From left radicalism to council communism: Anton Pannekoek and German revolutionary Marxism – John Gerber John Gerber on the revolutionary movement in Germany and the involvement of Anton…
On council communism - Marcel van der Linden Marcel van der Linden writes on council communism. In PDF format.
Apology for the Algerian insurrection - Jaime Semprun Translated extracts of a pamphlet on the 2001 Algerian insurrection.
Politics in the First Person: the autonomous workers movement in Italy - Wicked Messengers Article about Autonomia Operaia and the radical workers' movement in Italy in the 1960s and 70s.
A fresh look at Lenin - Andy Brown Solidarity pamphlet #56, in which Andy Brown examines the failure of the Russian revolution and its relation to the ideology of Lenin, its key…
Origin and function of the party form - Jacques Camatte This text, by Jacques Camatte, first appeared in Italian in the journal 'Il programma comunista' …
The red Jacobins: Thermidor and the Russian revolution in 1921 Stalin was the gravedigger of the Russian Revolution, as conscious agent of the bureaucratic elite…
Vagabonds, criminals, paupers & gangrels? An article from Variant magazine on Welfare Reform and an interview with Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty
The birth of Glasgow's anarchism The following is a short extract from Mairtin O' Cathain's book 'With a bent elbow and a clenched fist’ A Brief History of the Glasgow Anarchists
The Unhappy Elitist: Victor Serge's Early Bolshevism - Peter Sedgwick Peter Sedgwick examines the early, often seemingly contradictory, politics of anarchist-turned…
Marxism, prefigurative communism, and the problem of workers' control - Carl Boggs Carl Boggs writes on the movement for workers' councils, looking at the examples of the failures of the Russian and German revolutions, and the Italian Biennio Rosso.