Polemics with the ICL: Kurdistan & the Struggle for National Liberation

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Kurdistan and the National Question
Reprinted from 1917 No. 12, 1993

2. Free Öcalan! Defend the PKK!
Reprinted from 1917 No. 21, 1999

3. The Kurdish People and the U.S. Occupation of Iraq
Reprinted from Workers Vanguard Nos. 804 and 805, 23 May and 6 June 2003

4. A Bogus Polemic
12 June 2003 letter to Workers Vanguard

5. BT Doth Whine Too Much
Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 806, 4 July 2003

6. Robertson’s ‘Vulgar Chauvinism’
IBT leaflet, 4 July 2003

7. Editorial Statement
Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 807, 1 August 2003

8. BT: Renegades for Hire
Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 807, 1 August 2003

9. The Truth Hurts
8 August 2003 letter to Workers Vanguard

10. BT: A Walking Provocation
Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 808, 29 August 2003

11. The Emperor Has No Clothes
IBT statement, 12 September 2003 29

Appendix A: For a Trotskyist perspective in Turkey
WSL’s Pre-Conference Discussion Bulletin No. 12, February 1978

Appendix B: Kurdish Workers in the Iraqi Revolution of 1958-59
by Reuben Samuels
Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 370, 11 January 1985

Appendix C: Lenin on ‘Great’ Nation Chauvinism
Reprinted from V.I. Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 36

Appendix D: iSt International Discussion Bulletin
No. 10, Parts I & II, January 1979, excerpts