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, […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

AUKUS: Another preparation for imperialist war

The world may have been consumed by a pandemic for more than a year and a half, but imperialism takes no holidays. All through this time, there has been a developing arms race between the US and China, brinkmanship by both sides in the South China Seas, military exercises by China aimed at Taiwan as […]