The following study guide was originally published by The Marxist-Leninist news blog:
“The Party must more than ever and in a new way, not only in the old, educate and guide the trade unions, at the same time bearing in mind that they are and will long remain an indispensable ‘school of communism’ and a preparatory school that trains proletarians to exercise their dictatorship, an indispensable organisation of the workers for the gradual transfer of the management of the whole economic life of the country to the working class (and not to the separate trades), and later to all the working people.” – V. I. Lenin“Left-Wing” Communism, an Infantile Disorder
Beginning and Essential readings
- Lenin and the Trade Union Movement by A. Lozovsky
- Build a Fighting Workers Movement by the Labor Commission of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (review)
Supplementary readings
- Tactics of the Class Struggle of the Proletariat by V. I. Lenin
- The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization of the Revolutionaries by V. I. Lenin
- On Strikes by V.I. Lenin
- Should Revolutionaries Work in Reactionary Trade Unions? by V. I. Lenin
- Lenin’s Fight Against “Economism.” from the History of the CPSU – Short Course
- Theses on the Trade Union Movement and Factory Committees from the 2nd Congress of the Comintern
- Theses on Communist Work in the Trade Unions from the 4th Congress of the Comintern
- The Tasks of the Trade Unions by Georgi Dimitrov
- Program of Action of the Red International of Labor Unions by A. Lozovsky
- Problems of Strike Strategy by the Red International of Labor Unions
- Strike Strategy by W. Z. Foster
- The Fusion Of The Socialist Movement With The Working Class Movement by the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters
- Report on the Labor Movement in the U.S. by Joe Iosbaker, Chair of the FRSO Labor Commission
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