Counter-Revolutionary

From the "Central Archives of the FSB of the Russian Federation", this text is an excerpt from one of the OGPU documents and in particular talks about Gavril Myasnikov and the Communist Workers' International. The original document can be found here.

A document published by the military leadership of KAPD's Helbra sub-district under the command of Schönfeld that lists out the rights of KAPD's military units in the upcoming insurrection and also a publishes a recruitment call for the German Red Army. The document can be found in "Die deutsche Rote Armee, Büro Kölpin, No. 36" in the "State Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland Department".

Intervention by Ernst Rieger 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.

The public may still be revolting, but digital media is now ushering in the restoration of institutional control over society

By the Council Communist "Röte Kämpfer", this text talks about the situation of various Council Communist groups in Germany in 1932 and draws the necessary insights for a revolutionary organization.

The changing face of revolutionary elites from the 1930s to the late 1960s and ever after. (Personal reflections and memories on John Grierson, Humphrey Jennings, Tom Harrison, Bill & Nick Brandt, Don Smith, Barbara Roberts, Chris Grey, Chris Caudwell, Dave Robins, Dick Pountain, Clare Wise and others)

How the once-revolutionary Ortega regime may have destined itself to the dustbin of history.

There is one big problem in Xavier Girrard's text and that is the very point of departure, for if it is impossible to balance two symmetrically opposed errors, as Dauvé himself notes, it will certainly be less possible to successfully overcome a problematic which doesn't even exist.

On politics and government in a fascist America

Salon Talks: Fascism expert Ruth-Ben Ghiat on Trump and the MAGA movement's reliance on violence

The book relates how the real proletarian revolution in Spain in 1936 was hijacked by political forces across the whole spectrum, fascist and anti-fascist, hence the title, counter-revolution, 1936-39. It is the complete work, published in «Bilan»: Contre-revolution en Espagne, 1936-1939, and republished in a shorter form in a pamphlet, under the title, Fascism/anti-fascism.

Christopher Rufo's Twitter space discussed conservatives cooperating with extremists 'to destroy the power of the left'

A monument to Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Bolsheviks' feared secret police, has been quietly rehabilitated. Why?

The Manifesto of the Unemployed Workers' Organisation, as it appeared in the Workers' Dreadnought on 7 July 1923 (Vol. 10 No. 16). The UWO split from the more reformist National Unemployed Workers' Committee Movement.

Introduction to Midnight Notes #10 (1990).

A recent collection, The Call of the Tribe, explains why the Peruvian writer rejected the left and embraced the thinking of Friedrich Hayek and his ilk.

In John Roberts's America, it's good to be the king.

Walking through Nagu, a small town in the mountains of southwestern China, the signs of a vibrant Muslim community are