The New Right Wing and the Myth of the Fascism’s Eternal Recurrence – Barbaria

[We publish here our translation into English of Barbaria’s article about the ascent to power of a new crop of right-wing politicians around the world and the leftist invocation of the fascist threat, which becomes a clarion call for workers to defend capitalist democracy. Also available in the original Spanish and Portuguese.] In the last […]

Opportunism and the United Front – Barbaria

[We publish here our translation of a phenomenal article by our comrades in Barbaria about the opportunist turn of the Comintern that followed the waning of the post-WWI revolutionary wave. This text is published without any notes or original commentary from us because its content is essentially interchangeable with our own perspective and understanding of […]

Towards a Red 8th of March – Balance y Avante

[We publish here the English translation of a fantastic text from our comrades in Balance y Avante, which talks about the history of and lessons from what is known to us as International Working Women’s Day. The Spanish original is available here. For further reading on this topic we recommend an article we wrote 7 […]

Accelerated Trajectory Toward War… and Attempts at a Proletarian Response

[We republish here this statement, to which we are also signatories, on the current world situation and the concrete possibilities for a response on the part of the proletariat and its organised revolutionary minorities. Obviously, this is still a quite dynamic and uncertain period within the current phase of the lifecycle of the reigning world-capitalist […]

Notes on the Invasion of Venezuela by the United States – Critica Desapiedada

Original in Portuguese: https://criticadesapiedada.com.br/2026/01/06/notas-sobre-a-invasao-da-venezuela-pelos-estados-unidos-critica-desapiedada/ On 3 January 2026, the United States launched military strikes on Venezuelan territory and subsequently seized Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, removing them from the country under the pretext of “law enforcement,” citing allegations such as drug trafficking and narco-terrorism. However, statements from the White House inadvertently revealed the operation’s underlying […]

Notes on Venezuela – Proletarios Revolucionarios

[We publish here our translation of a recent commentary by our comrades from Proletarios Revolucionarios in Ecuador about the recent US military action within Venezuela. The original Spanish version can be found here.] What is happening today in Venezuela was already largely foreseen, analysed, and addressed in 2015: https://proletariosrevolucionarios.blogspot.com/2015/05/notas-sobre-venezuela-2015.html Now, given all the garbage circulating […]

Critique of the Mass Party from a Revolutionary Perspective – Barbaria

[We publish here a translation into English of a new text from our comrades in Barbaria skewering the Second Internationalist idea of the mass party, which ends up liquidating the communist programme and revolutionary practice in exchange for gaining an ephemeral mass appeal among sectors of the working class under the sway of social democracy […]

Notes on Emotional Suffering as Social Determination – Barbaria

[We publish here our translation into English of this extremely important and timely article from our comrades in Barbaria. In this text, Barbaria elaborates their understanding of the present-day mental health crisis in many countries around the world as a necessary consequence of the intensifying contradictions of capital and the society created in its image, […]

Stop the War – Stop the Peace! Stopping the Genocide Means Death to Capitalism!

[We publish here our translation into English of an article newly written by comrades in Mexico about the imperialist butchery in Gaza, amidst the backdrop of the recent ceasefire enforced on both warring parties by the United States. The original Spanish version is available here.] Blessed Are the Peacemakers! “Today the skies are calm. The […]

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 […]