Notes on Emotional Suffering as Social Determination – Barbaria

[We publish here our translation into English of this extremely important and timely article from our comrades in Barbaria. In this text, Barbaria elaborates their understanding of the present-day mental health crisis in many countries around the world as a necessary consequence of the intensifying contradictions of capital and the society created in its image, […]

Trotsky and Trotskyism – Barbaria

[We publish here a translation of this phenomenal text from our comrades in Barbaria about Trotsky and the Left Opposition that he helped spawn into existence. As our comrades will explain in this text, the International Left Opposition was a genuine, albeit delayed and politically confused, class response against the triumph of the counterrevolution represented […]

Stop the War – Stop the Peace! Stopping the Genocide Means Death to Capitalism!

[We publish here our translation into English of an article newly written by comrades in Mexico about the imperialist butchery in Gaza, amidst the backdrop of the recent ceasefire enforced on both warring parties by the United States. The original Spanish version is available here.] Blessed Are the Peacemakers! “Today the skies are calm. The […]

Race, Racism, Racialisation: A Communist Perspective – Barbaria

[We publish here a text from our comrades in Barbaria. This pamphlet is an implacable critique of postcolonial and decolonial ideologies — a bourgeois discourse that substitutes national/identitarian conflict for class struggle. Affirming the fundamental premises of communist materialism, Barbaria argues that racism is not the central axle along which capitalism turns but, on the […]

Intersecting Capitalism? – Barbaria

[We publish here a new translation of a text from our comrades in Barbaria, which is a thorough refutation of postmodernism and the ideology of intersectionality —products of an extensive ideological campaign on the part of capital to fragment the proletariat and dissolve class antagonisms into sterile navel-gazing about ‘identities’. This pamphlet exposes how such […]

Against Wars in the Middle East — For Class Struggle Against All Capitalists

[Editor’s Note: We publish here a lightly edited translation of two communiques from a council communist group in Iran, referring to themselves simply as ‘Anti-capitalist Workers’, which was written as a response to the most recent round of military confrontation between Iran and Israel. Against the illusions peddled by both warring parties—and their respective capitalist […]

The Criminal – Albert Libertad

[We publish here a translation into English of a poem from Albert Libertad, a seminal French anarchist communist following the same red thread of Joseph Dejacque.[1] Like Dejacque, Libertad rejected the Proudhonist schemes of their contemporaries, and his epigones Bakunin and Kropotkin, in favour of a wholistic (i.e., involving a total transformation of human beings […]

Notes on Our Historical Moment – Barbaria

[LIC note: While we agree with the substance of this text, and enthusiastically publish its English translation, we would dispute its conceptualization of capitalist decadence as a kind of universalized economic stagnation. As we understand it, the decadence of capitalism—the structural incompatibility of capitalist production relations with the very world which they have created—becomes manifest, […]

Conquer or Destroy the Unions? (Part 2) – L’Ouvrier Communiste

[The following is an English translation of the second and final part of a 1929 text from L’Ouvrier Communiste on the unions, which can also be found in French here.] Karl Marx described the origins of the trade union movement as follows: “the general tendency of capitalistic production is not to raise, but to sink […]

The Perspective of Communism – The (Former) Scandinavian Section of Programma Comunista

[Editor’s note: we publish in English this recent translation into Spanish of an interesting article in a whole trove of texts newly translated by our comrades in Barbaria. In terms of content, there is not one single letter, either in their introductory note or within the main text itself, that seems objectionable to us on […]