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Fake-Trotskyists Make Fake Offer

Fake-Trotskyists Make Fake Offer

On SL/PDC ‘Brigade’ for Kabul Reprinted below is a letter from the Bolshevik Tendency to the Spartacist League regarding a proposal by the SL’s Partisan Defense Committee to organize a combat brigade for Afghanistan:...

Tony Cliff’s Family Tree

Tony Cliff’s Family Tree

The largest ‘‘state capitalist’’ group claiming some connection to Trotskyism is the British-based Socialist Workers Party (SWP/B) headed by Tony Cliff. The founders of the SWP/B deserted the Trotskyist movement in the early 1950s...

On the Nature of the USSR

On the Nature of the USSR

BT Debates LRP The Bolshevik Tendency (BT) and the League for the Revolutionary Party (LRP) held a public debate on the Russian question on December 10 1988, in New York City. Approximately forty people...

The Decline of the Printers Union

The Decline of the Printers Union

Lessons For The U.S. Labor Movement The strike at the San Francisco Progress is just the latest in a long series of attacks on the living standards of American workers in the print trades....

Militant Printer’s Class-Struggle Program

Militant Printer’s Class-Struggle Program

Reprinted below is the program of Militant Printer which was published in the first issue of the newsletter, 15 July 1983: The program of ‘‘Militant Printer’’ is first and foremost for a break with...

S.F. Progress Plundered

S.F. Progress Plundered

‘No Pay, No Work!’: Workers Occupy Plant Frank Lorenzo’s much-publicized corporate union-busting at Eastern Airlines, which led to the recent strike of machinists and pilots, is representative of a host of smaller battles being...

Perestroika: A Pandora’s Box

Perestroika: A Pandora’s Box

World Revolution—Not ‘Market Socialism’ Ronald Reagan, flying into retirement on 20 January, boasted to reporters on board his plane that he could go down in history as the president who won the Cold War....

Marxism and the ecological crisis

Marxism and the ecological crisis

On Tuesday 9 June (6pm British time) a Bolshevik Tendency supporter is presenting at an online meeting outlining how environmental concerns were integral to the political thinking of Marx and Engels and what that...

COVID-19 and the law of value

COVID-19 and the law of value

In this interview by fellow Marxist Michael Roberts, Murray Smith explains the relevance of the law of value, the law of capitalist accumulation and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall and...

Defend Sri Lankan Left!

Defend Sri Lankan Left!

Sri Lankan leftists are currently the victims of a vicious wave of political killings initiated by the Sinhala-chauvinist JVP (Peoples Liberation Front). Over 200 leftists have been killed to date.This includes three members of...