On the construction of socialism - Nikolai Osinsky (Valerian V. Obolensky) In this text first published in the journal of the Bolshevik left communists, The Communist, in…
Lessons of the counterrevolutions - Amadeo Bordiga A 1953 text in which Amadeo Bordiga examines the lessons of counterrevolutions from the defeat of Spartacus to the Battle of Legnano in 1176 and…
Chinese workers: A new history - Jackie Sheehan This 1998 book traces the development of workers' struggles in China from the 1950s to the Tianenmen movement of 1989 and beyond. It looks at the…
Yugoslav self-management: Capitalism under the red banner - Juraj Katalenac Analysis of Yugoslav socialism and its system of self-management. From Insrugent Notes #9.
History of organized fascism in Serbia Sava Devurić's essay tracing the history of Serbian fascism from the early twentieth century to the present day.
Soviet Union, China and other Stalinisms - reading guide Further reading guide about "state socialist" countries. Unlike many books on Stalinist societies,…
The middle class, the partocracy and fascism - Miguel Amorós A discussion of “partocracy”, defined as “a modern type of developmentalist oligarchy” characterized…
The Alternative To Capitalism - Adam Buick and John Crump E-book by Adam Buick and John Crump on capitalism and its revolutionary alternative.
The 1918 treaty of Brest-Litovsk: curbing the revolution - Guy Sabatier A detailed historical account and political analysis of the treaty that marked the official…
The revolutionary alternative to left-wing politics Subversion's critique of the radical left as being merely the state capitalist left wing of capital, as opposed to a revolutionary working class force.
In this world, but not of this world - Gilles Dauvé Gilles Dauvé discusses his 1972 essay Capitalism and Communism, Marxism and the state capitalist countries of the 20th century, the position of…
Did the Bolshevik seizure of power inaugurate a socialist revolution? A Marxian inquiry - Paresh Chattopadhyay Chattopadhyay applies Marxian categories to the Russian Revolution of 1917 to…