American Upheaval
Chickens Coming Home to Roost “How soon the English workers will throw off what seems to be a bourgeois contagion remains to be seen….Only your small-minded German philistine who measures world history by the...
Statements/Leaflets
‘Planet of the Humans’ – an uneven critique of capitalist eco-insanity
On the 50th anniversary of the first “Earth Day,” 22 April 2020, Jeff Gibbs and Ozzie Zehner released their new film “Planet of the Humans” on YouTube. The film, produced by maverick liberal filmmaker...
COVID-19: a Geo-Political Watershed
Sunset of the American Imperium The spread of COVID-19 has triggered a global social crisis that will have profound and lasting effects. When the pandemic initially erupted in January 2020, the global capitalist economy...
Report on a public meeting to discuss “How can we build a real alternative to FG/FF”
The following report of a public meeting in Cork, Ireland was first published on the Revolutionary Programme blog by a Bolshevik Tendency supporter On Monday 2 March I attended this public meeting organised by...
Report on UNAC Conference
Pressuring the Democrats—a Bankrupt Strategy Over the weekend of 21-23 February the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) held the fifth national conference since its foundation in 2010. This event, convened in New York City,...
Discussion on what the Irish election represents in class terms
This letter from a supporter of the Bolshevik Tendency was originally published in issue #1289 of the Weekly Worker journal (http://weeklyworker.co.uk) in a slightly edited form. The letter below is as submitted. ============================================================= James...
Correcting a serious misrepresentation…
On 5 February we received a complaint that Tom Riley’s recent speech on events in the Middle East (which had been posted to our website a few days earlier) seriously misrepresented Socialist Action’s position...
Revolutionary Marxism & Ireland’s 2020 election
Marxists recognise that capitalist parliaments represent organs of class rule that are designed to protect and advance the interests of those on top, rather than to function as vehicles for fundamental social change. Yet...
The Struggle for the Middle East
Drive Out U.S./NATO Imperialists! The following is a lightly edited transcript of a 24 January speech by Tom Riley of the Bolshevik Tendency to a meeting of the Brock Socialists in St. Catharines, Ontario....
The Brexit Election
Vote Labour—Break with reformism! The 12 December general election, triggered by parliamentary paralysis over “Brexit,” is taking place in the context of a deeply divided ruling class. The “Remain” faction—traditionally associated with finance capitalists...