Tom Riley speaking for the Bolshevik Tendency: today’s event is significant because, as we wrote in “The Road to Jimstown”: “The Spartacist League was not just one left grouping among many—it was the crystallization...
Excerpted from “Jimstown as we knew it” by Tom Riley After returning to Canada [after participating in founding of the Spartacist League/Britain], [Cathy] Nason became Toronto organizer and I took over Spartacist Canada. In the...
We recently received the following communication from a former Spartacist: I did just watch [the BT-SL debate]—you did a fine job, and I much appreciated your wrap-up, with its encomium of the early SL...
Former Spartacist cadre: Thanks for this, Tom. There was a problem with the link you sent me, so I tried the one that [J] sent out later and it worked well. Just finished watching...
As people probably know, we in the Bolshevik Tendency want to see a Russian military victory in Ukraine whereas the Spartacist League takes a position of defeatism on both sides. Most left groups which...
Defend the right to dissent! On Tuesday 18 April the US Department of Justice charged four people associated with the black nationalist African People’s Socialist Party/Uhuru Movement (APSP) for “weaponizing” free speech in what...
We recently received an inquiry from a reader asking about “the difference between military and political support” in connection with the current conflict in Ukraine (where we favour a Russian military victory over US/NATO...
Why socialists should attend On 19 February a “Rage Against the War Machine” (RAWM) demonstration is being co-sponsored by the left-liberal “People’s Party” comprised of disgruntled former supporters of Bernie Sanders and the bourgeois...
Exchanges with a former leading Spartacist The following is an edited and abbreviated version of an exchange between a former leading Spartacist cadre and Tom Riley of the Bolshevik Tendency. Dear Tom, It has...