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DESCRIPTION:This is a 2-part lecture/discussion (part 2 will be on April 22, 10 a.m. to 
 12 noon) on the traditions Lenin denounced in “Left-Wing” Communism, An 
 Infantile Disorder. Called council communism, ultra-left, left communism, 
 and including strains of class struggle anarchism, they are still relevant 
 theoretical and practical tools for revolutionary activity today. They draw 
 on the uncompromising internationalism of Rosa Luxemburg, the theories of 
 organization of the German/Dutch left who were veterans of the post-WWI 
 revolutionary uprisings, and the lucid critique of capitalism by Italian 
 left theorist Amadeo Bordiga. There were also cross-fertilizations with the 
 I.W.W. Later groups embodying these ideas were Socialism or Barbarism 
 (SouB) in France, who collaborated with the Johnson-Forest Tendency (JFT) 
 in the U.S. Both found their anti-vanguardist ideas of spontaneous working 
 class self-activity confirmed with workers’ councils in the 1956 
 Hungarian Revolution. In the late 1960s JFT influenced the League of 
 Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit; SouB member Guy Debord went on to 
 become the main theorist of the Situationist International, whose ideas 
 were realized in the 10 million-strong wildcat general strike in France in 
 May 1968. Around the world, many groups carry on these traditions in the 
 fight for communism. • Links for suggested 
 reading:\nhttp://geocities.com/cordobakaf/bologna.html and 
 www.bopsecrets.org/SI/12.councils.htm\n\nThis event is free and wheelchair 
 accessible. \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/24/18382468.php
SUMMARY:"All Power to the Worker's Councils!" -- History of Anti-Bolshevik Communism
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz)\nOakland, 
 Ca. 94609\n(510) 595-7417
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/24/18382468.php
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