Intransigence is an online journal which is a joint undertaking between a few groups (Workers' Offensive, Gulf Coast Communist Fraction, Internationalist Workers Group, and Klasbatalo Collective) and individuals in North America. It is subtitled “Publication of the Internationalists in North America”. Its self-proclaimed goal is “to aid in the regrouping effort that is currently underway, serving as both a medium for internal discussion and a means of publicizing these views.”
We cannot but welcome this new initiative and it is supported by comrades who are either affiliated to the ICT or aim to affiliate to it. We see it as another example of new groups and publications which are emerging around the world taking up long-established internationalist positions. We wish the project well, and will try to play our part in the not-so-easy task of establishing real communist nuclei, with a real capacity for intervening in the struggle, as forerunners of local sections across North America, of a world working class party.
To read Intransigence go to intransigence.org
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This North American Left
This North American Left communist publication now into its 3rd challenging edition.
A mixed bag of contributions
A mixed bag of contributions but thought this effort made some interesting points linking mistaken notions of opposition between productive and unproductive or 'parasitical' labour in capitalism as sometimes utilised by both right-wing and left-wing politics with an aside on antisemitism;
https://intransigence.org/2018/11/02/splendors-and-miseries-of-producerism/
That's a really good article,
That's a really good article, one thing to complain about though:
"Rather, Marxists should insist that its “producer” comprises humanity as a whole — a “producer” which, although estranged from its actual productive potential, remains the unconscious source of all the wealth that capitalism secretes on our planet."
Could brush up on critique of the gotha programme:
Critique of the Gotha Programme
It happens that not all the
It happens that not all the groups considered this publication and the attempted coordination behind it worthwhile in the long run as explained here:
https://mcmxix.org/2021/01/20/closing-intransigence/
It obviously enabled some groups to work together in a more unified way... but of course still a long way from any genuine unified political movement or the single Party aimed at by many.
Yes, Intransigence is no
Yes, Intransigence is no more, and it's been replaced by 1919, journal of the two North American affiliates of the ICT (Klasbatalo and IWG). You can find a PDF of issue 1 HERE.