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.”...
Statements/Leaflets
Contribution to a discussion on the implosion of the Spartacist tendency
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...
On Brazil 2016 and Egypt 2013
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...
Workers Power’s Two-stage “Trotskyism”
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...
US/NATO defeat in Afghanistan
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...
Crystallised confusion – Socialist Alternative on the State and the Police
At a demonstration in London on Saturday 26 June, our British comrades purchased the June 2021 issue of Socialist Alternative (No. 16) and were surprised to find an article entitled “The State and the...
Larry Lawrence – a Remembrance
John Brown scholar & defender of the Trotskyist program by Jason Wright Larry Lawrence delivering the closing remarks at a graveside ceremony during the annual John Brown Lives! commemoration at the John Brown Farm,...
UK/NATO: stay out of Russia’s territorial waters!
Neutrality equals ‘conscious or unconscious’ support for imperialists BT at ‘People’s Assembly’ demonstration in London, 26 June On 22 June the British destroyer HMS Defender carried out a deliberate provocation when it sailed into...
Socialist Action: Time to Own Up
‘Russian Imperialism’ & Flip-flops on Syria and Libya On 18 February 2020 we retracted an assertion that Socialist Action (SA) “opposed” Russian involvement in Syria. In doing so we quoted the following from SA’s...
On “the Pathology of Renegades”
Reply to Workers Vanguard (First published 21 October 2001) The 12 October issue of Workers Vanguard (WV), newspaper of the Spartacist League (SL), devotes half a page to a denunciation of, among other things,...