1917 #3

The Myth of the ‘Third Period’

The Myth of the ‘Third Period’

MLP’s Stalinist Pyrite In the summer before the 1984 election that swept Ronald Reagan into the White House for his second term, Michael Harrington and Irving Howe, two prominent American social democrats, commented in...

Defend Workers Democracy!

Defend Workers Democracy!

Down with Slander and Hooliganism! Workers democracy—the commitment to full and free discussion within the labor movement and the resolution of differences through rational argument and political debate—is for Marxists a question of principle....

For Trotskyism!

For Trotskyism!

BT/LTT Fusion Document The following document was adopted by the fusion conference of the Bolshevik Tendency and the Left Trotskyist Tendency as a codification of the programmatic agreement reached by the two organizations. 1....

Theses on Solidarnosc

Theses on Solidarnosc

Poland 1981: Acid Test for Trotskyists The following theses were adopted by the fusion conference of the Bolshevik Tendency and the Left Trotskyist Tendency. 1. Prior to its September 1981 Congress, Solidarnosc could not...

Against the Stream

Against the Stream

LTT’s Struggle in the IWP The following has been excerpted from factional documents produced by the Left Trotskyist Tendency during its political struggle inside the International Workers Party from April to June 1986. Corrections...

Trotskyists Fuse!

Trotskyists Fuse!

BT/LTT Conference Success In a major step forward for revolutionaries in North America, the Bolshevik Tendency (BT) and the Left Trotskyist Tendency (LTT) fused at a joint national conference held in Oakland, California last...

Nicaragua: An Unfinished Revolution

Nicaragua: An Unfinished Revolution

Smash the Contras! Workers to Power! The Nicaragua/Iran/hostage imbroglio that has engulfed the Reagan government in recent months has provided plenty of material for political columnists and cartoonists. Jimmy Carter’s fanatically anti-communist national security...