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 […]

Why We Are Not Feminists – Barbaria

[The following is our English translation of an article from our comrades in Barbaria. This important text explains why feminism is a bourgeois reformist ideology that reduces the essential struggle against patriarchy to a partial struggle that will never emancipate women, the working class, or humanity as a whole. You can also read it in […]

For an End to All Forms of Interpersonal Violence

In the first 4 months of this year alone, over 30 women have been murdered in Australia, mostly in episodes of gendered violence, including the 5 women who were killed at Bondi Junction in Sydney by a man named Joel Cauchi, whose stabbing spree at a shopping complex maimed or killed 17 people. A 9-month-old […]

Land and Liberty – Comrade S.

[The following text is an English translation of a flyer that a comrade has written on the revolutionary seizure of Tijuana, Mexico which took place 113 years ago. The Spanish original will be uploaded and linked here shortly.] Land and Liberty: 113 Years Since the Seizure of Tijuana in the Hands of Socialist Internationalism In […]