Bolshevism vs. Menshevism: The 1903 Split
The Second Congress of the RSDRP, held in Brussels and then London in July-August 1903, was to be the culmination of the Iskraist project to create a centralized party based on a comprehensive program....
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Kautskyism and the Origins of Russian Social Democracy
Recently the British International Marxist Group (IMG) and the International Socialists (now Socialist Workers Party—SWP/IS), two of the largest groups of the British “far left,” have taken to revising the history of the Bolsheviks....
Lenin and the Vanguard Party
Lenin and the Vanguard Party was a series of articles by Joseph Seymour published in Workers Vanguard in 1977-78. The following text is based on the Spartacist League pamphlet of 1978, but incorporates some...
Toward the Rebirth of the Fourth International!
Declaration for the Organizing of an International Trotskyist Tendency (statement formally initiating the international Spartacist tendency) Adopted July 1974; published in Spartacist, No. 23, Spring 1977 1. The Spartacist League of Australia and New Zealand...
Spartacusbund Expels Left Opposition: Trotskyist Faction Fuses with TLD
Spartacist No. 23, Spring 1977 Reprinted below is the founding document of the Trotskyist Fraction (TF) of the German Spartacusbund. When confronted by a principled Trotskyist opposition at their sixth national conference in January 1977,...
Leninism and Workers Control
By Joseph Seymour Workers Vanguard no 162, 17 June 1977 The following article is based on a talk by Joseph Seymour at a West Coast Spartacus Youth League educational in mid-March 1977 There is...
The Fight to Implement Busing: For Labor/Black Defence to Stop Racist Attacks and to Smash Fascist Threats
Spartacist Youth League pamphlet, 1975
On the United Front Question
by Joseph Seymour Published in the Spartacist League Internal Discussion Bulletin number 23, 1974, reprinted in On the United Front, Spartacus Youth League pamphlet, 1976, and Spartacist Publishing Company 1996. A united front does not...
Letter to the OCRFI and the OCI
from Spartacist No. 22, Winter 1973-74, 15 January 1973 Organizing Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International; and Organisation Communiste Internationaliste Dear Comrades, At the Third National Conference of the Spartacist League/U.S. we held...
On The Labor Party Question
by James Robertson [Transcript from a tape recording of a 5 November 1972 speech at an internal meeting, published in the Spartacist League (US), Internal Discussion Bulletin # 23, August 1974, “edited only to make coherent sentences”.]...