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Marxists speak out on the conflict between Russia and imperialism
The Bolshevik Tendency will be participating in a 26 March panel discussion entitled “Marxists speak out on the conflict between Russia and imperialism.” This event was initiated by classconscious.org based in Australia and Liga...
Bolshevik Tendency supporter speaks at “Crisis in Ukraine! The Left and the Current Crisis”
This event, which took place on 10 March 2022, was organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society of New York City. Originally scheduled for Columbia University, the meeting had to be moved to a church...
IG joins centrist muddleheads on Ukraine
Nordenites, like TF, WSWS neutral on Ukraine’s ‘right’ to join NATO On 23 February, on the eve of the current Russian military campaign to “de-NATO-ize” and “de-Nazify” Ukraine, Jan Norden’s Internationalist Group (IG) released...
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
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.