1917 #35

Hands Off Julian Assange! The following remarks on the campaign against Julian Assange were made by Roxanne Baker of the International Bolshevik Tendency at a debate with the Alliance for Workers Liberty in London...

Abolish the Racist Death Penalty! On 6 November 2012, Californians voted down “Prop-osition 34” (aka the “SAFE California Initiative”) which would have converted all death sentences into life without the possibility of parole (LWOP)....

A Woman’s Struggle to Tell the Truth Veronica Jones was a key witness at the scene of the murder for which class-war prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was falsely convicted. Her powerful memoire, Veronica & the...

Bolshevism vs Kautskyism Any serious consideration of the prospects of a socialist future must begin with an assessment of the only successful workers’ revolution, as well as the organization that led it—the Bolshevik Party...

IBT Remarks at SA/SWP Cuba Confab The following remarks are a slightly edited version of those made by an IBT supporter at a Cuba Solidarity meeting co-sponsored by Socialist Action and the Socialist Workers...

Austerity, Resistance & Betrayal Greece remains the epicentre of Europe’s slow-motion economic and political implosion. The June elections did nothing to resolve the crisis, and Greece continues to be profoundly polarized. On the one...

‘Revolutionary Socialists’ Embrace Islamic Reactionaries The following remarks were made by an IBT comrade at an International Socialists meeting in Toronto on 5 June 2012. In his writings on the Spanish Revolution, Trotsky characterized...

Learn to Think 8 June 2012 Comrades, We were pleased to learn that you raised the issue of solidarity with the Quebec student strike during demonstrations at CUNY [City University of New York] on...

Quebec Students Show the Way The following IBT statement was distributed in both French and English in Montreal in May 2012. The Liberal government’s decision to raise tuition fees by 75 percent represents an...

Mass Struggle Repels Austerity Attack From February to August 2012, Quebec was rocked by a powerful strike involving hundreds of thousands of students, actively supported by unionized faculty members, many of whom defied court...