[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...
[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...
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....
(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...
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...
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...
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...