Unlike most of the self-declared Trotskyist left, the Trotskyist Fraction (TF) has not characterised Russia as imperialist. In its 30 January international statement on the current crisis in Ukraine, the TF distinguishes Russia and...
You can lead a horse to water… Reprinted below are comments from Facebook on our 6 February posting regarding a 30 January Zoom meeting the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) held on current tensions between Ukraine and Russia....
For our part, we are happy to cling to the old-fashioned Leninist view that imperialism, at its core, involves advanced capitalist countries extracting value from more backward, colonial and semi-colonial dependent ones, not subsidizing them.
Reflections on the Steele-Creegan exchange re: SL history by Tom Riley Last August a debate over the history of the moribund Spartacist tendency took place on the website of former Bolshevik Tendency (BT) member...
This video, on Dave Borlace’s Youtube channel, ‘Just Have a Think’, provides a very good deconstruction of the “blah, blah, blah” reality of the resolutions coming out of COP26 (the 26th United Nations Climate...
We recently received a note from a former Spartacist cadre with whom we have not had contact for years which, among other things, pointed out a mistaken formulation in “The Myth of Capitalist China.”...
In January 2021 a former Bolshevik Tendency (BT) member, who now identifies with the “council communist” tradition, posted a short piece on his website commenting on the implosion of the Spartacist tendency following the...
In recent months we have corresponded with a group of comrades with whom there exist several issues on which we have, as yet, failed to reach agreement. As at least two of these are...
The front page headline of the October issue of Workers Power boldly proclaims: “Defend Afghanistan, Defeat Imperialism, Stop US/UK’s War’. The LRCI correctly asserts that “From the Afghan side this war is about the...
The welcome defeat of US/NATO imperialism by the Afghan Taliban comes as the 20th anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on “9-11” 2001 approaches. During the subsequent few...