Third International (Comintern)

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The Age of Permanent Revolution: A Trotsky Anthology
Deutscher, Isaac
Book
1964
A collection of writings by Leon Trotsky.
American Communism and Soviet Russia: The Formative Period
Draper, Theodore
Book
1960
A history of the formative peirod of the American Communist Party.
The Canadian Left: A Critical Analysis
Penner, Norman
Book
1977
The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and d...
The Communist International
Website
A collection of documents on the Third International 1919-1943.
The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919 - 1929
Zumoff, Jacob A.
Book
2015
Author documents the positive contribution of the Comintern (Communist International) in its early revolutionary years and its decline under Stalin.
The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929: A Review: Upholding the Revolutionary Legacy
Article
2015
The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929 examines the founding, development and degeneration of the Communist Party (CP) in the United States in the broader framework of the struggle ...
The Communist International and U.S. Communism: 1919 - 1929
Zumoff, Jacob
Book
2015
For most commentators the Comintern's role in the development of American Communism is wholly negative. Zumoff challenges this narrative.
A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Bottomore, Tom
Book
1983
Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
Trotsky, Leon
Article
1919
Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern) in March 1919.
Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International
Article
1920
Adopted in Moscow, August 1920, at the Second World Congress of the Communist International.
Manifestos, Programs, Visions: Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
Website
1649
A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
On Second Congress of Comintern: From Chapter 3 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Serge, Victor
Article
1943
World capitalism, after its first suicidal war, was now clearly incapable either of organizing a positive peace, or (what was equally evident) of deploying its fantastic technical progress to increase...
On Third Congress of Comintern: From Chapter 4 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Article
1943
I did not feel disheartened or disoriented. I was disgusted at certain things, psychologically exhausted by the Terror and tormented by the mass of wrongs that I could see growing, which I was powerle...
The Platform of the Communist International
Article
1919
Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International, March 1919.
Raising the Workers' Flag: The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
Endicott, Stephen L.
Book
2012
A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
Situationist International Anthology
Knabb, Ken
Book
1981
A selection of Situationist writings.
Socialist Register 1992: Volume 28: New World Order?
Miliband, Ralph; Panitch, Leo (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1992
Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International
Article
1920
Adopted at the Second Congress of the Communist International, August 1920.
The Unknown Dimension: European Marxism Since Lenin
Howard, Dick, Klare, Karl E.
Book
1972
The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Mar...

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Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
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An organization of Marxist-Humanists standing for the abolition of capitalism, both in its private property form and ins its state property form. We stand for the deveopment of new human relations; wh...

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Münzenberg, Willi
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Wilhelm "Willi" Münzenberg (1889 – 1940) was a communist political activist. Münzenberg was the first head of the Young Communist International in 1919-20 and established the famine-relief and propaga...

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Marxists Internet Archive
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