After the XXII Congress of the French Communist Party, held in February 1976, Louis Althusser, the Party's leading intellectual, conceived a controversial self-interview in which, alternating theoretical considerations with observations on the controversies and interlinings of the politics of the moment, thus as if using personal confessions, he reflects on the course that should be followed thereafter. Severe criticism of the Party as well as unconditional defense of the ideals that animate it, The Black Cows is above all a text that traces a surprisingly topical program regarding the organization of the revolutionary struggle at a time that is already reflux.