Anti-Fascist Protest in Wellington
Smash the National Front! On 23 October 2004, 40 fascists from the New Zealand National Front (NF) held a rally in Wellington. These thugs, who had been responsible for a series of racist attacks...
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No to the Hijab Ban!
For the Separation of Religion & State When French schools reopened in September 2004 after summer vacation, a new law took effect prohibiting students from wearing the hijab (female Islamic headscarf). Under the pretense...
Iraq: Imperial Overreach
U.S./UK Troops Out Now! “All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” —Macbeth, Act III Scene...
Defend Civil Liberties in Britain!
‘The Rules of the Game are Changing…’ On the morning of Thursday, 7 July 2005, as Tony Blair and his cronies prepared for their G8 summit in Scotland, 52 innocent civilians were murdered and...
Swimming Against the Stream
IBT Fourth International Conference The fourth international conference of the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) was held in Western Europe in March 2005. It featured a number of wide-ranging discussions and debates on program, perspectives...
What’s Bred in the Bone
Workers Power’s Labourite Reflex An IBT statement distributed in advance of the 5 May 2005 general election in Britain contained the following polemic: Workers Power [British section of the League for the Fifth International],...
Cliffites, Clerics & Class Collaboration
SWP’s Respect Gambit In October 2003, a middle-of-the-road social democrat, George Galloway, was kicked out of the Labour Party for his forthright opposition to Tony Blair’s participation in the criminal invasion and occupation of...
Socialists & Sharia Courts
For the Separation of Religion and State! In September 2005, the Liberal government of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, ended months of speculation by announcing that it would not extend the 1991 Arbitration Act...
Principles & Tactics
On the 2004 Venezuelan Referendum The following is an edited version of a document adopted at the Fourth International Conference of the IBT. Given a choice, Marxists would generally vote “yes” to removing a...
From the Horse’s Mouth
The following remarks by the late, unlamented, Lee Atwater, the Karl Rove of the 1980s, explains the evolution of the use of racism in American politics. Atwater was the architect of the infamous “Willie...