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Response to ICL retraction of historic slanders

Response to ICL retraction of historic slanders

On 12 August we sent the following letter to the International Communist League in response to their recent retraction <https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/69/bt> of slanders levelled against us several decades ago. Comrades: We appreciate your clear and...

‘The Arab-Jewish War in Palestine’

‘The Arab-Jewish War in Palestine’

Trotskyists’ 1948 declaration re: founding of Zionist state The following editorial appeared in the 31 May 1948 issue of the Militant, published by the Socialist Workers Party (US) led by James P. Cannon. At...

Why a ‘bi-national workers’ state’?

Why a ‘bi-national workers’ state’?

In a 1988 polemic against the British Workers Power group we addressed our differences over Vladimir Lenin’s approach to the “national question.” In particular we discussed how the interpenetration of the two peoples living...

Lenin on Imperialism

Lenin on Imperialism

In August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, Vladimir Lenin was stunned by the wave of social-patriotism that swept the Second International, including its German flagship, the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD). All...