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...
Statements/Leaflets
A ‘technical problem’ motivating Russian opposition to NATO on its border
The following text has been inserted as a footnote to our 27 February article on the current Russian incursion into Ukraine: Russia Reacts to Imperialist Encroachment * In a 3 March discussion featuring John Mearsheimer...
IG joins centrist muddleheads on Ukraine
Nordenites, like TF, WSWS neutral on Ukraine’s ‘right’ to join NATO On 23 February, on the eve of the current Russian military campaign to “de-NATO-ize” and “de-Nazify” Ukraine, Jan Norden’s Internationalist Group (IG) released...
Russia reacts to imperialist encroachment
Ukraine/NATO/US ignored Kremlin’s red lines The recent Russian military intervention in Ukraine is an example of what can happen when you get “an offer you can’t refuse” and decide to refuse it anyway. The...
Trotskyist Fraction on Ukraine – Centrist Waffling
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...
Once More on IBT & ‘Russian Imperialism’
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....
IBT identifies subsidies for neo-colonies as proof of ‘Russian imperialism’
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.
Jimstown as we knew it
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...
COP26 – how much more blah, blah, blah?
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...
Correcting an Error on the CCP and COVID-19
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.”...