Trotskyist Bulletin #2

July 5, 1984 to Workers Vanguard Dear Comrades: It’s a funny thing about bad political positions–sometimes they just won’t go away. In this connection, we found your article on the case of U.S. Marine...

[From Workers Vanguard No. 355, 25 May 1984] Defend Corporal Griffin! Refused to Go to Lebanon, Grenada On May 15, a military judge at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina threw the book at U.S. Marine...

March 14, 1984 Spartacist League/Britain Dear Comrades: As a member of a tendency which has recently submitted a reapplication to the iSt, I read with considerable interest A. Gilchrist’s reapplication in Spartacist Britain No. 53 (December...

February 7, 1984 Dear Comrades: “Marxism and Bloodthirstiness” (Workers Vanguard No. 345, 6 January) written in response to our 12 November critique of your social-patriotic call for “Marines Out of Lebanon, Now, Alive!,” tends to...

[From Workers Vanguard, No. 345, 6 January 1984] U.S. imperialism’s trip wires for World War III extend from one end of the globe to the other. Reagan is now engaged in three wars–in Lebanon,...

[From ET Bulletin No. 2, January 1984] On the Slogan “Marines Out of Lebanon, Now, Alive” “O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive.” The key to understanding Reuben...

[From Young Spartacus, No. 113, November 1983] On the Slogan “Marines Out of Lebanon, Now, Alive!” We reprint below edited excerpts of a presentation given by comrade Reuben Samuels to the New York Spartacist...

[ET Statement of 12 November 1983] We condemn the slogan “Marines Out of Lebanon, Now, Alive” as a cowardly, social-patriotic betrayal of the Trotskyist tradition of the iSt. The acid test of a communist...

This pamphlet documents the political struggle between the External Tendency of the international Spartacist tendency (ET) and the leadership of the Spartacist League/U.S. (SL) over the Leninist position on the bombing of the U.S....