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...
English
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...
On Erdogan’s Bonapartist Regime
—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...
Revolutionary Continuity & Islamic Reaction
From Khomeini in the 1970s to the Muslim Brotherhood Today —Riley, 15 January 2017 One of the most important political legacies of the revolutionary Spartacist tendency was its steadfast refusal to go with the...
Class, State and Party
The Lessons of October The following is an extract from “Celebrating Red October: The Russian Revolution in Historical Perspective,” first published 23 October 2017. The Russian Revolution showed that even in relatively backward countries,...
From Trotskyism to Neo-Pabloism
ICL Breaks with Leninism on the National Question The report of the recent Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL – formerly the international Spartacist tendency [iSt]), which appeared in Spartacist (No....
In Defense of (Seymour’s) Marxism
Exposing the ‘Theoretical Framework’ of ICL’s Neo-Pabloist Turn The abrupt abandonment of the longstanding approach to the national question by the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL – formerly the international...