Anton Pannekoek

Anton Pannekoek's seminal texts describing how workers' councils have been and can be organs of self-organised working class power in struggle -…

On the limits of state capitalism as a strategy for the ruling class. This article was apparently…

"... there comes a disparity between the working class and trade unionism. The working class has to look beyond capitalism. Trade unionism lives…

Pannekoek considers the possibility of resistance to the threat of Cold War annihilation in the then-dawning "Atomic Age". (From "RETORT", Vol. 4…

Anton Pannekoek, from "Living Marxism" Vol. 5, # 2 - Fall 1940.

Pannekoek hammers at the idea that party and class must be antagonistic, as the history of German and Russian parties had shown by 1936. Rather,…

"There are many who think of the proletarian revolution in terms of the former revolutions of the…

Pannekoek's classic work analyses Lenin's philosophical views as being determined by the historical circumstances they emerged from; the battle…

Having been victimized by capitalism, the working class were deluded by state socialist parties German and Russian, who only engineered a return…

Prompted by the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 - by Marinus van der Lubbe, a council communist bricklayer and other possible accomplices -…

Pannekoek applies his critique to the theories of Luxemburg and Grossman - and shows why capitalism…

Pannekoek surveys the possibilities and obstacles for communist revolution in 1920.