19 June 2013 Dear comrades, We have not been convinced by Tom’s document to change our position on the imperialist character of Russia. Aside from dismissing major sectors of the economy and failing to...
From: Bill Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 7:43 AM Subject: The Russian Question Dear Tom Of course I’m quite worried about the Russian Question, particularly because I think we have to have a decision on it in...
— Decker, Dorn, Breitman, Lichtenberg, 21 June 2018 Dear comrades, It is with deep regret that we read your statement “Iran, nationalism and imperialism” (29 May 2018), which makes it very clear that you...
—Mikl et al to IBT, 29 May 2018 Half way correct The debate on the questions of Iran, nationalism and imperialism started after the military coups in Egypt and Turkey, in 2013 and...
—Riley to Mikl et al, 28 June 2017 To trace the complicated course of the “Iranian Revolution” requires careful study of the actual events in the spirit of Lenin’s injunction to “make a concrete...
—Mikl to Riley, 4 June 2017 Following is our tentative conclusion after the biweekly cooperative study in about 4 months before the conference. CGs M The revolution in 1979 in Iran was not Islam...
—Riley letter to Mikl, 26 May 2017 Dear Comrade Mikl: When we discussed the position of dual defeatism in the 2016 coup against Erdogan (and the related issues of the Egyptian coup in 2013...
—Riley’s presentation to the IBT conference, 11 April 2017 (with introduction as circulated in the IBT, 13 May 2017) Reprinted below are my remarks to the conference on the issue of the coups against...
—Adaire Hannah and Barbara Dorn, 27 March 2017; with interpolated comments by Tom Riley, 3 April 2017 Breitman and Riley’s document, “On Erdogan’s Bonapartist Regime,” begins with a quote from “Turkey: A War of...
—Breitman and Riley, 8 March 2017 “The correct characterization of the coup is not one of democracy defeating dictatorship. Two despotic forces faced each other and the more gradualist one won. Anyone who dares...