After four years of civil war following three years of devastating world war, by 1921 the Russian proletariat, never more than a few million strong, had almost ceased to exist. Russia’s cities were depopulated...
Critical observations on China’s Great Road by John Ross At a time when most of the world’s ostensibly Trotskyist tendencies have mistakenly declared the Chinese deformed workers’ state to be “capitalist,” in China’s Great...
Wohlforth Against the RT Spartacist League pamphlet, first published in 1970 Table of Contents Preface Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Session 5 Session 6 Session 7 Session 8
What is “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”? Does China need a Political Revolution? The Chinese Communist Party has proven to be surprisingly effective in managing the Chinese economy and controlling its large capitalist sector. Does...
In recent months we have corresponded with a group of comrades with whom there exist several issues on which we have, as yet, failed to reach agreement. As at least two of these are...
1 Labour Party/Election The basis of the Socialist Labour Party is the need to break with the Labour Party and form an independent organisation to fight for the interests of the working class. Among...
The front page headline of the October issue of Workers Power boldly proclaims: “Defend Afghanistan, Defeat Imperialism, Stop US/UK’s War’. The LRCI correctly asserts that “From the Afghan side this war is about the...
The welcome defeat of US/NATO imperialism by the Afghan Taliban comes as the 20th anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on “9-11” 2001 approaches. During the subsequent few...
ICL vs. IBT on the Logan Question Excerpted from “ICL vs. IBT,” Trotskyist Bulletin No. 5, 1996. The text in bold is reprinted from the ICL’s 1995 pamphlet “The International Bolshevik Tendency—What is it?” The...
The ‘Logan Question’ in the Spartacist Tendency Excerpted from “We Go Forward!”, 1917 No. 9 The founders of the New Zealand Permanent Revolution Group, Bill Logan and Adaire Hannah, were the victims of the most hysterical...