Workers Power Abandons Trotskyist Pretensions In May 2003 the League for a Revolutionary Communist International (LRCI) announced that it henceforth wished to be known as the “League for a Fifth International” (L5I). This was...
Drive Out the Imperialists—By Any Means Necessary! The U.S. “liberation” of Iraq, trumpeted by the invaders as heralding a golden age of prosperity and democracy in the region, was seen for what it was...
Capitalism in a Deformed Workers’ State Millions of workers, poor peasants and other victims of the growth of capitalist social relations in China have been mobilizing on a massive scale. Their organizations are primitive...
Not Jew Against Arab, But Class Against Class! One of the important achievements of the French Revolution was Jewish emancipation—a process initiated in 1791 when the National Assembly, after considerable debate, decreed that henceforth...
Paranoia & Hypocrisy in the Age of Imperialism The following is an edited version of a talk given in Toronto by Josh Decker on 23 October 2004. Capital, as Karl Marx observed, came into...
The 28 May 2004 issue of Workers Vanguard (WV—literary flagship of James Robertson’s International Communist League [ICL]) attacked our treatment of Tibet and national oppression in the Chinese deformed workers’ state in 1917 No....
Canadian Federal Election 2004 The following statement, dated 18 June 2004, was distributed prior to the Canadian federal election. Urging voters to “choose your Canada,” Prime Minister Paul Martin declared that the vote on...
Forward to a Revolutionary Workers’ Party! The following statement was distributed during the 2004 American election campaign. This year’s presidential election takes place in the shadow of the dirty colonial war in Iraq, a...
Prestige Politics & Programmatic Confusion The following is excerpted from a forthcoming IBT pamphlet. In the Spring 2004 issue of Spartacist (No. 58), the International Communist League (ICL) characterizes its recent political record as...
Letter to Fire This Time The following letter was sent to Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice 27 November 2004 Dear Comrades, In your recent article, “Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Venezuela” (Fire This...