Welcome to Class Against Class, a site dedicated to reclaiming the Theory & Practice of Class Struggle from authoritarian groups or those who would presume in some way to act on behalf of the working class.The significance of the name 'Class Against Class' lies in our recognition that despite the numerous & varied developements Capital has undergone as a result of working class pressure,the basis for its' existence remains in the'real' process of production & reproduction,in the expropiation of surplus value by capital(i.e wage labour);in its' simplest form we work for them.Who 'we' consists of,the question of 'work',& who 'they' are,are of course open to debate,& we welcome recent discussions of 'class recomposition',the role of unpaid labour in reproduction,the 'refusal of work' etc.*
We have no particular 'party line',we only argue for the centrality of working class self-activity in any attempts to go beyond the existing social relations,and take as our starting point the recognition that:
Meaningful action, for revolutionaries, is whatever increases the confidence, the autonomy, the initiative, the participation, the solidarity, the equalitarian tendencies and the self -activity of the masses and whatever assists in their demystification. Sterile and harmful action is whatever reinforces the passivity of the masses, their apathy, their cynicism, their differentiation through hierarchy, their alienation, their reliance on others to do things for them and the degree to which they can therefore be manipulated by others - even by those allegedly acting on their behalf.
(Taken from As We See It by Solidarity [London])
Toni Negri
Capitalist Domination and Working Class Sabotage - Toni Negri
Crisis of The Crisis State
Archaeology and Project.. The Mass Worker and the Social Worker
Mario Tronti
Struggle Against Labor - Mario Tronti
Workers and Capital
Social Capital
The Strategy of The Refusal
Lenin in England
Raniero Panzieri
The Capitalist Use of Machinery: Marx Versus the Objectivists - Raniero Panzieri
Surplus value and planning: notes on the reading of 'Capital' - Raniero Panzieri
Cornelius Castoriadis/Socialisme Ou Barbarie
What Is Bureaucracy-Claude Lefort
The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy
What Really Matters
History as Creation
The Proletariat and Organisation
The Content of Socialism,Part One
Ante Ciliga
Lenin,Also...
The Kronstadt Revolt
Herman Gorter
Open Letter to Comrade Lenin
Obituary by H.Canne Meijer
Alexandra Kollantai
Karl Korsch
The Present State of the Problem of Marxism and Philosophy: An Anti-critique
Principles of Marxism:A Restatement
Introduction to Capital
Why I Am a Marxist
10 Theses on Marxism
[Further information on Karl Korsch can be found here at Collective Action Notes,and at Ken Knabb's Bureau of Public Secrets,and the Marxist Internet Archive ]
Paul Mattick
The Marxism of Karl Korsch - Paul Mattick
Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory
Economics,Politics and The Age Of Inflation
Guy Aldred
Trade Unions and the Class War
Representation and the State
Otto Ruhle
The Revolution Is Not a Party Affair
Moscow Report
Reichstag Speech
From The Bourgois To The Prolitarian Revolution
Elephant Editions
Alfredo M. Bonanno texts have now moved to Killing King Abacus
Strange Victories-Midnight Notes
Contributions to The Revolutionary Struggle,Intended To Be Discussed,Corrected,And Principally,Put Into Practice Without Delay-Ratgeb(Raoul Vaneigem)
Albania:Laboratory of Subversion
For an Anti-authoritarian Insurrectionist International-Proposal for a Debate
Workers Autonomy-Elephant Editions
General Texts
The Misery of Islam - Al-Djouhall
The Working-Class Struggle Against the Crisis: Self-Reduction Of Prices in Italy - Bruno Ramirez
Take Over the City -Lotta Continua
Apology for The Algerian Insurrection
Politics in the First Person: the autonomous workers movement in Italy.
The Mass Strike in France May-June 1968 -ICO.Root and Branch Pamphlet#3.(Including Five Theses on the Class Struggle By Anton Pannekoek.)
"Nous Sommes Tous Des Casseurs" - Youth Revolt in France, March 1994
Wildcat: Dodge Truck June 1974 - Black and Red
The Commune: Paris 1871 - P. Guillaume and M. Grainger (Solidarity Pamphlet#35)
Crime Becomes Custom - Custom Becomes Crime - Trevor Bark
The KAPD in Retrospect
Theory of Crisis and the Problem of Constitution - Giacomo Marramao
Workers of the World, Tonight!: International Dockers' Struggles in the Eighties - BM Blob
Black Cats,White Cats,Wildcats: Auto Workers in Detroit/Niggermation In Auto: Company Policy and the Rise of Black Caucuses - Martin Glaberman/Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin
A Note on the Use of the Word 'Soviet' - Neil C Fernandez
TECHNOLOGICAL DESPOTISM - Ian Tillium
Defeat at Fiat - Marco Revelli
MOSCOW 1921 - Meetings in the Kremlin - Interview with Bernhard Reichenbach (KAPD)
Yugoslavery - Yugoslavia: Capitalism and Class struggle 1918-1967
&
Some Basic Ingredients of Yugoslav Ideology - B.M Blob
Like a Summer with a Thousand Julys … - B.M Blob
The Red Rose of Nissan - John Holloway
A Fresh Look at Lenin - Andy Brown.With a Postface by Ian Pirie and A.A. Raskolnikov (Solidarity Pamphlet no.56)
Working Class Self-Activity - George Rawick
Theses on Mass Worker and Social Capital - Guido Baldi
John Zerzan and The Primitive Confusion
Origin and Function of the Party Form (and 1974 Postface) - Jacques Camatte
The Unhappy Elitist: Victor Serge's Early Bolshevism - Peter Sedgwick
The Capitalist Use of Machinery: Marx Versus the Objectivists - Raniero Panzieri
Surplus value and planning: notes on the reading of 'Capital' - Raniero Panzieri
Cornelius Castoriadis/Socialisme Ou Barbarie
Paul Mattick
The Marxism of Karl Korsch - Paul Mattick Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory Economics,Politics and The Age Of Inflation
Guy Aldred
Trade Unions and the Class War Representation and the State
Otto Ruhle
The Revolution Is Not a Party Affair Moscow Report Reichstag Speech From The Bourgois To The Prolitarian Revolution
Elephant Editions
Alfredo M. Bonanno texts have now moved to Killing King Abacus Strange Victories-Midnight Notes Contributions to The Revolutionary Struggle,Intended To Be Discussed,Corrected,And Principally,Put Into Practice Without Delay-Ratgeb(Raoul Vaneigem) Albania:Laboratory of Subversion For an Anti-authoritarian Insurrectionist International-Proposal for a Debate Workers Autonomy-Elephant Editions
General Texts
The Misery of Islam - Al-Djouhall
The Working-Class Struggle Against the Crisis: Self-Reduction Of Prices in Italy - Bruno Ramirez
Take Over the City -Lotta Continua
Apology for The Algerian Insurrection
Politics in the First Person: the autonomous workers movement in Italy.
The Mass Strike in France May-June 1968 -ICO.Root and Branch Pamphlet#3.(Including Five Theses on the Class Struggle By Anton Pannekoek.)
"Nous Sommes Tous Des Casseurs" - Youth Revolt in France, March 1994
Wildcat: Dodge Truck June 1974 - Black and Red
The Commune: Paris 1871 - P. Guillaume and M. Grainger (Solidarity Pamphlet#35)
Crime Becomes Custom - Custom Becomes Crime - Trevor Bark
The KAPD in Retrospect
Theory of Crisis and the Problem of Constitution - Giacomo Marramao
Workers of the World, Tonight!: International Dockers' Struggles in the Eighties - BM Blob
Black Cats,White Cats,Wildcats: Auto Workers in Detroit/Niggermation In Auto: Company Policy and the Rise of Black Caucuses - Martin Glaberman/Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin
A Note on the Use of the Word 'Soviet' - Neil C Fernandez
TECHNOLOGICAL DESPOTISM - Ian Tillium
Defeat at Fiat - Marco Revelli
MOSCOW 1921 - Meetings in the Kremlin - Interview with Bernhard Reichenbach (KAPD)
Yugoslavery - Yugoslavia: Capitalism and Class struggle 1918-1967
&
Some Basic Ingredients of Yugoslav Ideology - B.M Blob
Like a Summer with a Thousand Julys … - B.M Blob
The Red Rose of Nissan - John Holloway
A Fresh Look at Lenin - Andy Brown.With a Postface by Ian Pirie and A.A. Raskolnikov (Solidarity Pamphlet no.56)
Working Class Self-Activity - George Rawick
Theses on Mass Worker and Social Capital - Guido Baldi
John Zerzan and The Primitive Confusion