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...
Free Abortion on Demand! The following statement by the International Bolshevik Tendency has been distributed at abortion rights events in Dublin and Cork. Since October 1983, the constitution of the Republic of Ireland has...
British Fascism on the Rise Fascism is gaining ground in Britain. In May 2008, British National Party (BNP) cadre Richard Barnbrook became the first fascist to win a seat in the Greater London Assembly....
A Marxist Analysis of the Global Downturn The following is an edited version of a public lecture delivered by Murray E. G. Smith at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario on 12 November 2008....
Capitalist Accumulation & Neo-Colonial Pillage In Imperialism and World Economy (1915), Nikolai Bukharin, one of Vladimir Lenin’s closest collaborators, observed that the “internationalization of economic life” (today referred to as “globalization”), which derives from...
Christoph Lichtenberg The origins of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI, formerly known as the Militant Tendency) can be traced to a 1937 split in a small Trotskyist group known as Militant led...
Which Side Are You On? The following statement, dated 10 November 2007, was produced by the IBT’s London branch. On 29 August, the Prison Officers Association (POA) defied the government and walked off the...
Why we’re not signing the Socialist Party’s ‘Declaration’ The Socialist Party’s ‘Campaign for a new workers’ party’ (www.cnwp.org.uk), launched at their ‘Socialism 2005’ weekend in November, has produced a ‘Declaration for a New Workers’...