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...
British workers need a revolutionary party ‘Though you would never know it from the campaigns’ petty squabbling, the country is heading for profound and potentially irrevocable change’, declares the Economist (2 May 2015). The...
Election 2016 and working-class independence The fightback against capitalist attacks in the name of “austerity” (or “recovery”) has been at the forefront of the class struggle in Ireland over the past few years. The...
CWI/Socialist Alternative providing left cover for Democrats The following is a lightly edited version of a talk given by an IBT comrade on a Platypus-sponsored panel in Chicago in April 2015. The Second Congress...
A shortened version of an IBT contribution to a panel discussion on “What is Political Party for the Left?” held in Chicago in April 2015. The question of what kind of party we should...
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Translation of “TTIP: Ein Angriff auf die Arbeiterklasse,” first published in German in January 2015 Since July 2013, the EU Commission, U.S. government officials and industry lobbyists have been...
Ferguson, Baltimore, Oakland: An Injury to One is an Injury to All! Oakland, 1 May 2015—Workers organized by International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 voted two weeks ago to shut down the...
Responding to cruel and vindictive disregard for the serious health problems of Mumia Abu-Jamal by prison authorities, a small protest was held on Friday 8 May 2015 in Wellington, New Zealand, to demand his...