Proletariat

Wildcat's 1989 introduction to Herman Gorter's "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin".

The final section of Herman Gorter's "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin".

Published in four parts, this text by the KAPD critiques technological progress and the capitalist form of technology and production methods. Originally published in "KAZ, 1927, No. 48 to 51".

"Death to All Who Stand in the Way of Freedom for the Working People" was the war cry emblazoned on a flag of the Dnipro Division led by Ukrainian insurgent, Svyryd Kotsur, now to be seen on the streets of Belgrade in protest at the incumbent government of Serbia. A brief history of Svyryd Kotsur and the movement he lead: Kotsur's career mirrored Makhno's in uncanny ways. Like Makhno, Kotsur self-identified as an…

Intervention by Fritz Tetens at the Founding Party Congress of the KPD on the agenda of "The National Assembly". Here he speaks for a boycott of the National Assembly and upcoming elections.

مقالۀ «قدرت آمریکا در عصر ناسیونالیستی نوین» به قلم مایکل کیمج مدیر موسسۀ کنان وابسته به مرکز ویلسون، یکی از اندیشکده های سرمایه داری، میکوشد فهم پدیدۀ ترامپ، شرایط کنونی جهان و روی کار آمدن دولتهایی که با عناوین فاشیسم، راست افراطی، مافیایی، سلطانیستی و ... شناخته میشوند را در بستر تاریخی گفتمان نوین ناسیونالیستی واکاوی نماید. انتخاب و ترجمۀ مقاله بخاطر ضرورت آشنایی با نظرات متنوع نهادهای سرمایه جهانی در تحلیل و…

Originally published in "Kommunistische Arbeiter-Zeitung", Organ of the KAPD, 7th Year, July 1926, No. 35. Taken from Antonie Pannekoek Archives [AAAP]

Article from the Bremen Arbeiterpolitik, signed under the word W, that criticized the view of the Independents' [USPD] leadership towards the Unitary Organization. Originally published in "Arbeiterpolitik, 1918, No. 17".

By the Council Communist and KAPD member Ernst Biedermann, this article is about the 4th IFTU Congress and also a critique of Trade Unionism. Originally published in "Der Proletarier, September 1927, No. 9".

By an unknown Bremen left-radical, Carl Volkmann, this article criticizes the separation between the Party and Trade Union and proposes for the first time the concept of "Unitary Organization" which in the future will be the AAU. Originally published in "Arbeiterpolitik, 1917, No. 22".

On Western Maoism, Autonomia, culture, Umberto Eco etc.

A critique of the Maoism of The Black Panther Party, La Gauce prolétarienne and Jean Pierre Le Dantec, Michel Le Bris, The Weathermen, etc.

Ernst Bloch writes in 1932 on the importance of the contradictions in the present and nostalgia (nonsynchronism) and potentials for liberation or fascism.

By Franz Pfemfert, this text was originally published in Die Aktion, No. 51/52, 1921

Thomas Meaney reviews Martin Mittelmeier's book "Naples 1925," about Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and other German thinkers whose explorations of Italy in the nineteen-twenties influenced their later intellectual projects.

The International Communist Current's (ICC) translation of left communist Gavril Miasnikov's Manifesto for the Workers' Group of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik). Among other grievances, the Manifesto criticized the Russian Communist Party's (RCP) weakening of the workers' soviets and some of the Party's other policies, such as the New Economic Policy and the suppression of dissident views. Miasnikov…

A translation of Chapotout's article for Le Monde Diplomatique detailing the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany.

Letter from the Russian Council Communist Gavril Myasnikov to the French Council Communist Group L' Ouvrier Communiste regarding the Trotskyist Opposition. Originally published in "L' Ouvrier Communiste, No. 6, January 1930". Reprinted by the KAPD in "KAZ, 1930, No. 8"

A collections of the interventions and opinions of various party members at the First Ordinary Party Congress of the KAPD against the National Bolshevik Hamburg Tendency of Heinrich Laufenberg and Fritz Wolffheim.