Mikl et al on 1979 Iranian Revolution
—Mikl to Riley, 4 June 2017 Following is our tentative conclusion after the biweekly cooperative study in about 4 months before the conference. CGs M The revolution in 1979 in Iran was not Islam...
Documents of Struggle
Lenin & Trotsky’s Dual Defeatism on the Balkan Wars
—Riley letter to Mikl, 26 May 2017 Dear Comrade Mikl: When we discussed the position of dual defeatism in the 2016 coup against Erdogan (and the related issues of the Egyptian coup in 2013...
Erdogan, Pilsudski & Khomeini
—Riley’s presentation to the IBT conference, 11 April 2017 (with introduction as circulated in the IBT, 13 May 2017) Reprinted below are my remarks to the conference on the issue of the coups against...
Turkey and the Tactic of the Military Bloc
—Adaire Hannah and Barbara Dorn, 27 March 2017; with interpolated comments by Tom Riley, 3 April 2017 Breitman and Riley’s document, “On Erdogan’s Bonapartist Regime,” begins with a quote from “Turkey: A War of...
On Erdogan’s Bonapartist Regime
—Breitman and Riley, 8 March 2017 “The correct characterization of the coup is not one of democracy defeating dictatorship. Two despotic forces faced each other and the more gradualist one won. Anyone who dares...
Revolutionary Continuity & Islamic Reaction
From Khomeini in the 1970s to the Muslim Brotherhood Today —Riley, 15 January 2017 One of the most important political legacies of the revolutionary Spartacist tendency was its steadfast refusal to go with the...
Is Russia Imperialist?
Introduction Our 24 October 2018 statement, “Why Things Fell Apart,” outlined the debate within the International Bolshevik Tendency over whether contemporary Russia should be categorized as an imperialist power—an issue with profound programmatic consequences....
Why Things Fell Apart
The following is a slightly edited version of a document circulated to close contacts and supporters to explain our decision to dissolve the 1990 fusion with the New Zealand Permanent Revolution Group (PRG) and...
Marxism & Islamic Reaction
Polemics on Khomeini, Morsi & Erdoğan The contents of this bulletin originated in a July 2016 disagreement within the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) over what attitude to take to the attempted military coup against...