Anton Pannekoek;

• Trade Unionism, 1936;
• Letter on Workers Councils, 1952;

Paul Mattick;

• Workers Control;

Leon Trotsky;

• Communism and Syndicalism, 1923-31;
• The Role of Strikes in a Revolution, 1931;
• Workers' Control of Production, 1931;
• Factory Councils and Workers' Control of Production, 1931;
• The Trade Unions in Britain, 1933;
• On Britain;
• Trade Unions in the Transitional Epoch, 1938;
• Trade Unions in the Epoch of Imperialist Decay, 1940;
• Discussions With Trotsky On the Transitional Program;
• Nationalised Industry and Workers' Management, 1938;

From the History Archive: The Lawrence Strike of 1912.

The General Strike

Social crises are often marked by a general strike, which brings the crisis to a head by cutting off the means of all social life. But how can the workers' movement move from stopping production to seizing political power and taking over control of production?

• The Bakuninists at Work, Marx 1873;
• The Social Revolution, Kautsky 1908;
• Will there be a General Strike?, John MacLean, 1921;
• Notes on the Situation in Britain 1925-26, Trotsky 1925-26;
• On the struggle in Britain in retrospect, Trotsky, 1931;
• The CP and the British General Strike (1926), Hallas, 1976;
• The Belgian General Strike, Tony Cliff 1961;
• Belgium: Strike to Revolution?, Tony Cliff 1961;
• Marxism and the Trade Unions, Hal Draper 1970;

Discussion at the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920

• Discussion on the role of the Communist Party in the Revolution;
• Continuation of Discussion on the role of the Communist Party;
• Theses on the Role of the Communist Party in the Revolution;
• Discussion on the Trade Unions;
• Continuation of discussion on the Trade Unions;
• On the formation of Soviets;
• On Entry into the British Labour Party;

Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International

• Conditions under which Workers Soviets may be formed;
• The Trade Union Movement and Factory committees;

From the History Archive: History of the Third International (1919-43).

• The Red International of Trade Unions, 3rd Congress, 1921;
• Communist Work in the Trade Unions, 4th Congress, 1922;

The Political Party

See the definition of Political Party in the M.I.A. Encyclopedia.

• Resolution of on Working Class Parties, First International 1872;
• Conclusion to History of First International, Stekloff;
• Kautsky: Sects or Class Parties, Kautsky 1909;

In economically backward, Czarist Russia, Lenin built a new kind of Party, the Bolshevik Party, which would succeed in making the revolution in 1917.

• Zinoviev: History of the Bolshevik Party;
• Lenin: Principal stages in history of Bolshevism;

• Lenin: What Is To Be Done?, Lenin 1901;
• Lenin: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, 1904;
• Lenin: Preface to "Twelve Years", Lenin 1907;
• Rosa Luxemburg: Organisational Questions of Russian Social Democracy, 1904;

Criticism and understanding of the nature of the Bolshevik Party was to be the centre of controversy about the nature of a working-class party for long afterwards.

• Lenin: Conclusion to "Left-Wing" Communism 1920;
• Trotsky: The New Course 1923;
• Pannekoek: Party and Working Class, 1936;
• Pannekoek: Remarks on the Question of Organization, 1938;
• Pannekoek: The Fight of the working class against capitalism, 1947;
• Mattick: The Masses & The Vanguard, 1938;
• Mattick: Council Communism, 1939;
• Mattick: Pannekoek’s “The Party and the Working Class”, 1941;
• Mattick: Spontaneity and Organisation, 1977;

The question of unity between different working class parties, and the need for the working class to win the leadership of other classes among the oppressed also became central themes.

• Trotsky: For a Workers United Front Against Fascism, 1931;
• Trotsky: The Lessons of Spain, 1938;

• Tony Cliff: Notes on Democratic Centralism 1968;
• Duncan Hallas: Towards a Revolutionary Socialist Party 1971;
• Dunayevskaya: New Forces, New Passion; 1973;
• Hal Draper: The Myth of Lenin's "Concept of The Party" 1990;

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