Beyond Kronstadt; the Bolsheviks in power - Mark Kosman This article tries to go beyond the usual Kronstadt debate between Trotskyists and anarchists on why…
Seventy days in Russia: What I saw - Angel Pestaña First published in Spain in 1924, Angel Pestaña’s journal recounting his experiences in Russia in the summer of 1920 as the delegate sent by the…
Poland 1980-1982: Class struggle and the crisis of capital - Henri Simon Henri Simon's brilliant and detailed account and analysis of the militant working class struggles in…
The fusion of anabaptist, Indian and African as the American radical tradition - Loren Goldner The following article attempts, in a nutshell, to apply Ernst Bloch's idea of "non-contemporary contradiction" to American history. It was written for a symposium on "Religion and Politics" in the U.S.-based journal Against the Current.
Anti-capitalism or anti-imperialism? Interwar authoritarian and fascist sources of a reactionary ideology: The case of the Bolivian MNR Loren Goldner's detailed account and analysis of the Bolivian Revolutionary…
Greek Stalinists welcome fascist involvement in workers dispute The Greek Communist Party (KKE) have seemingly welcomed the involvement of the a fascist…
Testimony of a black worker - Charles Denby Extracts from Charles Denby's excellent autobiographical work, Indignant Heart - Testimony of a Black Worker. The extracts describe his…
Forgotten men, what now? : New Deal "security" - Abe Bluestein Abe Bluestein's post- New Deal pamphlet encouraging self organisation and mass direct action among…
An interview with Paul Mattick, Jr. in New York, 1991 An interview conducted in New York on November 17, 1991, by Hannu Reime with Paul Mattick Jr about his father, Paul Mattick Snr and his ideas on council communism and the Bolsheviks against the background of the demise of the Soviet Union.
Karl Marx: Anti-bourgeois or neo-bourgeois? - Max Nomad 1960s text by Max Nomad, criticising Marxism and revolutionary ideologies in general as vehicles for the emancipation of the educated middle classes. We do not necessarily agree with all of it.
The Bolshevik myth: diary 1920-1922 - Alexander Berkman This book provides first-hand documentation of events in the Soviet Union when the Civil War was…