During 1904, Russian defeats in the war with Japan provoked a surge of liberal bourgeois opposition to the tsarist autocracy. This significant change in the Russian political scene deepened the differences between Menshevism and...
The Second Congress of the RSDRP, held in Brussels and then London in July-August 1903, was to be the culmination of the Iskraist project to create a centralized party based on a comprehensive program....
Recently the British International Marxist Group (IMG) and the International Socialists (now Socialist Workers Party—SWP/IS), two of the largest groups of the British “far left,” have taken to revising the history of the Bolsheviks....
Lenin and the Vanguard Party was a series of articles by Joseph Seymour published in Workers Vanguard in 1977-78. The following text is based on the Spartacist League pamphlet of 1978, but incorporates some...
Declaration for the Organizing of an International Trotskyist Tendency (statement formally initiating the international Spartacist tendency) Adopted July 1974; published in Spartacist, No. 23, Spring 1977 1. The Spartacist League of Australia and New Zealand...
Spartacist No. 23, Spring 1977 Reprinted below is the founding document of the Trotskyist Fraction (TF) of the German Spartacusbund. When confronted by a principled Trotskyist opposition at their sixth national conference in January 1977,...
By Joseph Seymour Workers Vanguard no 162, 17 June 1977 The following article is based on a talk by Joseph Seymour at a West Coast Spartacus Youth League educational in mid-March 1977 There is...
by Joseph Seymour Published in the Spartacist League Internal Discussion Bulletin number 23, 1974, reprinted in On the United Front, Spartacus Youth League pamphlet, 1976, and Spartacist Publishing Company 1996. A united front does not...
from Spartacist No. 22, Winter 1973-74, 15 January 1973 Organizing Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International; and Organisation Communiste Internationaliste Dear Comrades, At the Third National Conference of the Spartacist League/U.S. we held...