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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...

Spartacist Youth League pamphlet, 1975

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...

by James Robertson [Transcript from a tape recording of a 5 November 1972 speech at an internal meeting, published in the Spartacist League (US), Internal Discussion Bulletin # 23, August 1974, “edited only to make coherent sentences”.]...

Workers Vanguard, No. 39, 1 March 1974 FREMONT, Calif., February 25 – The worst layoffs to hit the auto industry since the depression of the 1930’s (more than 100,000 United Auto Workers members currently...

Revolutionary Communist Youth Newsletter, No. 13, August-September 1972 The sharpening inter-imperialist antagonisms upsurge in imperialist rivalry and “surprising” new alignments pose for the third time in this century the specter of a world war,...