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...
Document 2c.1 Reprinted from Workers Vanguard, No. 471, 17 February 1989 [WV Introduction] We reprint below a letter from the Partisan Defense Committee to the government of Afghanistan, offering concrete support in the struggle...
Bending the Stick Too Far… Document 2b.6 Reprinted from 1917 No. 5, Winter 1988-89 Since the formation of our political tendency, six years ago, our polemics with other leftists on Afghanistan have revolved around...
Soviets Abandon Women, Leftists to Mujahedin Document 2b.5 Reprinted from 1917 No. 5, Winter 1988-89 On 15 May the USSR began a pullout of its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. The withdrawal is being carried...
Document 2b.4 The following letter, dated 21 June 1988, was written in response to Document 2b.3 Comrades: You evidently had difficulty in responding to the political criticisms raised in our letter of 8 April...
Document 2b.3 Workers Vanguard No. 453 (20 May 1988) published the following truncated version of Document 2b.2 [WV Introduction] We print below excerpts of a letter by the “Bolshevik Tendency” (ex-External Tendency) in response...
Document 2b.2 Appendix Comrades: On 2 February the recently reconstituted Toronto Anti-Intervention Coalition (TAIC), sponsored a demonstration to “Oppose U.S. Contra Aid!” which drew almost 300 participants. Unlike other “anti-interventionist” demonstrations held in this...
Document 2b.2 The following letter, dated 8 April 1988, was written in response to Document 2b.1 Comrades: In reading your latest anti-BT screed (Workers Vanguard No. 449, 25 March) we are reminded of James...
Document 2a.5 Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 449 (25 March 1988) … or anywhere else. Looking down the barrel of Cold War II, the crew of sour ex-members who now make up the “Bolshevik...
By Salah Jaber, reprinted from International Viewpoint, 6 April 1987. Footnotes as per original text. Note the claim that calling for a Soviet withdrawal, which the Usec’s 1980 resolution had correctly observed would “open...