What Choice for Workers?
Labour, trade unions and reformist dead ends British Supplement to 1917, April 2005 Tony Blair goes to the electorate on 5 May at the head of a party, created by the organisations of the...
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Capitalism & Terrorism
Paranoia & Hypocrisy in the Age of Imperialism The following is an edited version of a talk given in Toronto by Josh Decker on 23 October 2004. Capital, as Karl Marx observed, came into...
Polemic with the ICL on Tibet and Falun Gong: On Combating Religion & Social Backwardness
The 28 May 2004 issue of Workers Vanguard (WV—literary flagship of James Robertson’s International Communist League [ICL]) attacked our treatment of Tibet and national oppression in the Chinese deformed workers’ state in 1917 No....
No Choice for Working People
Canadian Federal Election 2004 The following statement, dated 18 June 2004, was distributed prior to the Canadian federal election. Urging voters to “choose your Canada,” Prime Minister Paul Martin declared that the vote on...
No to ‘Lesser Evilism’
Forward to a Revolutionary Workers’ Party! The following statement was distributed during the 2004 American election campaign. This year’s presidential election takes place in the shadow of the dirty colonial war in Iraq, a...
ICL & the Russian Question
Prestige Politics & Programmatic Confusion The following is excerpted from a forthcoming IBT pamphlet. In the Spring 2004 issue of Spartacist (No. 58), the International Communist League (ICL) characterizes its recent political record as...
‘Bolivarian’or Proletarian Revolution?
Letter to Fire This Time The following letter was sent to Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice 27 November 2004 Dear Comrades, In your recent article, “Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Venezuela” (Fire This...
Anti-Fascist Protest in Wellington
Smash the National Front! On 23 October 2004, 40 fascists from the New Zealand National Front (NF) held a rally in Wellington. These thugs, who had been responsible for a series of racist attacks...
No to the Hijab Ban!
For the Separation of Religion & State When French schools reopened in September 2004 after summer vacation, a new law took effect prohibiting students from wearing the hijab (female Islamic headscarf). Under the pretense...
Iraq: Imperial Overreach
U.S./UK Troops Out Now! “All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” —Macbeth, Act III Scene...