In Defense of Decadence

[First published in issue no. 5 of Intransigence (now defunct), a journal of Internationalist Communists in North America, on October of 2019.] The ripest maturity, the highest stage, that anything can attain is the one at which its fall begins. Hegel, The Science of Logic 1 The concept of decadence remains a source of controversy […]

Third-Worldism and Socialism – Cajo Brendel

[We publish here this English translation of an article from Cajo Brendel, Dutch communist revolutionary and former member of the GIKH and Communistenbond Spartacus. Translated from a French version found here.] In the two decades following the 2nd World War, the political scene was dominated by the anti-imperialist struggles of colonised peoples. The Chinese revolution […]

Fragments of a Debate with Anarchism – L’Ouvrier Communiste

[The following is our English translation of two written responses from L’Ouvrier Communiste to the anarchists of Lotta Anarchica.] Response to Lotta Anarchica Under the title Signs of the Time, the organ of the Anarchist-Communist Groups belonging to the Italian Anarchist Union devotes an important article by P. Felcino to us on the front page. […]

On Class Hatred and Solidarity Here and Now: A Brief Critical Reflection – Proletarios Revolucionarios

[We present here our English translation of an exceptional text from our comrades in Proletarios Hartos De Serlo (a.k.a Proletarios Revolucionarios). The original can be found on their website in Spanish.] The aim of this text, which, from a communist perspective, criticises both syndicalism and charitable “anarchist” activism, is not to polemicise for the sake […]

For a Second Communist Manifesto – Grandizo Munis

We publish here our English translation of Grandizo Munis’ text ‘For a Second Communist Manifesto’ (1961). Though we have serious disagreements with the approach of the last section, entitled ‘The Tasks of Our Time’, which resembles in some ways the Trotskyist ‘Transitional Programme’, and in specific with the set of demands put forward for workers, […]

Why do we Boycott Parliaments? – L’Ouvrier Communiste

[The following is our English translation of a 1930 text from L’Ouvrier Communiste, you can also find it in French here.] What is parliament? An institution which has always served the bourgeoisie for its domination. Originally, in France, it was, in the form of the Constituent Assembly or the Legislative Assembly, an organ of struggle, […]

Lexicon of Contemporary Political Deception – Grandizo Munis

[We publish here our English translation of an important document from the Mexican-Spanish revolutionary Grandizo Munis, you can also find this text in Spanish on our comrades in Barbaria’s website.] Fifty years of ideological and terminological falsification by Moscow, to which Peking is now adding other falsifications of its own, make it necessary to contrast […]

Lead, Shrapnel, Prison – Bilan

[In the lead up to the 85th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War, we share the following text, which we translated from Bilan – Journal of the Italian Communist Left in exile in Belgium and France.] Lead, Shrapnel, Prison: This is how the Popular Front Responds to the Workers of Barcelona who […]

Capitalism, Migrants, Imperialist War

As internationalist communists, we recognise that the working class is a class of migrants whose home is not a single country but rather the entire world; we are wage-labourers with no fatherland to defend. Hence, we denounce the efforts made by the ruling class to control us – and keep wages down across the board […]

Revolutionary Defeatism and its Enemies – Barbaria

[The following is our English translation of an article on the war in Ukraine, national defencism, and revolutionary defeatism, written by our comrades in Barbaria. You can also find this text in Spanish and German, and at the bottom of this page as a PDF pamphlet.] “Shamed, disgraced, swimming in blood and dripping with filth: […]