Capital’s Health Dilemma – Red Hughs

[We republish here an excellent contribution to the understanding of health systems under capitalism from the inaugural issue of Intransigence]. Introduction: Insurance and cost of living explosion It feels almost redundant to describe the crisis that healthcare costs represent for many people today. Healthcare costs are one of primary causes of personal bankruptcy.1 Along with […]

Pannekoek and Darwinism – Nildo Viana

[This article is a preface to the book Marxism and Darwinism, Anton Pannekoek (2022), it can also be read in the original Portuguese here. We publish this article for its value in understanding the life and ideas of A. Pannekoek, who was a genuine communist and internationalist all his life, although we would disagree with […]

Conquer or Destroy the Unions? (Part 1) – L’Ouvrier Communiste

[The following is an English translation of the first part of a 1929 text from L’Ouvrier Communiste on the unions, you can also find it in French here.] In the past century, at the beginning of the worker’s movement, Karl Marx was given the occasion to consider the forms through which class struggle had led […]

Programmatic Theses – Barbaria

[Editor’s note: we publish here the new programmatic theses of our comrades from Barbaria. Though the overwhelming majority of this text is politically agreeable to us, we nevertheless have some minor disagreements, which we would like to make known for the sake of clarity: 1) On the question of decadence, we coincide with Barbaria on […]

Fascism? Democracy? Communism – Vercesi

[The following translation of an article written by Ottorino Perrone (Vercesi) in 1934 and was translated by one of our members to originally appear in 2018 in the journal Intransigence, issue #2.] The central question confronting the workers’ movement nowadays is its attitude towards democracy, or more precisely, the need to defend (or not) the […]

Greening Capitalism – Barbaria

[The following text is our English translation of our comrades’ in Barbaria’s 2020 piece on capitalism and the environment. You can read the original in Spanish here.] Naturally, the bourgeoisie is also concerned about global warming. After all, the political, propagandistic, administrative, and management problems that can be caused by the constant influx of climate […]

Theses on Capitalism and the Generalisation of War

[The following article was written based on the discussions held by the LIC on generalised warfare on the 3rd and 5th of May, at 9 pm and 9 am Eastern Time, 2024, respectively. The conclusions of this article were thus widely agreed upon by those in attendance.] Background and World Situation Given all the above, […]

The Myth of Radical Unionism in Australia: The BLF and Class Collaborationism

“Dare to struggle, dare to win.” – Mao Tse Tung, quoted as a slogan of the BLF and CFMEU. Badge made by the CPA(ML)[1] The Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) is a union lauded by the left wing of capital, whether “anarchists”, Trotskyists, or Stalinists, and an oft cited example of a truly “radical”, industrial union […]

The Unions Against Revolution – Grandizo Munis and Benjamin Peret

[We publish here, for the first time in English, the full version of Grandizo Munis and Benjamin Peret’s “The Unions Against Revolution.” Alongside a new introduction from Munis explaining the context in which the piece was meant to be published, we also include Benjamin Peret’s substantial contribution to what was supposed to be a debate […]

Why Abstain From Voting? – Communist League of Mexico

[We publish here a translation of a writing about the recent elections in Mexico from our comrades in the Communist League of Mexico which calls for workers to boycott the electoral farce and organise themselves to smash the state and fight for real political power.] “Democracy is the form of government in which we change […]