—reprinted from Solidarity Sourcebook The following is a slightly abridged edition of the program adopted by the first Solidarity national congress in October, 1981. [Versions of the Solidarity program were published in Labor Focus...
Democracy, Authoritarianism & Revolution Table of contents: Introduction Conversation with an anarchist Appendix 1: H. G. Wells: Russia in the shadows Appendix 2: In Defense of Leninism Anarchist Organization and Vanguardism (reprinted from 1917 no....
In October 2011 Josh D., an IBT supporter in Toronto, received an email from an anarchist comrade asking if we were aware of a January 2006 piece entitled, “Why an Anarchist Organization is Needed…...
Anarchist Organization and Vanguardism The question of what, if any, type of revolutionary organization is necessary has always been a thorny one for anarchists. The most hard-core “organizational” anarchist trend is “Platformism,” which takes...
I PETERSBURG IN COLLAPSE In January 1914 I visited Petersburg and Moscow for a couple of weeks; in September 1920 I was asked to repeat this visit by Mr. Kameney [Kamenev], of the Russian...
Democracy, Authoritarianism & Revolution 1917 No.29 (1917): The Platformists dismissed those who took individual autonomy to extremes with the observation that a serious revolutionary organization can only function on the basis of majority rule....
Pamphlet published by the International Bolshevik Tendency in April 2002. A polemic against platformist anarchism. “The most authoritative group [of anarchists in 1917], in the sense that it was the only one to...
Exposing the ‘Theoretical Framework’ of ICL’s Neo-Pabloist Turn The abrupt abandonment of the longstanding approach to the national question by the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL – formerly the international...
Eighth International Conference of the IBT The International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) held its Eighth International Conference in 2017, with delegates and non-delegate members attending from Europe, Oceania, Asia and North America. It provided an...
Fightback’s NDP Loyalism Niki Ashton (second from right) with Fightback supporters (Fightback photo) The run-up to the October 2017 vote to replace Thomas Mulcair as leader of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) has...