The Myth of the Fatherland – Anselmo Lorenzo

[The following text has been excerpted and translated from here.] Let’s talk about the “fatherland”: this is a very hackneyed idea; progressives, conservatives, and regressives, that is, those who go forward, those who stop and those who go back, have very different concepts of the fatherland; and just in case something is missing to muddle […]

Stalinism: Red Flag of Capital – Barbaria

[The following is our translation of an impressive booklet on Stalinism and the counter-revolution which was written by our comrades in Barbaria. You can find the original in Spanish here.] INTRODUCTION The content of this booklet is essential for those of us who want to radically subvert this world. We are convinced that the social […]

The Question of the State – Vercesi

We publish here our translation of an article by Ottorino Perrone (alias Vercesi), a leader of the Italian left in exile, from issue no. 2 of Octobre, dated to March 1938. Though we disagree with some of the authors’ positions, particularly on the unions and the role of the revolutionary party within the proletarian dictatorship […]

For the Liberation of Women – Clara Zetkin

For International Working Women’s Day, we share the following translation, which comes from a speech that the German revolutionary socialist and working women’s advocate Clara Zetkin gave at the International Workers’ Congress in Paris on July 19, 1889. Although we think it is worth republishing, we do have some points of disagreement where the speech […]

For the Proletarian Dictatorship, for the Dictatorship of the Councils!

The following translations are of two articles from L’Ouvrier Communiste no. 12, the journal of the ‘Communist Workers’ groups. Led ideologically by Michelangelo Pappalardi, who resigned from the PCd’I in 1923 after discussing with the KAP of Germany. This current embodies the experience of a segment of the Italian Communist Left that splintered off from […]

Sugarcane Stalinism / The Rumba of Fidel Castro

As a prelude to our comrade’s article “Sugarcane Stalinism: State-Capitalism and Development in Cuba”, we also publish a prescient analysis of Cuba’s post-“revolutionary” government by the Mexican-Spanish communist revolutionary Grandizo Munis entitled “The Rumba of Fidel Castro”. This short article from Munis is newly translated from Spanish into English and is included alongside the main […]

Nothing is Chosen in Elections – Barbaria

(We have translated a recent article on elections from our internationalist comrades in Barbaria into English, you can read the original in Spanish here) The Great Festival of Democracy It has recently occurred to some cretin to call elections “the great festival of democracy”, being true in the sense that elections are the main argument […]

Left-Nationalism: A History of the Disease – Kontra Klasa

(We post below an article from the now defunct internationalist communist group Kontra Klasa) The question of nationalism on the left is rarely asked in socialist circles and even when it is asked, it’s mostly, unfortunately, answered by old dogmatic phrases or populist rhetoric lacking any serious analysis. Although it should be clear from the […]

Impossibility of Capitalist Development – Grandizo Munis

Before anything, we must affirm, once more, the radical difference that exists in our time between the development of capitalist society and its economic growth. During the long epoch of its formation and apogee, they were paired together, although with oscillations. Moreover, by observing closely, not only the modern experience, but also that of previous […]

A War in the Pacific is a War on the Working Class: Statement from NWBCW Sydney

The war in Ukraine has already claimed an enormous human toll and imperialist tensions the world over only continue to tighten while the corpses pile up. We have heard already from media and political talking-heads that the war in Ukraine is a fight between democracy and autocracy. In truth, this conflict is the product of […]