libertarian communism

Some Thoughts about On-Going Discussions in Ultra-Left Milieus - Henri Simon

Some Thoughts about On-Going Discussions in Ultra-Left Milieus - Henri Simon

A Debate between Simon Pirani and Cyril Smith

Richard Gombin - Origins of Modern Leftism book cover

The Origins of Modern Leftism - Richard Gombin

Text on the origins of the contemporary political left wing.

Workers storm the Royal Palace in the German Revolution

The story of our origins - Gilles Dauvé

Dauve traces the emergence of the ultra-left current in the aftermath of WWI and the failure of the Russian and German Revolutions.

Anton Pannekoek

Workers' councils - 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 -…

Society of the spectacle - Guy Debord

French Situationist Guy Debord's seminal analysis of consumer capitalism in the late 20th century.

The struggle against the state and other essays - Nestor Makhno

An anthology of articles by Ukrainian libertarian communist and guerrilla fighter Nestor Makhno

About the platform (In reply to A project in anarchist organisation) - Nestor Makhno

A debate about 'Platformism'.

On Reading and Not Reading Theoretical Works

Chris Wright's thoughts on reading effectively.

The Masses & The Vanguard - Paul Mattick

Why the parties and unions are obstacles to be overcome - and the need for working class self-organisation.

Council Communism - Paul Mattick

On the eve of World War Two, Mattick considers, once again, the organisational needs of the working class.

Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program

This text is described in Internationale Situationniste #5 (p. 11) as "a platform for discussion within the SI, and for its linkup with revolutionary militants of the workers movement." Translated by Ken Knabb (slightly modified from the version in the Situationist International Anthology).