Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation, Glasgow The following pamphlet was originally issued as a 'Theses on Bolshevism" by the Group of International Communists of Holland, Left Communist Groups and Council Movements of Europe. The first English translation was published in "Council Correspondence," organ of the United Workers' Party of America, and is here reproduced exactly as appearing that journal. Anti-Parliamentary Communist Press 56 Commerce Street, Glasgow, C.5. From the collection of the Kate Sharpley Library
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.
Wildcat's excellent pamphlet on the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation in the first half of the 20th century, and its contributions to debates around the Spanish civil war, World War II and the role of revolutionary organisation.
This response to the graffitiing of official monuments in London on May Day 2000 looks at the origins of war memorials in the social conflicts at the end of World War One and at the myth of the Second World War as an anti-fascist crusade. See also A good day out in London? for further reflections on May Day 2000.