1917 #34

IMT Glorifies Layton’s Legacy

IMT Glorifies Layton’s Legacy

Fightback’s ‘NDP Family’ Values The following letter was sent to Fightback, journal of the Canadian section of the International Marxist Tendency. 26 August 2011 Comrades, Your 23 August obituary praising NDP leader Jack Layton,...

‘Marxists Are Not Pacifists’

‘Marxists Are Not Pacifists’

United-Front Demonstration Against Afghan War The following remarks were made by an IBT spokesperson to an antiwar rally in Toronto on 15 October 2011. The demonstration was organized on a united-front basis to demand:...

Free Mumia Now!

Free Mumia Now!

Death Sentence Dropped On 7 December 2011, the death sentence imposed on Mumia Abu-Jamal—wrongly convicted for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Falkner 30 years earlier—was finally lifted. Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams...

IG on ‘Jailing Killer Cops’

IG on ‘Jailing Killer Cops’

Sectarian Confusion & Political Dishonesty This statement was posted on www.bolshevik.org on 12 June 2011. In 1917 No.33 (2011), we noted that the Internationalist Group (IG) had ignored the 23 October 2010 port shutdown...

On the ‘Revolutionary Constituent Assembly’

On the ‘Revolutionary Constituent Assembly’

Letter to French Leftists The following is a translation of a letter sent to the Courant Communiste Révolutionnaire (part of the French Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste’s Platform 4 and sympathizers of the Trotskyist Fraction-Fourth International)...

Capitalist Crisis & Revolutionary Opportunity

Capitalist Crisis & Revolutionary Opportunity

Sixth International Conference of the IBT In April 2011, delegates from all sections of the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT), as well as non-delegate members and close sympathizers, met in Western Europe for the organization’s...

For a General Strike to Smash Austerity!

For a General Strike to Smash Austerity!

Con-Dem & Labour: Different Knife, Same Cuts David Cameron’s ruling Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition hopes to inoculate British capitalism from the economic contagion spreading across the Eurozone by imposing the same draconian austerity measures which...

Anger Boils Over in Britain

Anger Boils Over in Britain

IBT Speech to German Anarchists In October 2011 the Duisburg branch of the anarcho-syndicalist Freie ArbeiterInnen Union (FAU) invited a member of the International Bolshevik Tendency to speak to their group about the riots...

Mass Protest Against Police Attack

Mass Protest Against Police Attack

On Occupy Oakland’s ‘General Strike’ The attempt by Occupy Oakland to initiate a “general strike” on 2 November 2011 in response to the massive police attack on their encampment a week earlier struck a...

Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed!

Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed!

On the Occupy Movement The following statement was first published on 1 November 2011. Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan sits across the street from the former site of the World Trade Center. Renamed “Liberty...