Left wing communism

Category: Self-management Marxism


The Illusions of the Lula Government and the New Cycle of Social Struggles in Brazil

Teachers in Brazil, disappointed by Lula’s government, are mobilizing for better working conditions. The strike at APEOC in Fortaleza is part of a national movement, reflecting widespread dissatisfaction with the neoliberal policies of the current government. The workers’ autonomy is challenging bureaucratic control, paving the way for potential radicalization and renewed struggles for self-emancipation.

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David Adam: Labor-Time Accounting and the Withering Away of the State. Contributions to the critique of common misconceptions

New on Red & Black Books Cover text In their critique of capitalism, Marx and Engels clearly formulated the fundamental principles of the alternative to capitalism: Some critics of capitalism do not like this alternative. They want to live in…

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Revolutionary politics and the war in the Middle East

By Crítica Desapiedada A proletarian internationalist voice on the Israel-Palestine war, rarely heard in Latin America where the leftist bourgeois idea prevails that only the U.S. and Israel are imperialist, and “the Palestinians” deserve support in their struggle for “national…

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IDA: Towards an Old Socialism

Cockshott & Cottrell Revisited German, Spanish I. Economic Planning in an Age of Climate Crisis (hereafter also »climate book«) was published in October 2022. This book is another co-production by Allin Cottrell (economist, Scotland) and W. Paul Cockshott (computer scientist, Scotland),…

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IDA: With the concept of labor time accounting, work can be divided fairly in society

In its series of contributions to discussion, the German weekly Jungle World published The labor time accounting makes it possible to overcome capitalist relations of production. Here is the next article, written by IDA. How long does a seamstress in Bangladesh…

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Movaut and ICT on the party and class consciousness

Critical considerations on Movaut and significant texts of its members. Part 3 By Fredo Corvo This series of articles aims to critically analyze some characteristic positions of Self-management Marxism, its political movement Movaut and its supporters and promoters. To this…

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Movaut and ICT on the proletarian revolution in Russia

Critical considerations on Movaut and significant texts of its members. Part 2 Spanish Aníbal and Fredo Corvo The objective of this series of articles is to critically analyze a series of characteristic positions of Self-management Marxism, its political movement Movaut…

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Movaut on the half-state and the period of transition

Critical considerations on Movaut and significant texts of its members. Part 1 Spanish By Aníbal and Fredo Corvo The objective of this series of articles is to critically analyze a series of characteristic positions of Self-management Marxism, its political movement…

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All-Russian Congresses of Soviets. Bolshevism from proletarian vector with confusions to counterrevolution

By Aníbal and Fredo Corvo Spanish  Contents 1. Conditions and class struggles after October 1917 2. Documentation and data on the Congresses of the Soviets Second Congress Third Congress Fourth Congress Fifth Congress 1. Conditions and class struggles after October…

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Critique of ICT and Movaut

By Aníbal and Fredo Corvo Spanish 1) The ICT has published an English translation of an article from Movaut (Brazil): On the Brazilian elections. This is the original text in Brazilian Portuguese: Rubens Vinícius da Silva, AS ELEIÇÕES BRASILEIRAS DE…

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Top hats, bowler hats, and caps

The old middle class and new classes in the theory of Anton Pannekoek, the Group of International Communists and Spartacusbond By Aníbal and Fredo Corvo Spanish, Dutch Table of Contents 1. Marx’s objective and subjective understanding of class. 2. Pannekoek…

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Brazil: The revolutionary bloc and the elections

Spanish By Nildo Viana The workers’ struggle makes advances and setbacks during the historical process. This can be explained by a set of determinations. The state apparatus, the democratic illusion, consumerism, culture (ideologies, doctrines, speeches, etc.), and the media capital,…

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