Below is our list of suggested readings, it shall be updated as we read and write more over time. For clarity on our positions we recommend reading our platform.
Introductory Texts
Class Consciousness and Revolutionary Organisation by the CWO
Marx and Engels
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx
Chapter I: A Critique of The German Ideology by Karl Marx
Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx
The Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels
Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
Value, Price and Profit by Karl Marx
Capital Volume One by Karl Marx
Capital Volume Two by Karl Marx
Capital Volume Three by Karl Marx
The Civil War in France by Karl Marx
The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels
Critque of the Gotha Programme by Karl Marx
Anti-Dühring by Friedrich Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
Nationalism, Imperialism and War
The National Question by Rosa Luxemburg
Who Needs the War? By Alexandra Kollontai
The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War by Vladimir Lenin
The Main Enemy is at Home by Karl Liebknecht
Do Internationalists Want a Split? by Alexandra Kollontai
Theses on the Right of Nations to Self-determination by Georgy Pyatakov, Yevgenia Bosch and Nikolai Bukharin
Imperialism and World Economy by Nikolai Bukharin
1944: War or Revolution by PCInt
The 1944 Manifesto of the Internationalist Communist Left by PCInt
The Economic Role of War in Capitalism’s Decadent Phase by CP
The National Question Today and the Poisonous Legacy of the Counter-revolution by CP
Social Democracy, the First World War and the Working Class in Britain by ER
In Rojava: People’s War is not Class War by Jock
Against Nationalism and War! By the ICT
Against Imperialist Massacres: No war but the class war by CWO
Imperialism and the Amazon by Atticus
US/Iran Rivalry: What No War But the Class War Really Means by Jock
Neither Israel, Nor Palestine: No War but the Class War by Affiliates and Sympathisers of the ICT
AUKUS: Another Preparation for Imperialist War by EK
No War but the Class War – A Call for Action by Comrades of the ICT
Internationalism and the War in Ukraine by CWO
The War in Ukraine Opens the Way to Global Imperialist Conflict by Jock
Rojava: The Myths and the Reality by Dyjbas
Revolution, Counter-revolution and State-Capitalism
The State and Revolution by V.I Lenin
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky by V.I Lenin
The Formation of the Red Army by Karl Radek
The Russia We Love and Defend by Onorato Damen
1921: Beginning of the Counter-revolution? by the IBRP
Juche: Stalinism and Maoism with Feudal Characteristics by Internationalist Communist Perspective
The Significance of the Russian Revolution Today by CWO
Sugarcane Stalinism by Emanuel Santos
A Hundred Years On: Lessons of the German Revolution by Jock
Class Struggle in China by Dyjbas
The Kronstadt Revolt: One Hundred Years of Counter-Revolution by CWO
Bourgeois Democracy, Reform, Fascism and Anti-fascism
The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case by Rosa Luxemburg
Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
The Democratic Principle by Amadeo Bordiga
Anti-Fascism: Formula for Confusion by Bilan, Journal of the Italian Communist Left in Exile 1934
Bourgeois Violence and Proletarian Defence by Onorato Damen
Against Fascism, Against Bourgeois Democracy. For Communism! by Battaglia Comunista
Is the Working Class Right Wing by CB
Socialism is not Statism by Jock
Abstention: A Class Response to Capitalist Elections by ASm
Their Democracy and Ours by Ant
Party and Class
Party and Class by Amadeo Bordiga
Centralised Party, Yes – Centralism over the Party, No! by Onorato Damen
You can’t build the party playing with paradoxes by Onorato Damen
Our Intervention Within the Working Class by Battaglia Comunista
Theses on the Role of Communists in the Economic Struggle of the Working Class by CWO
New Class Composition, New Struggles by CWO
The Fraction-Party Question in the Italian Left by Fabio Damen
We are against all institutional parties by the ICT
Why the Working Class is Key by the CWO
The Meaning of Workers’ Councils in the 21st Century by Dyjbas
Unions
On the Union Question by Amadeo Bordiga and Onorato Damen
Communist Work and the Trades Unions Today by IBRP
Unions – Whose Side Are They On? by Jock
The Unions, the Class Struggle and Communists by NZ
Solidarność: Trade Unionism or Self-Organisation? by Dyjbas
USA: “Striketober”, An Unprecedented Wave of Strikes by Olivier
The Internationalist Communist Left
Platform of the Committee of Intesa 1925
The Communist Left in the Third International by Amadeo Bordiga
Political Platform of the Internationalist Communist Party (1952)
Gramsci between Marxism and Idealism by Onorato Damen
Bordiga Beyond the Myth by Onorato Damen
Background on the Italian Communist Left, Bordiga and Bordigism by IWG
The Italian Communist Left – A Brief Internationalist History by Jock
What does the Communist Left do? by Dyjbas
Introductions to our Positions by the ICT
An Introduction to the Work of the CWO and ICT by Jock
The Law of Value, The falling rate of profit, Decadence and Crisis
For a Definition of the Concept of Decadence by Fabio Damen
Refining the Concept of Decadence by IBRP
Capitalist Financial Crisis: The Worst is Still to Come by ER
Is Capitalism Finished? by Jock
Does the Tendency for the Average Profit Rates to Fall Exist? by DC
The Fall in the Average Rate of Profit – the Crisis and its Consequences by Fabio Damen
‘Recovery’: Whose Recovery? by the CWO
The Housing Crisis is Part of Capitalism’s Crisis by the ICT
Fighting Back in the Global Class War by the ICT
On the Supposed International Economy Recovery by Fabio Damen
On Deutsche Bank, its Financial Crimes and the Unending Crisis by Fabio Damen
Are We Going Back to the 1930s? by the CWO
Capitalism’s New Economy: The Case of the UK by ER
Capitalism’s New Economy: The Value of Capitalist Services by ER
Capitalism’s New Economy: The Booming Financial Sector by ER
Capitalism’s New Economy: The Illusion of a Productive Economy by ER
Capitalism’s New Economy: The Working Class by ER
The Shadow of September 2008 Continues to Lengthen by Battaglia Comunista
Precarity and the ‘Gig Economy’ by Klasbatalo
The Current Crisis and the Tasks of Communists by CWO
In Defense of Decadence by Emanuel Santos
Climate, Animals, and the Environment
Halting Climate Change Means Changing the System by CWO
Environmental Disaster or Communism There is No Third Way by CP
BP’s Deepwater Horizon: Capitalism is the Disaster by PBD
Climate Change: The Alternative is Social Collapse or Socialism by CP
Climate Change: Capitalism is the Problem by CWO
Thunberg’s Call for General Strikes: The Confusions of a Liberal Protest by KT
Only the Working Class Can Save the Planet by CWO
Destroying Our Planet… Sustainably by Nikopetr and CP
Denmark’s Mink Farms Demonstrate that Covid-19 is the Child of Capitalism by Lotus
Global Warming: IPCC Report AR6 – Writing a Death Warrant? by CP
Save the Planet – Destroy Capitalism! by CWO
Turning the Planet into an Uninhabitable Hell by CWO
Health, Disability, and Social Assistance
Drugs: The Other Global War by Ant
The Aged, Mentally Impaired, and Children: Who Cares? by RT
The Crisis in the Care for the Elderly by CWO
Initial Thoughts on Coronavirus and its Fallout by Battaglia Comunista
The Four Horsemen of Capitalist Decay by Dyjbas
Class Struggle in the Time of Coronavirus: An Incomplete Chronicle of Events (16-21 March) by LM
Humanity’s Health or Capitalism’s Profit by the ICT
The Virus is Capitalism by ICT
International Workers’ Memorial Day: We Don’t Want To Die For Your Profits! by SJ
Covid-19 Exposes the Irrationality of Capitalism by SJ & KT
May Day 2020: Against the Virus that is Capitalism by the ICT
“All in this Together”? A Sick Joke by CWO
Reflections on the Coronavirus and Economic Crises by Fabio Damen
A Class Compass in the COVID Crisis by Battaglia Comunista
In Times of Lockdown: How to Contact and Work Towards Joining the CWO by the CWO
Anti-Lockdown Protests and Working-Class Activity in Australia by ICO
Working Women, the Family, Gender and Sexuality
Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious by Clara Zetkin
The Woman Worker by Nadezhda Krupskaya
Social-Democracy & Woman Suffrage by Clara Zetkin
The Social Basis of the Woman Question by Alexandra Kollontai
Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle by Rosa Luxemburg
Capitalism and Female Labour by V.I Lenin
Working Woman and Mother by Alexandra Kollontai
Communism and the Family by Alexandra Kollontai
Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle by Alexandra Kollontai
Celebrating International Working Women’s Day 100 Years on by CWO
Garment Workers: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow by Magnus Zeller
The Origins and Capture of International Working Women’s Day by ICO
A Class Perspective on the ‘Women Question’ by Battaglia Comunista
Caliban and the Witch: A Critical Analysis by Yann Kindo and Christophe Darmangeat
Marxism and Sexuality by Dyjbas
50 Years of Equal Exploitation? by Tinkotka
Domestic Violence: The Hidden Pandemic by RT (CWO) and Lydia (Klasbatalo)
8 Historical Working Women Moments for 8 March by Affiliates and Sympathisers of the ICT
Class Struggle and Gender Trouble by the CWO
Iran: On the Hijab as Labour Discipline, and the Slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” by DS
Social Unrest, Racism, Migration, Prisons, and Police
Prisoners of Capital Fight Back by IWG
USA – How a Republic Enforces its Order by AS
Cop-ocalypse in Ferguson by AS
Migrants: Welcome to the Class Struggle by ER
USA: Prison Struggles Spread Nationwide by AS
New US Prison Strike Takes Us to the Dark Heart of Capitalism by ERGOSUM
Against Racism and Authoritarianism: the Problem is Capitalism by GIS
Workers of all Identities, Unite! by Dyjbas
Against Racism, Against Capitalism by Battaglia Comunista
The 26th of January: A Day of Celebration or a Day of Mourning? By ICO
On Minneapolis: Police Brutality & Class Struggle by IWG and Klasbatalo
Capitalism is a Class-Divided, Racist, Sexist Horror Without End by Ant
The Murder of George Floyd: The End of Racism Starts With the Death of Capitalism by PBD
Against Police Reform – For the Abolition of the Police by IWG
Get Rid of Militarised Police Units? Get Rid of Capitalism and All Police Forces! by ICO
On An Island Watch House Bed, A Black Man’s Lying Dead by ICO
Poll Tax Riots: 30 Years On by CWO
Science and Technology
Human Nature and Communism by Ergosum
A Social History of the Internet by Humanaesfera
A Social History of the Internet – Part II by Humanaesfera
In Absorbing Science and Technology, Capital is Digging its Own Grave By Battaglia Comunista
Between Robots and Cryptocurrency by DC/S
Marxism and Anarchism
Marxism and Anarchism by the CWO
A Communist Left Critique of Platformism (Part 1): The Makhnovshchina by Dyjbas
A Communist Left Critique of Platformism (Part 2): The Platform and its Disciples by Dyjbas
150 Years On: The Split in the First International by Dyjbas
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