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...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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],...
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...
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...