Trotskyist Bulletins
- TB #1: Only Trotskyism Can Defend the Gains of October
- TB #2: Marxism vs. Social Patriotism
- TB #3: In Defence of the Trotskyist Program
- TB #4: Nicaragua & the Permanent Revoution
- TB #5: ICL vs. IBT
- TB #6: Polemics with the Internationalist Group (PDF)
- TB #7: Marxism and the Quebec National Question (PDF)
- TB# 8: Afghanistan & the Left
Trotzkistische Bulletins
– Whither China?
– U.S. Empire in Decline
– Imperialism & Global Inequality
– Capitalism in Crisis
– Smash the BNP!
– Women’s Rights in ‘Pro-Life’ Ireland
– Workers’ Sanctions & the Fourth International
– The Struggle for Revolutionary Leadership
– Labor Action Against Racism & Apartheid
– Workers’ Consciousness & Bosses’ Laws
– Anti-War Strike
– On Jailing Killer Cops
– Capitalist Meltdown
– ‘People’s War’ in the Himalayas
– NPA: France’s New Reformist Party
– Doubletalk & Zigzags
– Imperialist Troops Out of Haiti!
– Haitian Disaster: Neocolonial Nightmare
– For Labor Action to Free Mumia!
– Militant Tactics & Poisonous Nationalism
– IBT Supporter Leads Walkout
– Bolsheviks, Ballots & the Class Line
– EFCA, Bureaucrats & Democrats
– ‘Revolutionary Process’ & Rose-Tinted Glasses
– Israel Apartheid & Palestinian Oppression
– Strategies for Palestinian Liberation
– Mass Revolt in Egypt
– Class Struggle in France
– LTF & the General Strike
– Que Faire?
– Capitalist Austerity & Ireland’s Election
– Anti-Imperialism & the WSM
– ‘Defiance of unjust laws’
– Defend North Korea!
– ‘A Capitulation to U.S. Imperialism’
– Comrade Bill Savery
– Another ‘Blank Page’
– Killer Cops & Democrats
– Mobilizing for Mumia
– Down With the G-20!
– Pathologies of Capitalism
– Libya & the Left
– Defeat the Imperialists!
– Anti-Imperialism vs. Pro-Intervention ‘Solidarity’
– Capitalism can’t be fixed!
– Mass Protest Against Police Attack
– Anger Boils Over in Britain
– For a General Strike to Smash Austerity!
– Capitalist Crisis & Revolutionary Opportunity
– On the ‘Revolutionary Constituent Assembly’
– IG on ‘Jailing Killer Cops’
– Free Mumia Now!
– ‘Marxists Are Not Pacifists’
– IMT Glorifies Layton’s Legacy
– Capitalist Crisis & the EU
– Black Bloc Streetfighters & Liberal Pacifists
– Quebec Students Fight Back
– For Workers’ Strikes to Smash Austerity!
– Letter to the Internationalist Group on Quebec
– Cliffites Vote for Muslim Brotherhood
– Greece: A Crisis of Leadership
– Trotskyism vs Castroism
– Leninism: ‘Irreconcilable Ideological Demarcation’
– Veronica Jones & the Frame-up of Mumia Abu-Jamal
– Why Marxists Voted ‘No’ on Prop 34
– Wikileaks, Sex & Imperialist Law
– Ukraine, Russia & the Struggle for Eurasia
– Confronting a World in Turmoil
– Unity, Class, Program
– Managing the Greek Crisis
– No payment! No meters! Abolish the water charges!
– Scotland’s Independence Referendum
– Spartacist Confusionists & the Scottish Referendum
– Spartacists Repudiate Class-Struggle Caucuses
– Adrian Blakelock: 1948-2014
– Down with Racist Police Terror!
– Platypus & the Maoists
– UPP Banned in South Korea
– Down with Zionist Terrorism! Defend the Palestinians!
– Middle East Chaos
– Proletarian Internationalism & the Struggle against Fortress Europe
– Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! United-Front Rally in New Zealand
– Labor Action to Fight Racist Cop Terror!
– TTIP: An Attack on the Working Class
– What Kind of Political Party?
– Marxism & Bourgeois Elections
– Pandering to Illusions in Sinn Féin
– Spoil Your Ballot! No Choice for Workers!
– Labourism Rebooted
– Roots & Fruits of Imperialism
– Imperialism, Tsarist Russia & World War I
– The Devil or the Deep Blue Sea?
– Vote Corbyn, Break with Reformism!
– Thirty-five Years too Long! Free Mumia Now!
– Cops, Reformism & Black Liberation
– Thirty Years of Homosexual Law Reform
– Strike Against the Privatisation Juggernaut!
– Sanders: ‘Socialist’ Shill for Democrats
– ‘Democracy’ in Decay
– Trump: Ugly Face of Capitalism
– No Platform for Fascists!
– Independence for Catalonia
– Liquidationism Yesterday and Today
– We Vote for Class Struggle
– Labour’s Bid to Run New Zealand Capitalism
– Election 2017: A Choice for Workers
– Hands off North Korea!
– ‘Marxist’ Social Democrats
– Under the Banner of Trotskyism
– In Defense of (Seymour’s) Marxism
– Class, State and Party
– Wahlbetrug, Vergewaltigung und NATO-Terror: Imperialistische ‚Aufklärung‘ scheitert am Hindukusch
– Widerstand statt Kapitulation
– Protektionismus – Gift für internationale Arbeitersolidarität
– Zur Abstimmung über den Lissabon-Vertrag
– Klassenjustiz und Rassismus — Mumia Abu-Jamal ist unschuldig
– GAM und SpAD zum Ende der DDR
– Die DDR — „Sozialismus“ in einem halben Land
– Karl Liebknecht: Militarismus und Antimilitarismus
– Leo Trotzki: Grundlage des bürokratischen Kommandos
– Der politische Streik
– Verteidigt Nordkorea! Stürzt die Bürokratie — Für revolutionäre Wiedervereinigung!
– Israels Angriff auf Pazifisten
– Massen-Streikposten blockieren israelisches Schiff!
– Sparsamer Widerstand gegen Sparpaket
– Kapitalismus mit Grünem Punkt
– Für die sofortige Freilassung von Mumia Abu-Jamal!
– Zum BP Öl-Desaster
– Roma und Sinti — EU sucht Sündenböcke
– Internationale Bolschewistische Tendenz an den Revolutionär-Sozialistischen Bund – Brief vom 18. Februar 2010
– Strategien der palästinensischen Befreiung
– Für einen klassenkämpferischen Antifaschismus!
– Nieder mit dem NATO-Krieg gegen Libyen!
– NATO-Bomben für die Revolution – Die Gruppe Arbeitermacht und ihre „tragische Illusion“
– Lebendig begraben
– Revolutionäres Feuer gegen kapitalistisches Elend!
– Britische Riots
– Die Occupy Wall Street-Bewegung
– Frauen, wollt ihr wohl daheim bleiben!
– Kapitalismus und Frauenunterdrückung
– #aufstehen: Wenn Linke Rechtspopulismus predigen
– Die Reaktion formiert sich – Nicht nur in Chemnitz
– Urteil im NSU-Prozess
– SAV: Toleranz für kapitalistische Regierungspolitik
– Marxismus, Feminismus und #MeToo
– In Verteidigung (von Seymours) Marxismus
– Klassenkampf im Hafen
–Erklärung zur Wiederaufnahme einer unabhängigen Existenz als BT
– Die Novemberrevolution
Trotskyist Bulletin #2
- TB #2: Table of Contents
- TB #2: Preface
- TB #2: A Loss of Nerve and a Loss of Will
- TB #2: Front page of Workers Vanguard No. 341, 6 November 1983
- TB #2: Imperialist War, the Armed Forces and Revolution
- TB #2: Reuben’s Tangled Web
- TB #2: Marxism and Bloodthirstiness
- TB #2: Marxism and Social-Patriotism
- TB #2: British Sailors and American Marines
- TB #2: Black Marine: I Won’t Go!
- TB #2: Exchange on Corporal Griffin
Trotskyist Bulletin #3
1917, édition française, n° 2 1994
– Introduction
– Le Rubicon soviétique et la gauche
— En Bref: Réponse au Bolchévik
– A nouveau sur la confusion centriste et la question russe
– La confusion centriste face à la contre-révolution en URSS
– Volte-face spartaciste sur Rutskoi
– Rassemblement Le Pen avorté à Montréal: non au fascisme!
– Le fascisme et la gauche allemande
1917, édition française, n° 5 2010
– NPA : Nouveau Parti réformiste
– A bas les attaques contre les retraites !
– L’islam, la laïcité et la gauche
– Genèse du pablisme
– La continuité révolutionnaire et la scission dans la Quatrième Internationale
– Spartacistes et social-impérialisme
– Un piquet de masse bloque un navire israélien!
1917, édition française, n° 8 (2013)
– Grèce : l’austérité capitaliste & la classe ouvrière
– Capitalisme et racisme
– Grèves ouvrières pour écraser l’austérité !
– La grève étudiante au Québec & la question nationale
– Victimes de la répression capitaliste du néo-apartheid
– Bas les pattes devant Julian Assange !
Trotzkistisches Bulletin Nr. 3
Marxism vs. ‘Militant’ Reformism
- Table of Contents
- The CWI’s Kautskyan Caricature of Trotskyism
- Marxists and the State
- The State: A Marxist Programme and Transitional Demands
- The Police
- The Police – continued
- ‘The most disgraceful defeat’
- For a New, Revolutionary, Workers’ Party!
- Screws Out of the TUC!
- A Brief Sketch of the Militant Tendency’s History
Trotskyist Bulletin #4
- TB #4: Table of Contents
- TB #4: Introduction
- TB #4: The Arias Peace Plan Six Months Later
- TB #4: A Victory and Danger: Comment on the Central America Peace Plan
- TB #4: Central America Treaty = Peace?
- TB #4: The Arias Peace Plan & The ASA: A Victory (For Bourgeois Ideology) and A Danger to Marxism
- TB #4: Nicaragua, The Permanent Revolution and the Road to Workers Power
- TB #4: National Reconciliation or Class War? The Choice for Nicaragua
- TB #4: Open Letter to Socialist Challenge/Gauche Socialiste
- TB #4: Addendum to Open Letter
- TB #4: A Reply to Neil H.
- TB #4: Rejoinder to Andrew R., The United Secretariat: An Anti-Trotskyist Fraud
- TB #4: OPPOSE U.S. CONTRA AID!
- TB #4: Speeches at TAIC Rally, February 2 1988
- TB #4: The “principled” coalition bogey
- TB #4: Resignation from the TAIC
- TB #4: TAIC Basis of Unity Prior to November 1987
- TB #4: Trotskyist League Forum – DEFEND, COMPLETE, EXTEND THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION!
- TB #4: BT Letter to Trotskyist League, 4 February 1987
Trotskyist Bulletin #8
- TB #8: Table of Contents
- TB #8: Introduction
- TB #8: U.S. Imperialist Rule: An Endless Horror
- TB #8: Imperialism’s Bloody Trail
- TB #8: Some News that Didn’t Fit
- TB #8: Workers Power’s Two-stage ‘Trotskyism’
- TB #8: Extract from “Doubletalk in the 2 1/2 Camp,” 1917, No. 10, 3rd quarter 1991
- TB #8: Where Is the ICL Going?
- TB #8: ICL: ‘Save Our Boys’ Socialists
- TB #8: ICL on Afghanistan: Healyites of the Second Mobilization?
- TB #8: ICL on Afghanistan: ‘Realist’ Wiseacres
- TB #8: Islam, Empire and Revolution
- TB #8: Hail the Red Army in Afghanistan!
- TB #8: Afghanistan
- TB #8: Afghanistan: Russia defeated as…. US Abandons the Victims
- TB #8: United Secretariat Declaration on Afghanistan
- TB #8: The Fourth International and Afghanistan
- TB #8: BT Says Don’t Hail Red Army in Afghanistan
- TB #8: Bolshevik Tendency reply to Workers Vanguard No. 449
- TB #8: Bolshevik Tendency letter to the Trotskyist League, 4 February 1988
- TB #8: BT Protests Too Much
- TB #8: Bolshevik Tendency reply to Workers Vanguard No. 453
- TB #8: Gorbachev’s Afghan Sellout
- TB #8: On the Slogan ‘Hail Red Army’
- TB #8: PDC: For Internationalist Military Support to Afghan Government!
- TB #8: Letter to Paris
- TB #8: Letter to PDC
- TB #8: Letter to William
- TB #8: Letter to Frederico
- TB #8: Fake-Trotskyists Make Fake Offer
- TB #8: Bolshevik Tendency letter to Trotskyist League of Canada
- TB #8: Worldwide Effort for Jalalabad Tops $40,000
- TB #8: Report From Heroic Jalalabad: Front Line Afghanistan
- TB #8: BT Cringes on Afghanistan Defense
- TB #8: On ‘Hailing’ Brezhnev’s Afghan Policy
- TB #8: Pamyat Rides in Moscow
- TB #8: Trotskyist Revolutionary Internationalism vs. Robertson’s Bogus Brigade
Documents of Struggle
Marxism & Islamic Reaction
- Introduction
- Revolutionary Continuity & Islamic Reaction
- On Erdogan’s Bonapartist Regime
- Turkey and the Tactic of the Military Bloc
- Erdogan, Pilsudski & Khomeini
- Lenin & Trotsky’s Dual Defeatism on the Balkan Wars
- Mikl et al on 1979 Iranian Revolution
- On Khomeini & Counterrevolution
- Iran, nationalism and imperialism
- Reply to Mikl et al
Is Russia Imperialist?
- Introduction
- ‘Worried about the Russia Question’
- Decker/Dorn Interpolated Comments on Riley’s ‘Is Russia Imperialist?’
- For a ‘Concrete Analysis of the Concrete Situation’
- Twenty points on the imperialism discussion
- What is Russia doing in Syria?
- On the Ukrainian Crisis
- Russia, Ukraine, Syria
- Why Russia is not imperialist
- Reply to Roxie on Russian Investment
- Russia’s Emergence as an Imperialist Power
- Reply to recent documents by cdes. Dorn (20 March) & Decker (27 March)
- Decker’s Response & Riley’s Rejoinder
- Dots for Joining
- Motions on Russian Imperialism
Bulletins of the ET
– Venezuela & the Left
– Middle East Morass
– James P. Cannon: American Bolshevik
– The Cannon Biography & Its Critics
– No to Popular Frontism!
– ‘The Main Question of Proletarian Class Strategy’
– Screws Out of the TUC!
– Being Determines Consciousness
– On ‘Revolutionary Regroupment’
– Of Presidents & Principles
– Venezuela: State & Revolution
– Iraq Unravels
– Imperialist Expansionism & the EU
– From the Horse’s Mouth
– Principles & Tactics
– Socialists & Sharia Courts
– Cliffites, Clerics & Class Collaboration
– What’s Bred in the Bone
– Swimming Against the Stream
– Defend Civil Liberties in Britain!
– ‘A Blank Page’
– Iraq: Imperial Overreach
– No to the Hijab Ban!
– Anti-Fascist Protest in Wellington
– ‘Bolivarian’or Proletarian Revolution?
– ICL & the Russian Question
– No to ‘Lesser Evilism’
– No Choice for Working People
– Polemic with the ICL on Tibet and Falun Gong: On Combating Religion & Social Backwardness
– Capitalism & Terrorism
– What Choice for Workers?
– Imperialists Run Amok
– Lessons from Working-Class History: State Repression & the Left
– Pacifism as the Servant of Imperialism
– Blair’s New Labour: A Party Fit for Imperialism
– SPD’s Peace Initiative: ‘The Better to Eat You With’
– Imperialist War & Socialist Pretenders
– ‘Blunting the Edge of Revolutionary Criticism’
– Mumia’s Lawyer Speaks
– From Sacco and Vanzetti to Mumia Abu-Jamal
– Imperialism’s Bloody Trail
– For Socialist Globalization!
– Russia: A Capitalist Dystopia
– ‘All Shades of Political Thought’
– Where is the ICL Going?
– U.S. Imperialist Rule: An Endless Horror
– A Significant Step
– Centrism & Bolshevism in Ukraine
– ‘To All Revolutionaries in the Komsomol’
– No Vote to Labour!
– Recycled Browderism
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Kurdistan and the National Question
- Free Öcalan! Defend the PKK!
- The Kurdish People and the U.S. Occupation of Iraq
- A Bogus Polemic
- BT Doth Whine Too Much
- Robertson’s ‘Vulgar Chauvinism’
- Editorial Statement
- BT: Renegades for Hire
- The Truth Hurts
- BT: A Walking Provocation
- The Emperor Has No Clothes
- For a Trotskyist perspective in Turkey
- Kurdish Workers in the Iraqi Revolution of 1958-59
- Lenin on ‘Crudity’ and ‘Jest’
- iSt International Discussion Bulletin No. 10, Parts I & II, January 1979, excerpts
Leninism & Nationalism
Marxist Bulletin No.2
- Contents
- Preface
- Letter to Ed (1)
- Letter to Ed (2)
- Proposed Statement on Orientation
- Orientation of the Party Minority in Youth Work
- The Centrism of the SWP and the Tasks of the Minority
- Towards the Working Class
- The Tendency and the Party
- Theses on the Situation and Tasks of the Revolutionary Tendency in the American Trotskyist Movement
- What the Discussion Is Really About
- For a Fighting Perspective!
Marxist Bulletin No.4
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. For the Right of Organized Tendencies to Exist Within the Party!
- 2. Letter to Dobbs By James Robertson
- 3. Political Committee Motion on the Robertson-Ireland-Harper Case
- 4. Political Committee Motion Suspending Robertson-Mage-White-Harper-Ireland
- 5. Motion presented to the Political Committee By Myra Weiss
- 6. Letter to the Political Committee By Geoffrey White
- 7. Report to New York Branch on suspensions By Farrell Dobbs
- 8. Letter to Dobbs By Laurence Ireland
- 9. Letter to the Political Committee By Shane Mage
- 10. Letter to the National Committee By Wendell Phillips
- 11. Statement on Suspension of Robertson-Tendency Members
- 12. Letter to the National Committee By Lynne Harper
- 13. Statement to the National Committee on Robertson Group Suspensions
- 14. Motion Passed by New Haven Branch
- 15. Letter to the Political Committee By Jack Wright
- 16. To the National Committee Plenum of December 27-29, 1963
- 17. Rescind the Suspensions!
- 18. Letter to the National Committee By D.G and R.S.
- 19. Oral Statement to the Plenum of the National Committee By Laurence Ireland
- 20. Report on Internal Party Situation to the Plenum of the National Committee
- 21. Minority Report to the Plenum on Internal Party Situation
- 22. PLenum Vote on Internal Party Situation
- 23. Letter to Wohlforth By James Robertson
- 24. Notice of Expulsion
- 25. Concerning Our Expulsions
- 26. Robertsonite Attack on the Party
- 27. Appeal to the “United Secretariat of the Fourth International”
- 28. Resolution on Robertson Group by the United Secretariat
- 29. Letter Seeking Appeal to Next World Congress
- 30. Letter Refusing Appeal to World Congress
- 31. Letter Requesting Appeal by Representative of the Expelled to 1965 National Convention
- 32. Letter Evading Requested Appeal to National Convention
– The Struggle for South Africa
– The Revolutionary Betrayed
– A Life of Struggle
– James P. Cannon on Anarchism
– A Conversation with Myra
– ‘Globalization’ & the Unions
– IG: Willful Blindness
– In Defense of Tactics
– Canada’s No Choice Election
– Justin Ryniker
– Class Politics & Labour Loyalism
Marxist Bulletin No.3 – Part I
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Letter from J. Robertson to G. White, 7 October 1962
- 2. Letter from L. Ireland to G. Healy, 17 October 1962
- 3. Letter from G. Healy to L. Ireland, 24 October 1962
- 4. To All Members of the SWP Minority, the Revolutionary Tendency
- 5. Statement Presented by A. Philips to NYC Tendency
- 6. Letter to the International Committee of the Fourth International
- 7. Letter from S. Mage to G. Healy, 4 November 1962
- 8. Letter from G. Healy to NYC Tendency Majority
- 9. Letter from T. Wohlforth to Bertha, 14 November 1962
- 10. Call for the Reorganization of the Minority Tendency
- 11. Letter from G. White to G. Healy, 14 November 1962
- 12. Declaration on the Cuban Crisis
- 13. Defend the Cuban Revolution, Statement by the International Committee
- 14. Letter from the NYC Tendency Majority to the SLL
- 15. Letter from G. Healy to J. Robertson, 28 December 1962
Marxist Bulletin No.3 – Part II
- Contents
- Preface
- Letter to the RT by Tim Wohlforth
- Corrected Draft Reply to the Reorganized Minority Tendency
- Amendment by the RT to P.C. Draft Resolution
- Letter to Wohlforth by Farrell Dobbs
- Letter to Dobbs by G. Healy
- Letter to Healy by James Robertson
- Letter to Dobbs by G. Healy
- Letter to Robertson by G. Healy
- Party and Class–A Statement to the Pre-Convention
- Discipline and Truth–Reply to Wohlforth
Marxist Bulletin No.3 – Part IV
Marxist Bulletin No. 5
- Contents
- Preface to Revised Edition
- Preface to First Edition
- For the Materialist Conception of the Negro Question
- For Black Trotskyism
- The Negro Struggle and the Crisis of Leadership
- The Secret War Between Brother Klonsky and Stalin (and Who Won)
- Rise and Fall of the Panthers: End of the Black Power Era
- Soul Power or Workers Power?
- Black Power and the Fascists
- Black Power–Class Power
- Behind the “Roots” Craze