BT Says Don’t Hail Red Army in Afghanistan
Document 2a.5 Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 449 (25 March 1988) … or anywhere else. Looking down the barrel of Cold War II, the crew of sour ex-members who now make up the “Bolshevik...
Trotskyist Bulletins
The Fourth International and Afghanistan
By Salah Jaber, reprinted from International Viewpoint, 6 April 1987. Footnotes as per original text. Note the claim that calling for a Soviet withdrawal, which the Usec’s 1980 resolution had correctly observed would “open...
United Secretariat Declaration on Afghanistan
Document 2a.4 Reprinted from Intercontinental Press, 3 March 1980. We have excerpted key passages from the 26 January 1980 majority resolution passed by the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USec) led by the...
Afghanistan: Russia defeated as…. US Abandons the Victims
Document 2a.3 Reprinted from Socialist Worker (Britain), 11 February 1989. This article represents a shift from the ostensible neutrality of document 2a.2 with its assessment of the victory of imperialist-backed reactionaries as “a boost...
Afghanistan
Document 2a.2 The following article, by John Blake, was originally published in the British Socialist Worker, 19 January 1980. In the original most sentences were separate paragraphs. The Russians are literally digging in for...
Hail the Red Army in Afghanistan!
Down with Islamic Reaction Document 2a.1 The following article, described as “adapted from Workers Vanguard,” was printed in the February-March 1980 issue of Spartacist Canada (no. 41). Tom Riley, currently the editor of 1917,...
Islam, Empire and Revolution
Class War—Not Holy War! Document 1.5 Reprinted from 1917 No. 17, 1996 In April 1991 Sudan’s fundamentalist regime hosted an international Islamist conference in Khartoum. Chaired by Hassan al-Turabi, Sudan’s clerical ruler, delegates from...
ICL on Afghanistan: ‘Realist’ Wiseacres
Document 1.4 Appendix No. 3 The following is a reconstruction, from notes, of an intervention by International Bolshevik Tendency [IBT] supporter Samuel T. at a meeting of the Spartacus Youth Club (SYC—youth group of...
ICL on Afghanistan: Healyites of the Second Mobilization?
Document 1.4 Appendix No. 2 The following is a reconstruction, from notes, of the intervention of International Bolshevik Tendency [IBT] supporter Samuel T. at a Spartacist League (SL) forum in New York City on...
ICL: ‘Save Our Boys’ Socialists
The Fire Last Time… Document 1.4 Appendix No. 1 The following statement was published by the IBT as an appendix to “Where is the ICL Going?” and reprinted in 1917 No. 24, 2002. One...