Theory and practice: an introduction to Marxian theory - Root and Branch 1979 article by Root and Branch, introducing Marxist theory.
Government cuts - 'Are they really as stupid as they seem', by Hillel Ticktin There are a surprising lack of convincing explanations as to why the capitalist class is pushing…
Council communist theory - Peter J. Rachleff Peter Rachleff's 1976 introduction to and history of council communism.
Karl Marx - Karl Korsch Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. Left communist Karl Korsch's detailed biography of Karl Marx.
An Address to the Anarchists - Antonio Gramsci, 1920 Writing on the eve of the April 1920 Turin general strike led by factory councils, Gramsci attacks the Italian anarchists in a rather patronising…
Antonio Gramsci and the Bolshevization of the PCI - Thomas R Bates Thomas R. Bates on Gramsci's role in the turn of the Italian Communist Party towards Bolshevik…
From left radicalism to council communism: Anton Pannekoek and German revolutionary Marxism – John Gerber John Gerber on the revolutionary movement in Germany and the involvement of Anton…
Origin and function of the party form - Jacques Camatte This text, by Jacques Camatte, first appeared in Italian in the journal 'Il programma comunista' …
Marxism, prefigurative communism, and the problem of workers' control - Carl Boggs Carl Boggs writes on the movement for workers' councils, looking at the examples of the failures of the Russian and German revolutions, and the Italian Biennio Rosso.
Critical review of the ABC of communism - Mouvement Communiste Mouvement Communiste critically review the politics of the ABC of communism, by Nikolai Bukharin…
The Bakunin-Marx split in the 1st International - Franz Mehring Excerpts from Mehring's Karl Marx - The Story of His Life (1918) on the conflict between Bakunin and…
Karl Marx and the state David Adam addresses Marx’s concept of a socialist society in relation to various concepts of the state.
