Libertarian unnecessarian - Blake Nemo The libertarian/authoritarian dichotomy is less than useful for communist politics, writes Blake Nemo.
Turning No into Yes: Syriza's Memorandum Some thoughts on current developments in Greece. While events are still moving and uncertain at the moment the along awaited third memorandum…
An anarchist in love with Mao’s China - Herbert Read’s ‘letters from China’ ... Plus a list of dubious accounts of ‘successful’ revolutions, from Russia to Rojava In the second year of the Great Leap Forward famine – in which perhaps 30 million…
Samuel Kaplan: another mysterious disappearance in Spain A short account of the fate of the Lithuanian anarchist Samuel Kaplan, who fought with the Durruti…
State socialism - Karl Kautsky First article of a 3-part series by Karl Kautsky from 1881. It is a critique of state socialism. The second article can be found here.
Brief response to '4 reasons working-class radicals should vote Labour’ on Novara A brief response to the issues raised by AWL member, Daniel Randall, in his article (4 Reasons…
In the crossfire: adventures of a Vietnamese revolutionary - Ngo Van Xuyet Ngo Van Xuyet's accounts of class struggle in Vietnam before the rise of Ho Chi Minh and the US…
Televisionaries: the Red Army Faction story - Tom Vague A short book on Germany's most notorious urban guerrilla group, the Red Army Faction, aka the Baader…
Students for a Stalinist Society - James W. Cain A 1969 article about the dominance and factional fights of various Stalinist sects within Students For A Democratic Society.
The party is haunting us again The National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA) recently split from the African National Congress (ANC). As part of this it is…
The historical significance of the POUM - Wilebaldo Solano In this text based on a presentation delivered in 1985 at a conference on the POUM held in Madrid,…
Syriza's first month A month since its election Syriza has moved far from its anti-austerity, anti-bailout rhetoric.
