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...
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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...
Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt 2
FOR THE REBIRTH OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL! Labor Donated January, 1984 “THOUGH COWARDS FLINCH…” The following mailgram was sent [11 November 1983] to the SL/US by the External Tendency of the iSt over the...
Break With The Robertson-Foster-Nelson Misleadership!
Stop The Liquidation Of The Trade Union Work! “…to demand from the trade union bureaucracy, which is hunting for Communists, that the latter be benevolently installed to work with the necessary comfort, threatening the...
Declaration of an external tendency of the iSt
October 1982 Jim: “…either the party is as you said it is, filled with the fundamental contradiction of actually having a bureaucratic, abusive, personalist cult-leadership while proclaiming itself to be for socialist democracy. Karen:...
Solidarność: Acid Test for Trotskyists
Pamphlet published by the Bolshevik Tendency in 1988 Contents I. Poland 1981: Key to Trotskyist Regroupment II. A Bit of Polish History III. Genesis of Solidarność IV. The 1981 Congress: Solidarność Crosses the Rubicon...