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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]