1917 #39

Trump: Ugly Face of Capitalism

Trump: Ugly Face of Capitalism

Break with the Democrats – Build a Workers’ Party! Millions of people in the United States and around the world have protested the policies of Donald Trump, who wasted no time signing a “Muslim...

‘Democracy’ in Decay

‘Democracy’ in Decay

U.S. Presidential Election 2016 The following is an expanded version of a talk given by IBT supporter Jordan Briggs at a public meeting entitled “Democracy in Decay,” organized by the Brock Socialists, a student...

Sanders: ‘Socialist’ Shill for Democrats

Sanders: ‘Socialist’ Shill for Democrats

Why there is no social-democratic party in the U.S. Edited version of a contribution by IBT supporter Christoph Lichtenberg to a panel discussion on “The Death of Social Democracy,” at the closing plenary of...

Strike against the Privatisation Juggernaut!

Strike against the Privatisation Juggernaut!

Stop NZ Government’s attacks on education! Described by minister of education Hekia Parata as the “biggest update to education in New Zealand in nearly 30 years”, the recently introduced Education Amendment Bill aims to...

Thirty Years of Homosexual Law Reform

Thirty Years of Homosexual Law Reform

Sex between consenting men over the age of sixteen was decriminalised in New Zealand by the Homosexual Law Reform Act, passed on 9 July 1986. IBT supporter Bill Logan was a leading figure in...

Cops, Reformism & Black Liberation

Cops, Reformism & Black Liberation

Exposing Fightback’s Social Democratic Record The following is an edited reconstruction, based on notes, of an intervention by an IBT supporter at a meeting on “Black Struggle & the Fight Against Capitalism” organized by...

Thirty-five Years too Long – Free Mumia Now!

Thirty-five Years too Long – Free Mumia Now!

To mark the 35th anniversary of the frame-up of American political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and to protest the criminal refusal by prison authorities to provide necessary medication, IBT comrades in Toronto, Canada, Wellington, New...

Vote Corbyn, Break with Reformism!

Vote Corbyn, Break with Reformism!

Oppose Austerity & Imperialist War! Workers Need a Revolutionary Party! Jeremy Corbyn has been under constant attack from Labour’s right wing, backed by the Tories and the mass media, ever since he won the...

The Devil or the Deep Blue Sea?

The Devil or the Deep Blue Sea?

Neither the EU nor Nationalist Poison – Spoil Your Ballot! On 23 June 2016 British voters are asked to choose ‘Remain’ or ‘Leave’ in a referendum on membership of the European Union (EU). As...

Imperialism, Tsarist Russia & WWI

Imperialism, Tsarist Russia & WWI

Understanding the ‘Weakest Link’ In the Transitional Program, which was written in 1938 for the founding of the Fourth International, Leon Trotsky made the following general observation about “combined and uneven” development in the...