Syriza & the Dangers of Popular Frontism Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis and the imposition of severe austerity measures dictated by the Troika (International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European...
Edited version of a contribution by IBT supporter Barbara Dorn to a panel discussion on “Is there a need for left unity?” at the Platypus European Conference, London, 19 July 2014. One of the...
Seventh International Conference of the IBT The International Bolshevik Tendency held its Seventh International Conference in 2014 in the United States. Delegates and non-delegate members from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Germany, Poland, New Zealand...
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...