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Article tracing the origins and theoretical development of the 'unitary' current of the General Workers' Union of Germany.

Alongside the Russian workers' attempts to create socialism -- not as some abstract far-off utopia in a political party program, but through confronting and changing the concrete reality of their everyday life -- were the activities of socialist parties, supposedly sympathetic to working class aspirations. This pamphlet tells the story of the Russian workers' struggle, in particular the efforts of the factory committees.

Paul Avrich's article from 1984 about G.T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group

"Decadence theory" starts from the basic marxist principle that at some point in its life, any mode of production reaches a point where it can no longer assure human progress. For the Communist International, capitalism's entry into decadence, what the International called "the epoch of wars and revolutions" was marked by the the outbreak of war in 1914, and the October Revolution of 1917. The theoretical foundations were laid by thinkers like Rosa Luxemburg and Paul Mattick, then further developed by various Left Communist groups in the 1970s. Nearly half a century on...

Pannekoek applies his critique to the theories of Luxemburg and Grossman - and shows why capitalism will never collapse due to any internal systemic contradictions, but only by the conscious action of the working class. "The self-emancipation of the proletariat is the collapse of capitalism."