Comintern came into existence because of, on the one hand, the treachery of most of the social democratic parties and, on the other hand, the inspiration provided by the Bolsheviks and the October Revolution. However, as Jack Conrad explains, the main problem encountered in the early years was leftism - not least when it came to electoral strategy and tactics
The book relates how the real proletarian revolution in Spain in 1936 was hijacked by political forces across the whole spectrum, fascist and anti-fascist, hence the title, counter-revolution, 1936-39. It is the complete work, published in «Bilan»: Contre-revolution en Espagne, 1936-1939, and republished in a shorter form in a pamphlet, under the title, Fascism/anti-fascism.
If, after the launch of the first five-year plan, the Soviet Union cannot be classified as a workers’ state, what was it? Jack Conrad looks at some alternatives that have been offered by different schools of thought
Council communism is a theory of working-class struggle and revolution which holds that the means that workers will use to fight capitalism, overthrow it, and establish and administer communist society, will be the workers' councils.