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  1. Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
    Towards a New Practice
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
  2. Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
  3. Anarkismo.net
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Mulitlingual site featuring news and analysis from an anarchist-communist perspective.
  4. Anatomy of the Micro-Sect
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    Is there an alternative to the sect mode of organization which dominates the whole history of American socialism, past and present?
  5. Arms and the Woman
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1980
    The modern revolutionary movement must destroy this opposition of pleasure-activity, sensitivity-lucidity, conception-execution, habit-innovation.
  6. As We Don't See It
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A clarification of Solidarity London's 1968 pamphlet, "As We See It." Distinction is placed between real socialism and the "exploitative privileged minorities" who controll(ed) the USSR and China, as well as the importance of controlling the means of production.
  7. Autonomous Struggles and the Capitalist Crisis
    A Workers' Autonomy Pamphlet
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  8. Autonomy & Solidarity
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An on-line network for anti-capitalists who believe that revolutionary transformation will come from workers and oppressed people self-organizing from below and not from the top down organizing of any state, party or union bureaucracy.
  9. Bureau of Public Secrets
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
  10. Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1972
    Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
  11. Collective Reinventions
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Focusing on contemporary social movements in Mexico.
  12. The Communist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Book
  13. Critique of the Gotha Programme
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1875
    Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
  14. Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2003
  15. Facing Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  16. For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
  17. For Ourselves
    Forgotten Goals of the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
  18. Free Association
    Revolutionary Committees as a Method of Organization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The revolutionary committee "More to Come" elucidates its vision of collective uprising and revolution. While abhoring the use of violence, the group acknowledges the need for defense against reactionary government that would see to overturn the revolution.
  19. French Revolution 1968
    Resource Type: Book
  20. From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
  21. Hamburg at the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
  22. History and Revolution
    A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  23. Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
  24. Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1864
  25. The “Inevitability of Socialism”
    The Meaning of a Much Abused Formula
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1947
    It is our conviction that the socialist revolution will triumph. There is no question of “equal possibility.” But this conviction is based on an examination of evidence – in the first place, upon our Marxist analysis of the social forces at work, the truth of which, like all human truth, is tested and confirmed only in practice (in struggle). It is not the same as saying that the socialist revolution is inevitable.

  26. The International Workingmen's Association, General Rules
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1864
    Rules of the First International, adopted at its founding congress in 1864.
  27. Introduction to Social Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    A Short Introduction to Social Revolutionary Politics, with short articles on ""Capitalism," "War," "State Capitalism," "National Liberation and Imperialism," "Racism," "Sex Roles," "Education," and "Reform and Revolution."
  28. The Invading Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Book
  29. The Junius Pamphlet
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1916
  30. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume 1: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  31. Leaving the 20th Century
    The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International
    Resource Type: Book
  32. Letters of Insurgents
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    A fictional exchange of letters between people grappling with the question of what the struggle for freedom means in the West and in thecountries of the Soviet bloc. A gripping discussion of the issues of social change and liberation as they affect real
  33. Libcom.org
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Resource for all people who wish to improve their lives, their communities and their working conditions. We want to discuss with one another, learn from experiences of the past and develop strategies to increase the power that we, as ordinary people, have over our own lives.
  34. Listen, Marxist!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  35. Malcolm X Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
  36. Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1919
    Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern) in March 1919.
  37. Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1920
    Adopted in Moscow, August 1920, at the Second World Congress of the Communist International.
  38. Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
    Resource Type: Book
  39. Marx and Engels
    Resource Type: Book
  40. Marx-Engels Chronicle, The
    A Day-by-Day Chronology of Marx and Engels' Life and Activity. Vol. 1 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  41. Marx-Engels Glossary, The
    Glossary to the Chronicle & Register, & Index to the Glossary. Vol. 2 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  42. Marx-Engels Register, The
    A Complete Bibliography of Marx Engels' Individual Writings. Vol. 3 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  43. Marx for Beginners
    Resource Type: Book
  44. Marxism and Freedom
    From 1776 to Today
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  45. Marxism and Philosophy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  46. Marxism and the Party
    Resource Type: Book
  47. Marxism and the Russian Anarchists
    Resource Type: Book
  48. Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    The texts presented here are intended to revive acquaintance with a revolutionary women’s movement which was undoubtedly the most important one of the kind that has yet been seen. Yet it has been so thoroughly dropped down the Memory Hole that even mention of its existence is hard to find.
  49. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  50. The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1906
  51. May 1968 Graffiti
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1968
  52. The Meaning of Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
  53. Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
  54. Modern Capitalism and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  55. Modern Politics
    Resource Type: Book
  56. The Myth of Lenin’s “Concept of The Party”
    What They Did to What Is To Be Done?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    Lenin protested more than once that his initial formulations in WITBD were being distorted and misinterpreted by opponents, after which he went on to clarify and modify. If we want to know Lenin’s “concept of the party” we must look at the formulations he came to, after there had been discussions and attacks.
  57. The Myth of Lenin’s “Revolutionary Defeatism”
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1954
    Lenin discovered in practice that the defeat-slogan was incompatible with a living Marxist approach to the problem of the defense of the nation, conceived not in the social-patriotic sense of the “defense of the fatherland” but in the light of a Marxist class understanding of, and a dynamically revolutionary program for, the nation.
  58. The National Question
    Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
  59. Necessary and Unneccessary Utopias
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Reasserts the need for a bold and revolutionary imagination, one aimed at saner ways of living and organizaing society.
  60. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
  61. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
  62. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  63. The Newsletter
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
    Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of indepedent leftists based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published.
  64. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  65. On Spontaneity and Organisation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1975
    On the relationship of spontaneityand revolution.
  66. On the Transition to Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
  67. The Organisational Structure of the Communist Parties, the Methods and Content of Their Work: Theses
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1921
    Adopted at the Third Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1921.
  68. Organizing for Worker's Power
    Beyond Trade Unionism & Vanguardism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    A discussion of the problem of "vanguardism," and the role of leadership in revolutionary organization, and its evolution through different stages of class struggle, by Adriano Sofr of the Italian socialist group Lotta Continua.
  69. Our Program and the Political Situation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1918
    Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918.
  70. Philosophy and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
  71. The Platform of the Communist International
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1919
    Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International, March 1919.
  72. A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
  73. Portugal
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    The revolutionary process in Portugal is not one that lends itself very easily to a coherent political analysis. Political leadership is quickly thrown up by the creative energy of the workers and peasants and as quickly discarded as its usefulness to them wears thin.
  74. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  75. Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1960
  76. The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1971
    For Marx and Engels, there was a direct relationship between the revolutionary (literally subversive) nature of their socialism and the principle of emancipat~on-from-below, the principle that, as Engels wrote, “there is no concern for ... gracious patronage from above.”
    Marxism, as the theory and practice of the proletarian revolution, therefore also had to be the theory and practice of the self-emancipation of the proletariat. Its essential originality flows from this source.
  77. The Program of the Minority
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1946
    Statement of the minority in the (U.S.) Workers Party.
  78. The proliferation of neo-primitives
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    Neo-primitives prefer an imaginary past to the work of creating a different society.
  79. Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
  80. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  81. Redefining Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  82. Reform and Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1968
    An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
  83. Revolution Re-Assessed
    Politics of Human Liberation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1980
    The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
  84. A Revolutionary for our Times: Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
  85. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  86. Revolutionary Organisation and Open Letter to IS
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1972
    A 1972 pamphlet incorporating two previously published texts, 'Revolutionary Organisation' (1961) and 'An Open Letter to I.S.' (1968). They are presented as "a contribution to the serious discussing now taking place, within the ranks of revolutionaryies, as to what kind of organisation is necessary."
  87. Revolutionary Organization
    Versus Bureaucratic and "Democratic" Centralism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    An advocacy for democratic, "uncentred" socialism as an antidote to Stalinist repression, elitism by workers' leadership and blindness to the "understandings of today's reality." Also included is a short article by Anton Pennekoek, on "Party and Class".
  88. Rosa Luxemberg
    A Life
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  89. Rosa Luxemburg
    A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2000
    In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
  90. Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A biography of Rosa Luxemburg written by a German revolutionary who worked with Luxemburg in the Spartacist organization.

  91. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
  92. Rosa Luxemburg
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  93. Rosa Luxemburg: Prison Letters
    Resource Type: Book
  94. Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
  95. Rosa Luxumberg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  96. Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  97. Situationist International Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
  98. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  99. Social Reform or Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1908
  100. Socialism or Barbarism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    The combined socialist objectives from members of "Socialisme ou Barbarie" of France, "Unita Proletaria" of Italy, "Socialism Reaffirmed" of Great Britain, and "Pouvoir Ouvrier Belge" of Belgium.
  101. Solidarity
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A democratic revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization which publishes Against the Current magazine.
  102. Solidarity As We See It
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1967
    Ten Points on Solidarity's Socialist position - the compromised nature of the "Bolsheviks" and trade unions, the need to "build from below," the desire to see themselves as "merely an instrument of working class action."
  103. Solidarity (US) Founding Statement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1986
    Adopted at the founding national convention of SOLIDARITY in the Spring of 1986.
  104. Spartacus
    Resource Type: Book
  105. Storming Heaven
    1968 Revisted
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    The eruptions of ‘68 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
  106. Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1920
    Adopted at the Second Congress of the Communist International, August 1920.
  107. Toward a New Beginning - On Another Road
    The Alternative to the Micro-Sect
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    To Marx, any organization was a sect if it set up any special set of view (including Marx’s views) as its organizational boundary; if it made this special set of views the determinant of its organizational form.
    Neither Marx nor Engels ever formed or wanted to form a “Marxist” group of any kind – that is, a membership group based on an exclusively Marxist program. All of their organizational activity was pointed along a different road.
  108. The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1938
  109. The Veritable Split in the International
    Resource Type: Book
  110. We Can Change the World
    The Real Meaning Of Everyday Life
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Stratman draws on his experiences as a parent in the Boston school busing battle and later as Washington director of the National PTA, interviews with British coal miners and striking American meatpackers, and wide ranging research and historical analysis, to show that fundamental social change is possible. The key to changing the world he argues, lies in a different view of ordinary people.
  111. Who Advocates Spontaneity?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    Brecher argues that "the 'consciousness' necessary for socialist revolution consists in workers' shared understanding that they can collectively initiate and control their own action to meet their own needs. Such an understanding does not flow directly and automatically from the position of workers in production, although that position is what makes workers potentially powerful. Nor does it arise primarily from the speeches, manifestos, and other "consciousness raising" activities of the Left, though they may make some contribution to it. The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting."
    He also states that "The working class is potentially revolutionary, and socialism would be the natural result if one tendency of its development were carried to its logical conclusion. But if this were the only tendency in effect, the workers would all be revolutionaries and socialism would have been achieved long ago. To ignore the factors which currently lead workers to adapt to existing society instead of trying to abolish it is to give up the ability to understand "the real, existing American working class with all its limitations." To ignore those limitations is to lose the power to grasp the process that will be necessary to overcome them."
  112. Why the Leninists will lose
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    The Leninist groups may still have the ability to disrupt the left, but they are long past the point of being able to achieve any kind of success in their own right.
  113. Workers Opposition
    Solidarity London Pamphlet
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  114. Writings on the Paris Commune
    Resource Type: Book
    Two copies
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