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...
English
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...
Venezuela & the Left
Marxism & the ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ In January 2007, shortly after winning re-election, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez declared: “We’re moving toward a socialist republic of Venezuela” (Guardian [London], 10 January 2007). The National Assembly then...
Contents
Introduction Revolutionary Continuity & Islamic Reaction by Tom Riley On Erdogan’s Bonapartist Regime by HaPe Breitman and Tom Riley Turkey and the Tactic of the Military Bloc by Barbara Dorn and Adaire Hannah Erdogan,...
Contents
Introduction ‘Worried about the Russia Question’ by Bill Logan with Tom Riley response ‘Is Russia imperialist?’ (by Tom Riley) with Decker / Dorn Interpolated Comments For a ‘Concrete Analysis of a Concrete Situation’ by...
The Road to Jimstown
SL Over the Brink–Trotskyists Out Now! Originally published May 1985 In November 1984, cadres of the Spartacist League/U.S. (SL) donned witches’ hats, false noses, pigs’ faces and Nazi regalia and paraded around San Francisco...
James M. Robertson: A Balance Sheet
The recent report of the death of Spartacist League (SL) founder James Robertson on 7 April has occasioned considerable discussion within the shrinking milieu of leftists interested in the fate of the group he...
Motions on Russian Imperialism
—excerpt from minutes of 2014 IBT Conference, 18 April 2014 Motion by Lichtenberg on Russia: That we endorse the political thrust of the following documents: “Is Russia imperialist?” by Riley. “Why Russia is not...