TB# 8: Afghanistan & the Left

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Introduction

1. Afghanistan Under Imperialist Attack, 2001

1.1 U.S. Imperialist Rule: An Endless Horror
International Bolshevik Tendency leaflet, 18 September 2001

1.2 Imperialism’s Bloody Trail
Reprinted from 1917 No. 24, 2002
Appendix: Some News that Didn’t Fit, IBT Web Site

1.3 Workers Power’s Two-stage Trotskyism
International Bolshevik Tendency (Britain) leaflet, 5 November 2001
Appendix: extract from “Doubletalk in the 2 1/2 Camp,” 1917 No. 10, 1991

1.4 Where Is the ICL Going?
Reprinted from 1917 No. 24, 2002
Appendix No. 1: ICL: ‘Save Our Boys’ Socialists
Appendix No. 2: Healyites of the Second Mobilization, IBT Web Site
Appendix No. 3: ‘Realist’ Wiseacres, IBT Web Site

1.5 Islam, Empire and Revolution
Reprinted from 1917 No. 17, 1996

2. Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan, 1979-89

2a. Responses to the Soviet Intervention

2a.1 Hail the Red Army in Afghanistan!
Reprinted from Spartacist Canada No. 41, February-March 1980

2a.2 Afghanistan
Reprinted from Socialist Worker (Britain), 19 January 1980

2a.3 US Abandons the Victims
Reprinted from Socialist Worker (Britain), 11 February 1989

2a.4 United Secretariat Declaration on Afghanistan
Reprinted from Intercontinental Press, 3 March 1980

2a.5 The Fourth International and Afghanistan
Reprinted from International Viewpoint, 6 April 1987

2b. On “Hailing” Stalinist Afghan Policy

2b.1 BT Says Don’t Hail Red Army in Afghanistan
Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 449, 25 March 1988

2b.2 Bolshevik Tendency reply to Workers Vanguard No. 449
Letter, 8 April 1988
Appendix: Bolshevik Tendency letter to the Trotskyist League, 4 February 1988

2b.3 BT Protests Too Much
Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 453, 20 May 1988

2b.4 Bolshevik Tendency reply to Workers Vanguard, No. 453
Letter, 21 June 1988

2b.5 Gorbachev’s Afghan Sell-Out
Reprinted from 1917 No. 5, 1988-89

2b.6 On the Slogan ‘Hail Red Army’
Reprinted from 1917 No. 5, 1988-89

2c. Robertson’s Bogus Brigade

2c.1 PDC: For Internationalist Military Support to Afghan Government!
Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 471, 17 February 1989

2c.2 Letter to Paris from James Robertson
Reprinted from the iSt’s International Discussion Bulletin No. 19, March 1989

2c.3. Letter to the PDC from William C.
Reprinted from the iSt’s International Discussion Bulletin No. 19, March 1989

2c.4 Letter to William from James Robertson
Reprinted from the iSt’s International Discussion Bulletin No. 19, March 1989

2c.5. Letter to Frederico from James Robertson
Reprinted from the iSt’s International Discussion Bulletin No. 19, March 1989

2c.6 Fake Trotskyists Make Fake Offer
Reprinted from 1917 No. 6, 1989

2c.7 Bolshevik Tendency Letter to Trotskyist League of Canada
Letter, 2 April 1989

2c.8 Worldwide Effort for Jalalabad Tops $40,000
Extract from Workers Vanguard No. 480, 23 June 1989

2c.9 Front Line Afghanistan
Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No 482, 21 July 1989

2c.10 BT Cringes on Afghanistan Defense
Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 482, 21 July 1989

2c.11 On ‘Hailing’ Brezhnev’s Afghan Policy
Reprinted from 1917 No. 7, 1990
Appendix: “Pamyat Rides in Moscow,” 1917 No. 10, 1991

2c.12 Robertson’s Bogus Brigade
Reprinted from 1917 No. 7, 1990