Critical Theory and Society: A Reader
Collection of writings from people associated with the University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, or the Frankfurt School
Notes on dialectics - C.L.R. James
C.L.R. James out of print major work written in 1948 and circulated within the Johnson Forest Tendency. James continued to recommend it as essential reading to members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in the early 1970s.
Mythology About the Middle Class and the Class Struggle
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 1 2021 13:16
The notion that there exists a growing middle class whose livelihood rests neither on wage labour nor manufacturing or industrial profits has long been used to challenge Marx’s revolutionary perspective that ultimately the future of capitalism will be decided by a struggle between the two great contending classes in modern society: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, or if you prefer, the bosses and the workers.
The Tours Congress and the Birth of the French Communist Party
Submitted by Internationalis... on Feb 23 2021 13:40
It is now 100 years since the Tours Congress of 25 to 31 December 1920, when the majority of delegates of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) voted to join the Third International.
Paltry Returns on Capital and an Enormous Debt Pile Are Bringing the World Economy to its Knees
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 29 2021 19:23
The following piece is a slightly condensed translation of the Italian original, published in the January edition of Battaglia Comunista, journal of the ICT’s founding section in Italy.
Introduction to the philosophy of marxism: part one - R.S. Baghavan, foreword by CLR James
Out of print introduction to Marxist philosophy by R.S. Baghavan of Socialist Platform.
Foreword by CLR James-- one of his last pieces of writing.
100 Years Since Livorno
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 22 2021 22:43
In January 1921, more than three years after the October Revolution in Russia, some two years since the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in Berlin at the behest of the German Social Democratic Party, and in the aftermath of two wasted years of workers’ factory occupations in Italy itself, the intransigent revolutionaries in the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), led by Amadeo Bordiga, finally won the day and broke from the old party of compromise and accommodation with capital to form the Communist Party of Italy (PCd’I).
Marxism and politics - Ralph Miliband
Ralph Miliband's out of print introduction to Marxism. “The best primer on Marxism and politics ever written and Miliband's best book.” —Leo Panitch, professor of politics, York University
An Introduction to the Work of the CWO and ICT
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 5 2021 22:13
The article which follows is a transcript of an introduction to an online meeting of CWO members and sympathisers on 21 November 2020.
The Illusion of State Intervention in the Economy: The Eternal Anti-Working Class Weapon of Reformism
Submitted by Internationalis... on Dec 12 2020 13:38
With each new jolt to the capitalist structure its crisis deepens. The disruption of production and distribution caused by the coronavirus pandemic has only added to the existing woes of the system. And, as ever, the working class is being fed illusions about the beneficial effect that state intervention would bring to their conditions and to the "community" in general, irrespective of class.
