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 […]

Internationalist Statement on the World Situation

We are entering a historical period in which contradictions are accelerating and accentuating. A bridge period between the erosion of the counterrevolution that took root in the twenties of the last century, a counterrevolution which had already experienced a shock in the 60s and 70s that confirmed the fall of the Stalinist governments of Eastern […]

A Discussion Among Internationalists about the Transitional Period

[Editor’s Note: We publish here a compilation of three articles from issues 2-4 of Intransigence about the dynamic of the proletarian revolution and the difficulties of the period of transition. Unfortunately, the whole publication and the regrouping initiative behind it, in which members of our political collective participated wholeheartedly from the beginning, were hijacked by […]

The Yellow Terror in Spain – Grandizo Munis

[We publish here our translation of an important writing by Grandizo Munis about the Stalinist persecution of genuine communist revolutionaries within Spain. Newly republished in its original Spanish by our comrades in Barbaria and available here.] After the fall of Catalonia, the reactionary press devoted itself to publishing photographs and glowing accounts of persecution and […]