Introduction to Communism #7.

From Man's Alienation to Human Community.

"The point is not to free labour, but to abolish it." - Karl Marx -

The media are extremely effective tools for moulding world public opinion, and are basic instruments of cretinisation used at all levels of society in the interests of world capitalism. What they call "terrorism" are acts of violence against persons or things, the responsibility for which are not claimed by states they consider legitimate.

Communism Against Democracy.

Leaflet: FED UP!

Faced with new threats to their living conditions, the railway workers - with some other groups alongside - have again taken up the wildcat strike. Without asking anyone else's opinion. These 'irresponsible people' haven't even waited for the unions to start negotiating the exact terms of the new measures taken against them before moving into action.

In this issue of our english-language review "Communism" we're starting a new heading "Workers' Memory" - just like we've been republishing for several years already in our French and Spanish reviews other important and often old texts from the workers' movement that today are difficult to find.

The text below is reprinted from our French review "Parti de Classe" No 6. It was leafleted in Paris by comrades during an anti-racist demonstration.

A Foot in the Birthday Cake: Marx in spite of and against everybody

We are publishing here a first attempt to summarize our fundamental positions. We want to insist on the danger of using this text as if it were a new bible, as a formal and eternal reference. We consider this text as a photograph taken at a certain level of experience of our group, knowing that we'll produce other materials, other texts which will be at quite different levels of abstraction and concretisation.

Contribution to the so-called "Question of the Party"