Excerpts . . . …The theory of permanent revolution holds that there is no independent road of capitalist development available in the age of imperialism. In rejecting the theory of permanent revolution, Barnes rejects...
“Reactionary epochs like ours not only disintegrate and weaken the working class and its vanguard, but also lower the general ideological level of the movement and throw political thinking back to stages long since...
by Harold Lavender In February the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly rejected new military aid to the contras. This was a setback of U.S. President Reagan’s plan to destroy the Sandinista revolution. Of course...
by Barry Weisleder The defeat of President Ronald Reagan’s demand for $36.2 million in aid to the contra mercenaries by the U.S. House of Representatives on February 3 represented a temporary victory for the...
by Robert Adam and Neil Henderson At the time of its signing, the Arias peace plan was hailed by many as a victory for peace in Central America. Now, almost six months later what...
The contents of this bulletin document the recent important political struggle in the Toronto branch of Socialist Challenge [SC—known until May 1988 as the Alliance for Socialist Action (ASA)] over the character and direction...
The complete text of the ICL’s pamphlet, “The International Bolshevik Tendency“What is it? with a point-by-point reply. Introduction Leon Trotsky, the great Russian revolutionary, noted that centrists tend to disparage revolutionaries’ “active concern for...
5 May 1988 Dear comrades: Thank you for your extensive critique of our programmatic statement “For Trotskyism.” We appreciate the opportunity it affords us to elaborate some of the important methodological and programmatic questions...