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Document 2c.11 Appendix Reprinted from 1917 No. 6, 1989 Not so long ago, one of the favorite slogans of the Spartacist League (SL) was “The Klan Doesn’t Ride in Moscow!” It was intended to...

Document 2c.11 Reprinted from 1917 No. 7, Winter 1990 For well over a year, we have been involved in a continuing polemic with the Spartacists over the political adaptation to the Stalinist bureaucracy implicit...

Document 2c.5 The following letter was written by James Robertson to Frederico P., one of the iSt’s leading European cadres at the time. Note Robertson’s suggestion that “Trotskyists would have their throats cut upon...

Document 2c.9 Crush CIA’s Mujahedin Reprinted from Workers Vanguard, No. 482, 21 July 1989 From Our Correspondent in Afghanistan JALALABAD, July 7—Thousands of people thronged through the streets of this revitalized city today to...

Document 2c.8 The following is excerpted from an article in Workers Vanguard, No. 480, 23 June 1989 In early February, as the Soviet army completed its withdrawal, with basic social gains at stake, the...

Document 2c.7 The following letter was dated 2 April 1989 Dear Comrades: We were pleased to note at your forum last night that, after almost five years, you have finally abandoned your policy of...

On SL/PDC ‘Brigade’ for Kabul Document 2c.6 Reprinted below is a letter from the Bolshevik Tendency to the Spartacist League regarding a proposal by the SL’s Partisan Defense Committee to organize a combat brigade...

Document 2c.4 The following is James Robertson’s response to William C.’s objections. Note that Robertson suggests that if the PDC proposal were accepted it would be the Afghan government’s “problem” to implement it. This...

Document 2c.3 The following is a letter from William C., a leading member of the iSt’s French section at the time, in response to the Partisan Defense Committee’s proposed “International Brigade.” Note that William...

Document 2c.2 The following is the letter with which James Robertson initiated the international Spartacist tendency’s projected “International Brigade” for Afghanistan in 1989. This letter was originally published in the iSt’s International Discussion Bulletin...