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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...

Cops, Courts Aim to Silence ‘Voice of the Voiceless’ Reprinted below are excerpts from a statement published in February by the San Francisco Bay Area-based “Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal” on recent...

Debout, les damnés de la terre! The following statement was presented by an IBT supporter to a meeting of the Toronto Haiti Action Committee on 28 January. Haiti has been devastated by an earthquake,...

Spartacist League’s ‘Real World’ Social-Imperialism In a stunning and almost inexplicable move, the Spartacist League/U.S., leading section of the International Communist League (ICL), has announced its opposition to calling for the removal of U.S....

Workers Power, Chávez & the ‘Fifth International’ Delegates to the November 2009 “International Encounter of Left Parties,” held in Caracas at the invitation of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, endorsed his proposal to hold a...

USec Flagship Renounces Trotskyism Reprinted below is a leaflet initially distributed by IBT supporters in London in November 2009. The emergence of France’s Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste (NPA) has generated considerable interest within the European...

Maoist ‘New Democracy’ or Permanent Revolution? On 13 February 1996, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) [CPN(M)] launched a “people’s war” in one of the world’s most backward and impoverished countries. The casus belli...

‘Inequality, Unemployment & Injustice’ Global capitalism is currently in the grip of the most severe economic contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The ultimate depth and duration of the downturn remain to...

IBT’s Fifth International Conference The International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) held its fifth international conference in April 2008, with delegations representing all sections, as well as members at large, from a total of seven countries....