‘The Arab-Jewish War in Palestine’
Trotskyists’ 1948 declaration re: founding of Zionist state The following editorial appeared in the 31 May 1948 issue of the Militant, published by the Socialist Workers Party (US) led by James P. Cannon. At...
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Why a ‘bi-national workers’ state’?
In a 1988 polemic against the British Workers Power group we addressed our differences over Vladimir Lenin’s approach to the “national question.” In particular we discussed how the interpenetration of the two peoples living...
A few questions for Irish Socialist Party comrades
Reprinted below is a leaflet written by a supporter of the Bolshevik Tendency living in Cork, Ireland who was struck by the starkly contrasting attitudes of the Irish Socialist Party (SP) and their American...
For a bi-national workers’ state in Palestine-Israel!
From the river to the sea: Smash Zionist tyranny! The campaign of wholesale terror underway in Gaza is the pathological response of Israel’s deranged Zionist ruling class to the remarkably successful 7 October 2023...
Lenin on Imperialism
In August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, Vladimir Lenin was stunned by the wave of social-patriotism that swept the Second International, including its German flagship, the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD). All...
Former Spartacist cadre comments on BT statement re: IG-SL debate
A long-time former Spartacist League cadre made the following observation on our 28 January commentary “On the recent IG-SL debate.” Very powerful. If people were rational and fair-minded and willing to say, “I was...
On the recent IG-SL debate
The 13 January two-part public debate in New York City between the International Communist League/Spartacist League (ICL/SL) and the Internationalist Group (IG) offered few surprises, but it dramatically showcased the SL’s rapid movement away...
A letter to an IG contact
19 January 2024 Hi [comrade], All parties agree that Logan was guilty of running an abusive regime in Australia. I am glad you recognize that Robertson was aware of what was going on and...
BT contribution to the second session of the IG/SL debate (13 January 2024)
Hello, I am Christoph from the Bolshevik Tendency. Comrades, this afternoon we have heard a lot of political name-calling and while this can be fun, I am not going to engage in it, because...
BT contribution to the first session of the IG/SL debate (13 January 2024)
Tom Riley speaking for the Bolshevik Tendency: today’s event is significant because, as we wrote in “The Road to Jimstown”: “The Spartacist League was not just one left grouping among many—it was the crystallization...