The biggest ‘october surprise’ of all: a world capitalist crash - Loren Goldner

Loren Goldner's analysis of the recent global financial crisis.

Loren Goldner
October 2008

“There will be periods of 30 years which will pass with the seeming importance of a single day, and single days with the importance of 30 years.” (old Marxist maxim)

Open Letter to the International Communist Current - Ingram

How the ICC is perceived by a very disillusioned ex-member.

Source; www.af-north.org

Left communism and its ideology - Oisin Mac Giollamoir

An introduction and critique by a member of the Irish Workers Solidarity Movement of left communism.

Introduction

Left-Wing Communism in Britain 1917-21...An Infantile Disorder? - Bob Jones

A survey of the anti-parliamentarist communist movement in Britain during and after WWI, and the effects of Comintern/Bolshevik directives on the efforts at organisational unity.

Lenin's famous manual of reformism, "Left Wing" Communism, an Infantile Disorder(1920), which directed Communists to work within parliament and existing labour unions, was partly a response to British anti-parliamentarism.

The International Communist Current and Norway: a critique by Mortiva Forlag

Some criticisms of the ICC's interpretation of reality. Originally published by some Norwegian communists called 'Mortiva Forlag', who for a while in the 1980s published useful reports on class struggles in Scandinavia.

(A few grammatical errors and spelling mistakes in the article have been corrected here.)

Originally published by 'Mortiva Forlag', Norway, in November 1989.
Reprinted by 'Echanges Et Mouvement' in Echanges no. 62, London, Oct-Dec 1989.

An Introduction to Left Communism in Germany from 1914 to 1923

Ausflug des 'Syndikalistischen Frauenbundes Groß-Berlin'

On the Origins and Early Years of Working Class Revolutionary Politics:
An Introduction to 'Left Communism' in Germany from 1914 to 1923

DG, 1994

Introduction and Overview

Towards the establishment of workers' councils in Italy (1920)

Workers' council in Cerignola, Italy, 1920.

Amadeo Bordiga's contribution to a programme of setting up workers' councils in Italy as a way of surpassing the reformist trade unions.

Arguments for the creation of workers' councils (or "Soviets") in Italy, based in part on the Russian experience. The Leone statement of the Bologna Socialist Party Congress follows in the Appendix. Amadeo Bordiga January/February 1920 First Published: Il Soviet, Vol. III, Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7; January 1, 11, February 1, 8, 22 1920;

Marxism of the Stammerers

The decontamination to which we dedicate 90% of our humble work will be continued a long time after us and be realised only in the distant future. This decontamination combats the epidemic - always and everywhere dangerous, of those who - in all places and at all times - innovate, bring up to date, renovate and revise...

Amadeo Bordiga 1952

First Published: Battaglia Comunista No. 8, 17-20 April 1952;

The System of Communist Representation

Bordiga's critique of the wing of the Italian socialist movement which advocated participation in elections.

In launching our communist programme, which contained the outlines of a response to many vital problems concerning the revolutionary movement of the proletariat, we expected to ace a broad discussion develop on all its aspects. Instead there has been and still is only furious discussion over the incompatibility of electoral participation, which is soberly affirmed in the programme.

Amadeo Bordiga May 1919

First Published: Il Soviet, 13 September 1919, Vol. II, No.38;