1. The Age of Permanent Revolution
   A Trotsky Anthology
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1964
   A collection of writings by Leon Trotsky.
2. American Communism and Soviet Russia
   The Formative Period
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1960   Published: 1986
   A history of the formative peirod of the American Communist Party.
3. The Canadian Left 
   A Critical Analysis
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1977
   The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and development of the CCF-NDP.
4. The Communist International
   Resource Type: Website
   A collection of documents on the Third International 1919-1943.
5. The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919 - 1929
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2015
   Author documents the positive contribution of the Comintern (Communist International) in its early revolutionary years and its decline under Stalin.
6. The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929: A Review
   Upholding the Revolutionary Legacy
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929 examines the founding, development and degeneration of the Communist Party (CP) in the United States in the broader framework of the struggle for international proletarian revolution. Available in both paperback and hardcover, this fully indexed book, with extensive footnotes and references, will be of enduring value as a reference work for avowed socialists as well as scholars of communism. It is also a fun and interesting read and belongs in the toolkits of everyone seeking a coherent revolutionary program and lessons on building an organization.
7. The Communist International and U.S. Communism
   1919 - 1929
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2015
   For most commentators the Comintern's role in the development of American Communism is wholly negative. Zumoff challenges this narrative.
8. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1983
   
9. Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1919
   Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern) in March 1919.
   
10. Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1920
    Adopted in Moscow, August 1920, at the Second World Congress of the Communist International.
    
11. Manifestos, Programs, Visions 
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1649   Published: 2016
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
12. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
13. On Second Congress of Comintern
    From Chapter 3 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1943   Published: 1967
    World capitalism, after its first suicidal war, was now clearly incapable either of organizing a positive peace, or (what was equally evident) of deploying its fantastic technical progress to increase the prosperity, liberty, safety, and dignity of mankind. The Revolution was therefore right, as against capitalism; and we saw that the spectre of future war would raise a question-mark over the existence of civilization itself, unless the social system of Europe was speedily transformed. The fearful Jacobinism of the Russian Revolution seemed to me to be quite unavoidable; as was the institution of a new revolutionary State, now in the process of disowning all its early promises. In this I saw an immense danger: the State seemed to me to be properly a weapon of war, not a means of organizing production. Over all our achievements there hung a death-sentence; since for all of us, for our ideals, for the new justice that was proclaimed, for our new collective economy, still in its infancy, defeat would have brought a peremptory death and after that, who knows what? I thought of the Revolution as a tremendous sacrifice that was required for the future's sake.
14. On Third Congress of Comintern
    From Chapter 4 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1943   Published: 1967
    I did not feel disheartened or disoriented. I was disgusted at certain things, psychologically exhausted by the Terror and tormented by the mass of wrongs that I could see growing, which I was powerless to counteract. My conclusions were that the Russian Revolution, left to itself, would probably, in one way or another, collapse (I did not see how: would it be through war or domestic reaction?); that the Russians, who had made superhuman efforts to build a new society, were more or less at the end of their strength; and that relief and salvation must come from the West. From now on it was necessary to work to build a Western working-class movement capable of supporting the Russians and, one day, superseding them.
15. Party Organization in Lenin's Comintern
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Many socialist groups today seek to shape their organizational principles in the spirit of "democratic centralism" identified with V.I. Lenin. Yet as historian Lars Lih has demonstrated ("Fortunes of a Formula" and "Further Fortunes of a Formula"), Lenin himself used the term only occasionally, and then with widely varying emphasis. The formula's meaning for socialists today is in fact derived mainly from its application by the Communist International (Comintern) in Lenin's lifetime and under his guidance (1919–23).
16. The Platform of the Communist International
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1919
    Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International, March 1919.
    
17. Raising the Workers' Flag
    The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
18. Situationist International Anthology 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2006
    A selection of Situationist writings.
19. Socialist Register 1992
    Volume 28: New World Order?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
20. Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1920
    Adopted at the Second Congress of the Communist International, August 1920.
    
21. The Unknown Dimension 
    European Marxism Since Lenin
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.

Experts on TroisiŠme Internationale (Komintern) in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive