Communist Left and Ultra-left resource list

Everything in English, unless otherwise stated.

• Archival sources/places to find key texts:

- Marxist Internet Archive, communist left archive - https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/index.htm

- Quaderni Internazionalisti archives - http://www.quinterna.org/lingue/english/historical_en/0_historical_archi...

- John Gray - http://www.reocities.com/~johngray/index.html#toc

- Sinistra (online archives of the communist left) - http://sinistra.net/

- Archives Autonomies (mostly French, but very extensive) - http://archivesautonomies.org/

- Anton Pannekoek Archives - http://www.aaap.be/Pages/Frontpage.html

- Collectif Smolny (French only, complete collection of 'Bilan') - http://www.collectif-smolny.org/article.php3?id_article=49

- redtexts - http://www.redtexts.org/

- libcom, left communism - https://libcom.org/tags/left-communism

- libcom, council communism - https://libcom.org/tags/council-communism

- Situationists - http://www.bopsecrets.org/, https://libcom.org/tags/situationist-international, https://libcom.org/tags/situationist, http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/index.html

- Autonomism (and its predecessors) - https://libcom.org/tags/operaismo, https://libcom.org/tags/autonomism

- libcom, communisation - https://libcom.org/tags/communisation

• Communist Left:

1. The main group before 1982, the International Communist Party [the party of Bordiga (until his death in 1970) which was founded after a split, in 1952, from the party of Onorato Damen (the Internationalist Communist Party, 1943-)]. In 1982 it disintegrates. Its splits:

- 1964: Rivoluzione Comunista - http://digilander.libero.it/rivoluzionecom/

- 1966: Jacques Camatte (1968: publication of 'Invariance' begins - complete collection here: http://archivesautonomies.org/spip.php?rubrique509)

- 1972: Parti de Classe (group who broke from 'Invariance')

- 1974: ICP (Il Partido Comunista) - http://www.international-communist-party.org/

- 1975: Groupe Communiste Mondial (World Communist Group) formed from 'Parti de Classe', with a new magazine 'The Programme of the Communist Society'. In 1987, the GCM splits, the first GCM dissolves in 1992. In 1989, the other GCM (based in Marseille) publishes 'The Programme of the Communist Revolution' - http://groupe-communiste-mondial.org/en/index_eng.html

- 1976: 'Communisme or Civilisation' breaks with GCM. From 1988, CoC works with 'Revue Internationale du Mouvement Communiste' (International Journal of the Communist Movement), a joint publication of the communist movement to pool abilities/resources along with such groups as 'Kamunist Kranti'. In December 1998, the 'Revue' is supended, and the majority of CoC form 'Robin Goodfellow' - https://www.robingoodfellow.info/

- 1981 (renamed in 2000): Quaderni Internazionalisti/'n+1' - http://www.quinterna.org/lingue/english/0_english.htm, https://www.facebook.com/quinterna/

- 1984(?): ICP (Il Programma Comunista) - http://partitocomunistainternazionale.org/index.php/en, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1018014948272911/

- ICP (Il Comunista) - http://pcint.org/

- ICP (Il Bolletino) - http://www.sinistra.net/lib/upt/bollet/bolletino.html

- ICP (Sul Filo Rosso del Tempo) - https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110534/http://www.sinistracomunistai...

2. The main group since 1982 (International Communist Current), and its splits:

- established, 1975: International Communist Current - http://en.internationalism.org/, https://www.facebook.com/Corriente-Comunista-Internacional-1879030279847... (Spanish-language FB page)

Break-aways:

- 1979: Internationalist Communist Group (GCI-ICG) (HQ in Belgium) - http://www.gci-icg.org/english/index_english.html, https://libcom.org/tags/icg, http://reocities.com/communisme_gci/

- 1985: Internationalist Perspective (Montreal) - http://www.internationalist-perspective.org/IP/ip-index.html

- after 1996: Cercle de Paris - http://cercledeparis.free.fr/

- expelled in 2003: Internal Fraction of the ICC (IFICC, Paris), renamed as 'Fraction of the International Communist Left' (http://fractioncommuniste.org/) and subsequently merged with Internationalist Communists—Klasbatalo (formerly the Internationalist Communists Montreal, https://internationalistcommunistsmontreal.blogspot.co.uk/) to form the 'International Group of the Communist Left' (IGCL, http://www.igcl.org/-Revolution-or-War-) in October 2013 - https://www.facebook.com/fractioncommuniste/

- 2015: Pale Blue Jadal (Turkey) - http://palebluejadal.tumblr.com/

3. The second largest group since 1982 (Internationalist Communist Tendency), and its splits:

- 2009: Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT, founded as IBRP in 1983, name-change to ICT 2009; its main organisations are the Internationalist Communist Party (1943-) and the Communist Workers' Organisation (UK, 1970s) - http://www.leftcom.org/en, https://www.facebook.com/Communist-Workers-Organisation-536156446468495/ (FB page of the British section, the Communist Workers' Organsation)

- 2009: Istituto Onorato Damen - http://www.istitutoonoratodamen.it/, https://www.facebook.com/Istituto-Onorato-Damen-1190612084301734/

• Ultra-Left Groups/Journals:

- founded 2009, first published Nov. 2011: SIC (International - founded by Théorie Communiste, Endnotes, Blaumachen, riff-raff; TC left the project in August 2013) - http://sicjournal.org/en/

- 2001: riff-raff (Sweden, started in 2001 as the theoretical organ of the former organisation 'Folkmakt', changed their perspective around issue 3-4, away from councilism, closer to 'Kämpa tillsammans!', a range of interesting texts) - https://www.riff-raff.se/en/textindex.php

- founded 2005, first published October 2008: Endnotes (UK/US, in particular, check-out issues 1 and 2) https://endnotes.org.uk/issues

- 1977: Théorie Communiste (pioneers of communisation; first published in 1977, before that, members of TC were associated with councilist groups, including, among others, the journals 'Cahiers du Communisme de Conseils', based in Marseilles, and 'Intervention Communiste) - https://sites.google.com/site/theoriecommuniste/, English stuff: https://libcom.org/library/theorie-communiste

- 2006(?): Blaumachen (Greece, defunct, best known for 'era of riots' texts) - http://www.blaumachen.gr/category/in-english/, https://libcom.org/tags/blaumachen

- Troploin (Gilles Dauvé, ultra-left veteran - associated with 'Pouvoir Ouvrier' (1965-1967), 'La Vieille Taupe' (1965-73), 'Le Mouvement Communiste' (1972-74), 'La Guerre Sociale' (1977-80), 'La Banquise' (1983-86) - https://www.troploin.fr/

- April 1990: TPTG (Τα παιδιά της γαλαρίας/Ta paidia tis galarias) (Greece) - http://www.tapaidiatisgalarias.org/?page_id=105, https://libcom.org/tags/tptg

- 1992: Aufheben (UK) - https://libcom.org/aufheben, https://www.facebook.com/Aufheben-360437035201/

- 1988: Mouvement Communiste (Belgium, France) - https://mouvement-communiste.com/

- Hic Salta (Bruno Astarian) - https://www.hicsalta-communisation.com/

- first published Jun 1st 2007: Kosmoprolet (Germany, journal of 'Friends of the Classless Society', well-known for their '28 theses') - http://www.kosmoprolet.org/, https://www.facebook.com/Kosmoprolet-1483193545334431/

- 2016: Chuang (focus on China) - http://chuangcn.org/journal/one/, https://www.facebook.com/ChuangCN/

- 1984: Wildcat (Germany) - http://www.wildcat-www.de/en/eindex.htm

- first published in 2012: 'From 2008-2012' (Greece) - https://2008-2012.net/

- 2011(?): Assembly for the Circulation of Struggles (SKYA) (Greece) - https://skya.espiv.net/category/international/

- first published January 2012: Il Lato Cattivo (Italy, texts in Italian) - https://illatocattivo.blogspot.co.uk/, https://www.facebook.com/illatocattivo/

- Přátelé Komunizace (Czech Republic, in Czech) - https://pratelekomunizace.wordpress.com/, https://www.facebook.com/PrateleKomunizace/

- Antithesi (Greece, Greek only) - http://antithesi.gr/

• More:

- Kamunist Kranti (India) - https://libcom.org/tags/kamunist-kranti, https://libcom.org/tags/faridabad-majdoor-samachar, https://faridabadmajdoorsamachar.blogspot.co.uk/

- Communisation FB page - https://www.facebook.com/communisation/

- Communist Research Cluster - https://communistresearchcluster.wordpress.com/, https://www.facebook.com/communistresearchcluster/

- Controverses - https://leftcommunism.org/?lang=en

- The Free Communist (UK) - http://www.freecommunism.org/

- Ritual Magazine (UK/US?) - http://ritualmag.com/, https://www.facebook.com/ritualmagazine/

- Communist League of Tampa (USA) - https://communistleaguetampa.org/, https://www.facebook.com/communistleaguetampa/

- Internationalist Voice - http://internationalist.ueuo.com/en/english.htm

- Kämpa tillsammans! (Sweden) - https://kampatillsammans.wordpress.com/category/english/

- Editions Senonevero (French publisher) - http://senonevero.communisation.net/

- Douter de tout… (France, French only) - https://ddt21.noblogs.org/

- Des Nouvelles Du Front (France, French only) - http://dndf.org/

• Histories:

- 'Left Wing Communism: an infantile disorder?' website (Philippe Bourrinet) - http://www.left-dis.nl/