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The ‘French Turn’

The ‘French Turn’

Lessons from the Struggle for the Fourth International In 1938 Trotsky and his co-thinkers founded the Fourth International with the declaration that ‘‘The historical crisis of mankind is reduced to the crisis of the...

Trotskyism and the New Labour Party

Trotskyism and the New Labour Party

The ‘French Turn’ in New Zealand In late April 1990, the Permanent Revolution Group (PRG), New Zealand section of the International Bolshevik Tendency, completed a year-long entry into the New Labour Party (NLP). This...

We Go Forward!

We Go Forward!

International Trotskyist Regroupment The recent fusion of three Trotskyist organizations from North America, New Zealand and Germany to form the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) is a breakthrough in the necessary process of international revolutionary...

Smash Apartheid! No to ‘Power Sharing!’

Smash Apartheid! No to ‘Power Sharing!’

The current round of negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African government marks a new phase in the decades-long struggle against the hated system of apartheid, one of the vilest...

Soviet Stalinism In Extremis

Soviet Stalinism In Extremis

During his first five years as head of the Soviet regime, Mikhail Gorbachev’s ‘‘accomplishments’’ went beyond imperialism’s wildest dreams. He drastically curtailed aid to third-world allies and national liberation movements. He withdrew Soviet troops...

The National Question in the USSR

The National Question in the USSR

The national question has been a central issue in Soviet politics since the time of Lenin. By guaranteeing the peoples held captive in the Tsarist empire the right to separate and form their own...

Doubletalk in the 2 1/2 Camp

Doubletalk in the 2 1/2 Camp

Workers Power on the Russian Question The British centrists of Workers Power greeted the overturn of Ceausescu’s regime in Romania with the enthusiastic declaration that: ‘‘a spectre is haunting the world’s rulers. It is...

Robertsonites in Wonderland

Robertsonites in Wonderland

Workers Political Revolution in the DDR? The tragic infatuation of the East European working class with the restoration of capitalism is a result of decades of Stalinist corruption, repression and gross economic mismanagement. The...

Militant Printer’s 1990 Election Program

Militant Printer’s 1990 Election Program

Break with the Strikebreaking Democratic and Republican Parties! The labor movement must have its own political party, a workers party based on the unions, committed to the fight for our interests, up to and...