The events on January 6 at the Capitol, like the entire phenomenon of “Trump Nation,” was an expression of the profound crisis of American capitalist society. The storming of the Capitol, spearheaded by...
These articles were originally serialized in Workers Vanguard, in 1973, starting in the 22 June issue [No.23] and concluding in the 10 October issue [No. 30] Reply to the GuardianTHE STALIN SCHOOL OF FALSIFICATION REVISITED 1....
Labour Boycotts vs imperialist sanctions Published in Australasian Spartacist no 57, September 1978 The past decade has seen a proliferation of campaigns for economic boycotts of various sorts. Reformists and liberals have urged consumers to boycott...
One Fifth of WSL Walks Out, Fuses with the iSt Workers Vanguard, No. 200, 7 April 1978 LONDON—When 24 supporters of the Trotskyist Faction (TF) walked out of the Workers Socialist League (WSL) at the...
A speech by James Robertson The speech below was given to a conference of the West German Spartacus (Bolschewiki-Leninisten) in February 1973. Spartacus/BL had derived from a December 1972 split in the Internationale Kommunisten...
Baron, Samuel H., Plekhanov, Father of Russian Marxism (Stanford, 1963) Cliff, Tony, Lenin, Volume 1: Building the Party (London, 1975) Dan, Theodore, The Origins of Bolshevism (New York, 1970) G., Barbara, Democratic Centralism (Chicago, 1972) Gankin, Olga Hess and Fisher, H.H., eds., The...
The event which transformed Lenin from a Russian revolutionary social democrat into the founding leader of the world communist movement can be precisely dated—4 August 1914. With the start of World War I the...
Following Stolypin’s coup of June 1907, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDRP) was illegalized and its Duma representatives arrested. Party fractions could continue to exist in legal and semi-legal workers organizations (e.g., trade...
The Fifth Congress of the RSDRP, held in London in May 1907, was almost evenly divided between the Bolsheviks with 89 delegate votes and the Mensheviks with 88. At the Fourth Congress a year...
The emergence of differences with the Mensheviks over the role of bourgeois liberalism in the revolution weakened, but did not eliminate, the forces of conciliationism in the Bolshevik camp. At the all-Bolshevik Third Congress...