Letter to the Internationalist Group on Quebec
Learn to Think 8 June 2012 Comrades, We were pleased to learn that you raised the issue of solidarity with the Quebec student strike during demonstrations at CUNY [City University of New York] on...
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For Workers’ Strikes to Smash Austerity!
Quebec Students Show the Way The following IBT statement was distributed in both French and English in Montreal in May 2012. The Liberal government’s decision to raise tuition fees by 75 percent represents an...
Quebec Students Fight Back
Mass Struggle Repels Austerity Attack From February to August 2012, Quebec was rocked by a powerful strike involving hundreds of thousands of students, actively supported by unionized faculty members, many of whom defied court...
Black Bloc Streetfighters & Liberal Pacifists
The Politics of Confrontation On 6 February 2012, Chris Hedges, a journalist, self-described Christian and prominent weathervane of the softer side of American radicalism, opined that Black Bloc anarchists were “the cancer of the...
Capitalist Crisis & the EU
For the Socialist United States of Europe! A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of massive and chaotic social upheaval triggered by brutal austerity measures imposed to cover bad bets made by bankers and financial...
IMT Glorifies Layton’s Legacy
Fightback’s ‘NDP Family’ Values The following letter was sent to Fightback, journal of the Canadian section of the International Marxist Tendency. 26 August 2011 Comrades, Your 23 August obituary praising NDP leader Jack Layton,...
‘Marxists Are Not Pacifists’
United-Front Demonstration Against Afghan War The following remarks were made by an IBT spokesperson to an antiwar rally in Toronto on 15 October 2011. The demonstration was organized on a united-front basis to demand:...
Free Mumia Now!
Death Sentence Dropped On 7 December 2011, the death sentence imposed on Mumia Abu-Jamal—wrongly convicted for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Falkner 30 years earlier—was finally lifted. Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams...
IG on ‘Jailing Killer Cops’
Sectarian Confusion & Political Dishonesty This statement was posted on www.bolshevik.org on 12 June 2011. In 1917 No.33 (2011), we noted that the Internationalist Group (IG) had ignored the 23 October 2010 port shutdown...
On the ‘Revolutionary Constituent Assembly’
Letter to French Leftists The following is a translation of a letter sent to the Courant Communiste Révolutionnaire (part of the French Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste’s Platform 4 and sympathizers of the Trotskyist Fraction-Fourth International)...