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...
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...
Fred Ferguson, editor of Militant Printer, a union newsletter politically supported by the Bolshevik Tendency, ran as a candidate in the November 1990 elections of the San Francisco Bay Area Typographical Union (BATU). Running...
The Degeneration of the Soviet Secret Police One unintended result of Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost has been a rash of books by and about people who had been on the inside during the Stalin/Khrushchev/ Brezhnev...
Imperialist Rivalries Sharpen The cheap victory over Iraq won by the United States and its coalition of rivals, hirelings and vassals opens a new and dangerous period of heightened inter-imperialist rivalry. Weeks before the...
Comrade Juanita ‘‘Nedy’’ Hillman, administrative counselor for San Francisco Bay Area Local 1100, Department Store Employees Union, and a Trotskyist since her youth, died on 1 February of complications from pneumonia. She was 45...
Smash Yankee Imperialism! The overthrow of the corrupt and brutal neo-colonial regime of Fulgencio Batista in January 1959, and the subsequent expropriation of the Cuban bourgeoisie, was a victory for working people everywhere. With...
Yugoslav Civil War The historical tragedy of the collapse of the Soviet Union has been paralleled in the Balkans with the bloody demise of the Yugoslav federation. In both the USSR and Yugoslavia the...
First the Wall…Then the Factories The following article is an edited report by a comrade of the Gruppe Spartakus (German section of the International Bolshevik Tendency) outlining the process of capitalist restoration in the...
Defend Soviet Workers Against Yeltsin’s Attacks! The International Bolshevik Tendency published the following statement in September 1991: The aborted Moscow coup of 19-21 August was so ill-conceived and executed that it almost didn’t happen....