Back to the Future: Rebranding Social Democracy There are two ways to read Inventing the Future. One is a fairly innocent critique of the “post-68 left”, and an outline of how to build a…
The Poverty of Luxury Communism A spectre is haunting Europe and the US, the spectre of... productivist national protectionism from the Left. QQ and Mike Harman respond to…
Anti-Shorten: The ALP is still selling bullshit A critique of the rehashed social democracy of the Australian Labor Party. Republished from The Word From Struggle Street - an anticapitalist…
'Change the Rules': reifying labour under capital A critique of Sally McManus, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and the 'Change the Rules' campaign from a communist perspective.
Our class memory, on The Beast of Property by Johann Most - ICG The Internationalist Communist Group's introduction to Johann Most's text 'Beast of Property', in…
Beyond the Party: The evolution of the concept of “the Party” since Marx – Junius Collective (Pour une Intervention Communiste) An essay by Pour une Intervention Communiste on the origins and development of the…
Voting as Counter-Revolution – how the politicians who gave us the vote saw things 100 years ago A hundred years ago, the British ruling class decided to extend the vote to women…
Why I’m still not voting Corbyn, rather than being the saviour of the working class in Britain, demonstrates the futility of even the best of intentions when operating…
Different critics of the Bolsheviks - Karl Kautsky 24 March 1918, Mitteilungsblatt (der Berliner SPD). Translation (in part) of Verschiedene Kritiker der Bolschewiki. Reproduced for reference.
Thoughts on Mark Fisher and the “slow cancellation of the future” Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Past shows the world through Fisher’s eyes, a beautifully depressing…
Contrasting populisms: Lambie’s labourism and Hanson’s opportunism The Australian Left are keen to conflate the anti-politics offered by Jacqui Lambie and Pauline…
Socialism and the Negro Problem: W.E.B. Du bois W.E.B. Du Bois published this article as a public criticism of attitude and strategy of the Socialist Party of America, accusing it of…