Third International
Third International - further reading guide
libcom's guide to further reading around the Comintern, or Third International.
*The Italian Left – Philippe Bourrinet
*The German Dutch Left - Philippe Bourrinet
*The German Revolution - H. Powys Greenwood
*The Wilhelmshaven revolt: a chapter of the revolutionary movement in the German Navy 1918-1919 by Icarus
*The Ruhr and Revolution - Tampke
*Revolutionary Hamburg - Comfort
*World Revolution and Communist Tactics – Pannekoek
*Communism versus Reforms – Pankhurst
Moscow And Us - Otto Rühle
Brief notes on the Russian revolution, the third International and their relationship with the German proletariat by council communist Otto Ruhle.
I
The First International was the International of the awakening.
Its role was to call on the world proletariat to wake up; it was to give it the great watchword of socialism.
Its task fell within the realm of propaganda.
The Second International was the International of organisation.
The KAPD’s report on the third congress of the Communist International
Report presented at the meeting of the KAPD Central Committee on July 31, 1921, by a KAPD delegate to the Third Congress of the Third International.
Comrades!
The Communist Left and the resolutions of the second congress of the Communist International - Henriette Roland-Holst
Dutch communist Roland-Holst argues against using the objective and subjective conditions of the Russian Revolution as a model for revolution in the Western countries.
The consequences of the decisions reached in Moscow are more complicated for the left communist groups.
Resolution of the conference of the Abstentionist Communist Fraction of the Italian Socialist Party
1920 text showing how the left wing of the Italian Socialist Party initially held anti-parliamentarist positions, prior to the Second Congress of the Communist International.
The National Conference of the abstentionist communist fraction of the Socialist Party of Italy was held in Florence on May 8 and 9, 1920.1
- 1. We include this short text of the Italian Left (extracted from Il Soviet and published by Kommunismus) in this collection because it shows, in opposition to the legend maintained by Bordiga and the Bordigists, that the entire Italian Left was actually more
Towards a Communist party - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst discusses the problems of regroupment facing British left groups, and the proposals to affiliate to the Communist International.
In The Call of February 12th Albert Inkpin, secretary to the BSP, gives an account of private unity negotiations to form a Communist Party of the four organisations which at present declare affiliation to the Third or Communist International, inaugurated at Moscow.
Soviet Russia as I saw it in 1920: the Congress in the Kremlin - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst's report to Workers' Dreadnaught, on her attendance at the Second Congress of the Communist International, in Moscow, 1920.
Almost immediately after my arrival at the Djelavoi Dvor, a message came: 'Lenin has sent for you to come at once to the Kremlin.'
Open letter to Lenin - Sylvia Pankhurst
Open letter from Sylvia Pankhurst and the Workers' Dreadnaught to Lenin, accusing the Third International parties of abandoning communism.
To Lenin, as representing the Russian Communist Party and the Russian Soviet Government.
Lenin’s Infantile Disorder. . .and the Third International - Franz Pfempfert
Franz Pfempfert comments on Lenin's infamous pamphlet, Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder.
Introduction
Marxism is Dead! Long Live Marxism - Mike Rooke
An examination of the limits of 2nd & 3rd International 'Orthodox Marxism' and the later theoretical contribution of the Situationist Guy Debord.
From; 'What Next' no. 30, 2005
