1917 #1

(The following remarks were made to a Bolshevik Tendency gathering last summer by a comrade who had recently returned from a trip to Nicaragua.) The crisis in Managua is so apparent. You go into...

Time Running Out for Sandinistas ‘‘When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward—or go back.’’ —V.I. Lenin, quoted in Ten Days That Shook the World The Nicaraguan revolution...

SL’s Cop-Baiting Celebrity Last summer in the aftermath of the brutal incineration of eleven black people in a MOVE commune in Philadelphia, the Spartacist League (SL) sponsored a forum in New York featuring two...

‘I Liked Gerry Healy…’ The dust is just beginning to settle after the biggest (and dirtiest) explosion in recent memory among the international pretenders to Trotskyism: the spectacular rupture of the British Workers Revolutionary...

In every capitalist society on the planet the Moscow-loyal Communist parties parrot the same line: ‘‘now is not the time for socialism, first we need unity with the progressive capitalists.’’ South Africa is no...

Notably absent from the coverage of the continuing upheavals in South Africa by the international ‘‘revolutionary’’ press is any serious consideration of exactly how the apartheid state apparatus, overwhelmingly drawn from the ranks of...

Introducing 1917 ‘‘The whole history of the struggle between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks is dotted with this little word ‘process.’ Lenin always formulated tasks and proposed corresponding methods. The Mensheviks agreed with the same ‘aims’...

South Africa’s bloody apartheid regime is staggering from a year and a half of massive upheavals by a disenfranchised black majority determined to end the white monopoly on economic and political power. The Botha...