Group of International Communists (GIC)

Dutch council communists, the Group of International Communists (Groep van Internationale Communisten – GIC; Gruppe Internationaler Kommunisten – GIK).

Anton Pannekoek

Marx’s critique of socialist labor-money schemes and the myth of council communism’s Proudhonism - David Adam

In this article, David Adam takes aim at Gilles Dauvé's critique of the council…

Gorter’s Open Letter: the details - Serge Bricianer

Serge Bricianer on German left communist Herman Gorter's 'Open letter to comrade Lenin, A reply to “left-wing” communism, an infantile disorder'.

The workers councils as organisational foundation of communist production - GIK

A summary of the basic theoretical foundations of the work 'Fundamental principles of communist production and distribution' by the Dutch German left group GIK.

The workers' councils in the theory of the Dutch-German communist left - Philippe Bourrinet

Philippe Bourrinet looks at the formation of the Dutch-German communist left, and…

Appel, Jan, 1890-1985

A short autobiography of Jan Appel, aka Jan Arndt, a German libertarian communist and shipyard worker who most famously hijacked a steam ship to…

Introduction to the Group of International Communists

Origins of the Movement for Workers' Councils in Germany

Pamphlet on the origins of the Movement for Workers' Councils in Germany, covering the 1918…

Putilov Factory, Petrograd

Fundamental principles of communist production and distribution

Full text of Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution, Collective work of the…

German Revolution

Autobiography of Jan Appel

Jan Appel, 1890-1985, was a German socialist and shipyard worker whose experience of the 1918 Revolution, after which he hijacked a steam ship to…