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April 2023

• Karl Marx, Kritische kanttekeningen bij het artikel van ‘een Pruis’ (1844). First translation into dutch.
• Adolf Dethmann. Der Rätegedanke als Staatstheorie und seine Keime in den Schriften von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels (Dissertation, 1920), link to aaap.be.

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• Geschichte: Klassenkämpfe in der UdSSR : N. Insarow: die Krise der Bolschewistischen Partei (1926); Max Hempel (Jan Appel): Das Russische Wiederaufbauprogramm (1926), in Proletarier (KAPD).
• Aníbal, Critic of the book Capitalism’s Endgame The Catastrophe of Accumulation. Mark Hayes, Phillip Sutton. Lars Torvaldsson, Old Moles Collective.

March 2023

• Comité v.d. Lubbe, Marinus van der Lubbe, een jonge arbeider uit Leiden (1933).
• kapd.online

Interesting historical/theoretical article: Communism, too early? Or from delay to abandonment? On the occasion of the publication of following three texts:

• Hermann Lueer, The transition to communism: An Intellectual Confusion, with German, Spanish and Dutch translations.
• Aníbal, A confused intellectual? A detailed critique of Hermann Lueer’s text The transition to communism: An intellectual confusion.
• The last two chapters of Ph. Bourrinet, Les Conseils Ouvriers dans la théorie de la gauche communiste germano-hollandaise. This text dates from 1999 and has been slightly modified and expanded by the author on the occasion of a recent translation into Dutch, which will appear in volumes on the site Arbeidersstemmen in 2023. An older English translation is also available.

February 2023

• Ph. Bourrinet, Les Conseils Ouvriersdans la théorie de la gauche communiste germano-hollandaise.
• Ph. Bourrinet, De arbeidersraden in de theorie van de Nederlands-Duitse communistische linkerzijde (in delen).

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

Articles on the period of transition

• See the last two chapters of the article by Bourrinet above.
• La revolución obrera y el periodo de transición del capitalismo al comunismo.
• Primera parte. Sus objetivos, medidas y procedimientos necesarios.
• Segunda parte. Tinos, desatinos, ambigüedades.
• 3ª parte (y final). Condiciones del capitalismo imperialista desarrollado e inicio del periodo de transición al comunismo: ¿nacional, internacional, mundial?
  All three are edited in Spanish and English (automatic translation).
• Hermann Lueer, The transition to communism: An Intellectual Confusion.
• Hermann Lueer, Die Übergangsperiode zum Kommunismus: Eine intellektuelle Verwirrung.

Several subjects

• The Anti-Capitalist Workers, A Manifestation of the Non-Horizon of Councilism. Presentation of a book, lacking information where it was published.
• Sozialer Widerstand, Plattform: Die Möglichkeit der Weltrevolution.
• Zheng Chaolin, Il capitalismo di stato.
• Aníbal, El GIGC y la TCI sobre revolución y contrarrevolución en Rusia. Dislocando, entre la crítica tibia y la ambigüedad.
• Aníbal, KOSMOPROLET y la ideología comunizadora. Naderías y distorsión, con implicaciones prácticas negativas.
• Aníbal, Más tonterías y confusión: “el comunismo sin trabajo -lo que no significa sin producción” (Bruno Astarian).
• Aníbal, Agustín Guillamón y su libro CNT vs AIT . Una crítica necesaria.

January 2023

• GIC, La esencia de la producción comunista. Principios fundamentales de la producción y la distribución comunista. Edición de 1935.
• Fredo Corvo, La economía del trabajo libre y asociado. Cómo Marx caracterizó el período de transición y sus leyes económicas de movimiento durante el levantamiento de la Comuna de 1871.
• GIC, La lucha de clases en la guerra – Rätekorrespondez. Traducción a español Original en alemán: Klassenkampf im Kriege. Publicado en: Correspondencia Internacional de Consejos, Vol. II (1935-1936), nº 6 (mayo de 1936).
• Paul Mattick, El “Otro” Movimiento Obrero 1975.

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• Aníbal, Capitalismo, imperialismo, militarismo, guerra. Tendencias determinantes, contratendencias, condiciones.
  Table of contents of this pamphlet (English translation)
  1) Imperialist war, nuclear deterrence and capitalist internationalisation. Contradictions in the past and present, tendencies towards the future.
  2) Conditions for a third world war. Origins of many confusions.
  3) Decadentists and imperialist war. Deployment of mystifications that distort the critical understanding of capitalism and its real tendencies. Practical effects.
  4) “War is the death of civilisation”… Bullshit!!!!
  5) Failed premonitions. World war and alleged decadence of capitalism.
  6) Capitalist leaders talk about the imperialist war.
  7) What revolutionary internationalist defeatism in the ‘Ukrainian’ war really means. By Fredo Corvo and Anibal.
  
• Aníbal, Periodo de transición del capitalismo al comunismo.Crítica al leninismo y el bordiguismo. English translation: The period of transition from capitalism to communism, a critique of Leninism and Bordigism.
  
• The Classless Society in Motion. A New Theory of Communist Economy
  In 1930 the Group of International Communists laid out their vision for a self-directed society of free and equal producers, echoing and elaborating upon the scattered writings of Marx and Engels on the topic.
  Building on the GIC’s outstanding and long overlooked work – ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’ – we further develop their core ideas, introducing a number of new and related principles. With these, we show how a society of free and equal producers is a concrete possibility. What has long been dismissed as an impossible dream, we reveal to be both simple and elegant.
  Using the lens of Marx’s value theory, we analyse and critique the most prominent existing attempts at describing a socialist economy. It will be shown how a lack of understanding of Marx’s analysis of the value form, coupled with a flawed idea of the nature of socialism/communism, fundamentally undermines these projects.
  The material basis of the egalitarian society we describe, emerges organically from and in opposition to the existing capitalist relations of production, abolishing private property, classes, money, markets, exploitation, and the value-form in its wake. Established within an open and transparent general system of accounting, it has no need for a caste of bureaucratic planners or a party dictatorship.
  Planning is a continuous and distributed process. Socialist theory must come to terms with this reality. Planning is not reducible to arbitrary time epochs, decided by administrative convenience. It must be a living, organic, democratic and continuous process, answering only to its own internal rhythms and the rational control of its participants.
  We offer a return to a vision of a society based upon the abolition of wage labour, a position fundamental to the Marxists and Anarchists of the First International.
  It is a socialism we can build today.
  It is a socialism for a political project that does not yet exist.
  
• Aníbal, Socialismo,comunismo, sociedad sin clases. Materialismo histórico – crítico frente a teoría y práctica del bolchevismo La URSS : de las limitaciones y el fracaso revolucionario, a la explotación , dominio y mistificación bolchevique sobre la clase obrera.
  English translation: Socialism, communism, classless society. Historical-critical materialism vs. theory and practice of Bolshevism. The USSR : from limitations and revolutionary failure, to Bolshevik exploitation, domination and mystification of the working class.
  
  Introduction.
  The enormous confusion about socialism and communism has various social and historical roots. This article highlights the differences between the conceptions of critical historical materialism developed notably by Marx and Engels and those of later Bolshevism, which presented itself as a faithful continuation of the original Marxism, but which on the contrary introduced different and contrary theoretical conceptions, as well as a praxis which from a certain moment, shortly after October 1917, in the following year, in very difficult conditions and international isolation, led it to be a vector of capitalist development, after having managed to lead the proletarian revolution in Russia. Explanations of the weaknesses, errors and inadequacies of such pristine Marxism and its left-wing continuators can be found in other texts.(1) Compiled by Aníbal (December 2022)
  
  Table of contents.
  1. Socialism and communism in the historical materialist conception of Marx and Engels.
  2. Production and distribution, money, planning, communism, what happened after october 1917?
  3. Socialism and communism in bolshevism. The theory of its leaders (Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin, Preobrajensky, Stalin) as mystification and alibi of capitalist practices. Antecedents in social democracy. Contradictions and oscillations.
  4. USSR. What was actually happening in workers’ existence: dominant capitalist relations.
  5. Fragments of the fundamental principles of communist production and distribution, by the GIC (Group of Internationalist Communists).
  – From Money to the Calculation of Labour Time
  – The economic power of the proletariat and the control system of general accountancy
  – The essence of communist production
  6. Period of transition from capitalism to communism.
  – Balance points and explanations.
  – Notes on the balance points
  7. Historical texts
      Notes
  
• Aníbal, Unos fragmentos muy significativos del anarquista Rudolf Rocker / Some very significant excerpts from the anarchist Rudolf Rocker.
  
• Philippe Bourrinet, Recension d’Axel Weipert, Die Zweite Revolution. Rätebewegung in Berlin 1919/1920 [La Deuxième Révolution. Le mouvement des conseils à Berlin, 1919-1920. Idem, English translation. Idem, German translation.
  
• Philippe Bourrinet, Les Carnets de la Révolution russe de Nikolaï Soukhanov.

November/December 2022

• Group of International Communistst (GIC), Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution, 2nd Ed. 1935. (PDF). As a printed book or e-book: Amazon.com.
• Anton Pannekoek, De nieuwe middenklasse (1909).
• Ph. Bourrinet, De arbeidersraden in de theorie van de Nederlands-Duitse communistische linkerzijde.
• GIC / Max Hempel (Jan Appel), Marxismo y comunismo de Estado external link to INTER-REV. Internacionalismo – Revolución. Foro político-social internacionalista.
• GIC, El papel de la CNT ( Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, sindicato anarcosindicalista) en la revolución española (1931). External link to INTER-REV. Internacionalismo – Revolución. Foro político-social internacionalista.

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• Cuando CNT-FAI no quisieron implantar una dictadura proletaria revolucionaria.
• 1. Buenaventura Durruti y el antifascismo obrerista y popular.// 2. CNT. Juan García Oliver. El papel del antifascismo democrático.

October 2022

• Anton Pannekoek, Klassenstrijd en natie (1912), eerste vertaling naar het Nederlands.
• Anton Pannekoek, Gegen den Massenstreik (1914).
• Anton Pannekoek, Versicherung gegen die Revolution (1914).
• Anton Pannekoek, Korruption (1914).
• Anton Pannekoek, Das Taylorsystem der Abrackerung (1914).
• Anton Pannekoek, Het afbeulsysteem van Taylor (1914).

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• Buchausgabe Anton Pannekoek, Klassenkampf und Nation (1912).
  Ein Klassiker des Rätekommunismus der vor kurzem nur in Frakturschrift zu lesen war. Sehr aktuell wegen der Rolle des ukrainischen und russischen Nationalismus im heutigen Krieg in der Ukraine. Beide Nationalismen werden von manche leninistischen Linken gebraucht um sich an der einen oder der anderen Seite der Frontlinie zu beteiligen.
• Anton Pannekoek, Klassenkampf und Nation (1912), a classic of council communism. Very topical because of the role of Ukrainian and Russian nationalism in today’s war in Ukraine. Both nationalisms are used by some Leninist leftists to participate on one or the other side of the front line. Also availlable in French translation, in English translation, in Spanish translation.
• Herunterladen / Download version Grundprinzipien kommunistischer Produktion und Verteilung (1935).

August-September 2022

• Mac A.Roni, Council Communism Study Circle, Introducing: The Dutch/Germans Communist Left. A project of the Baltimore Libertarian Socialist Caucus, 2020-2021.
• Grupo de Comunistas Internacionalistas (GIC), O Marxismo e o Comunismo Estatal. (1932).
• Grupo de Comunistas Internacionalistas (GIC), Os Princípios Fundamentais da Produção e Distribuição Comunista – Parte 4.
• GIC Los Principios fundamentales de la producción y distribución comunista. Capítulo 11/16. (Edición de 1935)
• El GIC y otros grupos internacionalistas sobra la luche di clases y la guerra en España.
• Otro texto del GIC. Traducción parcial a español de “Het einde van de burgeroorlog in Spanje”, Radencommunisme, eerste jaargang, nr. 9, Mei 1939.
• Barbara Allen, Alexandre Chliapikov, chef ouvrier bolchevik, victime des crimes staliniens. French translation by Jean-Pierre Laffitte of the 2015 English original.

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• C.Mcl., Périodisation du capitalisme, positions révolutionnaires et fondement marxiste de son obsolescence.
• Fj & Mm, La Saint famille des gratteurs ou la critique de la critique de la valeur. Contre la “Wertkritik” de Kurz, Jappe et consorts, Juillet 2022.
• Aníbal, Barbaria y el patriarcado. Deformación del marxismo y concesiones al feminismo.

July 2022

• Anton Pannekoek, Werttheorie (1908).
• Anton Pannekoek, Waardetheorie (1908).
• Anton Pannekoek, Teoría del valor (1908).
• Anton Pannekoek, Teoria do Valor (1908).
• Anibal, Sobre el valor y la Ley del valor. Textos de Marx y Engels.
• Anton Pannekoek, A Necessidade Econômica do Imperialismo (1916).

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• João Woyzeck, Der Linkskommunismus der Kommunistischen Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (KAPD).
• C.Mcl., Les errances du CCI sur les rapports inter-impérialistes + Annexes.
• Idem in spanish, french and english, with a critical valorisation by Anibal.

June 2022

• Liga Comunista “Spartacus”, Tarefas e Características do Novo Partido, 1945.
• Liga Comunista “Espartaco”, Tareas y características del nuevo partido , Tesis aprobadas en la conferencia de la  Liga Comunista “Spartaco” (Communistenbond “Spartacus”), celebrada en diciembre  de 1945.

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• Internationalist Voice, Worker-communism Radical Conscience of the Left of Capital , PDF-Book 2022.
• Granamir, A maior onda de revoltas populares da história da humanidade (1). Em termos de participação direta e protagonismo das massas, as revoltas deste século são mais massivas do que muitas das revoluções do século XX. 4-5-2022.
• Anibal, Critique of above article in Spanish, Portuguese and English. 25-5-2022.
• Lucas Maia, Reflexões sobre a Organização Revolucionária , 25-5-2022.
• Lucas Maia. Reflexiones sobre la organización revolucionaria, followed by a critique by Anibal in Spanish, Portuguese and English, 28-5-2022.

May 2022

• Socialism and freedom collection «Blanqui and the councilists»– Selection of Texts – Blanqui – Luxemburg – Gorter – Pannekoek – Pfemfert – Rühle – Wolffheim and Others. (external link to page with free PDF)
• Grupo de Comunistas Internacionalistas (GIC), Os Princípios Fundamentais da Produção e Distribuição Comunista. Parte 3 (Chapter 6 -10). External link.
• Idem, in Spanish translation. External link.

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• Aníbal, response to Link’s second text (Understanding the decline of a mode of production Part 2. Changes in capitalism at the beginning of the 20th century).
• F.C., The inter-imperialist war in Ukraine. From Luxemburg, Pannekoek, Gorter, and Lenin to “Council-Communism” (in English, German, Dutch and Spanish).

April 2022

• Entrevista com Jan Appel (1982), Jan Halkes.
• A Ideologia do Nacionalismo, Grupo de Comunistas Internacionalistas (GIC).
• Barcelona, el principio del fin, GIC, Radencommunisme, febrero de 1939.
• Das Wilsonsche Programm, Anton Pannekoek. – Moskau : [s.n.], 1919. – 6 S.
• El programa wilsoniano, Anton Pannekoek, 1919.
• Een langere Nederlandse tekst met deze titel uit De Nieuwe Tijd, 1918.

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• Anibal, Valoración crítica del texto del Circolo internazionalista “coalizione operaia”: La guerra en Ucrania y la cuestión nacional en la era de la madurez imperialista. (En español, inglés, e italiano).
• Philippe Bourrinet, O Grupo de Comunistas Internacionalistas na Holanda, O Nascimento do GIC 1927-1933 (Parte II).
• Revolución,nº 1, Proletarios  internacionalistas.
• Anibal, Crítica.
• MM, Nations et nationalisme contre le prolétariat.
• Communaut, Organisationsdebatte.

March 2022

• KAPD, Theses on the role of the party (1921).
• A. Ciliga, fragment The masters of the country, from Siberia, Land of exile and of industrialization (1950).
• A. Ciliga, fragment “ellos” y “nosotros” en la URSS. Fragmento de: “Diez años tras el telón de acero. Siberia. Tierra de exilio e industrialización” (1950).
• KAPD, Leitsaetze ueber die Rolle der Partei (1921).
• A. Ciliga, Fragment Die Herren des Landes, aus “Sibirien, Land des Exils und der Industrialisierung” (1950)
• Boekuitgave van Radencommunisme 1938-1940, uitgegeven door Association Archives Antonie Pannekoek (A.A.A.P.) en raetekommunismus.de.
  412 pagina’s, verkrijgbaar via Amazon.de voor €13,39 incl. BTW en verzendkosten naar Nederland. De inhoudsopgave en alle teksten zijn ook online in te zien bij beide uitgevers. Zie verder de presentatie van het boek (link to Arbeidersstemmen)

      External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• Grupo de Comunistas Internacionalistas (GIC), Teses sobre os Núcleos Revolucionários da Empresa, sobre o Partido e a Ditadura (1931/1932).
• Philippe Bourrinet, O Grupo de Comunistas Internacionalistas na Holanda (Parte I).
• AWW, The Organisation Debate (Communaut).
• Lukas Egger, Marco Hamann, Vorwärts und (nicht) vergessen?. To be complete: reply by two of three who initiated the debate.

February 2022

• Jan Appel, Der Zwang zur Revolution (1920).
• Max Hempel (Jan Appel), Das Parlament des Imperialismus. Das Fazit von Genf und die Arbeiterklasse (1926).

      External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• C.Mcl, 30-01-2022, En défense du matérialisme historique. Débat avec Link et Anibal.
• Idem, english translation, part 1.
• Anibal, Discusiones sobre la decadencia histórica del capitalismo. En torno a un texto reciente de Link. En español, inglés y francés.
• Volker Arnold, Les théories relatives aux conseils dans la Révolution de Novembre. Une présentation et une analyse systématiques, du point de vue de l’histoire des idées, des différentes conceptions des conseils (1977). Traduction en français pour la première fois d’un livre allemand détaillé, plein de références, sur les conseils ouvriers en Allemagne de 1918 à 1920. Traduit en français par J.P. Laffitte (janvier 2022).
  Titre original: Volker Arnold. Rätebewegung und Rätetheorien in der Novemberrevolution: Räte als Organisationsformen des Kampfes und der Selbstbestimmung (1977).
• Grupo de Comunistas Internacionalistas (GIC), Os Princípios Fundamentais da Produção e Distribuição Comunista – Parte 2.
• GIC, Principios fundamentales de la producción y distribución comunista, Capitules 2, 3, 4 , 5 in spanish.

January 2022

• Volledige transcriptie van G.I.C.  Radencommunisme 1938-1940, (externe link naar aaap.be)
• G.I.C. Werklozenbeweging en klassenstrijd 1930 (externe link naar aaap.be)

    External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• Anibal, Rolando Astarita sobre la URSS. Doctrinarismo categorial, distorsiones y arrogancias varias para tapar abundantes contradicciones y falacias.
• Nildo Viana, Blocos Sociais e Luta de Classes.
• Anibal, Marxismo y seudo marxismo en Nildo Viana. Una necesaria crítica.
• Fredo Corvo, O Mito Fatal da Revolução Burguesa na Rússia.

December 2021

• Brochure De Vlam/Spartacusbond, Portugal, zelfstandige arbeidersstrijd en de ‘vertegenwoordigers van de arbeidersklasse’, ±1975/1976. Omslag, inh.opg., voorwoord, hfst. 1, hfst. 2, hfst. 3, hfst. 4.

    External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• Mateus Alves, A Concepção de Partido Político em Otto Rühle in Marxismo e Autogestão Ano 08, num. 11, 2021.1. 
• Grupo de Comunistas Internacionales de Holanda (GIKH) – Principios fundamentales de una producción y distribución comunista (1930)
• Milovan Djilas e A Nova Classe – Cajo Brendel (Spartacus, 1957).
• Milovan Djilas y la nueva clase – Cajo Brendel (Spartacus, 1957).
• Anton Pannekoek, Karl Korsch, Paul Mattick Crítica del bolchevismo.
• Wagner, Egger, Hamann, Was tun in Zeiten der Schwäche? in Cosmonaut, 16-10-2021
  1. Corvo, Bolschewismus als Alternative zu selbstgewählte Ohnmacht? – Ein paar Gedanken zu „Was tun in Zeiten der Schwäche?“ – in Arbeiterstimmen, 2-11-2021. Nederlands, English, Espagnol.
  2. Klopotek, Ungenau und Dogmatisch in Cosmonaut, 20-11-2021

November 2021

• GIC, Trotsky and the Council Communism (1938). New version 1-11-2021.

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• Spanish translation and critique of above article by GIC on Trotsky.
• Paul Mattick, O Que É Comunismo? (1934).
• Paul Mattick, ¿Qué es el comunismo? (1934).
• GIC, Los principios fundamentales de la producción y distribución comunista. Grupo de Comunistas Internacionalistas. Traducción a español de la segunda edición (1935).
• Gabriel Teles, Marxismo crítico-revolucionario: 60 años después de la muerte de Karl Korsch .
• Gabriel Teles, O marxismo crítico-revolucionário: 60 anos da morte de Karl Korsch.
• Fredo Corvo, Comunismo de Conselhos ou Conselhismo?
• David Adam, La crítica de Marx al proyecto socialista del “dinero-trabajo” y el mito del proudhonismo de los comunistas de consejos.
• Tommy Lawson, Una nueva biografía del comunista de izquierdas Gavril Miasnikov y del Grupo Obrero del Partido Comunista Ruso. 

October 2021

• Cajo Brendel, Milovan Djilas en De Nieuwe Klasse (Spartacusbond, 1958).

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• Grupo Comunista Internacionalista (GIC), Os Princípios Fundamentais da Produção e Distribuição Comunista – Parte 1.

• Tommy Lawson, The Most Intransigent of Bolsheviks: Gavril Miasnikov, the Workers Group and the Degeneration of the Russian Revolution. A new biography of Left-Communist Gavril Miasnikov and the Workers Group of the Russian Communist Party.
  
• GIC, Estamos construyendo la estructura de la nueva sociedad en la cáscara de la antigua. Artículo final de la serie “La diferencia de puntos de vista de la IWW y el Movimiento de los Consejos en Alemania”.
  
• Nelke, 1921-2021: 100 Jahre parteifeindlicher Kommunismus. Neue Broschüre von Soziale Befreiung.
  
• Hermann Lueer (Hrsg.), GIK, Versetzt die ganze Staatsmaschinerie ins Museum der Altertümer, neben das Spinnrad und die bronzene Axt!
  • GIK, Trotzki und der Rätekommunismus (1938)
  • GIK, Im Land der großen Lüge (1940, Auszüge aus der Rezension des Buches von Anton Ciliga)
  • Ciliga, Sowjetische Bourgeoisie (1938, Auszug aus dem Buch von Anton Ciliga)
  • GIK, Staatskapitalismus und Kommunismus (1936, Auszüge)
  • GIK [Anton Pannekoek], Partei und Arbeiterklasse (1936)
  • GIK, Die kommunistische Gesellschaft (1938, Auszüge)
  • GIK, Anarcho-Syndikalismus und der Rätekommunismus (1937, Auszüge)
  • GIK, Abschaffung der Lohnarbeit! (1935, Auszüge aus Grundprinzipien …)
  • GIK, Kommunismus und geistige Freiheit (1939)
• Hermann Lueer (Ed.), GIC, Put the whole state machinery into the museum of antiquities, next to the spinning wheel and the bronze ax!
  • GIC, Trotsky and the Council Communism (1938)
  • GIC, In the Land of the great Lie (1940, abstracts from its review of the book by Anton Ciliga)
  • Ciliga, Soviet Bourgeoisie (1938, abstract of the book by Anton Ciliga)
  • GIC, State Capitalism and Communism (1936, abstracts)
  • GIC [Anton Pannekoek], Party and Working-Class (1936)
  • GIC, The Communist Society (1938, abstracts)
  • GIC, Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Council Communism (1937, abstracts)
  • GIC, Abolition of Wage Labor! (1935, abstracts from Fundamental Principles …)
  • GIC, Communism and Intellectual Freedom (1939)

September 2021

• GIC, Communisme en geestelijke vrijheid (Radencommunisme, 1939). Translation from Dutch into English and German in progress.
• GIC, Trotski en het radencommunisme (Radencommunisme, 1938). Translation from Dutch into English and German in progress.
• Willy Huhn, Lênin como um utópico (1948), external link to Crítica Desapiedada
• Willy Huhn, Sobre a doutrina do partido revolucionário (Parte 1) (1961), external link to Crítica Desapiedada

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• Launch of the CWO’s new book Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924 – A View from the Communist Left

August 2021

• Hempel/Appel – GIC, Marxisme et communisme d’État. Le dépérissement de l’État’, 1927-1932
• Fundraising for translation from German into English of Axel Weipert, “The second revolution. The council movement of Berlin 1919-1920”

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• New book, Movimiento del capital
• João Aguiar, Uma ou duas classes dos gestores? (in 4 parts)
• F.D., Hors jeu. “Pourquoi les groupes politiques surgis de mai 68, et qui ont constitué la Gauche Internationaliste, en ont-ils été réduits au sectarisme de chapelle, sans exercer une quelconque influence sur le questionnement provoqué par la postmodernité”.

July 2021

Historical documents

• Translation into spanish and edition in the inter-rev forum of Herman Gorter’s text “The Communist Workers’ International” (1923).

Presentation of four new books

• Group of International Communists From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs! 2021 Hermann Lueer (Editor/Translator). Including Preface by Lueer.
• Gruppe Internationaler Kommunisten, Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen! Hermann Lueer (Hrsg.) 2021. Enthält Lueers Vorwort.
• Gruppe Internationaler Kommunisten (Holland) : P.I.K. : Pressedienst der Internationalen Kommunisten-Holland, 1928-1933. – Transkribiert und herausgegeben von Hans-Peter Jacobitz und Thomas Königshofen; Mitarbeit von der Association Archives Antonie Pannekoek. Enthält Vorwort der Herausgeber und Erwiderung.
• The Council Communist Reader, May 2021. Paperback ISBN: 978-8-8431-1458-0. Hardcover ISBN: 978-5-1431-2417-2. A Radical Reprint. Pattern Books. With an introduction from Paul Mattick Jr., followed by comments by F.C. and Anibal.

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles

• Chine: Ne jamais oublier le massacre de la place Tiananmen! publié le 25 juin 2021 par Luc Thibaut. introduction de Pantopolis.
• Chuang, May 12, 2021, Involution: Wildcat on China’s 2020. Critical remarks by Chuang on an article by Wildcat.
• O G.I.C. e a economia do período de transição – Fredo Corvo.
• The Indian group Majdoorsamachar posted a curious text, Fringe Left, showing they not wholly lost their Stalinist-Maoist-Autonomist origins. I reproduce it here and give my [F.C.] comments [in italics and between square brackets]:

Fringe Left

Posted on 2021/06/18 by majdoorsamachar

German-Dutch Left and Italian Left did not break from the social-democratic framework 
[A bold thesis put forward by Trotskyists, communizers, and their followers (including Internationalist Perspective). Curious to see the argument.] 

and its underlying social strata 
[Probably referring to the theory of workers’ aristocracy, remade by Stalin into workerism, framed by Autonomists to glorify the unlearned mass worker, condemning educated workers]

despite their critiques of many facets of social-democratic theory and practice in Germany and especially of the Bolshevik Party in Russia after October 1917. 
Their remnants in the fringe left, even during these thirty-five years that we have had some interactions with a few of them,
[as far as I had the pleasure to correspond with Majdoorsamachar, it showed insensitive for any critique. Instead, it limited itself to personal attacks and scorn, an old left-bourgeois tradition] 

are stuck in the 1920s. Whereas, with incomparable leaps in productive forces since early-1970s,
[Here we find Stalin’s deformation of historic materialist from history man-made by class struggle in favor of history determined by the evolution of productive forces, understood in a technical sense only]

“revolutionary intellectuals” have increasingly become irrelevant throughout the world.
[It have been ‘Leninism’ in all its forms and the deformations of the tendency Kautsky/Rühle/Brendel/Simon that believed that historical materialism was the product of ‘intellectuals.’ Majdoorsamachar may share that  false thesis in a positive or negative way, it does not apply to the KAPD/GIC current]

Despite our above mentioned reading, on the basis of interactions with most of the strands of the left in India over these forty-five years, it seems that an acquaintance with the German-Dutch Left + Italian Left and their inheritors could be of help in questioning the leninist- stalinist-trotskyist-maoist framings that still have some influence.
[You are most welcome!]

So, this link to the current issue of “A Free Retriever’s Digest” (April-June 2021). Incidentally, this issue also has, “A Note on Peasants in the Indian Subcontinent” which we sent as a response to a write-up in the earlier issue of the magazine.

https://afreeretriever.wordpress.com/2021/05/05/a-free-retrievers-digest-vol-5-2-april-june-2021/“

June 2021

• GIC, “We are building the structure of the new society in the shell of the old” (IWW), 1931
• GIK, “Wir bauen die Struktur der neuen Gesellschaft in der Hülle der alten” (IWW), 1931
• Max Hempel/Jan Appel, Das russische Wiederaufbauprogramm, 1926
• Herman Gorter, Le Matérialisme Historique, 1913

May 2021

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles:

• Klopotek Felix: Rätekommunismus. Geschichte und Theorie Geschichte 1. Auflage 2021.
• Le soviet des chômeurs, par Sergej Vasil’evic Malysev, edition le fil rouge.
• Philippe Bourrinet, Des alliances avec les Etats capitalistes à l’écrasement des marins de Kronstadt par l’Etat bolchevik.
• Philippe Bourrinet, VON BÜNDNISSEN MIT KAPITALISTISCHEN STAATEN BIS ZUR ZERSCHLAGUNG DER KRONSTÄDTER MATROSEN DURCH DEN BOLSCHEWISTISCHEN STAAT.
• Philippe Bourrinet, VAN ALLIANTIES MET KAPITALISTISCHE STATEN TOT HET NEERSLAAN VAN DE MATROZEN VAN KRONSTADT DOOR DE BOLSJEWISTISCHE STAAT.
• Topic with several contribution in A Free Retriver’s Digest: The 1921 ‘Kronstadt Tragedy’ – Beginning of the Counterrevolution.
• Gorter, Religion et philosophie, 1909 (extrait de sa brochure : Le matérialisme historique).
• GIK, „WIR BAUEN DIE STRUKTUR DER NEUEN GESELLSCHAFT IN DER HÜLLE DER ALTEN“. In 1931 erstveröffentlicht von der GIK (Holland) als Schlussartikel der Serie „Der Unterschied in den Auffassungen der IWW und der Rätebewegung in Deutschland“

April 2021

• Hermann Gorter, 26-9-1921, an Lenin: Kronstadt, die NEP und Taktik.
• Trotsky and the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921. From: Willy Huhn, Trotsky – the failed Stalin (1952) [Ch. 1: Trotsky and the proletarian revolution, par. VI.] in A Free Retriever’s Digest
• Trotsky y el levantamiento de Kronstadt de 1921. De: Willy Huhn, Trotsky – el Stalin fracasado (1952) [Cap. 1: Trotsky y la revolución proletaria, par. VI.] in Inter-Rev

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles:

• Hannibal, “THE ICT ON KRONSTADT -1921 AND THE RCP (B). Centrist lessons, limited and ambiguous.” (2021). Also in Spanish, in French, in German.
• Paul Mattick, The Lenin legend (1935)
• Paul Mattick, Bolshevism and Stalinism (1947)
• Cajo Brendel, Kronstadt, Proletarian Spin-Off of The Russian Revolution, 1971.
  Key quotation: “The Rebellion was the proletarian spin-off of this bourgeois revolution”.
  Brendel replaced Huhn as a speaker at the Kronstadt Congress in Berlin.
  Unfortunately Huhn died before the congress.

March 2021

• Anton Pannekoek, La necessidad economica del imperialismo (1916)
• Anton Pannekoek The economic necessity of imperialism (1916), completely corrected version
• Anton Pannekoek Gegen die Reaktion (1921). External link to Arbeiterstimmen
• G.I.K. Randbemerkungen zu dem am 27/28 Aug. 1933 in Paris abgehaltenen Kongress zur Gründung einer 4. Internationale. External link to Arbeiterstimmen
• G.I.C. Notas marginales sobre el congreso celebrado en París los días 27 y 28 de agosto de 1933 para la fundación de una IV Internacional. External link to Inter-rev Forum

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles:

• Anibal, A un siglo del conflicto de marinos, soldados y obreros de la base naval de Kronstadt con el Estado ruso y el PCR (bolchevique).
• Jamie Merchant, The Money Theory of the State. Reflections on Modern Monetary Theory in Brooklyn Rail.
• Jehu, Jamie Merchant: Another asshole who thinks he knows more about what Marx wrote than Engels.
• Has Capitalism entered its Decadence since 1914? A Blog Discussion (November 2020).
  A Discussion on Capitalism’s Decadence. Contributions by the Inter-rev. Forum, Link and Fredo
  – Decline and Senility of Capitalism with Marx, Engels and Communism
  – Some Key Questions for Luxemburg’s Theory of Accumulation
  In A Free Retriever’s Digest Vol.5 #1 (January – March 2021)
• Fredo Corvo, Capitalism is coming to an end. But how?. Spanish version. French version. Dutch version.
• Reply by Anibal: Decline of capitalism. Discussion. Spanish: Decadencia del capitalismo. Discusión. French: Déclin du capitalisme. Discussion.

February 2021

• Fredo Corvo G.I.C. sobre la economía del periodo de transición. Una introducción.
• Anton Pannekoek The economic necessity of imperialism (1916).
• Anton Pannekoek De ekonomische noodzakelijkheid van het imperialisme (1916).
• Communistenbond ‘Spartacus’ Van slavenmaatschappij tot arbeidersmacht (1946). Doorzoekbaar PDF. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog geschreven door Ben Karlsberg.

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles:

• Fj et Marcm, deux textes: 1) Islamisme : La complicité criminelle de la gauche et de l’extrême gauche du capital; 2) Impérialisme/anti-impérialisme.
• Critique of Communization and Feminism. Two books by Aníbal / Inter-rev (in Spanish) introductions in English:
  • Inter-rev Historia efectiva, historia imaginaria. Mujeres,hombres, clases, estados, división del trabajo,dinámicas sociales, producción,reproducción, derechos.
  • Inter-rev La chistera de los magos Repertorio de trucos y circo de la comunización.
• D.C. Pechino fa sue le presunte “revisioni” di Engels alla critica della economia politica di Marx (già “introdotte” da Stalin).

Turn of the year 2020/2021

• GIC, Tesis sobre el partido y la dictadura (1932)
• International Council Correspondence, The land of promise – report from Palestine (1935)
• Translated from Internationale Rätekorrespondenz, The Arabs uprising in Palestine (1936)

External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles:

• Free download (PDF) of Lo spillover del profitto. Capitalismo, guerre ed epidemie. A.o. Philippe Bourrinet, “Il Capitalismo, guerre ed epidemie”.
• C.Mcl., Has Capitalism entered its Decadence since 1914? The Falsehoods of the International Communist Current (ICC) — A Critique. Followed by a discussion.
• Elaborado por Anibal, Tres textos sobre la cuestión de la decadencia del capitalismo.
• Libro Ediciones inter-rev. La ideología de la comunización como tergiversación del comunismo e inadecuada respuesta a las dificultades.
• Anibal and Materia, Period of transition, socialism, communism. Based on a recent book published in Spanish language, as a second edition of the book “Against the tide”, including new parts, and correcting and changing others because the authors have studied new texts.
• Elaborado por Anibal, Otto Rhüle sobre organizacion, partido, sindicato, centralismo, táctica, etc. Followed by a discussion with Michael Meer (also in English).
• Ediciones inter-rev. (Elaborado por Anibal) Historia efectiva, historia imaginaria. Mujeres,hombres, clases, estados, división del trabajo, dinámicas sociales, producción,reproducción, derechos.
• Gabriel Teles & Rubens Vinícius, Elementos para una crítica Marxista hacía el Leninismo, also in English translation, followed by a critique (Anibal).

November 2020

• Communists League ‘Spartacus’ Tasks and Characteristics of the New party (1945). PDF.
• Otto Rühle Grundfragen der Organisation, Die Aktion, (1921), mit Vorwort vom Übersetzer.
• F.C. Sluiten democratie dictatuur elkaar uit of vullen ze elkaar aan? Een kritiek op Davis, ‘The road to anti-state, anti-market socialism’.

Interesting external links of the month:

• October – December 2020 issue of A Free Retriever’s Digest.
• Gramscism or Marxism?  Foreword (with additional footnotes) to the book Gramsci between Marxism and Idealism by Onorato Damen, translated and published last year. The book can now  be downloaded as a PDF.
• Os Intelectuais – Anton Pannekoek (como J. Harper). Publicado em International Council Correspondence, vol. 1, no. 12. Outubro 1935.
• As Bases do Imperialismo Japonês – GIKH. Publicado em International Council Correspondence Vol. 1, no.7, abril de 1935, pp 1-7.
• A Propósito do Partido Comunista – Anton Pannekoek sob o pseudônimo de J. Harper I.C.C. Vol. I. n.º 7 – Junho de 1936.
• New site: Autonomie und Plan – Gedanken zu Weltcommune und Communismus.
• New site: Materiaux critiques. Amongst others: Quelques éléments de réflexion sur la période de transition.

October 2020

• Jim Davis, For a world in common. The Road to Anti-State Anti-market Socialism,
  critique by Fredo Corvo, Do democracy and dictatorship exclude or supplement each other? (2020) ENGLISH.
• Anton Pannekoek Marx und die Gewerkschaften (1909) GERMAN.
• Anton Pannekoek Marx en de vakverenigingen (1909) DUTCH.
• Otto Rühle Diverse teksten 1918 – 1940, met kritische kanttekeningen DUTCH.
• Communistenbond ‘Spartacus’ Taak en Wezen van de Nieuwe Partij (1945) DUTCH.

Interesting external links of the month:

• Chuang, 24-9-2020: Scaling the Firewall, 1: #LiftTheBucket, (“first of a new series of investigations into Chinese social media, compiling information on trends in social phenomena”), ENGLISH.
• Annoucement book publication: Lo spillover del profitto – capitalismo, guerre ed epidemie, editor Colibrì edizioni, ITALIAN.
• Ph. Bourrinet, An Introduction to Anton Pannekoek: Marxism and Darwinism (1909, 1914), October 2019, ENGLISH.
• Ph. Bourrinet, Affaire Polanski et Affaire Dreyfus, à propos d’un article d’Echanges et Mouvement, (“An article that would have been better left under the bushel”), FRENCH.

September 2020

• Fredo Corvo, The fatal myth of the bourgeois revolution in Russia. A critique of Wagner’s ‘Theses on Bolshevism’, PDF-pamphlet.
• Fredo Corvo, De fatale mythe van de burgerlijke revolutie in Rusland. Een kritiek op Wagners ‘Stellingen over het bolsjewisme’, PDF-brochure

Interesting external links of the month:

• Crítica Desapiedada Website (Portuguese)
• Barbaria, The past of our being
• Roi Ferreiro, On unionism and its revolutionary overcoming. A contribution to a debate between council communists
• Angry Workers of the World, Day-to-day struggle and class consciousness – Response to the review of ‘Class Power on Zero-Hours’ by the Communist Workers Organisation (CWO)
• CWO, The Disappointed of 1968: Seeking Refuge in Utopia
• Marlowe, Resurgence

July 2020

A recent discussion article, Council communists of the world, organize (the workers, or yourselves?), was based on following historical document of the communist left:

• Group of International Communistst (GIC), Theses on Revolutionary Workplace Nucleus, Party, and Dictatorship (1931), first translation into English (2020)
• Gruppe von Internationalen Kommunisten (GIK), Thesen zu revolutionaren Betriebskernen, Partei und Diktatur (1931), Zugriff zu Arbeiterstimmen, first translation into German (2017)
• Groep van Internationale Communisten (GIC), Stellingen omtrent revolutionaire bedrijfskernen, partij en dictatuur (1931), link naar arbeidersstemmen.nl, transcription of Dutch original

To ALL historic documents and history at leftdis archive, sorted by LANGUAGE

June 2020

• Willy Huhn, Lenin als utopist (1948) in Dutch language, see below for German original and English translation

LEFT WING COMMUNISM, NOT an infantile disorder, our new site in construction, invites to a discussion on council communism and the revolution in Russia, starting from Wagners ‘Theses’. We have added documents on the historical context and a biography:

• Helmut Wagner “Theses on Bolshevism” (1933) [link to marxists.org]:
  • Biography of Helmut Wagner
  • Historical context of “Theses on Bolshevism” according to Wagners comrades in arms
• Helmut Wagner, “Thesen über den Bolschewismus” (1933),
  • Historischer Kontext nach Wagners Kampfesgenossen,
  • Biographie Wagner.
• Helmut Wagner “Stellingen over het Bolsjewisme” (1933, new translation into Dutch)
  • Biografie van Helmut Wagner, door Ph. Bourrinet
  • Historische context van de “Stellingen over het bolsjewisme” volgens Wagner’s strijdmakkers

    Annoucement by aaap.be:

• de | en | fr | nl | Theme theories on Capitalist Crises (hopefully much to be extended in the year to come)

To ALL historic documents and history at leftdis archive, sorted by LANGUAGE

May 1rst 2020

• Willy Huhn, On the doctrine of the revolutionary party (1961), translated into English and published in three parts, A Free Retriever’s Digest, part 1, part 2, part 3: in Vol. 4 Issue #1.
• German original: Willy Huhn, Zur Lehre von der revolutionären Partei (1948).
• F.C., An answer to “Questions without answers”. Anti-critique of a leftist book review of The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-1968), website A Free Retriever’s Digest.
• Anton Pannekoek The destruction of nature (1909).
• Willy Huhn Lenin as a utopian (1948).
• Gauche Communiste de France On the national and colonial question (1945/6).
• Some recent books of the period of transition.