Why there is no social-democratic party in the U.S. Edited version of a contribution by IBT supporter Christoph Lichtenberg to a panel discussion on “The Death of Social Democracy,” at the closing plenary of...
Stop NZ Government’s attacks on education! Described by minister of education Hekia Parata as the “biggest update to education in New Zealand in nearly 30 years”, the recently introduced Education Amendment Bill aims to...
Sex between consenting men over the age of sixteen was decriminalised in New Zealand by the Homosexual Law Reform Act, passed on 9 July 1986. IBT supporter Bill Logan was a leading figure in...
Exposing Fightback’s Social Democratic Record The following is an edited reconstruction, based on notes, of an intervention by an IBT supporter at a meeting on “Black Struggle & the Fight Against Capitalism” organized by...
To mark the 35th anniversary of the frame-up of American political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and to protest the criminal refusal by prison authorities to provide necessary medication, IBT comrades in Toronto, Canada, Wellington, New...
Oppose Austerity & Imperialist War! Workers Need a Revolutionary Party! Jeremy Corbyn has been under constant attack from Labour’s right wing, backed by the Tories and the mass media, ever since he won the...
Neither the EU nor Nationalist Poison – Spoil Your Ballot! On 23 June 2016 British voters are asked to choose ‘Remain’ or ‘Leave’ in a referendum on membership of the European Union (EU). As...
Understanding the ‘Weakest Link’ In the Transitional Program, which was written in 1938 for the founding of the Fourth International, Leon Trotsky made the following general observation about “combined and uneven” development in the...
Fundamental Continuities in the Epoch of War & Revolution The concept of “imperialism” plays a central role in Marxist analysis of contemporary international events, yet many ostensible revolutionaries have only a fuzzy notion of...
Jeremy Corbyn & class-struggle politics Hundreds of thousands of people marched through London, Liverpool and Glasgow on 20 June in defiance of the recently elected Tory government, displaying an anger that has not been...