The Most Intransigent of Bolsheviks: Gavril Miasnikov, the Workers Group and the Degeneration of the Russian Revolution
Submitted by TommyLawson on Sep 12 2021 02:46
A new biography of Left-Communist Gavril Miasnikov and the Workers Group of the Russian Communist Party.
A Communist Left Critique of Platformism (Part II): The Platform and its Disciples
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jul 21 2021 14:29
In Part I we examined the Free Territory, or Makhnovshchina, the revolutionary movement in Southern Ukraine 1918-21. It was neither a peasant counter-revolution as portrayed in Trotskyist and Stalinist propaganda, nor an anarchist utopia. Rather it was part and parcel of the bloody process of the rise and fall of the Russian Revolution, itself a part of the post-war revolutionary wave. In Part II we finally look at The Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists or simply the Platform, and the Platformist tendency that it later inspired.
A Communist Left Critique of Platformism (Part I): The Makhnovshchina
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jul 21 2021 14:12
Many over the years have pointed out the apparent similarities between Platformism and the Communist Left, and indeed some comrades whom today we count among our ranks first came to the politics of the Communist Left through Platformism. But while the need for revolutionaries to come together, in an organisation united around a common platform, is something both tendencies acknowledge, the differences go a bit further than whether one stands beneath a red or black banner. We often get asked what is our attitude towards Platformism and the following is a two-part attempt to grapple with the question.
Neither Israel, Nor Palestine: No War but the Class War
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 22 2021 15:18
The one hope — and a hope not just for the workers of Palestine or Israel but for the whole of humanity — is a working class revival which resists all the attempts of capitalism and imperialism to thrust their bloody agendas upon us.
May Day 2021: The Only Future for Humanity is Communist Revolution
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 30 2021 10:25
We are certain that humanity is capable of recovering from the many evils that afflict it today, but only through a radical change in the world’s economic and social order.
Closing Intransigence
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 25 2021 22:48
Editorial from 1919 (mcmxix.org), the new journal of the North American affiliates of the ICT.
Class Consciousness and Working Class Emancipation
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 2 2021 12:26
Discussion with the Angry Workers of the World (AWW)
Balance sheet of a revolution / Bilan d'une révolution
As one of the major works of the communist left, Bilan d'une révolution covers the undistorted reality of the great and tragic October revolution, the various false interpretations that still surround it, as well as the development of the Russian economy up until the 1960s and, in much detail, its capitalist character.
Balance sheet of a revolution (Bilan d’une révolution) - Part III: The Soviet economy after October
In its last chapter, the balance sheet of the 1917 revolution examines the development of the Russian economy from the New Economic Policy of the early 1920s, through Stalin’s struggles against the Marxist left and Marxist right of the Bolshevik Party, up to the late 1960s.
Balance sheet of a revolution (Bilan d’une révolution) - Part II: False lessons about the counter‑revolution in Russia
Much has been written about the Stalinist counter-revolution, most of it is wrong.
This chapter of Bilan takes on those false interpretations espoused by Anarchists, Social Democrats, Trotskyists, and the like, all while also examining the deep disconnect between Trotsky and his disciples.
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