Endgame in Iraq
Imperialists Out of the Middle East! A month before retiring as United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan observed: “The US is in a way trapped in Iraq, trapped in the sense that it cannot...
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Of Presidents & Principles
ICL Rejects ‘Executive Offices’ The Fifth International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL, formerly the international Spartacist tendency) arrived at a momentous conclusion: “The chief pressure operating on our party, especially in this...
On ‘Revolutionary Regroupment’
IBT Exchange With ICL On 3 November 2007, the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) held a public meeting in Toronto to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution. Guest speaker Bryan Palmer, James P....
Being Determines Consciousness
Northites Inc.: Toeing the Bottom Line In the spring of 2007, the Socialist Equality Party/Inter-national Committee (SEP/IC) was rocked by a public scandal when Scott Solomon, an embittered former adherent, revealed that David North...
Screws Out of the TUC!
Which Side Are You On? The following statement, dated 10 November 2007, was produced by the IBT’s London branch. On 29 August, the Prison Officers Association (POA) defied the government and walked off the...
‘The Main Question of Proletarian Class Strategy’
Popular Front: Not a Tactic But a Crime The following quotations were originally printed in Spartacist No.27-28 (Winter 1979-1980) published by the then-revolutionary international Spartacist tendency. “The question of questions at present is the...
No to Popular Frontism!
French ‘Far Left’ Moving Rightward A month after Nicolas Sarkozy was elected president of France in May 2007, his party, the right-wing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), won a majority in the legislative...
The Cannon Biography & Its Critics
Revolutionary Continuity & Historical Memory James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, Bryan D. Palmer, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007, 542 pages, $50 hardcover. The first...
James P. Cannon: American Bolshevik
From Wobbly to Left Oppositionist We print below, with permission, edited excerpts of Bryan D. Palmer’s presentation at the book launch for James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928,...
Middle East Morass
Drive Out the Imperialists! A growing section of America’s traditional foreign policy establishment is beginning to fear that the decline of U.S. imperialism may be irreversible. Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign...