David Brown

Content by or about David Brown, translator of Jacques Camatte texts and former member of Solidarity.

The River Styx

On the Banks of the River Styx - David Wise

Two letters (March 2010) to a young American Latino woman concerning situationists, ultra leftists, Jacques Camatte, post modernism, 'mad' Maoism…

just the title typed in black on a red/orange background

Shake It And Break It: Class and politics in Britain 1979/1989

Two texts published by Echanges et Mouvement in 1990: "The Myths of Thatcherism" by David Brown and …

Photos of A mass meeting at Fiumicino Airport during a strike, Roma Termini Station, empty as a result of a strike, ‘The Hon. Giuliano Amato, Minister of the Treasury, Socialist Party doyen of cuts in public expenditure.

The COBAS: Italy 1986-88: a new rank and file movement - David Brown

A pamphlet by David Brown on base unions in Italy. Published by Echanges et Mouvement / Advocom 1988…

Transition - Gianni Collu

Article by Collu, from 'Invariance', Serie I n. 8 (1969) and later, 'Antologia di Invariance' (Naples 1971), exploring formal and real…

This world we must leave - Jacques Camatte

A pamphlet consisting of texts from the journal Invariance: "This World We Must Leave" and "Statements and Citations". Translated by David Brown…

Comments on organisation - Solidarity (Swansea)

A member of Solidarity criticises 'elitism' in the organisation.

The illusion of 'Solidarity' - David Brown

David Brown's letter of resignation from the Solidarity group, and critique of the group's - and by extension Cornelius Castoriadis' - fundamental misunderstanding of Marx's critique of political economy.

About the Revolution - Jacques Camatte

From Invariance Series 2 No. 2 April 1972. This translation was made by David Brown in 1982 and was intended to be published with a translation of 'Capital and Community: The Results of the immediate Process of Production and the Economic Work of Marx' and some other texts by Camatte. This didn't happen and it had a very restricted circulation as a photocopied manuscript until the early 90's when Unpopular Books …

'A revolutionary assembly In a village, March 1917' in Illustrlerte Geschlchte der russlschen Revolution ed. W, Astrov, A. Slepkov and J, Thomas, Neuer Deutscher Verlag - Willi MUnzenberg, Berlin, 1928.

Community and Communism in Russia - Jacques Camatte

This text was originally intended to be the introduction to a french language edition of two of Amadeo Bordiga's texts on Russia : Russia and…