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. […]

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, […]

Why do we Boycott Parliaments? – L’Ouvrier Communiste

[The following is our English translation of a 1930 text from L’Ouvrier Communiste, you can also find it in French here.] What is parliament? An institution which has always served the bourgeoisie for its domination. Originally, in France, it was, in the form of the Constituent Assembly or the Legislative Assembly, an organ of struggle, […]

Lexicon of Contemporary Political Deception – Grandizo Munis

[We publish here our English translation of an important document from the Mexican-Spanish revolutionary Grandizo Munis, you can also find this text in Spanish on our comrades in Barbaria’s website.] Fifty years of ideological and terminological falsification by Moscow, to which Peking is now adding other falsifications of its own, make it necessary to contrast […]

Lead, Shrapnel, Prison – Bilan

[In the lead up to the 85th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War, we share the following text, which we translated from Bilan – Journal of the Italian Communist Left in exile in Belgium and France.] Lead, Shrapnel, Prison: This is how the Popular Front Responds to the Workers of Barcelona who […]

Revolutionary Defeatism and its Enemies – Barbaria

[The following is our English translation of an article on the war in Ukraine, national defencism, and revolutionary defeatism, written by our comrades in Barbaria. You can also find this text in Spanish and German, and at the bottom of this page as a PDF pamphlet.] “Shamed, disgraced, swimming in blood and dripping with filth: […]

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 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 […]