For a ‘Concrete Analysis of the Concrete Situation’
Reply to Decker/Dorn on ‘Russian Imperialism’ —Riley, 15 July 2013 “…the concrete analysis of the concrete situation is not an opposite of ‘pure’ theory, but – on the contrary – it is the...
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Decker/Dorn Interpolated Comments on Riley’s ‘Is Russia Imperialist?’
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...
‘Worried about the Russia Question’
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...
Reply to Mikl et al
— 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...
Iran, nationalism and imperialism
—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...
On Khomeini & Counterrevolution
—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 et al on 1979 Iranian Revolution
—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...
Lenin & Trotsky’s Dual Defeatism on the Balkan Wars
—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...
Erdogan, Pilsudski & Khomeini
—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...
Turkey and the Tactic of the Military Bloc
—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...