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....
Marxism vs. Sectarian Idiocy In the early hours of 1 January, Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old black man who had been out celebrating the New Year, was killed by a member of the Bay Area...
U.S. Dockers Take Historic Step On 1 May 2008, 25,000 dockers of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), traditionally one of the most militant unions in the United States, shut down every port...
The following remarks were made by Howard Keylor, a long-time ILWU militant and International Bolshevik Tendency supporter, during the discussion period following Jack Heyman’s presentation. The Trotskyist League [Canadian affiliate of the Spartacist...
From San Francisco to Durban The following op-ed piece by Jack Heyman appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on 11 February, three days before ILWU Local 10 sponsored a “Racism, Repression and Rebellion” rally....
Polemic with the Internationalist Group Some important groundwork for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s May Day 2008 anti-war strike was laid seven months earlier at an October 2007 “Labor Conference to Stop the...