Bolshevik
Issues of the journal Bolshevik
No Vote to Labour!
Down with Starmer—no to austerity, genocide and war! After 14 years Britain’s ruling class is turning away from the Tories and looking to Labour leader “Sir” Keir Starmer to rescue British capitalism from relentlessly...
‘The Arab-Jewish War in Palestine’
Trotskyists’ 1948 declaration re: founding of Zionist state The following editorial appeared in the 31 May 1948 issue of the Militant, published by the Socialist Workers Party (US) led by James P. Cannon. At...
Why a ‘bi-national workers’ state’?
In a 1988 polemic against the British Workers Power group we addressed our differences over Vladimir Lenin’s approach to the “national question.” In particular we discussed how the interpenetration of the two peoples living...
For a bi-national workers’ state in Palestine-Israel!
From the river to the sea: Smash Zionist tyranny! The campaign of wholesale terror underway in Gaza is the pathological response of Israel’s deranged Zionist ruling class to the remarkably successful 7 October 2023...
Lenin on Imperialism
In August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, Vladimir Lenin was stunned by the wave of social-patriotism that swept the Second International, including its German flagship, the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD). All...
On the recent IG-SL debate
The 13 January two-part public debate in New York City between the International Communist League/Spartacist League (ICL/SL) and the Internationalist Group (IG) offered few surprises, but it dramatically showcased the SL’s rapid movement away...
Defeatism and the Ukrainian working class
We recently received the following communication from a former Spartacist: I did just watch [the BT-SL debate]—you did a fine job, and I much appreciated your wrap-up, with its encomium of the early SL...
An exchange on BT-SL debate with a former Spartacist cadre
Former Spartacist cadre: Thanks for this, Tom. There was a problem with the link you sent me, so I tried the one that [J] sent out later and it worked well. Just finished watching...
BT presentation at Ukraine debate with SL
As people probably know, we in the Bolshevik Tendency want to see a Russian military victory in Ukraine whereas the Spartacist League takes a position of defeatism on both sides. Most left groups which...