Document 2a.3 Reprinted from Socialist Worker (Britain), 11 February 1989. This article represents a shift from the ostensible neutrality of document 2a.2 with its assessment of the victory of imperialist-backed reactionaries as “a boost...
Document 2a.2 The following article, by John Blake, was originally published in the British Socialist Worker, 19 January 1980. In the original most sentences were separate paragraphs. The Russians are literally digging in for...
Down with Islamic Reaction Document 2a.1 The following article, described as “adapted from Workers Vanguard,” was printed in the February-March 1980 issue of Spartacist Canada (no. 41). Tom Riley, currently the editor of 1917,...
Class War—Not Holy War! Document 1.5 Reprinted from 1917 No. 17, 1996 In April 1991 Sudan’s fundamentalist regime hosted an international Islamist conference in Khartoum. Chaired by Hassan al-Turabi, Sudan’s clerical ruler, delegates from...
Document 1.4 Appendix No. 3 The following is a reconstruction, from notes, of an intervention by International Bolshevik Tendency [IBT] supporter Samuel T. at a meeting of the Spartacus Youth Club (SYC—youth group of...
Document 1.4 Appendix No. 2 The following is a reconstruction, from notes, of the intervention of International Bolshevik Tendency [IBT] supporter Samuel T. at a Spartacist League (SL) forum in New York City on...
The Fire Last Time… Document 1.4 Appendix No. 1 The following statement was published by the IBT as an appendix to “Where is the ICL Going?” and reprinted in 1917 No. 24, 2002. One...
The Politics of Chicken Revisited Document 1.4 The following statement by the International Bolshevik Tendency, published on 2 December 2001, was reprinted in 1917 No. 24, 2002. Over the past several weeks we have...
Document 1.3 Appendix In early 1980 Workers Power publicly renounced the third-campist “Neither Washington nor Moscow” position of Tony Cliff’s Socialist Workers Party (SWP), out of which it had emerged in the mid-1970s. Rejecting...
Document 1.3 The following is the text of a leaflet published by the International Bolshevik Tendency (Britain), 5 November 2001 The front page headline of the October issue of Workers Power boldly proclaims: “Defend...