization?

Notes on the Real Domination of Capital and State Capitalism

Wage slave X. on capitalism and state capitalism.

The problem: to understand how the transition from the formal to the real domination of capital leads to: totalitarian state capitalism, which swallows/absorbs the whole of bourgeois 'civil society', reduces democracy to facade, a form of ideological control over society, prevents the possibility of 'permanent' class struggle by the proletariat through 'permanent' struggle organizations -- such as

Capitalism, technology and the environment

A (non-orthodox) Marxist critique of technology under capitalism as inherently antagonistic towards the environment as well as labor.

Lessons Of the Black Sunday Sellout - Wage Slave X

Article by Wage Slave X, examining the lessons that can be drawn by the unions sellout on "Black Monday" in 2004.

Over the May Day weekend, many thousands of working class people around B.C. were confident that something truly wonderful, yet something also deadly serious, was going to flower in the coming week, beginning Monday, the 3rd. Behind it all, what it was all about was what has been sometimes called the 'social question'.

Unions Narrowly Avert General Strike In B.C., Canada - Wage Slave X

Article looking at the near-General Strike in 2004 in Canada. The strike was stopped at the last minute by the unions.

In the week from April 25 to May 2, 2004, what began as a legal strike by 43,000 hospital workers in British Columbia (B.C.), Canada nearly developed into an illegal 'general strike' by upwards of 200,000 workers against the provincial government (which funds the hospitals and the health-care system generally), and potentially involving perhaps another 100,000 to 150,000 unionized workers.