Saturday, September 1, 2018

A hard sell in Portugal

Supposedly a photo of the legendary Miasnikov

International Review (IR) is the publication of a small Left Communist group, the ICC. All issues of IR have a weirdly timeless quality, and are available on the ICC's website for free. They are all extremely tedious and hard to read. This is the ninth issue, published in 1977. The most interesting piece is the second part of an article on the Communist Left in Russia, dealing with Miasnikov's Workers' Group, the Workers' Truth, and the Irreconcilables within Trotsky's Left Opposition. Of course, all this information is available in scholarly sources, as well. Other articles deal with the history of the Italian Left Fraction, the Dutch Spartacusbund, and the British CWO. There is also a humorous correspondence with Combate, a Portuguese group which had stopped distributing ICC's material in its bookstores, since it didn't sell! Somehow, I do understand their position...








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