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more new content in ‘ideas’
today we have added to the ‘ideas‘ section of the website… the solidarity group’s pamphlet on the 1871 paris commune. this compares trotsky and tales’ insistence that the communards failed because of...
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the fundamental principles of communist production and distribution
Today we have added to the site The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution, a book produced by the Dutch GIK (Group of International Communists) in 1930, putting forward a...
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the revolution delayed: 10 years of hugo chávez’s rule
This month marks the tenth anniversary of Hugo Chávez’s coming to power in Venezuela, and ten years of the “Bolivarian revolution”. This process has included waves of state intervention in the economy...
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new pamphlet on chávez’s venezuela
We are pleased to announce the publication of our seventh pamphlet, “The revolution delayed: a decade of Hugo Chávez”. The pamphlet features the translation of an interview conducted with El Libertario...
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texts for 2nd march reading group
The next of our reading groups on ‘communism from below’ takes place from 6:30pm on Monday 2nd March. The subject of the discussion is ‘the roots of left fragmentation and the sectarianisation of...
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reading for ‘conceptualising communist society’ discussion group
The next of The Commune’s London reading groups on ‘communism from below’ will take place on Monday 25th May from 7pm at the Old Red Lion, near Angel. The title of the meeting is ‘conceptualising...
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the commune’s pamphlets: reprints now available
More copies of our pamphlet series, many of which had sold out, are now available. The text of each of the seven pamphlets is online (see the list of subjects below), but you can also order paper...
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the cuban revolution – raya dunayevskaya (1960)
Introduction by Chris Kane Many on the Left consider Cuba a socialist country, its defiant stand against U.S. imperialism is widely admired, and the idea that there is at least one country in the world...
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fictitious capital and credit schemes
This talk given by Michael Egoavil at the Left Forum 2009 panel “Marx’s ‘Capital’ and the Economic Crisis” argues against the demand for state ownership of banks. Michael can be reached at...
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state capitalism and communism-from-below in latin america
David Broder’s talk to The Commune’s recent Manchester forum The class struggle in Latin America is one that has always roused great interest and a certain romanticism among the western left. The...
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social ownership and workers’ self-management
A motion to the Labour Representation Committee conference proposed by The Commune The Labour Representation Committee notes this year marks the twentieth anniversary of the fall the Berlin Wall, and...
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obituary of chris harman
by Andy Wilson Chris Harman, revolutionary socialist author and activist and a long-time member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party, died of a heart attack on Saturday night while...
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extracts from ellis hillman’s ‘the nature of the stalinist parties’
note by David Black: The Nature of the Stalinist Parties – a document of several thousand words – was published in the internal discussion bulletin of the Socialist Review Group in May 1951, with five...
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democracy and self-management in cuba
Guillermo Almeyra outlines an alternative to the Cuban government’s plans to slash 20% of the workforce and privatise parts of the economy in order to deal with the crisis. Predictably, the global...
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