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AUGUST 7. 2025

From Vinnytsia to Berlin: against 'anarcho'-militarists & their war propaganda

On August 2 2025, the soliparty Konvulsismo #2 took place in the city of Berlin in support of the Assembly collective in Kharkiv, Ukraine. As both a political group and media outlet, the collective denounces forced conscription. It also reports on social struggles taking place in the context of the Russian invasion and occupation and the increasing authoritarianism of the Ukrainian state in the name of ‘national unity’. Konvulsismo is a party collective dedicated to organising experimental/electronic music shows in support of anti-war groups around the world in the face of growing remilitarization in Europe. Its first event was a concert that raised money for New Profile, a support network for military objectors in Israel, recently defunded by the the German state. Months later, Konvulsismo #2 was the target of a disinformation campaign by the group “Good night imperial pride” . According to a text circulating on social media a few days before the party, Assembly is only apparently an anarchist and anti-war collective, hiding a political agenda of collaboration with the Russian occupying forces. This resulted in a series of cancellations, forcing Konvulsismo #2 to change its venue and much of its lineup in a matter of days. Fortunately, the party went off without a hitch, with the support of comrades and musician friends in solidarity with Assembly, in line with a resolutely anti-militarist and internationalist political stance. Here is our response to the campaign of threats, intimidation and slander against us:

AUGUST 6. 2025

The Case for Letting the World Burn - Heatwave Magazine

Pre-print Editorial to Heatwave #11 1Issue one of Heatwave magazine is scheduled for printing in June 2025. To give readers a sense of what is to come, we are publishing this pre-print version of the editorial online. All editorials are written collectively by the editors.

Luxemburgism and Leninism

An article from the KAPD's Berlin newspaper, dated: 13-1932-003

Karl Marx and the dictatorship of the proletariat

An article from the KAPD's Berlin newspaper, dated: 06-1925-022

AUGUST 5. 2025

Seven Critical Anti-Bolshevik Theses for the Updating of Revolutionary Communism

Published under the subtitle "A Contribution to the Critique of Trotskyism and the Development of the Revolutionary Program", this text by Roi Ferreiro presents a polemical critique of Bolshevism, while also putting forward Council Communism as an alternative.

AUGUST 4. 2025

The Paris Commune, Marxism and Anarchism

An anarchist analysis of the Paris Commune of 1871, showing how it was influenced by anarchism and what lessons anarchists drew from it. It also discusses the Marxist and Leninist analyses of the Commune, showing how alien Leninism is to the spirit of the Commune and to the genuine Marxist theory of the state.

AUGUST 2. 2025

Korsch/Schmitt: An Introduction - Endnotes

An introduction to a "dossier" compiled by the Endnotes collective featuring two individuals that are seen to be diametrically opposed, the revolutionary Marxist intellectual Karl Korsch and the right-wing "authoritarian liberal" intellectual Carl Schmitt. This introduction explains the contradiction at hand, pulling on each's thoughts about the state and civil society respectively.

Proletarian Report on the Burned Periphery: Mexico in the Global Management of the Surplus

The U. S. -Mexico border operates as a laboratory for generalized crisis. Mexico is not on the margins of this crisis: it is one of its active frontiers. On the border, multiple forms of control converge: safe third country agreements, militarization of the National Guard, outsourcing of repressive functions, and cross-border detention networks.

AUGUST 1. 2025

CNT-AIT Madrid Evicted from Historic Plaza Tirso de Molina Offices

The shameless actions of the CIT union in Spain who have been trying to usurp the property of the CNT-AIT using the state which is all to happy to help attack the anarcho-syndicalist tradition in Spain, in favor of legalistic unionism. The CIT union in Madrid has its own headquarters and doesn't need another. They cannot maintain it and it has always been the unions of CNT-AIT Madrid which have bought and maintained these premises. They will most likely sell-off the historical space to property speculators, preferring profits to pay their professional union bureaucrats over dialogue and anarchist principles. These principles are clear: places belong to those who have worked to maintain them, paid to maintain them and actually use them. We do not support private property and landlord tactics.

JULY 31. 2025

Pre-Politics as Class Reconstitution - Jäger von Heinrich Kramer of ILC

The following is a text written by Independent Labor Club Theory Club director Jäger von Heinrich Kramer on the historical justification for working class pre-political activity.

From Russia with Love / Tate Modern Molotovs - David & Stuart Wise

From Russia with Love /Tate Modern Molotovs / A 2018 Palme d'Or prize on the back of some Icteric scruffs - Wise Twins & Ron Hunt / Covid 19-84 and the possible death of a society of art veneered entertainment. Originally published on the Revolt Against Plenty website.

JULY 30. 2025

Class War Northern News

Newsletter by Class War groups in the north of England, circa late 1980s.

What is Communism?

Zoe Baker answers the question put forth in the title to this essay. She describes her conception of what communism meant to Marx as well as comparing his perspectives towards those held by his peers in the socialist and communist movements of the time, most notably anarchist communists.

JULY 29. 2025

The Battle for Bread at Lawrence - Mary Marcy

A contemporary account of the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike, appearing in the International Socialist Review, by the socialist writer Mary Marcy.