Audio recording of “NATO/US v Russia in Ukraine – a Trotskyist Analysis”
An audio recording of the Bolshevik Tendency public meeting “NATO/US v Russia in Ukraine – a Trotskyist Analysis” held on Sunday 27 February 2022
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Russia reacts to imperialist encroachment
Ukraine/NATO/US ignored Kremlin’s red lines The recent Russian military intervention in Ukraine is an example of what can happen when you get “an offer you can’t refuse” and decide to refuse it anyway. The...
Trotskyist Fraction on Ukraine – Centrist Waffling
Unlike most of the self-declared Trotskyist left, the Trotskyist Fraction (TF) has not characterised Russia as imperialist. In its 30 January international statement on the current crisis in Ukraine, the TF distinguishes Russia and...
Online public meeting (27 February)
NATO/US v Russia in Ukraine – a Trotskyist Analysis The recent propaganda claims by the US and its NATO allies about an impending Russian invasion of Ukraine is widely recognized as having the potential...
Once More on IBT & ‘Russian Imperialism’
You can lead a horse to water… Reprinted below are comments from Facebook on our 6 February posting regarding a 30 January Zoom meeting the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) held on current tensions between Ukraine and Russia....
IBT identifies subsidies for neo-colonies as proof of ‘Russian imperialism’
For our part, we are happy to cling to the old-fashioned Leninist view that imperialism, at its core, involves advanced capitalist countries extracting value from more backward, colonial and semi-colonial dependent ones, not subsidizing them.
Jimstown as we knew it
Reflections on the Steele-Creegan exchange re: SL history by Tom Riley Last August a debate over the history of the moribund Spartacist tendency took place on the website of former Bolshevik Tendency (BT) member...
Statement dissolving PRG/BT fusion
Comrades: Thirty-six years ago, three of us (Jensen, Nason and Riley, plus comrade Harlan, who is with us politically but no longer able to actively participate) published the “Declaration of an external tendency of...
CDLM: WSL’s “Short Cut” to Nowhere
The recall conference of the “Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement” (CDLM) promises to be pretty much a rerun of the October 24 founding conference — when Workers Socialist League (WSL) members and...
Audio recording of “What was the Chinese Revolution and where is it going?” panel discussion
Audio recording of the online panel discussion hosted by the Platypus Society (platypus1917.org/) – “What was the Chinese Revolution and where is it going?” on 23 Oct 2021. The panel included Bolshevik Tendency supporter...