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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...

Hands Off Julian Assange! The following remarks on the campaign against Julian Assange were made by Roxanne Baker of the International Bolshevik Tendency at a debate with the Alliance for Workers Liberty in London...

Abolish the Racist Death Penalty! On 6 November 2012, Californians voted down “Prop-osition 34” (aka the “SAFE California Initiative”) which would have converted all death sentences into life without the possibility of parole (LWOP)....

A Woman’s Struggle to Tell the Truth Veronica Jones was a key witness at the scene of the murder for which class-war prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was falsely convicted. Her powerful memoire, Veronica & the...

Bolshevism vs Kautskyism Any serious consideration of the prospects of a socialist future must begin with an assessment of the only successful workers’ revolution, as well as the organization that led it—the Bolshevik Party...

IBT Remarks at SA/SWP Cuba Confab The following remarks are a slightly edited version of those made by an IBT supporter at a Cuba Solidarity meeting co-sponsored by Socialist Action and the Socialist Workers...

Austerity, Resistance & Betrayal Greece remains the epicentre of Europe’s slow-motion economic and political implosion. The June elections did nothing to resolve the crisis, and Greece continues to be profoundly polarized. On the one...

‘Revolutionary Socialists’ Embrace Islamic Reactionaries The following remarks were made by an IBT comrade at an International Socialists meeting in Toronto on 5 June 2012. In his writings on the Spanish Revolution, Trotsky characterized...