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DESCRIPTION:This is Part 2 of a lecture/discussion 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 
 http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/12.councils.htm\n\nThis event is free and 
 wheelchair accessible.\n\nFor more info e-mail: SFBay@FlyingPicket.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/16/18399649.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/2007/04/16/18399649.php
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