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, […]