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 […]

NSW Elections: No Matter Which Party Gets in Power, It’s Capital Who Wins

The last bastion of the Liberal Party is the state of New South Wales. Despite this, Labor has not been able to make the cost-of-living crisis go away, either on a state or national scale. Chris Minns, although condemning the wage cap introduced by the Liberals, has not confirmed whether wages would even increase if […]

Malignant Ulcers of Capitalism: The Proletarian Struggle for Reproductive Freedom (Part 3)

In our first two pieces on reproductive struggles in class society we highlighted the family unit, prostitution, sex-selective abortions, sterilization, religion, bourgeois laws, and some of the facts and dangers surrounding abortion and contraception. This piece examines sexual violence in times of imperialist conflict and the impact that the climate crisis is having on reproduction. […]

Cuba: The Real Fight Against State Repression Begins with Workers’ Self-Organization

Political events in Cuba since the July 11 protests Currently the political and social climate within Cuba is bleak. On July 11 of this year there were turbulent protests against the government which saw the latter employ all its repressive muscle and issue a call, out of sheer desperation, to its own supporters through national […]