TB #2: Marxism and Bloodthirstiness
[From Workers Vanguard, No. 345, 6 January 1984] U.S. imperialism’s trip wires for World War III extend from one end of the globe to the other. Reagan is now engaged in three wars–in Lebanon,...
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TB #2: Reuben’s Tangled Web
[From ET Bulletin No. 2, January 1984] On the Slogan “Marines Out of Lebanon, Now, Alive” “O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive.” The key to understanding Reuben...
TB #2: Imperialist War, the Armed Forces and Revolution
[From Young Spartacus, No. 113, November 1983] On the Slogan “Marines Out of Lebanon, Now, Alive!” We reprint below edited excerpts of a presentation given by comrade Reuben Samuels to the New York Spartacist...
TB #2: A Loss of Nerve and a Loss of Will
[ET Statement of 12 November 1983] We condemn the slogan “Marines Out of Lebanon, Now, Alive” as a cowardly, social-patriotic betrayal of the Trotskyist tradition of the iSt. The acid test of a communist...
TB #2: Preface
This pamphlet documents the political struggle between the External Tendency of the international Spartacist tendency (ET) and the leadership of the Spartacist League/U.S. (SL) over the Leninist position on the bombing of the U.S....
TB #2: Marxism vs. Social Patriotism
(In October 1983, When the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut was blown away, the Spartacist League/U.S. immediately called for saving the survivors. The External Tendency of the iSt labeled this as social-patriotic cowardice.) TABLE...
U.S. Empire in Decline
Global Realignment and Sharpening Imperialist Rivalry Barack Obama launched his run for the White House by proclaiming: “The American moment is not over, but it must be seized anew. To see American power in...
Whither China?
Political Revolution or Counterrevolution In 1939, James P. Cannon, the historic leader of American Trotskyism, remarked: “Who touches the Russian question, touches a revolution. Therefore, be serious about it. Don’t play with it” (The...
TB #1: Only Trotskyism Can Defend the Gains of October
Preface The material in this pamphlet is chiefly comprised of polemics between the External Tendency of the international Spartacist tendency (ET—a grouping of former members of the iSt) and the leadership of the Spartacist...