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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...