(The following is the outline of a presentation for a CWO local education "virtual" meeting on Marxist theory of economic crisis for members and sympathisers.

The capitalist crisis is advancing, while the antagonistic(1) part of the "bourgeois left" still clings to the thoughts of Gramsci.(2)

(A much expanded version of this article is available here: https://www.leftcom.org/en/ar

The coronavirus pandemic is battering the whole world. It has upset a social and economic order that appeared immutable.

2020 sees the centenary of Lenin’s “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder, we were ourselves preparing a comment on it which will now be deferrerd.

From _Kommunist No. 3_ (16 May 1918)

(We are happy to publish this correspondence with an Italian comrade translated by the IWG.

31 March marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Poll Tax riots.