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...
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,...
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....
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...
Contribution by a supporter of the BT at the “Endless War No More” forum in Troy, New York, on 18 January 2019. The text has been lightly edited. I thought you [Spenser Rapone, a...
Introduction Our 24 October 2018 statement, “Why Things Fell Apart,” outlined the debate within the International Bolshevik Tendency over whether contemporary Russia should be categorized as an imperialist power—an issue with profound programmatic consequences....
The following is a slightly edited version of a document circulated to close contacts and supporters to explain our decision to dissolve the 1990 fusion with the New Zealand Permanent Revolution Group (PRG) and...
Polemics on Khomeini, Morsi & Erdoğan The contents of this bulletin originated in a July 2016 disagreement within the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) over what attitude to take to the attempted military coup against...
The latest news that Assange will be imminently expelled from the Equadorian Embassy in London should remind us that the political reality has not changed fundamentally since he sought asylum nearly 7 years ago....
Bolivarians Resist U.S. ‘Regime Change’ Attempt On 8 March, Tom Riley of the Bolshevik Tendency (BT) addressed a meeting organized by the Brock Socialists in St. Catharines, Ontario regarding the current crisis in Venezuela....