Tectonic Shifts in Global Politics In September 2014, a television interviewer asked Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. national security adviser and longtime Cold Warrior, what threat the “Islamic State” (aka ISIS) posed to the United...
Capitalism, Queers & Equality In April 2013, New Zealand finally legalized marriage for same-sex couples. There was considerable discussion among left-wing queer and trans activists about whether marriage equality should be supported as a...
Clerical Reaction & Women’s Oppression The following statement was originally distributed in September 2013. Responding to national and international protests over Savita Halappanavar’s tragic death from septicaemia after she was denied an abortion, the...
Anti-Communism, Nationalism & Religious Obscurantism The following is an eyewitness report on a major trade-union demonstration that took place in Warsaw last September. Saturday was the culmination of four days of trade-union meetings and...
Bad Politics & Bureaucratic Cover-Ups The Socialist Workers Party (SWP), Britain’s largest left group, has been undergoing what its central figure, Alex Callinicos, recently described as an “acute internal crisis” which three national conferences...
Fascists Surge, Reformists Mourn The following originally appeared on 3 June 2013 on bolshevik.org. On bank holiday Monday at the end of May [2013], several hundred anti-fascists, including members of the IBT, watched in...
CWI Debates Falling Rate of Profit The following is an edited version of a presentation at an IBT fringe meeting at the Socialist Party’s “Socialism 2013” event, London, 3 November 2013. Only a few...
Human Emancipation & the Materialist Conception of History Reprinted below is the text of an IBT presentation to a panel discussion on capital, history and ecology held by the Platypus group at York University,...
Socialist Action & the ‘Syrian Revolution’ Most of the international left has responded to the civil war in Syria in much the same fashion as they did to the conflict in Libya in 2011....
Imperialist Crimes & Machinations The strategic defeats suffered by the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq have strengthened the position of Iran’s ruling theocrats, who have gained an important ally in Shia-dominated Iraq on...