Marx or Deng?
Critical observations on China’s Great Road by John Ross At a time when most of the world’s ostensibly Trotskyist tendencies have mistakenly declared the Chinese deformed workers’ state to be “capitalist,” in China’s Great...
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Socialist Action: Time to Own Up
‘Russian Imperialism’ & Flip-flops on Syria and Libya On 18 February 2020 we retracted an assertion that Socialist Action (SA) “opposed” Russian involvement in Syria. In doing so we quoted the following from SA’s...
Open letter to the IMT on the class character of the police
Comrades, In a recent Socialist Appeal article on the brutal murder of Sarah Everard (allegedly by a police officer), the subsequent attack by police on the vigil held for her and the Tory government’s...
Eco-Socialism & ‘Green New Deal’ Pipe Dreams
For Humanity to Live, Capitalism Must Die! “Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’,...
On the Current Situation of the Revolutionary Left
The following are excerpts from a 23 January letter sent by a former Spartacist League cadre to Tom Riley of the Bolshevik Tendency: I must admit…my worries about what is happening to the revolutionary...
On Trump, Fascism and the Invasion of the Capitol
The events on January 6 at the Capitol, like the entire phenomenon of “Trump Nation,” was an expression of the profound crisis of American capitalist society. The storming of the Capitol, spearheaded by...
The Necessity of Revolutionary Leadership
Who We Are—Introducing Bolshevik ‘‘The whole history of the struggle between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks is dotted with this little word ‘process.’ Lenin always formulated tasks and proposed corresponding methods. The Mensheviks agreed with the...
‘A Working-Class Hero’
Honoring our comrade Howard Keylor The following remarks were made by Henry Johnson on behalf of the Bolshevik Tendency at a meeting held on 9 December 2018 in the ILWU Local 10 hall in...
Hands off Julian Assange!
After nearly 10 nightmarish years, Julian Assange was brutally dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to Belmarsh Prison in April 2019, and is currently awaiting trial to determine whether he will be extradited...
Socialist Party on China
A pseudo-Trotskyist hybrid Comrades of the Bolshevik Tendency participated in two sessions that touched on the question of China at the Socialist Party of England and Wales’ (SP) online Socialism 2020 weekend on 21...