by Carla O’Gallchobhair

In this 15^th volume of the Life in Communism 2.1. series, taking place in Year Eight of the world revolution, Hisham, Omsinbaba, Noah, Claudia and others visit Russia and the Middle East, West Africa, the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, Latin America and Asia, to barter the famous robots their cooperative Illyria in Yvelines produces against agricultural and technological products that they don’t produce themselves but that they need either for their consumption or as inputs for their clothes, furniture and robot production workshops. While they encounter quite a lot of adversity, ex-capitalists and fascist terrorists who won’t give up and who even manage to cause major disruptions of communications and weather over Western Europe and world-wide by detonating an Electro-Magnetic Pulse weapon, our comrades are happy to meet with old and new comrades abroad – Sergei and the other Moscow Recycling Hounds, Ramzan of Grozny, Hassan and their other Middle Eastern, Ernesto and their other Latin American, and Changlong and their other Asian comrades –, and to learn about foundations of revolutionary barter, such as the labour theory of value.