Description
Issue number 49 of “Communist Left” The Semi-Annual Magazine and Review of the International Communist Party. Printed, published, and distributed for the ICP by C.L. Publishers.
Contents include:
| – The Old and New Protectors of the Taliban Government |
| – The Labor Movement in the United States of America – Part 12 – The Era of the A.F.L. Begins: The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions – The Clash With the Knights of Labor – The first Steps of the A.F.L. – Continuation of the Fight for 8 Hours – Samuel Gompers – Which Union? – Homestead – The Struggles of the Miners |
| – The Economic and Social Structure of Russia Today – Part one (cont.): Struggle for Power in the Two Revolutions: 23. Back to 1914 – 24. Subversion of the “Tendencies”? – 25. The Early Part of the War – 26. War Suits Democracy – 27. Cracks Appear in the Empire – 28. A Warmongering Revolution – 29. A Loss of Direction – 30. A Homeland at Last? – 31. Vladimir Gets Ready to Move Off – 32. The April Fool – 33. Thrills After the Dressing Down |
| Summary of the last Party General Meeting:Convergence of our groups in the International Party meeting Video-Conference Meeting, 28‑30 May, 2021 [GM140] – Origin of the Communist Party of China – The Party’s trade union activity – The Course of the Global Economy – The Red Army in Germany, 1920 – The Formation of the Indian Nation – Latest Events of the State of Israel’s War on Gaza – The Last Forty Years of Class Struggle in Turkey – The Military Question: The Civil War in Russia – History of the Red International of Labor Unions – The Concept of Dictatorship: Soviets and Factory Councils – Report of the Venezuelan Section; Struggling Bourgeois Factions – The Hungarian Revolution: The Constitution, the Romanian Invasion – The Trade Union Landscape in Quebec – Covid Does Not Stop Rearmament |
| From the Archive of the Left:“On the Thread of Time” Class, Bureaucracy, State, Party (1953): – Presentation – Summary – The Batrachomyomachia – (Il Programma Comunista, no. 10, 1953) – 1. Changing the tone – 2. We prefer ignoramuses – 3. A new leading actor – Yesterday: 4. A class defunct from birth – 5. Dialectical atrophy – 6. The relations of production – 7. Missing the point – 8. Terminological cornerstones – 9. The metaphysics of exploitation – Today: 10. State and Revolution – 11. Extinction of the bureaucracy – 12. Iliad and Batrachomyomachia – The croaking of praxis [Il Programma Comunista, no. 11, 1953) – 13. The umpteenth grouplet of innovators – Yesterday: – 14. Two opposing points of view – 15. Lassalle resurrected – 16. Everything smashed to smithereens – Today: 17. Party and Class – 18. From the Manifesto to What is to be done? – 19. Hapless Lenin – 20. Throwing consciousness overboard – 21. A straight and safe line – The dance of the puppets: from consciousness to culture (Il Programma Comunista, no 12, 1953) – 22. Order and Class – Yesterday: 23. Pre-bourgeois societies – 24. Labour aristocracy – 25. Neo-economism – 26. Democracy for internal use only – 27. Madame Consciousness – 28. Ideology of the revolutions – Today: 29. Mademoiselle Culture – 30. Those with the swords have the science |
