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 […]

Revolutionary Class, Political Organisation, Dictatorship of the Proletariat – Grandizo Munis

[We publish here our English translation of a text from Grandizo Munis, the original can be found in Spanish here.] I Is revolutionary theory to be introduced into the working class from outside, as Lenin said, or must it come from within the class itself? Neither is true in the full sense, or rather, both […]

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, […]