Self-Promotion & Timeless Abstractions During the autumn 2010 mass protests against French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s attack on pensions, many of the more class-conscious workers favored the idea of escalating the struggle into a general...
The Necessity of Revolutionary Leadership Capitalist austerity has provoked mass protests across Europe—in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Britain and elsewhere. In France, the bourgeoisie is also intent on reversing past concessions; yet the depth...
A Crisis of Revolutionary Leadership The fall of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, long-time dictator of Tunisia, set off shock waves across the Arab world and sparked a popular revolt in Egypt, the most populous...
On the ‘Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions’ Campaign The Israeli ruling class and its international allies are increasingly apprehensive about the growing “delegitimation” of the Zionist state due to widespread revulsion at its bloody crimes....
For Joint Arab-Jewish Class Struggle to Smash Zionism! Shulamit Aloni is a former leader of Israel’s liberal Meretz party who served as education minister in Yitzhak Rabin’s Labor-led government in the early 1990s. Her...
IMT on Iran, Yesterday & Today The following letter was sent to the International Marxist Tendency (IMT). 20 June 2009 Comrades, In assessing the recent mass demonstrations in Iran against perceived electoral fraud, Alan...
For Union Independence from the Capitalist State! Reprinted below is a leaflet initially distributed by IBT supporters in the San Francisco Bay Area in Spring 2009. On 10 March 2009, the United States Senate...
Exchange with CPGB on Lenin’s Electoral Tactics We reprint below an exchange that took place last year in the letters pages of the Weekly Worker, newspaper of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)....
New Zealand Teachers Protest Cuts On 4 August 2009, teachers and other staff members at Wellington High School in New Zealand’s capital walked off the job to protest the National government’s gutting of Adult...
On the Lindsey Oil Refinery Strike The following statement was distributed at the Socialist Workers Party’s July 2009 “Marxism” event in London. On 26 June [2009], construction workers at Total’s Lindsey Oil Refinery defeated...