What is a “Mass Paper”?
By Leon Trotsky, 30 November 1935, published in The Crisis of the French Section (1935-36) To the Members of the Bolshevik-Leninist Group: I have just learned that my letter to the Political Bureau on the...
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Introduction to The Fight For Socialism
Introduction to The Fight For Socialism: The Principles and Program of the Workers Party, by Spartacist. Introductory works on socialism too often oversimplify to the point of being liberal mush. At the same time the author...
The Theory of State Capitalism
The Clock Without a Spring The following document, by Ken Tarbuck, was originally published in the Winter 1969-70 issue of Marxist Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1. The invasion of Czechoslovakia in August of 1968 by...
What is Revolutionary Leadership?
The following article, written by Cliff Slaughter, was originally published nearly forty years ago in Labour Review, theoretical organ of the British Socialist Labour League (SLL). It was reprinted, along with several others from the...
Brilliant Tactics … But Where Do They Lead?
The Campaign against the Springbok Tour The leaflet below was first published on 29 August 1981 during a period of sharp social struggle in New Zealand around sporting ties to apartheid-ruled South Africa. There...
Socialist Action: Time to Own Up
‘Russian Imperialism’ & Flip-flops on Syria and Libya On 18 February 2020 we retracted an assertion that Socialist Action (SA) “opposed” Russian involvement in Syria. In doing so we quoted the following from SA’s...
On “the Pathology of Renegades”
Reply to Workers Vanguard (First published 21 October 2001) The 12 October issue of Workers Vanguard (WV), newspaper of the Spartacist League (SL), devotes half a page to a denunciation of, among other things,...
Exchange with a former Spartacist
The following are lightly edited excerpts from a recent communication with a former Spartacist: I’ve checked periodically over the years and have tended to agree with your co-thinkers, and my instinct is to...