Better late than never
IG correction on Russia v NATO…‘should be more precise and more honest’ “Frankly acknowledging a mistake, ascertaining the reasons for it, analysing the conditions that have led up to it, and thrashing out the...
Statements/Leaflets
Will Lehman’s UAW presidential campaign: a poison pill
WSWS/SEP’s anti-Trotskyist trade union policy In mid-November the ballots of 900,000 workers and pensioners of the United Autoworkers (UAW) will be tallied to elect a new president. This will be the first time in...
China in Africa
Debunking pseudo-Marxist falsifications re: ‘Chinese Imperialism’ The frequent portrayal of China as a sinister threat to “national security” in the “Free World” popular media is an index of rising anxiety at the growing economic...
A comment on Ukraine to former SL members
The following comment was posted by Tom Riley of the BT to a recent online discussion among a group predominantly composed of former Spartacist League supporters: It is disappointing, but not entirely surprising, that...
On RedMed’s ‘International Anti-Imperialist and Anti-War Declaration’
On 25-26 June the BT participated in an “Emergency International Anti-War Conference” initiated by the Christian Rakovski Balkan Socialist Centre and RedMed. On 27 June, immediately following the conference, the organisers circulated a proposed draft...
Exchange with a former member of the Spartacus Youth League
The following is a recent exchange between a former member of the Spartacus Youth League (SYL–the youth group of the Spartacist League/U.S. [SL]) and Tom Riley of the BT. Greetings, I have been...
Correction on Ukraine
In our 19 June 2022 posting of a speech held at the LO Fete about the Ukraine conflict we asserted: ‘Whilst in Western Ukraine there are Hungarian, Romanian and Polish national minorities, about 20...
NATO/US vs Russia in Ukraine—A Trotskyist Analysis
Below is an edited version of a speech delivered at Lutte Ouvrière’s Fête, 27 May 2022 The current conflict in Ukraine seems in all likelihood to eventually be viewed as a major historical turning...
Shifting Positions on Ukraine Conflict
We have had considerable correspondence from people interested in our observations regarding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Recently a link was sent to a report on Henry Kissinger’s remarks on the subject at Davos with...
A correction to ‘Jimstown as we knew it’
A former Spartacist League member who lived in New York City in the 1960s sent the following correction to “Jimstown as we knew it,” a piece by Tom Riley which we posted on 1...