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...
World Trade Center Terror Bombing The following is an IBT statement issued on 18 September 2001 after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The destruction of the World Trade Center...
Caste & Class in the USSR In analyzing the political and social character of the Stalinist ruling caste in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, Leon Trotsky laid great emphasis on the political heterogeneity...
Politics & Economics of Counterrevolution The decade since Boris Yeltsin’s August 1991 victory over the remnants of the Stalinist bureaucracy in Moscow has been one of unrelieved misery and hopelessness for the vast majority...
The following is a May 2001 IBT leaflet issued after the 20-21 April demonstration in Quebec City against the FTAA. For all the pious talk of development, democracy and raising living standards, the “Free...
Enduring Oppression & Infinite Injustice “Afghanistan is just the beginning,” said George W. Bush in the wake of the brutal, high-tech annihilation of the Taliban regime by U.S. air power. Iraq and Somalia are...
On Saturday 8 June 2002, over 200 people (including Rubin “Hurricane” Carter) attended a public talk at the University of Toronto (UofT) by Eliot Grossman, one of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s lawyers. A day earlier Grossman...
The following letter was sent to Workers Power on 30 March 2002: To the Editor: The international workers’ movement has a vital interest in the dramatic developments in Argentina. In discussing the question of...
Following the Line of Least Resistance “The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’...
The following is an edited excerpt from an article on Germany’s national election that was originally published in Bolschewik No.18, September 2002 The subordination of the SPD (Social Democratic Party) to capital jeopardizes its...