Below is a list of our current suggested readings. This list shall be updated regularly as we write and read new pieces that we feel are worth adding to it.
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
Introductory Texts
For Communism by the CWO (ICT)
Class Consciousness and Revolutionary Organisation by the CWO (ICT)
Nationalism, Imperialism and war
The National Question by Rosa Luxemburg
Who Needs the War? By Alexandra Kollontai
Socialism and War by V.I Lenin
The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War by V.I Lenin
The Main Enemy is at Home by Karl Liebknecht
Theses on the Right of Nations to Self-determination by Georgy Pyatakov, Yevgenia Bosch and Nikolai Bukharin
Imperialism and World Economy by Nikolai Bukharin
The 1944 Manifesto of the Internationalist Communist Left by PCInt (ICT)
The Economic Role of War in Capitalism’s Decadent Phase by CP (ICT)
The National Question Today and the Poisonous Legacy of the Counter-revolution by CP (ICT)
Social Democracy, the First World War and the Working Class in Britain by ER (ICT)
In Rojava: People’s War is not Class War by Jock (ICT)
Against Exploitation, Crisis and War by the ICT
Against Nationalism and War! By the ICT
The Horror, the Horror of World Imperialism by Klasbatalo (ICT)
Against Imperialist Massacres: No war but the class war by CWO (ICT)
Trotskyism and the War in Syria by ERGOSUM (ICT)
Against all Capitalist Factions! For Proletarian Independence! by Klasbatalo (ICT)
Imperialism and the Amazon by Atticus (ICT)
US/Iran Rivalry: What No War But the Class War Really Means by Jock (ICT)
The Russian 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
Trotsky and Trotskyism by CWO (ICT)
1921: Beginning of the Counter-revolution? by the IBRP
Stalin and Stalinism by AD (ICT)
The Significance of the Russian Revolution Today by CWO (ICT)
Sugarcane Stalinism by Emanuel Santos
A Hundred Years On: Lessons of the German Revolution by Jock (ICT)
Class Struggle in China by Dyjbas (ICT)
Bourgeois Democracy, Reform, Fascism and Anti-fascism
The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case by Rosa Luxemburg
Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
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 (ICT)
Beyond Antifascism by JB (ICT)
Is the Working Class Right Wing by CB (ICT)
Socialism is not Statism by Jock (ICT)
Abstention: A Class Response to Capitalist Elections by ASm (ICT)
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 (ICT)
Theses on the Role of Communists in the Economic Struggle of the Working Class by CWO (ICT)
New Class Composition, New Struggles by CWO (ICT)
The Fraction-Party Question in the Italian Left by Fabio Damen (ICT)
We are against all institutional parties by the ICT
Why the Working Class is Key by the CWO (ICT)
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 (ICT)
The Unions, the Class Struggle and Communists by NZ (ICT)
Background on the Italian Communist Left
Five Letters and an Outline of the Disagreement by Onorato Damen
Background on the Italian Communist Left, Bordiga and Bordigism by IWG (ICT)
The Italian Communist Left – A Brief Internationalist History by Jock (ICT)
What does the Communist Left do? by Dyjbas (ICT)
An Introduction to the Work of the CWO and ICT by Jock (ICT)
The Law of Value, The falling rate of profit, Decadence and Crisis
Refining the Concept of Decadence by IBRP
Capitalist Financial Crisis: The Worst is Still to Come by ER (ICT)
Is Capitalism Finished? by Jock (ICT)
Does the Tendency for the Average Profit Rates to Fall Exist? by DC (ICT)
The Fall in the Average Rate of Profit – the Crisis and its Consequences by Fabio Damen (ICT)
‘Recovery’: Whose Recovery? by the CWO (ICT)
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 (ICT)
On Deutsche Bank, its Financial Crimes and the Unending Crisis by Fabio Damen (ICT)
Are We Going Back to the 1930s? by the CWO (ICT)
Capitalism’s New Economy: The Case of the UK by ER (ICT)
Capitalism’s New Economy: The Value of Capitalist Services by ER (ICT)
Capitalism’s New Economy: The Booming Financial Sector by ER (ICT)
Capitalism’s New Economy: The Illusion of a Productive Economy by ER (ICT)
Capitalism’s New Economy: The Working Class by ER (ICT)
Precarity and the ‘Gig Economy’ by Klasbatalo (ICT)
The Shadow of September 2008 Continues to Lengthen by Battaglia Comunista (ICT)
The Current Crisis and the Tasks of Communists by CWO (ICT)
Climate, Animals, and the Environment
Halting Climate Change Means Changing the System by CWO (ICT)
Environmental Disaster or Communism There is No Third Way by CP (ICT)
BP’s Deepwater Horizon: Capitalism is the Disaster by PBD (ICT)
Climate Change: The Alternative is Social Collapse or Socialism by CP (ICT)
Climate Change: Capitalism is the Problem by CWO (ICT)
Thunberg’s Call for General Strikes: The Confusions of a Liberal Protest by KT (ICT)
Only the Working Class Can Save the Planet by CWO (ICT)
Destroying Our Planet… Sustainably by Nikopetr and CP (ICT)
Denmark’s Mink Farms Demonstrate that Covid-19 is the Child of Capitalism by Lotus (ICT)
COVID-19 Pandemic and the Crisis
Initial Thoughts on Coronavirus and its Fallout by Battaglia Comunista (ICT)
The Four Horsemen of Capitalist Decay by Dyjbas (ICT)
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 (ICT)
May Day 2020: Against the Virus that is Capitalism by the ICT
Capitalism and Covid: Paycheques and Rents by Klasbatalo (ICT)
“All in this Together”? A Sick Joke by CWO (ICT)
Reflections on the Coronavirus and Economic Crises by Fabio Damen (ICT)
Domestic Violence: The Hidden Pandemic by CWO and Klasbatalo (ICT)
A Class Compass in the COVID Crisis by Battaglia Comunista (ICT)
In Times of Lockdown: How to Contact and Work Towards Joining the CWO by the CWO (ICT)
New Year, Same Crisis by ICO (ICT)
Working Women, the Family, Gender and Sexuality
Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious by Clara Zetkin
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
The First Steps Towards
the Protection of Motherhood 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 (ICT)
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 (ICT)
Caliban and the Witch: A Critical Analysis by Yann Kindo and Christophe Darmangeat
Marxism and Sexuality by Dyjbas (ICT)
50 Years of Equal Exploitation? by Tinkotka (ICT)
8 Historical Working Women Moments for 8 March by Affiliates and Sympathisers of the ICT
Class Struggle and Gender Trouble by the CWO (ICT)
Racism, Migration, Imprisonment, and the Police
Friend or Foe? Marxism and the Police by IWG (ICT)
Prisoners of Capital Fight Back by IWG (ICT)
USA – How a Republic Enforces its Order by AS (ICT)
Cop-ocalypse in Ferguson by AS (ICT)
Migrants: Welcome to the Class Struggle by ER (ICT)
USA: Prison Struggles Spread Nationwide by AS (ICT)
New US Prison Strike Takes Us to the Dark Heart of Capitalism by ERGOSUM (ICT)
Against Racism and Authoritarianism: the Problem is Capitalism by GIS (ICT)
Workers of all Identities, Unite! by Dyjbas (ICT)
Against Racism, Against Capitalism by Battaglia Comunista (ICT)
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 (ICT)
Capitalism is a Class-Divided, Racist, Sexist Horror Without End by Ant (ICT)
The Murder of George Floyd: The End of Racism Starts With the Death of Capitalism by PBD (ICT)
Against Police Reform – For the Abolition of the Police by IWG (ICT)
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 (ICT)
Science and Technology
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 (ICT)
Between Robots and Cryptocurrency by DC/S (ICT)
