Factory organisations or trade unions? - Fritz Wolffheim Speech presented on August 16, 1919 before the assembly of the Communist Party’s Hamburg local, on the nature of trade unions.
The Hamburg revolution - Heinrich Laufenberg A participant's account of their involvement in the November 1918 rebellion in Hamburg, and the movement of workers' councils that developed from…
Bordiga versus Pannekoek - Antagonism Introduction to a pamphlet examining how the Italian and Dutch-German communist lefts dealt with the questions of communist organisation, consciousness and class.
Review: Anti-Parliamentary Communism in Britain, 1917-1945 - The Red Menace Review of Mark Shipway's book, Anti-Parliamentary Communism: the Movement for Workers' Councils in…
The communist left in Germany 1918-1921 - Gilles Dauvé and Denis Authier A analysis of the revolutionary movements in Europe at the end of World War I, their contradictions…
Letter on Workers Councils - Anton Pannekoek Letter written by Anton Pannekoek where he expounds his theories on the organisation and power of workers' councils.
Review - Workers' Councils by Anton Pannekoek - Red and Black Notes Red and Black Notes review of Workers' Councils by Anton Pannekoek. The full text of Workers'…
Review - The Dutch and German Communist Left: A contribution to the history of the revolutionary movement - Red and Black Notes Red and Black Notes review of the history of the Dutch and German communist left.
Intervention-> communication-> participation - Antagonism This is an edited version of a text, by the Antagonism group, sent in 2001 to Left Communist email list as part of a discussion on intervention, the ideology of intervention, and the supposed separation between revolutionaries and the proletariat in low periods of class struggle.
Radical traditions: council communism - Steve Wright Steve Wright gives a brief overview of the origins, history and basic tenets of council communism, and provides suggestions for further reading on the topic.
