A Bogus Polemic
Letter to Workers Vanguard 12 June 2003 letter to Workers Vanguard. Toronto, Canada 12 June 2003 To the Editor: The 6 June issue of Workers Vanguard (WV) features two polemics against the International Bolshevik...
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Free Öcalan! Defend the PKK!
Permanent Revolution and Kurdistan Reprinted from 1917 No. 21, 1999, an edited and abridged translation of an article originally published as a 24 February 1999 supplement to Bolschewik, journal of the German section of...
Kurdistan and the National Question
For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East Reprinted from 1917 No. 12, 1993, translated from Bolschewik No. 2. The division of the world under imperialism has subjected many peoples to massacres, oppression and...
Introduction
The Kurds are the largest nation on earth without their own state. When the Ottoman Empire was carved up after World War I, the Kurdish people, who have existed on the same territory for...
Compare and Contrast
ICL vs. IBT on Stalinism & Soviet Defencism The following is a selection of quotes from publications of the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT—including the External Tendency of the iSt, the IBT’s predecessor) and the...
Appendix One: Debate in the ICL Over Yeltsin’s Coup
The following documents were circulated in an internal discussion in the Spartacist League/Britain in June and July 2003. The first and final items are by Tony R., who while not associated with the IBT,...
Whatever Happened to the Spartacist League?
Stalinophilia, Stalinophobia, Flinches & Opportunism In the Spring 2004 issue of Spartacist (No. 58), the International Communist League (ICL) characterizes its recent political record as one of “opportunist lunges,” “sectarian moralism” and an “increasingly...
Sclerotic Spartacists Unravel
SL Repudiates ‘Capitulation to Imperialism’ “In a statement following the Krushchev report [on the crimes of Stalin], Togliatti asked: ‘What made such grave errors possible? And why was it that around them should have...
Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt No. 4
Table of Contents The Road to Jimstown The Zen of Spartacism The Test Jim Didn’t Pass “Xandra’s Red Avengers” Beware Lady Dobermans in Anti-Soviet Heat—Your Ass Could Be Bitten Next! —Workers Vanguard No. 367,...
Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt 3
FOR THE REBIRTH OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL! “The ETs ought to inspire fanatical hatred in iSt members….” … “Liars, traitors, apologists for racism and genocide, petty bureaucrats, red-baiters, anti-Soviet pop-frontists, wreckers, the ETs are...