1917 #32

EFCA, Bureaucrats & Democrats

EFCA, Bureaucrats & Democrats

For Union Independence from the Capitalist State! Reprinted below is a leaflet initially distributed by IBT supporters in the San Francisco Bay Area in Spring 2009. On 10 March 2009, the United States Senate...

Bolsheviks, Ballots & the Class Line

Bolsheviks, Ballots & the Class Line

Exchange with CPGB on Lenin’s Electoral Tactics We reprint below an exchange that took place last year in the letters pages of the Weekly Worker, newspaper of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)....

IBT Supporter Leads Walkout

IBT Supporter Leads Walkout

New Zealand Teachers Protest Cuts On 4 August 2009, teachers and other staff members at Wellington High School in New Zealand’s capital walked off the job to protest the National government’s gutting of Adult...

Militant Tactics & Poisonous Nationalism

Militant Tactics & Poisonous Nationalism

On the Lindsey Oil Refinery Strike The following statement was distributed at the Socialist Workers Party’s July 2009 “Marxism” event in London. On 26 June [2009], construction workers at Total’s Lindsey Oil Refinery defeated...

For Labor Action to Free Mumia!

For Labor Action to Free Mumia!

Cops, Courts Aim to Silence ‘Voice of the Voiceless’ Reprinted below are excerpts from a statement published in February by the San Francisco Bay Area-based “Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal” on recent...

Haitian Disaster: Neocolonial Nightmare

Haitian Disaster: Neocolonial Nightmare

Debout, les damnés de la terre! The following statement was presented by an IBT supporter to a meeting of the Toronto Haiti Action Committee on 28 January. Haiti has been devastated by an earthquake,...

Imperialist Troops Out of Haiti!

Imperialist Troops Out of Haiti!

Spartacist League’s ‘Real World’ Social-Imperialism In a stunning and almost inexplicable move, the Spartacist League/U.S., leading section of the International Communist League (ICL), has announced its opposition to calling for the removal of U.S....

Doubletalk & Zigzags

Doubletalk & Zigzags

Workers Power, Chávez & the ‘Fifth International’ Delegates to the November 2009 “International Encounter of Left Parties,” held in Caracas at the invitation of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, endorsed his proposal to hold a...

NPA: France’s New Reformist Party

NPA: France’s New Reformist Party

USec Flagship Renounces Trotskyism Reprinted below is a leaflet initially distributed by IBT supporters in London in November 2009. The emergence of France’s Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste (NPA) has generated considerable interest within the European...