Sex, Censorship and Women’s Rights
[First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 4, October 1997] by Barbara Duke I submitted the following resolution to the North London women’s section in the lead up to the national women’s section conference...
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New Scotland, New Wales
Is the working class better off? [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 4, October 1997] Tony Blair’s devolution referenda gave him the result he wanted. The people of Scotland (enthusiastically) and Wales (diffidently)...
London Regional Committee Election Statement
[First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 3, August 1997] Marxist Candidates: Vice-president: Barbara Duke (Secretary, Islington North CSLP; former treasurer, West London branch; member, North London women’s section; NUJ chapel committee member) Socialist...
Statement to the NEC and SLP Members on the question of Party Democracy
[First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 3, August 1997] From the following branches/CSLPs: Berkshire; Bracknell; Brighton; Ealing, Action & Shepherds Bush; Exeter; Harrow; Swindon; Walthamstow and over 50 individual party members, including 5...
Don’t support this anti-SLP lash up!
Fight for democracy in the party! [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 3, August 1997] Today’s meeting of the Campaign for a Democratic Socialist Labour Party (CDSLP) has been called to organise a...
Statements on Democracy
[First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 3, August 1997] On Democracy On 14 June the Campaign for a Democratic Socialist Labour Party (CDSLP) held a meeting in London, attended by a number of...
Anti-Racism and the Fight against the Bosses’ Immigration Controls
Socialist Internationalism or National Chauvinism? [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 3, August 1997] The questions of fighting racism and stopping the fascists organising are key for any socialist. Our Socialist Labour Party...
British Troops out of Ireland, Now!
We need a workers’ solution to the ‘national’ divide! [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 3, August 1997] Tony Blair’s election on May 1st, together with the election of a Fianna Fail-dominated coalition...
Howard Keylor & the tragedy of the Militant Caucus
Trotskyist work in the ILWU 1974-87 “Everything depends upon the interrelation between the party and the class. A single employed Communist who is elected to the factory committee or to the administration of a...
Declining an offer from the ICL
In February 2025, The International Communist League (ICL) wrote to the Bolshevik Tendency asking if we wanted to join their organisation as a minority faction. We declined. Here is the ICL’s letter and our...