A Discussion Paper on Local Councils in Syria Syrian Anarchist Omar Aziz's short text on the formations of councils in Syria during the uprising against Assad's regime.
Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran Traversing a century of revolution, counter-revolution, and regime change in Iran, Arya Zahedi traces out the social, political, and ideological…
Poor Boy's Tale - an autobiography by Alan Woodward Autobiography of this working class revolutionary and radical historian covering the years 1939-1997. The book also charts Alan's progression…
The Age of Novelty - Claude Lefort Claude Lefort's updated analysis of the Hungarian Revolution. This piece from 1976 is a significant departure from Lefort's writing for…
Letter From a Striking Oil Worker in Iran Below is a brief note from a striking worker, Mahmoud from Assaluyeh. Not only is it a good illustration of how the leading strikers in Iran…
The Council Communist Reader The Communist Reader with a new introduction by Paul Mattick Jr. | Published by Radical Reprints (2021) | PDF attached | A print version is…
Workers' Strikes in Iran: A New Wave of Struggle In December 2018 we wrote an an article entitled Workers' Strikes in Iran: This Time it is Different about the end of the magnificent strikes and…
Workers in Stalin's Russia - Marie Louise Berneri A short book written in 1944. Berneri outlines how socialism did not exist in the U.S.S.R. and how the lives of workers under state socialism was…
The Iranian Revolution at the Twilight of the Workers' Council A short history and analysis of the Iranian Revolution with a focus on the role of the working class…
Workers' Democracy is the Only Real Democracy The Trumps, the Bolsonaros, the Putins and the Xi Jinpings offer us capitalist barbarism and only the self-activity of the whole working class –…
Workers' Strikes in Iran: This Time it is Different To see the new phase of the crisis, which began with the bursting of the speculative bubble in 2008, as just a repeat of the same decades-long…
The Class Party in the Light of the Struggles in Iran The struggle can hardly prosper if it becomes isolated in Iran. The Iranian workers’ need for a…