James P. Cannon on 1948 Wallace Campaign
‘A Diversion & An Obstacle’ In 1948, Henry A. Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s vice president from 1941 to 1945, ran for president on the Progressive Party slate. Wallace’s campaign posed many of the...
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Imperialist World Order: Misery for Profit
Global Capitalism & Class Struggle The recent wave of international protest against the institutions of global capitalism is a manifestation of growing dissatisfaction among broad layers of the world’s population with the operation of...
LRCI’s Left Turn: ‘No Coherent Middle Ground’
Moribund No More? The November 2000 issue of Workers Power announces a dramatic about-face on “the meaning and significance of the shift back to capitalism in Eastern Europe and the former USSR following the...
Fiji: Permanent Revolution & the ‘Pacific Way’
Trouble in Paradise On 19 May 2000, a handful of armed men seized Fiji’s parliament buildings and took the prime minister and senior personnel of the Labour-dominated government hostage. For almost two months the...
Recycled Browderism
Letter: ISO’s Campaign for Nader 5 May 2001 To the Editor: In introducing James P. Cannon’s remarks on Henry Wallace’s 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign (1917 No. 23), you quite accurately state: “Wallace’s campaign...
No Vote to Labour!
British Election 2001: Vote SA/SLP/SSP! The following statement was distributed during Britain’s 2001 general election campaign. Labour’s bid for a second term on 7 June pits it against a divided and demoralised Tory party,...
Open Letter: ‘To All Revolutionaries in the Komsomol’
The following statement by the Young Revolutionary Marxists (YRM—now the Ukrainian section of the IBT) dated 18 March 2001, was issued in response to an “Open Letter” by six members of the Komsomol (the...
Centrism & Bolshevism in Ukraine
YRM’s Intervention in Anti-Kuchma Movement In early 2001 Ukraine was gripped by an acute political crisis after a former member of the political police, Mykola Melnychenko, leaked tapes implicating President Leonid Kuchma in the...
A Significant Step
IBT’s Third International Conference A fusion with the Ukrainian Young Revolutionary Marxists (YRM) capped the Third International Conference of the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) in early October 2001. This represents a significant step forward...
Where is the ICL Going?
The Politics of Chicken Revisited Over the past several weeks we have been asked what the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) makes of Workers Vanguard‘s recent flurry of (sometimes overlapping) polemics against ourselves and the...