Source: “Communiste program”, No. 2, march 1976, Translated from “Partito e azione di classe”, Rassegna Comunista, Year I, No. 4, May 31, 1921.
In a previous article where we elaborated certain fundamental
theoretical concepts, we have shown not only that there is no contradiction in
the fact that the political party of the working class, the indispensable
instrument in the struggles for the emancipation of this class, includes in its
ranks only a part, a minority, of the class, but we also have shown that we
cannot speak of a class in historical movement without the existence of a party
which has a precise consciousness of this movement and its aims, and which
places itself at the vanguard of this movement ... (From: Marxists.org.)
Published: Modern Socialism, no. 2, pages 7-10. Winter 1941. Transcribed: by David Walters/Greg Adargo, December, 2001. Proofed: and corrected by Megen Devine, July 2011; Micah Muer, 2017. Note: A very close variant of the 1936 texts "Party and Working Class" and "The Party and the Working Class".
The old labor movement is organized in parties. The belief in parties is the
main reason for the impotence of the working class; therefore we avoid forming a
new party—not because we are too few, but because a party is an
organization that aims to lead and control the working class. In opposition to
this, we maintain that the working class can rise to victory only when it
independently attacks its problems and decides its own fate... (From: Marxists.org.)
Published: International Council Correspondence, vol. 2, nos. 9-10. Pages 43-47. September 1936. The article was unattributed and was given the title "The Party and the Class" in the issue's table of contents. Transcription/Markup: Micah Muer, 2017. Note: A very close variant of the 1936 text "Party and Working Class" and the 1941 text "The Party and Class".
The first traces of a new labor movement are just becoming visible. The old
movement is organized in parties. The belief in parties is the main reason for
the impotence of the working class; therefore we avoid forming a new party --
not because we are too few, but because a party is an organization that aims to
lead and control the working class.
In opposition to this, we m... (From: Marxists.org.)
Written: 1936; source unknown. Transcribed: by David Walters/Greg Adargo, December, 2001. Proofed: by Micah Muer, 2017. Source: Kurasje Council Communist Archives. Note: A very close variant of the 1936 text "The Party and the Working Class" and the 1941 text "The Party and Class".
We are only at the very earliest stages of a new workers' movement. The old
movement was embodied in parties, and today belief in the party constitutes the
most powerful check on the working class' capacity for action. That is why we
are not trying to create a new party. This is so, not because our numbers are
small -- a party of any kind begins with a few people -- but because, in our
day, a party cannot be other than an organization aimed at directing ... (From: Marxists.org.)
The Party of Labor Defined
The Party of Labor is what it says it is, the banding together of the workers into one homogeneous bloc; the autonomous organization of the working class into an aggregate operating on the terrain of the economy; by virtue of its origins, its essence, it shuns all compromise with bourgeois elements.
The grassroots cell of the Party of Labor is the trade union and it is by the trade unions coming into contact with one another, through their shows of solidarity that the Party of Labor reveals itself, shows itself and acts.
On the one hand, the trade union is affiliated to the national federation of its trade; on the other, to its Departmental Union. The federal agencies of these two in turn fede... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Nowadays, democracy rules the world. Communism is long dead, elections are taking place even in Afghanistan and Iraq, and world leaders are meeting to plan the “global community” we hear so much about. So why isn’t everybody happy, finally? For that matter—why do so few of the eligible voters in the United States, the world’s flagship democracy, even bother to vote?
Could it be that democracy, long the catchword of every revolution and rebellion, is simply not democratic enough? What could be the problem?
Every little child can grow up to be President.
No, they can’t. Being President means occupying a position of hierarchical power, just like being a billionaire: for every person who is President, th... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
First
Published: in International
Council Correspondence, Vol. 3, Number 11&12,
December 1937
Source: Class
Against Class;
Transcribed: by Zdravko
Saveski, for marxists.org 2009;
Nothing reveals in such glaring colors the enormous contrast
which have existed in the last thirty years between the being and
consciousness, between the ideology and the actuality of the
proletarian movement as does the final issue of that great dispute
whose first passage at arms has come down in the annals of party
history under the name of the "Bernstein Debate." Having to do with
both the theory and the practice of the socialist movement, it erupted
publicly for the first time in the German and international Social
Democracy, now a... (From: Marxists.org.)
Yet one more episode in the chronicles of repression is now well-known to all: on October 1 Alfredo Bonanno (from Italy) and Christos Stratigopoulos (from Greece), two anarchists who have already been hit by repression on a number of occasions, were arrested in Greece following a robbery, and imprisoned in the small town of Amfissa. It is not our intention to comment on their action, which nevertheless has our full appreciation, nor will we indulge in other details concerning the comrades’ arrest, which have been abundantly exposed in previous leaflets and communiques.
On the contrary, what we feel the urge to do here is to remind all the comrades reading these lines that Christos and Alfredo are still being detained in the con... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
So, how is it that you found yourself arrested on September 19, 1994, with four other anarchists (Antonio Budini, Christos Stratigopulos, Eva Tziutzia and Carlo Tesseri) and accused of an armed robbery at the rural bank of Rovereto (Serravalle), Italy? How did your life evolve to lead to this situation?
How did I find myself arrested that day of September 19, 1994? Well, it obviously wasn’t ‘the perfect crime’ ... a couple of local people saw some guys jump over a fence into the forest in the Chizzola mountains; a massive ‘manhunt’ ensued, and within a few hours everybody was rounded up. But I don’t think that’s what you mean. You ask me how my life had evolved leading up to that moment. I&rs... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
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