“The Marxists are the class enemies of the bourgeoisie and of imperialist wars but they are the supporters of national liberationist and revolutionary wars, both offensive and defensive.” —Trotsky, Writings, 1934-36, p. 266 The...
Excerpts . . . …The theory of permanent revolution holds that there is no independent road of capitalist development available in the age of imperialism. In rejecting the theory of permanent revolution, Barnes rejects...
“Reactionary epochs like ours not only disintegrate and weaken the working class and its vanguard, but also lower the general ideological level of the movement and throw political thinking back to stages long since...
by Harold Lavender In February the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly rejected new military aid to the contras. This was a setback of U.S. President Reagan’s plan to destroy the Sandinista revolution. Of course...
by Barry Weisleder The defeat of President Ronald Reagan’s demand for $36.2 million in aid to the contra mercenaries by the U.S. House of Representatives on February 3 represented a temporary victory for the...
by Robert Adam and Neil Henderson At the time of its signing, the Arias peace plan was hailed by many as a victory for peace in Central America. Now, almost six months later what...
The contents of this bulletin document the recent important political struggle in the Toronto branch of Socialist Challenge [SC—known until May 1988 as the Alliance for Socialist Action (ASA)] over the character and direction...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1. Kurdistan and the National Question Reprinted from 1917 No. 12, 1993 2. Free Öcalan! Defend the PKK! Reprinted from 1917 No. 21, 1999 3. The Kurdish People and the...
Reprinted from V.I. Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 36. The following passages are part of what Moshe Lewin designated as Lenin’s “Testament” in his book Lenin’s Last Struggle. Lenin dictated them on 31 December 1922...