# Bolshevik Tendency > For the rebirth of the Fourth International! ## Posts - [Kommunismus & Ökologie](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/kommunismus-okologie/): Menschliche Emanzipation und materialistische Konzeption der Geschichte Nachstehend drucken wir die Übersetzung eines Textes einer IBT-Präsentation bei einer Podiumsdiskussion der Platypus Gruppe an der York Universität in Toronto zum Thema Kapital, Geschichte und Ökologie... - [Die griechische Krise verwalten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/die-griechische-krise-verwalten/): Syriza & die Gefahren der Volksfront Bereits einen Tag nach der Wahl in Griechenland hat sich Syriza für die Bildung einer Volksfrontregierung eingesetzt – ausgerechnet mit den Rechtspopulisten der Unabhängigen Griechen, einer reaktionären und... - [Syriza: Reformismus in Aktion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/syriza-reformismus-in-aktion/): Ein Jahr nach den vorgezogenen Neu-Wahlen vom 25. Januar 2015 halten die Angriffe auf die griechische Arbeiterklasse an. Millionen von Menschen stehen ohne Gesundheitsversorgung da und tausende Rentner versuchen aus ihrem schmalen Einkommen, Kinder... - [marx21: Verwirrt im LINKEN-Sumpf](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/marx21-verwirrt-im-linken-sumpf/): Die Spaltung und Neuausrichtung der Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) mit dem Wegbrechen des Lucke/Henkel-Flügels, sowie die Beharrlichkeit, mit der die Rechten aus Pegida, Nazis und Rassisten ihre reaktionären Demonstrationen abhalten, hat zu einer Radikalisierung... - [Das Elend des Reformismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/das-elend-des-reformismus/): Partei die Linke in Regierung und Opposition Die Proteste gegen das G7-Treffen auf Schloss Elmau im Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen im Juni 2015 haben ebenso wie der Massenprotest gegen die Freihandelsabkommen TTIP und CETA in Berlin... - [Proletarischer Internationalismus und der Kampf gegen die Festung Europa](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/proletarischer-internationalismus-und-der-kampf-gegen-die-festung-europa/): Verteidigt die Flüchtlinge gegen Terror und Abschiebungen! Zerschlagt die rassistischen und faschistischen Mobilisierungen! Die Welle rassistischer Gewalt gegen Flüchtlingsunterkünfte und die rechten Mobilisierungen gegen Flüchtlinge bedürfen einer revolutionären Antwort. Wenn Polizisten tagelang einen rassistischen... - [Reaktionäre Offensive](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/reaktionare-offensive/): Hogesa, Pegida, Mahnwachen Die rassistischen Mobilisierungen von Hogesa (Hooligans gegen Salafisten), einem Bündnis aus rechten Fussballfans mit Neonazis und Rassisten, das Aufleben von Pegida (Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes), einem Bündnis aller... - [Keinen Frieden mit den Mahn- und Wahnwachen!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/keinen-frieden-mit-den-mahn-und-wahnwachen/): Anfang Februar dieses Jahres tauchte in Deutschland eine neue politische Bewegung auf die mit Demonstrationen und Mahnwachen auf sich aufmerksam machte. Diese Bewegung sieht sich in der Tradition der pazifistischen Friedensbewegung und titulierte ihre... - [Nieder mit dem rassistischen Polizeiterror](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/nieder-mit-dem-rassistischen-polizeiterror/): Von Ferguson bis New York – Steckt die Polizeimörder ins Gefängnis! 1857 entschied der US Supreme Court, dass Menschen afrikanischer Herkunft „keine Rechte“ hatten, „die ein Weißer zu respektieren hätte“. Gleich, ob Sklaven oder... - [Wer wir sind](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/wer-wir-sind/): Die Internationale Bolschewistische Tendenz (IBT) ist eine revolutionäre sozialistische Organisation, gegründet von ehemaligen Kadern der internationalen Spartacist Tendenz (heute Internationale Kommunistische Liga). Der folgende Text ist ein Auszug aus dem Dokument „Für den Trotzkismus!“... - [Für den Trotzkismus!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/fur-den-trotzkismus/): Programmatische Deklaration der Bolschewistischen Tendenz Dieses Dokument ist eine Übersetzung aus 1917 Nr. 3, Frühling 1987. Es wurde ursprünglich als Grundlage für die Fusion der Bolshevik Tendency und der Left Trotskyist Tendency in Nord-Amerika... - [Die Ukraine: Eine revolutionäre internationalistische Perspektive](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/die-ukraine-eine-revolutionare-internationalistische-perspektive/): Dies ist die Übersetzung eines leicht editierten Redebeitrags eines IBT-Sprechers bei einer Veranstaltung der International Marxist Tendency (IMT) zur Situation in der Ukraine am 21. Mai 2014 in Toronto. Der aktuelle Aufruhr in der... - [Einheit, Klasse, Programm](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/einheit-klasse-programm/): Editierte Version eines Beitrags von IBT-Unterstützerin Barbara Dorn während einer Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema „Ist die linke Einheit notwendig?“ bei der Europäischen Platypus-Konferenz, London, 19. Juli 2014 Eine der Fragen, der wir oft begegnen, ist:... - [TTIP: Ein Angriff auf die Arbeiterklasse](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/ttip-ein-angriff-auf-die-arbeiterklasse/): Seit Juli 2013 verhandeln die EU-Kommission und Regierungsvertreter der USA sowie Lobbyisten aller relevanten industriellen Sparten um ein Freihandelsabkommen zwischen den Wirtschaftsräumen der EU und der USA. Es ist in mehr als einer Hinsicht... - [Nahles ganz Schröder](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/nahles-ganz-schroder/): SPD greift Gewerkschaftsrechte an Am 28. Oktober 2014 stellte Bundesarbeitsministerin Andrea Nahles (SPD) einen „Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Regelung der Tarifeinheit (Tarifeinheitsgesetz)“ vor. Das erklärte Ziel dieses Gesetzes soll die Sicherung der Funktionsfähigkeit der... - [Europas Krieg gegen Flüchtlinge](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/europas-krieg-gegen-fluchtlinge/): Europa zeigt in der Frage der ankommenden Flüchtlinge seine rassistische Visage in voller Pracht. Das Errichten von Grenzzäunen, das Schreddern der letzten Reste des demokratischen Rechtes auf Asyl, die rassistische Gewalt, entweder durch Rassisten... - [Über Liebe und Ehe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/uber-liebe-und-ehe/): Friedrich Engels Wenn aber die Monogamie von allen bekannten Familienformen diejenige war, unter der allein sich die moderne Geschlechtsliebe entwickeln konnte, so heißt das nicht, daß sie sich ausschließlich oder nur vorwiegend in ihr,... - [Liebe und Ehe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/liebe-und-ehe/): Queer lebende Menschen, Kapitalismus und Gleichstellung Nach einer sechseinhalb Monate dauernden Passage durch das Parlament wurde die Ehe gleichgeschlechtlicher Paare in Neuseeland schließlich im April 2013 legalisiert. Zu den Fragen, die von linken, queer... - [Trotzkismus versus Castroismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/trotzkismus-versus-castroismus/): Der folgende Text ist eine leicht überarbeitete Version der Ausführungen eines Unterstützers der IBT auf einem Kuba Solidaritätstreffen am 20. Juli 2012 in Hartford, Connecticut, das gemeinsam von Socialist Action und der Socialist Workers... - [Immer schön realistisch](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/immer-schon-realistisch/): Wie der RSB die kapitalistische Krise lösen will Der Revolutionär Sozialistische Bund (RSB) hat im Sommer 2013 eine Reihe von Forderungen aufgestellt, die er zusammengenommen als „Sofortprogramm gegen die Krise“ präsentierte („Unser Leben ist mehr wert als... - [Rechte Politik und Kapitulation der Partei DIE LINKE](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/rechte-politik-und-kapitulation-der-partei-die-linke/): Der Wahlsieg der CDU/CSU markiert einen Rechtsruck, der von einem aggressiveren Auftreten des deutschen Imperialismus nach innen und außen begleitet wird. Mithilfe der bürgerlichen Arbeiterpartei SPD, deren Verbundenheit zur Gewerkschaftsführung ein wichtiger Aspekt für... - [Kapitalistische Krise & die EU](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/kapitalistische-krise-die-eu/): Für die Sozialistischen Vereinigten Staaten von Europa! Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa – das Gespenst massiver und chaotischer sozialer Unruhen ausgelöst durch brutale Sparmaßnahmen, die verhängt wurden, um die fehlgeschlagenen Wetten von Bankiers... - [Gleiches Recht für Schwule und Lesben](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/gleiches-recht-fur-schwule-und-lesben/): Homosexuelle können in Deutschland zwar eine sogenannte Lebenspartnerschaft eingehen, doch bleiben ihnen viele Privilegien der Verheirateten verwehrt. Der bürgerliche Lesben- und Schwulenverband in Deutschland (LSVD) fordert seit Jahren die Öffnung der Ehe für Homosexuelle.... - [Kapitalismus und Homophobie](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/kapitalismus-und-homophobie/): Marxismus und der Kampf für die Rechte von Schwulen und Lesben Revolutionäre müssen danach streben, die Schwulenfrage sowohl aus wissenschaftlichen wie programmatischen Gründen zu verstehen. Marxisten haben immer danach gestrebt, die Gesellschaft als Ganze... - [Die Organisation fällt nicht weit vom Programm](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/die-organisation-fallt-nicht-weit-vom-programm/): Seit Oktober 2012 beteiligt sich die IBT als Beobachter an den Diskussionen innerhalb der Neuen Antikapitalistischen Organisation (NAO). Wir haben uns dazu entschlossen, an den Diskussionen teilzunehmen, da die verschiedenen Gruppen und Individuen, die... - [Kritische Geschichte der Ligue Communiste](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/18/kritische-geschichte-der-ligue-communiste/): Wandlungen des Pabloismus Dieser Artikel wurde kurz vor Pompidous Tod im April 1974 verfasst. Inzwischen haben französische Anhänger des Vereinigten Sekretariats die Front Communiste Révolutionnaire (FCR) gebildet. Die FCR stellte Alain Krivine in der... - [Ursprünge des Pabloismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/18/ursprunge-des-pabloismus/): Die SWP und die Vierte Internationale, 1946-54 Die amerikanische Socialist Workers Party und die europäischen Pabloisten sind auf verschiedenen Wegen und in unterschiedlichem Rhythmus zum Revisionismus gelangt, um sich Anfang der sechziger Jahre in... - [TB #7: Marxism and the Quebec National Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/17/tb-7-marxism-and-the-quebec-national-question/) - [TB #6: Polemics with the Internationalist Group](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/17/tb-6-polemics-with-the-internationalist-group/) - [TB #5: ICL vs. IBT](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/17/tb-5-icl-vs-ibt/): 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... - [Die Grenzen des linken Pabloismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/13/die-grenzen-des-linken-pabloismus/): Der Revolutionär Sozialistische Bund/IV. Internationale (RSB) ist in Deutschland eine der beiden Organisationen, die sich historisch auf das politische Erbe des Vereinigten Sekretariats der IV. Internationale beziehen. Im Gegensatz zu seiner Schwesterorganisation, internationale sozialistische linke (isl), die sich... - [Kapitalistische Sparprogramme & griechische Arbeiterklasse](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/13/kapitalistische-sparprogramme-griechische-arbeiterklasse/): Der folgende Artikel eines britischen IBT-Unterstützers wurde am 26. November 2012 auf der website der Anticapitalist Initiative (www.anticapitalists.org) veröffentlicht und von dort übersetzt. Griechenland bleibt das Epizentrum der langsam vor sich gehenden wirtschaftlichen und... - [Kapitalismus und Frauenunterdrückung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/kapitalismus-und-frauenunterdruckung/):   “Die Sozialisten müssen vor allem wissen, daß auf der ökonomi­schen Abhängigkeit oder Unabhängigkeit die soziale Sklaverei oder Freiheit beruht.” — Clara Zetkin: Für die Befreiung der Frau. Rede auf dem internationalen Arbeiter­kongress zu... - [Frauen, wollt ihr wohl daheim bleiben!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/frauen-wollt-ihr-wohl-daheim-bleiben/): Im 21. Jahrhundert, also ganz aktuell hat sich die Regierung der Bundesrepublik eine erneute Kampagne ausgedacht, um die Frauen zurück an den Herd zu bekommen. Mit scheinbar neuen Argumenten wird ein sogenanntes Betreuungsgeld angepriesen,... - [Die Occupy Wall Street-Bewegung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/die-occupy-wall-street-bewegung/): Der Kapitalismus kann nicht repariert werden – Enteignet die 1%! Der Zuccotti Park in Manhattan liegt dem Gelände des ehemaligen World Trade Centers direkt gegenüber. Demon­stranten haben ihn in „Liberty Square“ (Freiheitsplatz) umbe­nannt, der... - [Britische Riots](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/britische-riots/): Vertreter der IBT spricht zu Duisburger Anarchisten Im Oktober 2011 lud die Duisburger Ortsgruppe der anarcho-syndikalistischen Freien ArbeiterInnen Union (FAU) ein Mitglied der Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz ein, um vor Ihrer Gruppe über die Aufstände... - [Revolutionäres Feuer gegen kapitalistisches Elend!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/revolutionares-feuer-gegen-kapitalistisches-elend/): “Die Kautskyaner […] führen diese Erscheinungen eines „gesunden“, „friedlichen“, „auf friedlichem Verkehr“ beruhenden Kapitalismus an und stellen sie der finanziellen Ausplünderung, den Bankmonopolen, den Geschäften der Banken mit der Staats­macht, der kolonialen Unterdrückung etc.... - [Lebendig begraben](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/lebendig-begraben/): Für die sofortige Freilassung von Mumia Abu-Jamal Pünktlich zum 30. Jahrestag der Inhaftierung von Mumia Abu-Jamal, der „Stimme der Entrechteten“, hat Philadelphias Bezirksstaatsanwalt Seth Williams mitgeteilt, dass die Todes­strafe gegen den afroamerikanischen Journalisten nicht... - [NATO-Bomben für die Revolution - Die Gruppe Arbeitermacht und ihre „tragische Illusion“](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/nato-bomben-fur-die-revolution-die-gruppe-arbeitermacht-und-ihre-tragische-illusion/): Als es schien, dass sich die Fackel des arabischen Frühlings auch in Libyen entflammen würde, bezog die Gruppe Arbeiter­macht (GAM) von der ersten Minute an Stellung für die Aufständischen, und sah sie als authentische... - [Nieder mit dem NATO-Krieg gegen Libyen!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/nieder-mit-dem-nato-krieg-gegen-libyen/): Im März beschloss die UNO eine militärische Einmischung in den libyschen Bürgerkrieg zwischen der Regierung von Muammar al-Gaddafi und der Opposition im Osten des Lan­des. Deutschlands Regierung profilierte sich am Anfang des Konfliktes mit... - [Für einen klassenkämpferischen Antifaschismus!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/fur-einen-klassenkampferischen-antifaschismus/): Kein Vertrauen in den bürgerlichen Staat! Am 4. November wurde mit der Entdeckung von zwei toten Bankräubern, Uwe Mundlos und Uwe Böhnhardt, ein Fass ins Rollen gebracht, das tiefe Einblicke in den Zustand Deutsch­lands... - [Strategien der palästinensischen Befreiung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/strategien-der-palastinensischen-befreiung/): Zur Kampagne „Boykott, Desinvestition und Sanktionen“ Am 23. September 2011 brachte Palästinenser­präsident Mahmud Abbas einen Antrag auf Staatsgründung vor die UNO. Dieses Vorgehen sorgte für erhebliches Aufsehen und polarisierte die Weltgemeinschaft. Die israelische Regierung,... - [Internationale Bolschewistische Tendenz an den Revolutionär-Sozialistischen Bund - Brief vom 18. Februar 2010](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/internationale-bolschewistische-tendenz-an-den-revolutionar-sozialistischen-bund-brief-vom-18-februar-2010/): Liebe Genossinnen und Genossen des RSB, wir haben mit Interesse eure Kritik am Papier „Rolle und Aufgaben der Vierten Internationale“ gelesen, das auf der bevorstehenden Welt-Konferenz des Vereinigten Sekretariats der Vierten Internationale verabschiedet werden... - [Roma und Sinti — EU sucht Sündenböcke](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/roma-und-sinti-eu-sucht-sundenbocke/): Im August begann die französische Polizei mit Razzien und Auflösungen der Wohnstätten von Roma und Sinti. Zuvor hatte die Regierung eine Propaganda-Kampagne gegen die in Frankreich lebenden Roma gestartet. Hunderte wurden nach Rumänien und... - [Zum BP Öl-Desaster](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/zum-bp-ol-desaster/): Folgende Erklärung wurde von einem Unterstützer der IBT auf einem Forum in Toronto am 5. Juni 2010 abgegeben: Die BP-Ölpest, schon jetzt das weitaus schlimmste Umweltdesaster in der nordamerikanischen Geschichte, wird das Ökosystem in... - [Für die sofortige Freilassung von Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/fur-die-sofortige-freilassung-von-mumia-abu-jamal/): Am 9. November 2010 fand eine Kundgebung von ca. 20 Menschen vor dem Hamburg America Center statt. Das folgende Statement wurde verteilt: Am 19. Dezember 1981 wurde der Polizist Daniel Faulkner erschossen. Mumia Abu-Jamal... - [Kapitalismus mit Grünem Punkt](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/kapitalismus-mit-grunem-punkt/): Der aktuelle Aufwärtstrend in Umfragen für BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN, die im Bundestag die kleinste Fraktion stellen, ist ein Indiz für die Verunsicherung des kleinbürgerlichen Lagers. Während die Regierungspolitik der Schwarz-Gelben Koalition von CDU und... - [Sparsamer Widerstand gegen Sparpaket](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/sparsamer-widerstand-gegen-sparpaket/): Die deutsche Bourgeoisie jubelt. Die Krise sei angeblich überwunden. Dies ist eine reine Propagandaveranstaltung, während die kapitalistische Wirtschaft in die nächste Krise steuert. Die Überproduktion bei den Autoherstellern, die noch immer existierenden faulen Kredite... - [Massen-Streikposten blockieren israelisches Schiff!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/massen-streikposten-blockieren-israelisches-schiff/): Palästinensische Gewerkschafter begrüßen Aktion in Oakland Am Sonntag, dem 20. Juni verhinderte eine Massenstreikpostenkette von 700 bis 800 Arbeitern und Aktivisten für 24 Stunden erfolgreich die Entladung des israelischen Zim Lines Schiffes Zim Shenzhen... - [Israels Angriff auf Pazifisten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/israels-angriff-auf-pazifisten/): Die seit 2007 andauernde Blockade des Gazastreifens durch Israel bedeutet für die Bevölkerung eine humanitäre Katastrophe. Auch wenn nach internationalen Protesten die Blockade durch Israel gelockert wurde, ist die Lage im Gazastreifen weiter von... - [Verteidigt Nordkorea! Stürzt die Bürokratie — Für revolutionäre Wiedervereinigung!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/verteidigt-nordkorea-sturzt-die-burokratie-fur-revolutionare-wiedervereinigung/): Am 23. November feuerte Artillerie aus der Demokratischen Volksrepublik Korea (DVRK, umgangssprachlich Nordkorea) 130 Granaten auf Yeonpyeong, eine kleine Insel in umstrittenen Gewässern nahe der nordkoreanischen Küste, auf der sich ein südkoreanischer Militärstützpunkt befindet.... - [Der politische Streik](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/der-politische-streik/): Der erste dokumentierte Streik ereignete sich vor mehr als 3000 Jahren. Im Jahre 1159 vor unserer Zeitrechnung legten die Arbeiter beim Bau der Königsgräber in Theben die Arbeit nieder und forderten mit dem Ruf... - [Leo Trotzki: Grundlage des bürokratischen Kommandos](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/leo-trotzki-grundlage-des-burokratischen-kommandos/): Grundlage des bürokratischen Kommandos ist die Armut der Gesellschaft an Verbrauchsgegenständen mit dem daraus entstehenden Kampf aller gegen alle. Wenn genug Waren im Laden sind, können die Käufer kommen, wann sie wollen. Wenn die... - [Karl Liebknecht: Militarismus und Antimilitarismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/karl-liebknecht-militarismus-und-antimilitarismus/): „Das klassenbewußte Proletariat steht daher jener internationalen Aufgabe der Armee wie der gesamten kapitalistischen Ausdehnungspolitik nicht nur kühl bis ans Herz hinan, sondern in ernster und zielbewußter Feindschaft gegenüber. Es hat die vornehmste Aufgabe,... - [Die DDR — „Sozialismus“ in einem halben Land](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/die-ddr-sozialismus-in-einem-halben-land/): Auch 20 Jahre nach der Konterrevolution in der DDR ist der Hass der deutschen Bourgeoisie auf den deformierten Arbeiterstaat DDR ungebrochen. Besonders zu beunruhigen scheint die herrschende Klasse hierbei, dass sich große Teile der... - [GAM und SpAD zum Ende der DDR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/gam-und-spad-zum-ende-der-ddr/): Der Opportunismus hat viele Gesichter GAM: Arbeiterkontrolle über alles Die Gruppe Arbeitermacht (GAM), deutsche Sektion der Liga für die Fünfte Internationale (LFI) war stets darum bemüht, sich als konstruktiv kritisch darzustellen. So befürwortete sie,... - [Klassenjustiz und Rassismus — Mumia Abu-Jamal ist unschuldig](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/klassenjustiz-und-rassismus-mumia-abu-jamal-ist-unschuldig/): Seit mehr als 28 Jahren sitzt Mumia Abu-Jamal unschuldig im Gefängnis. Wer sich mit dem Fall befasst hat, findet schnell die Beweise für seine Unschuld: Ihm wurde die Tötung des Polizisten Daniel Faulkner am... - [Zur Abstimmung über den Lissabon-Vertrag](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/zur-abstimmung-uber-den-lissabon-vertrag/): Den nachstehenden Brief schrieben wir am 29. September 2009 an die Socialist Party (SP) in Irland. Die SP ist Teil des Komitees für eine Arbeiterinternationale (KAI/CWI). Ihre deutsche Schwesterorganisation ist die Sozialistische Alternative (SAV).... - [Protektionismus - Gift für internationale Arbeitersolidarität](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/protektionismus-gift-fur-internationale-arbeitersolidaritat/): Seit Ausbruch der Krise haben Teile der internationalen Bourgeoisie, die noch vor kurzem den globalen Freihandel als vollkommen alternativlos ansahen, Gefallen an staatlichen Interventionen zum Aufkaufen ihrer maroden Betriebe oder faulen Kredite wieder entdeckt.... - [Widerstand statt Kapitulation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/widerstand-statt-kapitulation/): Eine Krise der Führung der Arbeiterklasse Laut einer BBC-Studie in 27 Ländern sind nur 11% der Befragten mit der Funktion des existierenden Systems zufrieden. Offensichtlich gibt es ein Potential für das Anwachsen eines revolutionären... - [Wahlbetrug, Vergewaltigung und NATO-Terror: Imperialistische ‚Aufklärung‘ scheitert am Hindukusch](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/wahlbetrug-vergewaltigung-und-nato-terror-imperialistische-aufklarung-scheitert-am-hindukusch/): Die massiven Fälschungen bei den Wahlen und die militärischen Erfolge der Taliban und der anderen Gruppen, die Widerstand gegen die imperialistische Besatzung durch die NATO unter der Führung der USA leisten, haben Afghanistan wieder... - [Ursachen kapitalistischer Krisen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/08/ursachen-kapitalistischer-krisen/): Der moderne Moloch Die gegenwärtige Krise des Kapitalismus hat aufs Neue die Frage nach den allgemeinen Gründen solcher Krisen aufgeworfen und, ob die jetzige hätte abgewendet werden können. Diese Frage ist für die Ökonomen... - [Für einen revolutionären Antifaschismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/08/fur-einen-revolutionaren-antifaschismus/): Der Kampf gegen den Faschismus ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil im Selbstverständnis der revolutionären Organisation. Die faschistische Bewegung hat in den letzten Jahren erheblich an Boden gewonnen. Der Einzug der faschistischen Nationaldemokratischen Partei Deutschlands (NPD)... - [Staatlichkeit & Anarchie in der Spanischen Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/08/staatlichkeit-anarchie-in-der-spanischen-revolution/): Proletarische Revolution statt Staatsverneinung Der spanische Bürgerkrieg ist bis heute Projektionsfläche der Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Anarchisten und Marxisten, Zentristen und Stalinisten jeglicher Couleur und bildet außerhalb Deutschlands auch die Grundlage für die Auseinandersetzung zwischen verschiedenen... - [TB #3: Reply to WP by BT](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/07/tb-3-reply-to-wp-by-ibt/): 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... - [TB #3: Workers Power critique](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/07/tb-3-workers-power-critique/): Movement for a Revolutionary Communist International London, England April 2nd 1987 Dear Comrades, We have been waiting for the arrival of your newspaper to compare the final version of the fusion documents with those... - [TB #3: For Trotskyism!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/07/tb-3-for-trotskyism/): BT/LTT Fusion Document The following document was adopted by the fusion conference of the Bolshevik Tendency and the Left Trotskyist Tendency as a codification of the programmatic agreement reached by the two organizations. 1.... - [TB #3: In Defence of the Trotskyist Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/07/tb-3-in-defence-of-the-trotskyist-program/): Polemic with Workers Power Table of Contents For Trotskyism! – Bolshevik Tendency and the Left Trotskyist Tendency fusion document, November 1986 Workers Power critique, April 2nd 1987 Reply to WP by BT, 5 May... - [TB #2: Exchange on Corporal Griffin](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/710/): 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... - [TB #2: Black Marine: I Won’t Go!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-black-marine-i-wont-go/): [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... - [TB #2: British Sailors and American Marines](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-british-sailors-and-american-marines/): 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... - [TB #2: Marxism and Social-Patriotism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-marxism-and-social-patriotism/): 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... - [TB #2: Marxism and Bloodthirstiness](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-marxism-and-bloodthirstiness/): [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,... - [TB #2: Reuben’s Tangled Web](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-reubens-tangled-web/): [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... - [TB #2: Imperialist War, the Armed Forces and Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-imperialist-war-the-armed-forces-and-revolution/): [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... - [TB #2: Front page of Workers Vanguard No. 341, 6 November 1983](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-front-page-of-workers-vanguard-no-341-6-november-1983/) - [TB #2: A Loss of Nerve and a Loss of Will](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb2-a-loss-of-nerve-and-a-loss-of-will/): [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... - [TB #2: Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-preface/): 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.... - [TB #2: Marxism vs. Social Patriotism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-marxism-vs-social-patriotism/): (In October 1983, When the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut was blown away, the Spartacist League/U.S. immediately called for saving the survivors. The External Tendency of the iSt labeled this as social-patriotic cowardice.) TABLE... - [Eine Liebe der besonderen Art](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/03/eine-liebe-der-besonderen-art/): Die SAV und die bürgerlichen Arbeiterparteien Nachdem die Sozialistische Alternative (SAV) sich lange gesträubt hatte, im Osten in die Partei Die Linke einzutreten (siehe Bolschewik, Nr. 25) warf sie ihre Bedenken über Bord und... - [Streik gegen den Krieg](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/02/streik-gegen-den-krieg/): US-Hafenarbeiter Am 1. Mai 2008 legten 25.000 Hafenarbeiter der International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) [Internationale Hafen- und Lagerhaus-Gewerkschaft], die traditionell eine der militantesten Gewerkschaften in den Vereinigten Staaten ist, jeden Hafen von San... - [U.S. Empire in Decline](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/01/u-s-empire-in-decline/): Global Realignment and Sharpening Imperialist Rivalry Barack Obama launched his run for the White House by proclaiming: “The American moment is not over, but it must be seized anew. To see American power in... - [Whither China?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/02/27/whither-china/): Political Revolution or Counterrevolution In 1939, James P. Cannon, the historic leader of American Trotskyism, remarked: “Who touches the Russian question, touches a revolution. Therefore, be serious about it. Don’t play with it” (The... - [Nr. 2 - Der August-Putsch - das Ende der Sowjetunion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/01/25/nr-2-der-august-putsch-das-ende-der-sowjetunion/): Drei Tage im August Der sowjetische Rubikon und die Linke In den Wochen nach dem gescheiterten Putschversuch vom 19. bis 21. August war die Internationale Bolschewistische Tendenz im Unterschied zu den selbsternannten Trotzkisten praktisch... - [Nr. 1 - Die SpAD in der DDR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/01/25/die-spad-in-der-ddr/): Opportunismus in revolutionärer Verkleidung Zur Geschichte der Internationalen Kommunistischen Liga Vorwort: Warum publizieren wir diese Broschüre über die Spartakist-Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SpAD), deutsche Sektion der Internationalen Kommunistischen Liga (IKL)? Nach ihrer zwar massiven, aber fatalen... - [TB #1: Only Trotskyism Can Defend the Gains of October](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/01/18/no-1-only-trotskyism-can-defend-the-gains-of-october/): Preface The material in this pamphlet is chiefly comprised of polemics between the External Tendency of the international Spartacist tendency (ET—a grouping of former members of the iSt) and the leadership of the Spartacist... - [Middle East Upheaval](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/middle-east-upheaval/): Imperialist Crimes & Machinations The strategic defeats suffered by the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq have strengthened the position of Iran’s ruling theocrats, who have gained an important ally in Shia-dominated Iraq on... - [Wikileaks, Sex & Imperialist Law](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/wikileaks-sex-imperialist-law/): Hands Off Julian Assange! The following remarks on the campaign against Julian Assange were made by Roxanne Baker of the International Bolshevik Tendency at a debate with the Alliance for Workers Liberty in London... - [Why Marxists Voted ‘No’ on Prop 34](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/why-marxists-voted-no-on-prop-34/): Abolish the Racist Death Penalty! On 6 November 2012, Californians voted down “Prop-osition 34” (aka the “SAFE California Initiative”) which would have converted all death sentences into life without the possibility of parole (LWOP).... - [Veronica Jones & the Frame-up of Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/veronica-jones-the-frame-up-of-mumia-abu-jamal/): A Woman’s Struggle to Tell the Truth Veronica Jones was a key witness at the scene of the murder for which class-war prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was falsely convicted. Her powerful memoire, Veronica & the... - [Leninism: ‘Irreconcilable Ideological Demarcation’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/leninism-irreconcilable-ideological-demarcation/): Bolshevism vs Kautskyism Any serious consideration of the prospects of a socialist future must begin with an assessment of the only successful workers’ revolution, as well as the organization that led it—the Bolshevik Party... - [Trotskyism vs Castroism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/trotskyism-vs-castroism/): IBT Remarks at SA/SWP Cuba Confab The following remarks are a slightly edited version of those made by an IBT supporter at a Cuba Solidarity meeting co-sponsored by Socialist Action and the Socialist Workers... - [Greece: A Crisis of Leadership](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/greece-a-crisis-of-leadership/): Austerity, Resistance & Betrayal Greece remains the epicentre of Europe’s slow-motion economic and political implosion. The June elections did nothing to resolve the crisis, and Greece continues to be profoundly polarized. On the one... - [Cliffites Vote for Muslim Brotherhood](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/cliffites-vote-for-muslim-brotherhood/): ‘Revolutionary Socialists’ Embrace Islamic Reactionaries The following remarks were made by an IBT comrade at an International Socialists meeting in Toronto on 5 June 2012. In his writings on the Spanish Revolution, Trotsky characterized... - [Letter to the Internationalist Group on Quebec](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/letter-to-the-internationalist-group-on-quebec/): Learn to Think 8 June 2012 Comrades, We were pleased to learn that you raised the issue of solidarity with the Quebec student strike during demonstrations at CUNY [City University of New York] on... - [For Workers’ Strikes to Smash Austerity!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/for-workers-strikes-to-smash-austerity/): Quebec Students Show the Way The following IBT statement was distributed in both French and English in Montreal in May 2012. The Liberal government’s decision to raise tuition fees by 75 percent represents an... - [Quebec Students Fight Back](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/quebec-students-fight-back/): Mass Struggle Repels Austerity Attack From February to August 2012, Quebec was rocked by a powerful strike involving hundreds of thousands of students, actively supported by unionized faculty members, many of whom defied court... - [Black Bloc Streetfighters & Liberal Pacifists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/black-bloc-streetfighters-liberal-pacifists/): The Politics of Confrontation On 6 February 2012, Chris Hedges, a journalist, self-described Christian and prominent weathervane of the softer side of American radicalism, opined that Black Bloc anarchists were “the cancer of the... - [Capitalist Crisis & the EU](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/capitalist-crisis-the-eu/): For the Socialist United States of Europe! A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of massive and chaotic social upheaval triggered by brutal austerity measures imposed to cover bad bets made by bankers and financial... - [IMT Glorifies Layton’s Legacy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/imt-glorifies-laytons-legacy/): Fightback’s ‘NDP Family’ Values The following letter was sent to Fightback, journal of the Canadian section of the International Marxist Tendency. 26 August 2011 Comrades, Your 23 August obituary praising NDP leader Jack Layton,... - [‘Marxists Are Not Pacifists’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/marxists-are-not-pacifists/): United-Front Demonstration Against Afghan War The following remarks were made by an IBT spokesperson to an antiwar rally in Toronto on 15 October 2011. The demonstration was organized on a united-front basis to demand:... - [Free Mumia Now!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/free-mumia-now/): Death Sentence Dropped On 7 December 2011, the death sentence imposed on Mumia Abu-Jamal—wrongly convicted for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Falkner 30 years earlier—was finally lifted. Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams... - [IG on ‘Jailing Killer Cops’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/ig-on-jailing-killer-cops/): Sectarian Confusion & Political Dishonesty This statement was posted on www.bolshevik.org on 12 June 2011. In 1917 No.33 (2011), we noted that the Internationalist Group (IG) had ignored the 23 October 2010 port shutdown... - [On the ‘Revolutionary Constituent Assembly’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/on-the-revolutionary-constituent-assembly/): Letter to French Leftists The following is a translation of a letter sent to the Courant Communiste Révolutionnaire (part of the French Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste’s Platform 4 and sympathizers of the Trotskyist Fraction-Fourth International)... - [Capitalist Crisis & Revolutionary Opportunity](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/capitalist-crisis-revolutionary-opportunity/): Sixth International Conference of the IBT In April 2011, delegates from all sections of the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT), as well as non-delegate members and close sympathizers, met in Western Europe for the organization’s... - [For a General Strike to Smash Austerity!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/for-a-general-strike-to-smash-austerity/): Con-Dem & Labour: Different Knife, Same Cuts David Cameron’s ruling Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition hopes to inoculate British capitalism from the economic contagion spreading across the Eurozone by imposing the same draconian austerity measures which... - [Anger Boils Over in Britain](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/anger-boils-over-in-britain/): IBT Speech to German Anarchists In October 2011 the Duisburg branch of the anarcho-syndicalist Freie ArbeiterInnen Union (FAU) invited a member of the International Bolshevik Tendency to speak to their group about the riots... - [Mass Protest Against Police Attack](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/mass-protest-against-police-attack/): On Occupy Oakland’s ‘General Strike’ The attempt by Occupy Oakland to initiate a “general strike” on 2 November 2011 in response to the massive police attack on their encampment a week earlier struck a... - [Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/capitalism-cant-be-fixed/): On the Occupy Movement The following statement was first published on 1 November 2011. Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan sits across the street from the former site of the World Trade Center. Renamed “Liberty... - [Anti-Imperialism vs. Pro-Intervention ‘Solidarity’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/anti-imperialism-vs-pro-intervention-solidarity/): Polemic with Irish Anarchists The following IBT statement was distributed in Ireland in December 2011. When the UN “no-fly” zone over Libya was imposed, the Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) wrote: “the WSM in general... - [Defeat the Imperialists!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/defeat-the-imperialists/): IBT Statement on NATO’s Libya Campaign The following statement was first published by the International Bolshevik Tendency on 1 April 2011. NATO’s massive military campaign in Libya, which is taking place under the guise... - [Libya & the Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/libya-the-left/): NATO, Rebels & ‘Revolutionary’ Apologists Upon hearing of Muammar Qaddafi’s execution, U.S. President Barack Obama, who had shared a photo-op with him as recently as 2009, proclaimed: “working in Libya with friends and allies,... - [Pathologies of Capitalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/pathologies-of-capitalism/): Economic Crisis & Neocolonial Wars The world economy is entering what George Magnus, a senior economic adviser to Switzerland’s UBS bank, has described as “a once-in-a-generation crisis of capitalism, the footprints of which can... - [Down With the G-20!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/down-with-the-g-20/): Drop All Charges Now! In June 2010, comrades of the International Bolshevik Tendency participated in mass demonstrations against the G-20 summit of imperialist gangsters and leaders of “developing” economies that met in Toronto, Canada.... - [Mobilizing for Mumia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/mobilizing-for-mumia/): No to Legal Lynching! Mumia Abu-Jamal, the prize-winning journalist and former Black Panther, has been the target of a racist police/judicial vendetta which extends from the Fraternal Order of Police thugs all the way... - [Killer Cops & Democrats](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/killer-cops-democrats/): Racist Injustice & the Murder of Oscar Grant On 23 October 2010, dockers of Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), along with ILWU Local 34 (clerks) and port workers in... - [Another ‘Blank Page’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/another-blank-page/): IG Ignores ILWU Port Shutdown for Oscar Grant In “IG & Revolutionary Defeatism—‘A Blank Page’” (1917 No.28, 2006), we observed that when unable to explain an event that contradicts its political line, the Internationalist... - [Comrade Bill Savery](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/comrade-bill-savery/): An Exceptional Proletarian Militant The following statement by the IBT’s Ursula Jensen was read at Bill Savery’s memorial meeting, 11 September 2010 in Oakland, California. We will remember Comrade Bill! William Parker Savery was... - [‘A Capitulation to U.S. Imperialism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/a-capitulation-to-u-s-imperialism/): ICL’s Mea Culpa on Haiti In our previous issue we published a polemic against the Spartacist League/International Communist League’s (SL/ICL) endorsement of the U.S. military intervention in Haiti. Subsequently, Workers Vanguard ([WV] 7 May... - [Defend North Korea!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/defend-north-korea/): Oust the Bureaucracy—For Revolutionary Reunification! The following statement by the International Bolshevik Tendency was originally published in December 2010. On 23 November [2010] artillery from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK—aka North Korea)... - [‘Defiance of unjust laws’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/defiance-of-unjust-laws/): Class Struggle Trade Unionism & Critical Support The British government’s attacks on social services, benefits and education are among the most severe across the imperialist countries and are clearly aimed at solving the capitalists’... - [Anti-Imperialism & the WSM](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/anti-imperialism-the-wsm/): Irish Anarchists & the Defense of Neocolonies During Dublin’s Anarchist Bookfair in November 2010, a claim made by a Workers Power supporter that the Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM—Ireland’s leading anarchist organization) had not called... - [Capitalist Austerity & Ireland’s Election](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/capitalist-austerity-irelands-election/): ULA: ‘There is nothing revolutionary about our policies’ The following statement by the International Bolshevik Tendency was distributed in Ireland in February. Many bourgeois commentators are predicting a radically transformed political landscape after this... - [Que Faire?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/que-faire/): For Proletarian Politics The following is a translation of the conclusion of “No to Class Collaboration—Down with the Attack on Pensions!,” an article originally published in 1917, édition française, No.5, September 2010. Millions of... - [LTF & the General Strike](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/ltf-the-general-strike/): Self-Promotion & Timeless Abstractions During the autumn 2010 mass protests against French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s attack on pensions, many of the more class-conscious workers favored the idea of escalating the struggle into a general... - [Class Struggle in France](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/class-struggle-in-france/): The Necessity of Revolutionary Leadership Capitalist austerity has provoked mass protests across Europe—in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Britain and elsewhere. In France, the bourgeoisie is also intent on reversing past concessions; yet the depth... - [Mass Revolt in Egypt](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/mass-revolt-in-egypt/): A Crisis of Revolutionary Leadership The fall of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, long-time dictator of Tunisia, set off shock waves across the Arab world and sparked a popular revolt in Egypt, the most populous... - [Strategies for Palestinian Liberation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/strategies-for-palestinian-liberation/): On the ‘Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions’ Campaign The Israeli ruling class and its international allies are increasingly apprehensive about the growing “delegitimation” of the Zionist state due to widespread revulsion at its bloody crimes.... - [Israeli Apartheid & Palestinian Oppression](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/israeli-apartheid-palestinian-oppression/): For Joint Arab-Jewish Class Struggle to Smash Zionism! Shulamit Aloni is a former leader of Israel’s liberal Meretz party who served as education minister in Yitzhak Rabin’s Labor-led government in the early 1990s. Her... - [‘Revolutionary Process’ & Rose-Tinted Glasses](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/revolutionary-process-rose-tinted-glasses/): IMT on Iran, Yesterday & Today The following letter was sent to the International Marxist Tendency (IMT). 20 June 2009 Comrades, In assessing the recent mass demonstrations in Iran against perceived electoral fraud, Alan... - [EFCA, Bureaucrats & Democrats](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/efca-bureaucrats-democrats/): For Union Independence from the Capitalist State! Reprinted below is a leaflet initially distributed by IBT supporters in the San Francisco Bay Area in Spring 2009. On 10 March 2009, the United States Senate... - [Bolsheviks, Ballots & the Class Line](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/bolsheviks-ballots-the-class-line/): Exchange with CPGB on Lenin’s Electoral Tactics We reprint below an exchange that took place last year in the letters pages of the Weekly Worker, newspaper of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).... - [IBT Supporter Leads Walkout](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/ibt-supporter-leads-walkout/): New Zealand Teachers Protest Cuts On 4 August 2009, teachers and other staff members at Wellington High School in New Zealand’s capital walked off the job to protest the National government’s gutting of Adult... - [Militant Tactics & Poisonous Nationalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/militant-tactics-poisonous-nationalism/): On the Lindsey Oil Refinery Strike The following statement was distributed at the Socialist Workers Party’s July 2009 “Marxism” event in London. On 26 June [2009], construction workers at Total’s Lindsey Oil Refinery defeated... - [For Labor Action to Free Mumia!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/for-labor-action-to-free-mumia/): Cops, Courts Aim to Silence ‘Voice of the Voiceless’ Reprinted below are excerpts from a statement published in February by the San Francisco Bay Area-based “Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal” on recent... - [Haitian Disaster: Neocolonial Nightmare](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/haitian-disaster-neocolonial-nightmare/): Debout, les damnés de la terre! The following statement was presented by an IBT supporter to a meeting of the Toronto Haiti Action Committee on 28 January. Haiti has been devastated by an earthquake,... - [Imperialist Troops Out of Haiti!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/imperialist-troops-out-of-haiti/): Spartacist League’s ‘Real World’ Social-Imperialism In a stunning and almost inexplicable move, the Spartacist League/U.S., leading section of the International Communist League (ICL), has announced its opposition to calling for the removal of U.S.... - [Doubletalk & Zigzags](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/doubletalk-zigzags/): Workers Power, Chávez & the ‘Fifth International’ Delegates to the November 2009 “International Encounter of Left Parties,” held in Caracas at the invitation of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, endorsed his proposal to hold a... - [NPA: France’s New Reformist Party](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/npa-frances-new-reformist-party/): USec Flagship Renounces Trotskyism Reprinted below is a leaflet initially distributed by IBT supporters in London in November 2009. The emergence of France’s Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste (NPA) has generated considerable interest within the European... - [‘People’s War’ in the Himalayas](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/peoples-war-in-the-himalayas/): Maoist ‘New Democracy’ or Permanent Revolution? On 13 February 1996, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) [CPN(M)] launched a “people’s war” in one of the world’s most backward and impoverished countries. The casus belli... - [Capitalist Meltdown](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/capitalist-meltdown/): ‘Inequality, Unemployment & Injustice’ Global capitalism is currently in the grip of the most severe economic contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The ultimate depth and duration of the downturn remain to... - [The Struggle for Revolutionary Leadership](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/the-struggle-for-revolutionary-leadership/): IBT’s Fifth International Conference The International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) held its fifth international conference in April 2008, with delegations representing all sections, as well as members at large, from a total of seven countries.... - [On Jailing Killer Cops](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/on-jailing-killer-cops/): Marxism vs. Sectarian Idiocy In the early hours of 1 January, Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old black man who had been out celebrating the New Year, was killed by a member of the Bay Area... - [Anti-War Strike](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/anti-war-strike/): U.S. Dockers Take Historic Step On 1 May 2008, 25,000 dockers of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), traditionally one of the most militant unions in the United States, shut down every port... - [Workers' Consciousness & Bosses' Laws](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/workers-consciousness-bosses-laws/): The following remarks were made by Howard Keylor, a long-time ILWU militant and International Bolshevik Tendency supporter, during the discussion period following Jack Heyman’s presentation.   The Trotskyist League [Canadian affiliate of the Spartacist... - [Labor Action Against Racism & Apartheid](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/labor-action-against-racism-apartheid/): From San Francisco to Durban The following op-ed piece by Jack Heyman appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on 11 February, three days before ILWU Local 10 sponsored a “Racism, Repression and Rebellion” rally.... - [Workers' Sanctions & the Fourth International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/workers-sanctions-the-fourth-international/): Polemic with the Internationalist Group Some important groundwork for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s May Day 2008 anti-war strike was laid seven months earlier at an October 2007 “Labor Conference to Stop the... - [Women's Rights in ‘Pro-Life’ Ireland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/womens-rights-in-pro-life-ireland/): Free Abortion on Demand! The following statement by the International Bolshevik Tendency has been distributed at abortion rights events in Dublin and Cork. Since October 1983, the constitution of the Republic of Ireland has... - [Smash the BNP!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/smash-the-bnp/): British Fascism on the Rise Fascism is gaining ground in Britain. In May 2008, British National Party (BNP) cadre Richard Barnbrook became the first fascist to win a seat in the Greater London Assembly.... - [Capitalism in Crisis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/capitalism-in-crisis/): A Marxist Analysis of the Global Downturn The following is an edited version of a public lecture delivered by Murray E. G. Smith at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario on 12 November 2008.... - [Imperialism & Global Inequality](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/imperialism-global-inequality/): Capitalist Accumulation & Neo-Colonial Pillage In Imperialism and World Economy (1915), Nikolai Bukharin, one of Vladimir Lenin’s closest collaborators, observed that the “internationalization of economic life” (today referred to as “globalization”), which derives from... - [Le devoir révolutionnaire pur et simple](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/le-devoir-revolutionnaire-pur-et-simple/): Le texte suivant est un extrait d’une lettre d’un sympathisant de la Tendance bolchévique internationale en réponse à plusieurs questions posées quant à notre caractérisation de la Ligue communiste internationale (LCI) ainsi qu’à l’égard... - [Deux marques concurrentes de la contre-révolution?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/deux-marques-concurrentes-de-la-contre-revolution/): Un échange polémique à propos du coup d’État d’août 1991… L’été dernier le camarade Marc D., un sympathisant de la Ligue communiste internationale (LCI) à Montréal a été gagné au programme de la Tendance... - [La contre-révolution triomphe en URSS](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/la-contre-revolution-triomphe-en-urss/): Défendez les travailleurs soviétiques contre les attaques d’Eltsine! La Tendance bolchévique internationale a publié la déclaration suivante en septembre 1991: Le coup d’État avorté de Moscou du 19 au 21 août 1991 était si... - [A Brief Sketch of the Militant Tendency’s History](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/a-brief-sketch-of-the-militant-tendencys-history/): Christoph Lichtenberg The origins of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI, formerly known as the Militant Tendency) can be traced to a 1937 split in a small Trotskyist group known as Militant led... - [Screws Out of the TUC!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/screws-out-of-the-tuc/): Which Side Are You On? The following statement, dated 10 November 2007, was produced by the IBT’s London branch. On 29 August, the Prison Officers Association (POA) defied the government and walked off the... - [For a New, Revolutionary, Workers’ Party!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/for-a-new-revolutionary-workers-party/): Why we’re not signing the Socialist Party’s ‘Declaration’ The Socialist Party’s ‘Campaign for a new workers’ party’ (www.cnwp.org.uk), launched at their ‘Socialism 2005’ weekend in November, has produced a ‘Declaration for a New Workers’... - [‘The most disgraceful defeat’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/the-most-disgraceful-defeat/): PCS capitulation on pension scheme ‘No revolutionist who weighs his words will contend that a victory would have been guaranteed by proceeding along this line. But a victory was possible only on this road.... - [The Police - continued](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/appendix-a3-2/): Mirrored from www.socialistparty.org.uk/pamphlets/state2006/1.htm on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:20:38 GMT (Edited to view outside CWI’s frameset) Marxism and the state: an exchange 2. Policy of Force – and the Need for Democratic Control The... - [The Police](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/appendix-a3/): Mirrored from www.socialistparty.org.uk/pamphlets/state2006/1.htm on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:20:38 GMT (Edited to view outside CWI’s frameset) Marxism and the state: an exchange 1. Trade Union Rights! The Police and the Labour Movement Workers taking... - [The State: A Marxist Programme and Transitional Demands](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/appendix-a2/): Mirrored from www.socialistparty.org.uk/pamphlets/state2006/1.htm on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:20:38 GMT (Edited to view outside CWI’s frameset) Marxism and the state: an exchange The State: A Marxist Programme and Transitional Demands Lynn Walsh INTRODUCTION On... - [Marxists and the State](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/appendix-1a/): (Mirrored from www.socialistparty.org.uk/pamphlets/state2006/1.htm on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:20:38 GMT ) (Edited to view outside CWI’s frameset) Marxism and the state: an exchange Re: Marxists and the State Michael Wainwright Over the last two... - [Marxism vs. ‘Militant’ Reformism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/marxism-vs-militant-reformism-2/): Contents Main Article: The CWI’s Kautskyan Caricature of Trotskyism Appendix A Exchange on the state between Michael W. and Lynn Walsh Marxists and the State Michael W., 2006 The State: A Marxist Programme and... - [The CWI’s Kautskyan Caricature of Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/marxism-vs-militant-reformism/): ‘That the state is an organ of the rule of a definite class which cannot be reconciled with its antipode (the class opposite to it) is something the petty-bourgeois democrats will never be able... - [Nr. 5 - Solidarność](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/22/solidarnosc/): Bewährungsprobe für Trotzkisten I. Polen 1981: Schlüssel für trotzkistische Umgruppierung Es ist klar, dass es keine Überlegung geben kann, eine neue Internationale durch Organisationen aufzubauen, die grundsätzlich verschiedene oder sogar entgegengesetzte prinzipielle Grundlagen haben.... - [TB Nr. 4 - Plattformismus & Bolschewismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/22/plattformismus-bolschewismus/): Eine Polemik gegen plattformistischen Anarchismus Inhalt: Teil 1: Plattformismus & Bolschewismus – Eine Polemik gegen plattformistischen Anarchismus Teil 2: Verteidigung des Leninismus – Anarchistische Organisation und Avantgardismus   “Die maßgeblichste Gruppe [von Anarchisten im... - [Verteidigung des Leninismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/22/verteidigung-des-leninismus/): Anarchistische Organisation und Avantgardismus Die Frage, welcher Typ revolutionärer Organisation, wenn überhaupt, notwendig ist, war für Anarchisten schon immer heikel. Der allerhärteste „organisatorische“ Trend unter Anarchisten ist der „Plattformismus“, benannt nach der Plattform von... - [Pour le trotskysme!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/22/pour-le-trotskysme/): Ce document (traduit en français de 1917, no. 3, édition de langue anglaise) spécifie les positions politiques fondamentales sur lesquelles la Quatrième Internationale était établie. En même temps, il adresse aux questions qui distinguent... - [Nr. 3 - NEPAL „Volkskrieg“ im Himalaya](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/trotzkistisches-bulletin-nr-3-nepal-volkskrieg-im-himalaya-2/): Inhalt I. Maoistische „Neue Demokratie“ oder Permanente Revolution? II. Nepalesischer Maoismus: Vom „Volkskrieg“ zum „Mehrparteiensystem“ III. Maoistische Metaphysik: Das „Neue Demokratie“-Rätsel IV. Quellen - [TB Nr.3: Quellen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/tb-nr-3-quellen/): Quellen Für die Übersetzung der Quellen wurden möglichst deutschsprachige Veröffentlichungen herangezogen. In allen anderen Fällen handelt es sich um eigene Übersetzungen. Adhikari 2009a Adhikari, Aditya: Other parties fear if the budget is implemented the... - [TB Nr.3: III. Maoistische Metaphysik: Das „Neue Demokratie“-Rätsel](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/tb-nr-3-iii-maoistische-metaphysik-das-neue-demokratie-ratsel/): Die dramatischen Entwicklungen in Nepal haben international erhebliche Diskussionen zwischen Maoisten ausgelöst, vor allem innerhalb der Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM), die 1984 von 20 maoistischen Organisationen aus der ganzen Welt, einschließlich der KPN(M), gegründet... - [TB Nr.3: II. Nepalesischer Maoismus: Vom „Volkskrieg“ zum „Mehrparteiensystem“](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/tb-nr-3-ii-nepalesischer-maoismus-vom-volkskrieg-zum-mehrparteiensystem/): Als Ursprung des Kommunismus in Nepal wird oft ein Streik im Jahr 1947 in der Biratnager Jute- und Tuchfabrik unter der Führung von Man Mohan Adhikari, einem Aktivisten der Kommunistischen Partei Indiens, ausgemacht. Der... - [TB Nr.3: I. Maoistische „Neue Demokratie“ oder Permanente Revolution?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/trotzkistisches-bulletin-nr-3-nepal-volkskrieg-im-himalaya/): Am 13. Februar 1996 begann die Kommunistische Partei Nepals (Maoisten) [KPN(M)] einen „Volkskrieg“ in einem der rückständigsten und ärmsten Länder der Welt. Der casus belli war die Weigerung der regierenden Koalition unter Führung der... - [Nach G20 – Verteidigt das Demonstrationsrecht!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/nach-g20-verteidigt-das-demonstrationsrecht/): Das G20-Treffen in Hamburg 2017 ist bereits Geschichte, doch über das, was dort geschehen ist, wird noch lange debattiert und vor Gerichten verhandelt werden. Der lange Anlauf der bürgerlichen Repression, seine akribische Vorbereitung mittels... - [Vereinigte Ausbeuter an der Elbe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/vereinigte-ausbeuter-an-der-elbe/): Das Treffen der G20 in Hamburg findet in einer angespannten Weltlage statt, denn die bestehende Ordnung wird gerade aktiv umgestaltet. Die Krisen der EU und der US-amerikanischen Wirtschaft, die imperialistischen Kriegsdrohungen in Südostasien, die... - [Hände weg von Nordkorea!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/hande-weg-von-nordkorea/): Die Internationale Bolschewistische Tendenz verurteilt Washingtons unverschämte Drohungen, das massive Atomwaffenarsenal gegen Nordkorea einzusetzen. Wir fordern ein Ende der UN-Sanktionen und die Entfernung aller US-Streitkräfte aus Südkorea. Die Vereinigten Staaten, das einzige Land, das... - [Oury Jalloh](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/oury-jalloh/): Und es war doch Mord! Neueste Erkenntnisse ergeben, dass die Umstände des Todes von Oury Jalloh am 7. Januar 2005 in Dessau eindeutig Mord waren, begangen von Polizeibeamten, die Oury Jalloh einige Stunden vorher... - [Die Politik der Verwässerung Gestern und Heute](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/die-politik-der-verwasserung-gestern-und-heute/): Offener Brief an die Opposition innerhalb der „Vierten Internationale“ 2.Juni 2017 Genossinnen und Genossen, mit großem Interesse haben wir euer Dokument „Opposition formed in the Fourth International“ [„Opposition in der Vierten Internationale gegründet“] gelesen,... - [Staat und Partei](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/staat-und-partei/): Die Lehren des Roten Oktobers Nachstehend veröffentlichen wir einen Auszug aus „Wir feiern den Roten Oktober: Die Russische Revolution in historischer Perspektive“, zuerst veröffentlicht in englischer Sprache am 23. Oktober 2017. Die Russische Revolution... - [Unabhängigkeit für Katalonien!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/unabhangigkeit-fur-katalonien/): Nieder mit Madrids staatlicher Repression! Die Internationale Bolschewistische Tendenz verurteilt Madrids ungeheuerliche Gewaltanwendung, um Kataloniens Unabhängigkeitsreferendum vom 1. Oktober zu unterdrücken. Wir stellen uns absolut gegen alle Bestrebungen des spanischen Staates, das katalanische Volk... - [Rechtsruck, und jetzt?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/rechtsruck-und-jetzt/): Die Regierung Merkel/Seehofer/Gabriel verlor bei der Wahl 14%. Das Wahlergebnis und die daraus folgende Sitzverteilung schufen das politische und mathematische Problem der Mehrheitsfindung für eine Regierung unter der Führung von Angela Merkel. Profitiert haben... - [Chaos im Nahen Osten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/chaos-im-nahen-osten/): Imperialismus, Islamische Reaktion & Syriens Bürgerkrieg Das Staatensystem, das im Nahen Osten nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg etabliert wurde, als Großbritannien und Frankreich die arabischen Gebiete des Osmanischen Reiches zerstückelten, steht kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch.... - [Syrien-Position bestätigt](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/syrien-position-bestatigt/): Die jüngsten Entwicklungen im Syrien-Krieg bestätigen unsere Position, dass Revolutionäre in diesem katastrophalen Bürgerkrieg mit erheblicher Einmischung von außen, keine Seite haben. Das kann an dem Wiedererstarken des Assad-Regimes und der Zurückeroberung wichtiger Städte... - [35 Jahre zu viel – Freiheit für Mumia jetzt!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/35-jahre-zu-viel-freiheit-fur-mumia-jetzt/): Demonstration für Mumia, Wellingon, 9. Dezember 2016 Demonstration für Mumia, Toronto, 9. Dezember 2016 Um den 35. Jahrestag des abgekarteten Spiels gegen den amerikanischen politischen Gefangenen Mumia Abu-Jamal zu begehen und gegen die kriminelle... - [Widerstand gegen Rassismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/widerstand-gegen-rassismus/): Wie schaffen es die Linke und Arbeiterbewegung, trotz des fortdauernden Rechtsrucks von Staat und Kapital und der auf allen Ebenen erstarkten Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), den notwendigen Widerstand zu organisieren? Das existierende niedrige Klassenbewusstsein... - [Lügenpartei AfD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/lugenpartei-afd/): Die Rolle der AfD und die Aufgaben der Linken Weite Teile der Welt werden gerade von einem politischen und gesellschaftlichen Rechtsruck erschüttert. Ein Ausdruck dieser Entwicklung sind die Wahlerfolge rechtspopulistischer, rassistischer, chauvinistischer und reaktionärer... - [The "principled" coalition bogey](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/the-principled-coalition-bogey/): by Raghu K. The following is an appraisal of prospects for T.A.I.C. in its current form. In analyzing the Bolshevik Tendency and certain ASA comrades’ position concerning the nature of Nicaragua and the Sandinista... - [Speeches at TAIC Rally, February 2 1988](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/speeches-at-taic-rally-february-2-1988/): We reprint below transcripts of three of the speeches made at the February 2 demonstration against contra funding. The speeches are printed in the order they were given. Robert A. (Alliance for Socialist Action)... - [OPPOSE U.S. CONTRA AID!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/oppose-u-s-contra-aid/): Demonstrate! On February 3 and 4 the U.S. Congress will be voting on another massive infusion of funds to fuel the Contra campaign of terror in Nicaragua. Over 25,000 Nicaraguans have died so far... - [Rejoinder to Andrew R., The United Secretariat: An Anti-Trotskyist Fraud](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/rejoinder-to-andrew-r-the-united-secretariat-an-anti-trotskyist-fraud/): The “Reply to Neil H.” by comrade Andrew R. of Socialist Challenge/Gauche Socialiste (SC/GS) vividly confirms Trotsky’s quip that, “Renegades are always distinguished by short memories or assume that other people have short memories.”1... - [A Reply to Neil H.](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/a-reply-to-neil-h/): by Andrew R. The recent public defection of Neil H. from our organization must be considered with regret, the loss of even a single comrade, whatever the reason, leaves us weaker in the face... - [Addendum to Open Letter](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/addendum-to-open-letter/): In the course of subsequent discussions with the comrades of the Bolshevik Tendency (BT), as well as a careful study of the documents of both the International Secretariat [IS; predecessor of the United Secretariat... - [Open Letter to Socialist Challenge/Gauche Socialiste](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/open-letter-to-socialist-challenge-gauche-socialiste/): I hereby resign my membership in Socialist Challenge/Gauche Socialiste [SC/GS]. My decision to leave the organization was not taken lightly but on consideration of the political program of SC. I have been a member... - [National Reconciliation or Class War? The Choice for Nicaragua](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/national-reconciliation-or-class-war-the-choice-for-nicaragua/): “The Marxists are the class enemies of the bourgeoisie and of imperialist wars but they are the supporters of national liberationist and revolutionary wars, both offensive and defensive.” —Trotsky, Writings, 1934-36, p. 266 The... - [Nicaragua, The Permanent Revolution and the Road to Workers Power](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/nicaragua-the-permanent-revolution-and-the-road-to-workers-power/): 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... - [The Arias Peace Plan & The ASA: A Victory (For Bourgeois Ideology) and A Danger to Marxism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/the-arias-peace-plan-the-asa-a-victory-for-bourgeois-ideology-and-a-danger-to-marxism/): “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... - [Central America Treaty = Peace?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/central-america-treaty-peace/): 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... - [A Victory and Danger: Comment on the Central America Peace Plan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/a-victory-and-danger-comment-on-the-central-america-peace-plan/): 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... - [The Arias Peace Plan Six Months Later](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/the-arias-peace-plan-six-months-later/): 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... - [Introduction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/introduction-3/): 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... - [Polemics with the ICL: Kurdistan & the Struggle for National Liberation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/polemics-with-the-icl-kurdistan-the-struggle-for-national-liberation/): TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1. Kurdistan and the National Question Reprinted from 1917 No. 12, 1993 2. Free Öcalan! Defend the PKK! Reprinted from 1917 No. 21, 1999 3. The Kurdish People and the... - [iSt International Discussion Bulletin No. 10, Parts I & II, January 1979, excerpts](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/ist-international-discussion-bulletin-no-10-parts-i-ii-january-1979-excerpts/): Previous Contents - [Lenin on ‘Crudity’ and ‘Jest’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/lenin-on-crudity-and-jest/): Reprinted from V.I. Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 36. The following passages are part of what Moshe Lewin designated as Lenin’s “Testament” in his book Lenin’s Last Struggle. Lenin dictated them on 31 December 1922... - [Kurdish Workers in the Iraqi Revolution of 1958-59](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/kurdish-workers-in-the-iraqi-revolution-of-1958-59/): By Reuben Samuels, reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 370, 11 January 1985. 1 November 1984 To the editor: The Spartacist greetings to a recent Kurdish conference in Central Europe (“For a Socialist Republic of... - [Enough of opportunism, adventurism, Bundism—For a Trotskyist perspective in Turkey](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/enough-of-opportunism-adventurism-bundism-for-a-trotskyist-perspective-in-turkey/): WSL’s Pre-Conference Discussion Bulletin No. 12, February 1978. The following document was signed by two members of the Trotskyist Faction of the British Workers Socialist League (WSL) which fused with the London Spartacist Group... - [BT: A Walking Provocation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/bt-a-walking-provocation/): Bill Logan: One Sick Puppy Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 808, 29 August 2003. In “BT: Renegades for Hire” ( WV No. 807, 1 August), we documented the Bolshevik Tendency’s role as a walking... - [The Emperor Has No Clothes](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/the-emperor-has-no-clothes/): ‘Fear and Obedience’ in the ICL IBT statement, 12 September 2003. After several weeks of ducking and diving, hurling threats and licking wounds, in its 29 August issue Workers Vanguard (WV No. 808) finally... - [The Truth Hurts](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/the-truth-hurts/): SL Founder/Leader Discovers 8 August 2003 letter to Workers Vanguard. Toronto, Canada 8 August 2003 To the Editor: In the 1 August Workers Vanguard (WV) you announce that the discussion on the Kurdish question... - [BT: Renegades for Hire](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/bt-renegades-for-hire/): Bill Logan: From Krafft-Ebing to Mother Theresa? Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 807, 1 August 2003. Lately we have been on the receiving end of a collective howl slandering us as “chauvinists” coming from... - [Editorial Statement](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/editorial-statement/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 807, 1 August 2003. In publishing the exchange with the International Bolshevik Tendency (BT) in WV No. 806 (4 July), the editor and other comrades centrally responsible for the... - [WV Implicitly Accepts Our Critique of Robertson’s ‘Vulgar Chauvinism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/wv-implicitly-accepts-our-critique-of-robertsons-vulgar-chauvinism/): IBT leaflet, 4 July 2003. On 12 June, we wrote a reply to a slanderous attack in the 6 June issue of Workers Vanguard (WV—newspaper of the Spartacist League/U.S.) which claimed that the International... - [BT Doth Whine Too Much](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/bt-doth-whine-too-much/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 806, 4 July 2003. [WV introduction] We reprint below excerpts of a letter to us that can be found in full on the “Bolshevik Tendency” Web site. Toronto, Canada... - [The Kurdish People and the U.S. Occupation of Iraq](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/28/the-kurdish-people-and-the-u-s-occupation-of-iraq/): For a Socialist Republic of United Kurdistan! Reprinted from Workers Vanguard Nos. 804 and 805, 23 May and 6 June 2003. We have put André’s polemic against the IBT in bold face—ed. [WV introduction]... - [A Bogus Polemic](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/28/a-bogus-polemic/): Letter to Workers Vanguard 12 June 2003 letter to Workers Vanguard. Toronto, Canada 12 June 2003 To the Editor: The 6 June issue of Workers Vanguard (WV) features two polemics against the International Bolshevik... - [Free Öcalan! Defend the PKK!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/28/free-ocalan-defend-the-pkk/): Permanent Revolution and Kurdistan Reprinted from 1917 No. 21, 1999, an edited and abridged translation of an article originally published as a 24 February 1999 supplement to Bolschewik, journal of the German section of... - [Kurdistan and the National Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/28/kurdistan-and-the-national-question/): For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East Reprinted from 1917 No. 12, 1993, translated from Bolschewik No. 2. The division of the world under imperialism has subjected many peoples to massacres, oppression and... - [Introduction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/28/introduction-2/): The Kurds are the largest nation on earth without their own state. When the Ottoman Empire was carved up after World War I, the Kurdish people, who have existed on the same territory for... - [Compare and Contrast](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/28/compare-and-contrast/): ICL vs. IBT on Stalinism & Soviet Defencism The following is a selection of quotes from publications of the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT—including the External Tendency of the iSt, the IBT’s predecessor) and the... - [Appendix One: Debate in the ICL Over Yeltsin's Coup](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/28/appendix-one-debate-in-the-icl-over-yeltsins-coup/): The following documents were circulated in an internal discussion in the Spartacist League/Britain in June and July 2003. The first and final items are by Tony R., who while not associated with the IBT,... - [Whatever Happened to the Spartacist League?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/whatever-happened-to-the-spartacist-league/): Stalinophilia, Stalinophobia, Flinches & Opportunism In the Spring 2004 issue of Spartacist (No. 58), the International Communist League (ICL) characterizes its recent political record as one of “opportunist lunges,” “sectarian moralism” and an “increasingly... - [Sclerotic Spartacists Unravel](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/sclerotic-spartacists-unravel/): SL Repudiates ‘Capitulation to Imperialism’ “In a statement following the Krushchev report [on the crimes of Stalin], Togliatti asked: ‘What made such grave errors possible? And why was it that around them should have... - [Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt No. 4](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/bulletin-of-the-external-tendency-of-the-ist-no-4/): Table of Contents The Road to Jimstown The Zen of Spartacism The Test Jim Didn’t Pass “Xandra’s Red Avengers” Beware Lady Dobermans in Anti-Soviet Heat—Your Ass Could Be Bitten Next! —Workers Vanguard No. 367,... - [Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt 3](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/bulletin-of-the-external-tendency-of-the-ist-3/): FOR THE REBIRTH OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL! “The ETs ought to inspire fanatical hatred in iSt members….” … “Liars, traitors, apologists for racism and genocide, petty bureaucrats, red-baiters, anti-Soviet pop-frontists, wreckers, the ETs are... - [Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt 2](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/bulletin-of-the-external-tendency-of-the-ist-2/): FOR THE REBIRTH OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL! Labor Donated January, 1984 “THOUGH COWARDS FLINCH…” The following mailgram was sent [11 November 1983] to the SL/US by the External Tendency of the iSt over the... - [Break With The Robertson-Foster-Nelson Misleadership!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/break-with-the-robertson-foster-nelson-misleadership/): Stop The Liquidation Of The Trade Union Work! “…to demand from the trade union bureaucracy, which is hunting for Communists, that the latter be benevolently installed to work with the necessary comfort, threatening the... - [Declaration of an external tendency of the iSt](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/declaration-of-an-external-tendency-of-the-ist/): October 1982 Jim: “…either the party is as you said it is, filled with the fundamental contradiction of actually having a bureaucratic, abusive, personalist cult-leadership while proclaiming itself to be for socialist democracy. Karen:... - [Solidarność: Acid Test for Trotskyists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/solidarnosc-acid-test-for-trotskyists/): Pamphlet published by the Bolshevik Tendency in 1988 Contents I. Poland 1981: Key to Trotskyist Regroupment II. A Bit of Polish History III. Genesis of Solidarność IV. The 1981 Congress: Solidarność Crosses the Rubicon... - [Appendix: Solidarność's Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/appendix-solidarnoscs-program/): —reprinted from Solidarity Sourcebook The following is a slightly abridged edition of the program adopted by the first Solidarity national congress in October, 1981. [Versions of the Solidarity program were published in Labor Focus... - [Conversation With An Anarchist - Table of Contents](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/conversation-with-an-anarchist-2/): Democracy, Authoritarianism & Revolution   Table of contents: Introduction Conversation with an anarchist Appendix 1: H. G. Wells: Russia in the shadows Appendix 2: In Defense of Leninism Anarchist Organization and Vanguardism (reprinted from 1917 no.... - [Introduction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/introduction/): In October 2011 Josh D., an IBT supporter in Toronto, received an email from an anarchist comrade asking if we were aware of a January 2006 piece entitled, “Why an Anarchist Organization is Needed…... - [In Defense of Leninism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/in-defense-of-leninism/): Anarchist Organization and Vanguardism The question of what, if any, type of revolutionary organization is necessary has always been a thorny one for anarchists. The most hard-core “organizational” anarchist trend is “Platformism,” which takes... - [Russia in the Shadows (H. G. Wells) - Appendix I](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/appendix-no-1/): I PETERSBURG IN COLLAPSE In January 1914 I visited Petersburg and Moscow for a couple of weeks; in September 1920 I was asked to repeat this visit by Mr. Kameney [Kamenev], of the Russian... - [Conversation With An Anarchist](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/conversation-with-an-anarchist/): Democracy, Authoritarianism & Revolution 1917 No.29 (1917): The Platformists dismissed those who took individual autonomy to extremes with the observation that a serious revolutionary organization can only function on the basis of majority rule.... - [Platformism & Bolshevism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/platformism-bolshevism/): Pamphlet published by the International Bolshevik Tendency in April 2002. A polemic against platformist anarchism.   “The most authoritative group [of anarchists in 1917], in the sense that it was the only one to... - [In Defense of (Seymour’s) Marxism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/in-defense-of-seymours-marxism/): Exposing the ‘Theoretical Framework’ of ICL’s Neo-Pabloist Turn The abrupt abandonment of the longstanding approach to the national question by the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL – formerly the international... - [Under the Banner of Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/under-the-banner-of-trotskyism/): Eighth International Conference of the IBT The International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) held its Eighth International Conference in 2017, with delegates and non-delegate members attending from Europe, Oceania, Asia and North America. It provided an... - [‘Marxist’ Social Democrats](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/marxist-social-democrats/): Fightback’s NDP Loyalism Niki Ashton (second from right) with Fightback supporters (Fightback photo) The run-up to the October 2017 vote to replace Thomas Mulcair as leader of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) has... - [Hands Off North Korea!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/hands-off-north-korea/): The International Bolshevik Tendency condemns Washington’s outrageous threats to use its massive nuclear arsenal against North Korea. We demand an end to the UN sanctions and the removal of all U.S. forces from South... - [Election 2017: A Choice for Workers](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/election-2017-a-choice-for-workers/): Vote Labour! Break with reformism! Build a revolutionary party! For the first time in a generation, the Labour Party is offering British workers the appearance of a real choice at the ballot box on... - [Labour’s Bid to Run New Zealand Capitalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/labours-bid-to-run-new-zealand-capitalism/): There are token phrases that slip easily from the mouths of politicians; the usual odes to housing, education, health and employment – and all the reasons we can’t have them: “fiscal responsibility”, “working within... - [We Vote for Class Struggle!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/we-vote-for-class-struggle/): IBT statement on the September 2017 German federal elections, translated and lightly edited from the original article, first published in German on 12 September 2017. The continued consolidation of German imperialism as a rising... - [Liquidationism Yesterday and Today](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/liquidationism-yesterday-and-today/): Open Letter to the Opposition within the ‘Fourth International’ 2 June 2017 Comrades, we read with interest your document “Opposition formed in the Fourth International,” published on 3 February 2017 on the website of... - [Independence for Catalonia!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/independence-for-catalonia/): Down with Madrid’s State Repression! The International Bolshevik Tendency condemns Madrid’s egregious use of force to suppress Catalonia’s 1 October independence referendum, and we absolutely oppose all attempts by the Spanish state to impede... - [No Platform for Fascists!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/no-platform-for-fascists/): Lessons from the Past – Strategy for Victory A pernicious weed has broken through the cracks of the decaying American Empire. Nourished by the chauvinist rhetoric of Donald Trump’s administration and under cover of... - [Trump: Ugly Face of Capitalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/trump-ugly-face-of-capitalism/): Break with the Democrats – Build a Workers’ Party! Millions of people in the United States and around the world have protested the policies of Donald Trump, who wasted no time signing a “Muslim... - [‘Democracy’ in Decay](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/democracy-in-decay/): U.S. Presidential Election 2016 The following is an expanded version of a talk given by IBT supporter Jordan Briggs at a public meeting entitled “Democracy in Decay,” organized by the Brock Socialists, a student... - [Sanders: ‘Socialist’ Shill for Democrats](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/sanders-socialist-shill-for-democrats/): Why there is no social-democratic party in the U.S. Edited version of a contribution by IBT supporter Christoph Lichtenberg to a panel discussion on “The Death of Social Democracy,” at the closing plenary of... - [Strike against the Privatisation Juggernaut!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/strike-against-the-privatisation-juggernaut/): Stop NZ Government’s attacks on education! Described by minister of education Hekia Parata as the “biggest update to education in New Zealand in nearly 30 years”, the recently introduced Education Amendment Bill aims to... - [Thirty Years of Homosexual Law Reform](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/thirty-years-of-homosexual-law-reform/): Sex between consenting men over the age of sixteen was decriminalised in New Zealand by the Homosexual Law Reform Act, passed on 9 July 1986. IBT supporter Bill Logan was a leading figure in... - [Cops, Reformism & Black Liberation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/cops-reformism-black-liberation/): Exposing Fightback’s Social Democratic Record The following is an edited reconstruction, based on notes, of an intervention by an IBT supporter at a meeting on “Black Struggle & the Fight Against Capitalism” organized by... - [Thirty-five Years too Long - Free Mumia Now!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/thirty-five-years-too-long-free-mumia-now/): To mark the 35th anniversary of the frame-up of American political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and to protest the criminal refusal by prison authorities to provide necessary medication, IBT comrades in Toronto, Canada, Wellington, New... - [Vote Corbyn, Break with Reformism!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/vote-corbyn-break-with-reformism/): Oppose Austerity & Imperialist War! Workers Need a Revolutionary Party! Jeremy Corbyn has been under constant attack from Labour’s right wing, backed by the Tories and the mass media, ever since he won the... - [The Devil or the Deep Blue Sea?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/the-devil-or-the-deep-blue-sea/): Neither the EU nor Nationalist Poison – Spoil Your Ballot! On 23 June 2016 British voters are asked to choose ‘Remain’ or ‘Leave’ in a referendum on membership of the European Union (EU). As... - [Imperialism, Tsarist Russia & WWI](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/http-bolshevik-org-1917-no39-ibt_1917_39_02_weakest_link-html/): Understanding the ‘Weakest Link’ In the Transitional Program, which was written in 1938 for the founding of the Fourth International, Leon Trotsky made the following general observation about “combined and uneven” development in the... - [Roots & Fruits of Imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/roots-fruits-of-imperialism/): Fundamental Continuities in the Epoch of War & Revolution The concept of “imperialism” plays a central role in Marxist analysis of contemporary international events, yet many ostensible revolutionaries have only a fuzzy notion of... - [Labourism Rebooted](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/labourism-rebooted/): Jeremy Corbyn & class-struggle politics Hundreds of thousands of people marched through London, Liverpool and Glasgow on 20 June in defiance of the recently elected Tory government, displaying an anger that has not been... - [Spoil your ballot! No choice for workers in 2015!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/spoil-your-ballot-no-choice-for-workers-in-2015/): British workers need a revolutionary party ‘Though you would never know it from the campaigns’ petty squabbling, the country is heading for profound and potentially irrevocable change’, declares the Economist (2 May 2015). The... - [Pandering to illusions in Sinn Féin](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/pandering-to-illusions-in-sinn-fein/): Election 2016 and working-class independence The fightback against capitalist attacks in the name of “austerity” (or “recovery”) has been at the forefront of the class struggle in Ireland over the past few years. The... - [Marxism & Bourgeois Elections](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/marxism-bourgeois-elections/): CWI/Socialist Alternative providing left cover for Democrats The following is a lightly edited version of a talk given by an IBT comrade on a Platypus-sponsored panel in Chicago in April 2015. The Second Congress... - [What Kind of Political Party?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/what-kind-of-political-party/): A shortened version of an IBT contribution to a panel discussion on “What is Political Party for the Left?” held in Chicago in April 2015. The question of what kind of party we should... - [An Attack on the Working Class](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/an-attack-on-the-working-class/): Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Translation of “TTIP: Ein Angriff auf die Arbeiterklasse,” first published in German in January 2015 Since July 2013, the EU Commission, U.S. government officials and industry lobbyists have been... - [Labor Action to Fight Racist Cop Terror!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/labor-action-to-fight-racist-cop-terror/): Ferguson, Baltimore, Oakland: An Injury to One is an Injury to All! Oakland, 1 May 2015—Workers organized by International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 voted two weeks ago to shut down the... - [United-Front Rally in New Zealand: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/united-front-rally-in-new-zealand-free-mumia-abu-jamal/): Responding to cruel and vindictive disregard for the serious health problems of Mumia Abu-Jamal by prison authorities, a small protest was held on Friday 8 May 2015 in Wellington, New Zealand, to demand his... - [Proletarian Internationalism and the Struggle against Fortress Europe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/proletarian-internationalism-and-the-struggle-against-fortress-europe/): Defend refugees against terror and deportation! Smash racist and fascist mobilizations! Translation of “Proletarischer Internationalismus und der Kampf gegen die Festung Europa,” first published in German in September 2015 The recent wave of racist... - [Middle East Chaos](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/middle-east-chaos/): Imperialism, Islamic Reaction & Syria’s Civil War The state system established in the Middle East after World War I, when Britain and France carved up the Arab territories of the Ottoman Empire, appears close... - [Down with Zionist Terrorism! Defend the Palestinians!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/down-with-zionist-terrorism-defend-the-palestinians/): For International Labor Action against Israeli Apartheid! The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched “Operation Protective Edge” against the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on 8 July, placing the Palestinian population in Gaza under brutal military assault... - [UPP Banned in South Korea](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/upp-banned-in-south-korea/): Down with the National Security Law! Defend Democratic Rights! On 19 December 2014, the Constitutional Court of South Korea ordered the disbanding of the Unified Progressive Party (UPP) on the grounds of alleged “support... - [Platypus and the Maoists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/platypus-and-the-maoists/): Revolutionary Thought and Practice The following is an edited version of a talk by IBT supporter Jason Wright, participating in a panel discussion on “Revolutionary Thought and Politics” at the Left Forum in New... - [Down with Racist Police Terror!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/down-with-racist-police-terror/): From Ferguson to New York – Jail the Killer Cops! Leaflet dated 12 December 2014 In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people of African descent had “no rights which the white man... - [Adrian Blakelock](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/adrian-blakelock/): 1948–2014 In June 2014, Adrian Blakelock, a supporter of the International Bolshevik Tendency, died in London after complications from liver failure. Adrian will be remembered for his empathy and wit, as well as his... - [Spartacists Repudiate Class-Struggle Caucuses](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/spartacists-repudiate-class-struggle-caucuses/): Belated rationalization for abandonment of trade-union work Bryan D. Palmer’s excellent book, Revolutionary Teamsters, on the Minneapolis general strikes of 1934, illuminates the struggle that remains to this day the high point of American... - [Spartacist Confusionists & the Scottish Referendum](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/spartacist-confusionists-the-scottish-referendum/): SL & IG flounder on Scotland and Quebec In September’s referendum on Scottish independence, a clear majority of voters (55 percent) chose to remain within the “United Kingdom.” While upholding the right of all... - [Scotland’s Independence Referendum](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/scotlands-independence-referendum/): Austerity, nationalism and class collaboration On 18 September, residents of Scotland aged 16 and older will be asked a simple question: ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’ As the referendum on independence draws near,... - [No payment! No meters! Abolish the water charges!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/no-payment-no-meters-abolish-the-water-charges/): Irish working class organise to fight back Recent weeks have seen dramatic scenes of working people taking action to defend themselves against the imposition of the hated water charges. Over 100,000 took to the... - [Managing the Greek Crisis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/managing-the-greek-crisis/): Syriza & the Dangers of Popular Frontism Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis and the imposition of severe austerity measures dictated by the Troika (International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European... - [Unity, Class, Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/unity-class-program/): Edited version of a contribution by IBT supporter Barbara Dorn to a panel discussion on “Is there a need for left unity?” at the Platypus European Conference, London, 19 July 2014. One of the... - [Confronting a World in Turmoil](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/confronting-a-world-in-turmoil/): Seventh International Conference of the IBT The International Bolshevik Tendency held its Seventh International Conference in 2014 in the United States. Delegates and non-delegate members from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Germany, Poland, New Zealand... - [Ukraine, Russia & the Struggle for Eurasia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/ukraine-russia-the-struggle-for-eurasia/): Tectonic Shifts in Global Politics In September 2014, a television interviewer asked Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. national security adviser and longtime Cold Warrior, what threat the “Islamic State” (aka ISIS) posed to the United... - [Love & Marriage](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/love-marriage/): Capitalism, Queers & Equality In April 2013, New Zealand finally legalized marriage for same-sex couples. There was considerable discussion among left-wing queer and trans activists about whether marriage equality should be supported as a... - [The Struggle for Abortion Rights in Ireland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/the-struggle-for-abortion-rights-in-ireland/): Clerical Reaction & Women’s Oppression The following statement was originally distributed in September 2013. Responding to national and international protests over Savita Halappanavar’s tragic death from septicaemia after she was denied an abortion, the... - [Polish Proletariat: ‘Class in Itself’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/polish-proletariat-class-in-itself/): Anti-Communism, Nationalism & Religious Obscurantism The following is an eyewitness report on a major trade-union demonstration that took place in Warsaw last September. Saturday was the culmination of four days of trade-union meetings and... - [Cliffites in Crisis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/cliffites-in-crisis/): Bad Politics & Bureaucratic Cover-Ups The Socialist Workers Party (SWP), Britain’s largest left group, has been undergoing what its central figure, Alex Callinicos, recently described as an “acute internal crisis” which three national conferences... - [On the Killing of Private Rigby](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/on-the-killing-of-private-rigby/): Fascists Surge, Reformists Mourn The following originally appeared on 3 June 2013 on bolshevik.org. On bank holiday Monday at the end of May [2013], several hundred anti-fascists, including members of the IBT, watched in... - [Marxism vs. Keynesianism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/marxism-vs-keynesianism/): CWI Debates Falling Rate of Profit The following is an edited version of a presentation at an IBT fringe meeting at the Socialist Party’s “Socialism 2013” event, London, 3 November 2013. Only a few... - [Communism & Ecology](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/communism-ecology/): Human Emancipation & the Materialist Conception of History Reprinted below is the text of an IBT presentation to a panel discussion on capital, history and ecology held by the Platypus group at York University,... - [Déjà vu All Over Again](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/deja-vu-all-over-again/): Socialist Action & the ‘Syrian Revolution’ Most of the international left has responded to the civil war in Syria in much the same fashion as they did to the conflict in Libya in 2011.... - [Appendix No. 9: Affidavit of Rachel Wolkenstein](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/07/appendix-no-9-affidavit-of-rachel-wolkenstein/): 28 July 2001 RACHEL H.WOLKENSTEIN, being duly sworn under oath, deposes and says: 1. I am a lawyer licensed to practice in the State of New York. I am also admitted to practice in... - [Appendix No. 8: Affidavit of George Michael Newman](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/07/appendix-no-8-affidavit-of-george-michael-newman/): I, GEORGE MICHAEL NEWMAN, declare as follows: 1. If called upon to testify in this matter I could and would attest to the following facts, of which I have personal knowledge: 2. My primary... - [Appendix No. 7: Declaration of Yvette Williams](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/07/appendix-no-7-declaration-of-yvette-williams/): I, YVETTE WILLIAMS, declare: If called as a witness in this case I would truthfully and accurately testify to the following from my own personal knowledge. I was in jail with Cynthia White in... - [Appendix No. 6: Affidavit of Terri Maurer-Carter](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/appendix-no-6-affidavit-of-terri-maurer-carter/): 21 August 2001 I, TERRI MAURER-CARTER declare: 1. From approximately February 1982 through September 1986 and in 1998 I was employed as an official court stenographer in the Court of Common Pleas in and... - [Appendix No. 5: Affidavit of Donald Hersing](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/appendix-no-5-affidavit-of-donald-hersing/): 10 May 1999 DONALD HERSING, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 1. My name is Donald Hersing. From May 1981 through November 1982 I was employed as a confidential source of information (CSI) for... - [Appendix No. 4: Declaration of Linn Washington](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/appendix-no-4-declaration-of-linn-washington/): 3 May 2001 I, LINN WASHINGTON, declare: 1. This is an account of events that transpired on the morning of December 9, 1981. This account is my true and accurate recollection of these events.... - [Appendix No. 3: Declarations of William Cook](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/appendix-no-3-declarations-of-william-cook/): 15 May 1999 I, WILLIAM COOK, hereby aver under penalty of perjury the following: 1. I am the brother of Mumia Abu-Jamal. 2. I was present near the intersection of 13th and Locust, in... - [Appendix No. 2: Declaration of Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/appendix-no-2-declaration-of-mumia-abu-jamal/): 3 May 2001 I, MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, declare: 1. I am the Petitioner in this action. If called as a witness I could and would testify to the following from my own personal knowledge: 2.... - [Appendix No. 1: Affidavit of Arnold R. Beverly](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/appendix-no-1-affidavit-of-arnold-r-beverly/): 8 June 1999 I, ARNOLD R. BEVERLY, state that the following facts are true and correct: I was present when police officer Daniel Faulkner was shot and killed in the early morning hours of... - [6. Free Mumia Now!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/6-free-mumia-now/): The Beverly confession put Sabo’s courtroom improprieties in a new light. It had long been clear that he was a conscious participant in a racist frame-up, but the revelation that Faulkner’s execution originated within... - [5. Betrayed by his ‘Defenders’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/5-betrayed-by-his-defenders/): i. Jackson’s ‘Defense’ of Mumia— Beyond Incompetence Mumia has had to contend with more than biased appeals procedures, a corrupt police force and a racist judge. He also had serious problems with his supposed... - [4. A Tilted Trial](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/4-a-tilted-trial/): i. Witnesses for the Defense Jackson’s defense of Mumia was unimpressive to say the least. The first witness called by the defense was Anthony Colletta, a third-year surgical resident at the hospital. Colletta testified... - [3. The Prosecution’s Case](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/3-the-prosecutions-case/): i. Leveraged ‘Eye Witnesses’ There were three elements to the prosecution’s case: eyewitnesses, ballistics and a supposed confession. The central pillar in the frame-up was the “eyewitness” testimony. Yet even a cursory examination of... - [2. How the Frame-Up was Organized](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/2-how-the-frame-up-was-organized/): i. The ‘Right’ Judge It is well established in academic literature on the application of the death penalty in the U.S. that the race of both the defendant and the victim plays a major... - [1. Background](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/1-background/): i. ‘Voice of the Voiceless’ Mumia Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook on 24 April 1954 to Edith Cook, one of millions of blacks who left the South in the 1940s in search of work.... - [Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/preface/): The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, America’s best-known political prisoner, starkly illuminates the brutal reality of racist capitalist justice in a country that advertises itself as the citadel of “freedom.” It is an extremely complicated... - [La Proposition 34 : pourquoi les marxistes ont voté « non »](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/la-peine-de-mort-aux-etats-unis/): La peine de mort aux Etats-Unis Le texte suivant est traduit d’un article qui a paru dans 1917, édition anglaise, n° 35, 2013.   Le 6 novembre 2012, les Californiens ont rejeté la «... - [Bas les pattes devant Julian Assange !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/bas-les-pattes-devant-julian-assange/): WikiLeaks, le sexe et le droit impérialiste Ce qui suit est la traduction d’un discours donné par Roxanne Baker de la TBI lors d’un débat avec l’Alliance for Workers’ Liberty sur l’affaire Julian Assange.... - [Victimes de la répression capitaliste du néo-apartheid](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/victimes-de-la-repression-capitaliste-du-neo-apartheid/): Massacre des mineurs en Afrique du Sud La déclaration qui suit a été lue et distribuée par la TBI lors d’une manifestation d’urgence en solidarité avec les mineurs de Marikana, à Oakland (Californie) le... - [La grève étudiante au Québec & la question nationale](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/la-greve-etudiante-au-quebec-la-question-nationale/): Lettre à l’Internationalist Group La lettre suivante a été envoyée à l’Internationalist Group le 8 juin 2012. Camarades, C’est avec plaisir que nous apprenons que vous avez soulevé la question de la solida-rité avec... - [Grèves ouvrières pour écraser l’austérité !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/greves-ouvrieres-pour-ecraser-lausterite/): Les étudiants du Québec montrent la voie Le tract suivant a été diffusé à Montréal par la TBI le premier mai 2012. La décision par le gouvernement libéral de hausser les frais de scolarité... - [Capitalisme et racisme](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/capitalisme-et-racisme/): Genèse d’une idéologie reactionnaire Il est difficile pour la plupart des individus d’accepter que la haine et les antagonismes raciaux, phénomènes aujourd’hui omniprésents, n’aient pas toujours fait figure de traits permanents de la société... - [Grèce : l’austérité capitaliste & la classe ouvrière](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/grece-lausterite-capitaliste-la-classe-ouvriere/): Pour la révolution socialiste ! La Grèce reste l’épicentre de la lente implosion économique et politique de l’Europe. Les élections en juin 2012 n’ont rien apporté de plus dans la résolution de la crise,... - [Troupes impérialistes hors d’Afghanistan immédiatement !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/troupes-imperialistes-hors-dafghanistan-immediatement/): Discours de la TBI dans une manifestation anti-guerre à Toronto Voici le texte d’un discours donné par un camarade de la TBI lors d’une manifestation anti-guerre à Toronto le 15 octobre 2011. La manifestation... - [Lettre à La « Riposte »](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/lettre-a-la-riposte/): Sur Jack Layton & le NPD La lettre suivante a été envoyée à Fightback [La Riposte], journal anglais de la section canadienne de la Tendence marxiste international le 26 août 2011. Camarades, Votre nécrologie... - [Sur l’assemblée constituante révolutionnaire](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/sur-lassemblee-constituante-revolutionnaire/): Lettre au Courant Communiste Révolutionnaire Le texte suivant a été mis sur www.bolshevik.org le 13 août 2011 le 11 août 2011 Camarades, Nous avons lu avec intérêt le premier numéro de Révolution Permanente (juin... - [La Libye et la gauche](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/la-libye-et-la-gauche/): OTAN, rebelles et apologistes « révolutionnaires » En réaction à l’annonce de l’exécution de Mouammar Kadhafi, le président US Barack Obama, qui en 2009 participait à une séance photos à ses côtés, se félicitait : « travaillant en... - [Pathologies du capitalisme](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/pathologies-du-capitalisme/): Crise économique et guerres néocoloniales L’économie mondiale entre dans ce que George Magnus, haut conseiller économique à la banque suisse UBS, décrit comme « une crise du capitalisme qui ne se présente qu’une seule fois... - [Défense de la Corée du Nord !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/defense-de-la-coree-du-nord/): Délogez la bureaucratie—Pour la réunification révolutionnaire ! Le texte suivant est une traduction d’un article mis sur www.bolshevik.org le 15 décembre 2010. Le 23 novembre 2010, l’artillerie de la République populaire démocratique de Corée (RPDC—alias... - [Les masses égyptiennes en révolte](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/les-masses-egyptiennes-en-revolte/): Une crise de la direction révolutionnaire Le texte suivant est une traduction d’un article mis sur www.bolsheviktendency.org le 7 février, avant le départ de Moubarak. La chute de Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, dictateur de... - [Pour la défaite des impérialistes !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/pour-la-defaite-des-imperialistes/): Défense de la Libye contre l’agression de l’OTAN ! Le texte suivant est une traduction d’un article mis sur www.bolshevik.org le 1er avril. La vaste campagne militaire de l’OTAN en Libye, qui se déroule sous... - [Où va la Chine ?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/ou-va-la-chine/): Révolution politique ou contrerévolution L’article ci-dessous a été traduit de 1917, édition de langue anglaise, nº 31, 2009. En 1939, James P. Cannon, le leader historique du trotskysme américain, écrivait : « Qui touche la question... - [Défense des Palestiniens !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/defense-des-palestiniens/): Pas Juif contre Arabe, mais classe contre classe ! Un des plus importants progrès apporté par la Révolution française était l’émancipation juive, un processus initié en 1791 lorsque l’Assemblée nationale, suite à un débat considérable,... - [Un piquet de masse bloque un navire israélien!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/un-piquet-de-masse-bloque-un-navire-israelien/): Des syndicalistes palestiniens saluent l’action à Oakland Le texte suivant est une traduction d’un article mis sur www.bolshevik.org le 22 juin 2010. Le dimanche 20 juin, 700 à 800 travailleurs et militants ont empêché... - [Spartacistes et social-impérialisme](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/spartacistes-et-social-imperialisme/): Haïti, le Liban et la LCI A la suite du séisme dévastateur qui a frappé Haïti en janvier, la Spartacist League/U.S. (SL—section principale de la Ligue communiste internationale [LCI], dont la Ligue trotskyste de... - [La continuité révolutionnaire et la scission dans la Quatrième Internationale](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/la-continuite-revolutionnaire-et-la-scission-dans-la-quatrieme-internationale/): La lettre suivante [qui est parue originellement dans 1917, édition anglaise, nº 8, été 1990], traitant de la scission historique du mouvement trotskyste au début des années 1950, a été adressée au Gruppe IV.... - [Genèse du pablisme](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/genese-du-pablisme/): Le texte originel de cet article a été publié dans Spartacist, édition anglaise, n° 21, automne 1972. Une première traduction était parue dans Spartacist, édition française, n° 4 en 1974. Cette deuxième traduction (avec quelques fautes corrigées par nos... - [L’islam, la laïcité et la gauche](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/lislam-la-laicite-et-la-gauche/): Pour la séparation de la religion et de l’État ! Voici des traductions de deux articles sur la question de la laïcité et la liberté de religion. Le premier texte est tiré de 1917, édition... - [A bas les attaques contre les retraites !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/a-bas-les-attaques-contre-les-retraites/): Pour une contre-offensive ouvrière ! Non à la collaboration des classes ! La « réforme » des retraites de Nicolas Sarkozy n’est que la plus récente dans une série de tentatives de la bourgeoisie de restaurer la rentabilité... - [NPA : Nouveau Parti réformiste](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/npa-nouveau-parti-reformiste/): Les pablistes français renoncent au trotskysme Le texte suivant est une traduction des extraits d’un article de 1917, édition de langue anglaise, nº 32, 2010. Pour être réellement « anticapitaliste », il faut en dernière analyse... - [Le pacifisme, supplétif de l’impérialisme](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/le-pacifisme-suppletif-de-limperialisme/): Un texte par Léon Trotsky non daté mais datant visiblement de la période du Gouvernement Provisoire russe (mi-1917). Source: Communist International, n° 5. Traduit de l’anglais. Cette traduction est prise de: www.marxists.org Alors que... - [La question russe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/la-question-russe/): Ex-membre de la Spartacist League adhère à la TBI Nous publions ci-dessous comme appendice à un article sur le débat Mandel-Seymour [publié dans 1917, no 3 édition française] une lettre envoyée à la rédaction... - [La guerre impérialiste et les prétendus socialistes](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/la-guerre-imperialiste-et-les-pretendus-socialistes/): Suivre la ligne de moindre résistance: « La lutte contre la guerre et sa source sociale, le capitalisme, présuppose un soutien direct, sans équivoque des peuples coloniaux opprimés dans leurs luttes et guerres contre l’impérialisme.... - [Le capitalisme mondial et la lutte des classes](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/le-capitalisme-mondial-et-la-lutte-des-classes/): L’ordre impérialiste mondial: misère pour profit Ce texte, qui est une traduction d’un article paru en 1917, no 23, édition anglaise, s’occupe des questions clés pour les manifestations anti-mondialisation et le mouvement ouvrier internationale.... - [Maastricht: quelle perspective pour le mouvement ouvrier?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/maastricht-quelle-perspective-pour-le-mouvement-ouvrier/): Ce texte est une traduction abrégée d’un article paru en 1917, no 13, édition de langue anglaise Depuis l’aube de l’âge de l’impérialisme à la fin du siècle dernier, le capitalisme sur une échelle... - [« Vous ne pouvez pas défendre l’Union soviétique avec Yuri Andropov »](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/vous-ne-pouvez-pas-defendre-lunion-sovietique-avec-yuri-andropov/): L’échange sur la Brigade Andropov avec la Spartacist League Les trois lettres ci-dessous ont été publiées en anglais dans le Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt, no 1 Le 13 décembre 1982... - [Une symétrie macabre](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/une-symetrie-macabre/): Ernest Mandel contre la Spartacist League Réimprimé ci-dessous est le texte traduit d’un tract de langue anglaise distribué le 11 novembre 1994 lors du débat à New York entre Ernest Mandel du Secrétariat unifié... - [Pour la défaite des attaques d’Axworthy!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/pour-la-defaite-des-attaques-daxworthy/): Défendez les programmes sociaux Le texte ci-dessous est un tract distibué en anglais et français lors des manifestations contre les mesures d’Axworthy au Canada en janvier 1995. Se servant de l’épouvantail du « déficit » comme... - [Haïti sous le feu des États-Unis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/haiti-sous-le-feu-des-etats-unis/): A bas le duvaliérisme – Rompez avec Aristide! Le texte ci-dessous a été publié et distribué en anglais et français en septembre 1994 le 18 septembre 1994—Sous une vague de menaces, de rapportages d’« intérêt... - [Marxisme ou nationalisme?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/marxisme-ou-nationalisme/): Un échange sur la question nationale au Québec Réimprimé ci-dessous est un échange sur la question nationale au Québec et la réponse apportée par les marxistes révolutionnaires entre Marc D., un militant de la... - [Le fascisme et la gauche allemande](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/le-fascisme-et-la-gauche-allemande/): Luttez contre le fléau nazi! BERLIN—Le fascisme allemand continue sa réapparition menaçante. Dans les trois années qui ont suivi la réunification capitaliste d’Allemagne d’octobre 1990, il y avait plus de 75 meurtres inspirés par... - [Rassemblement Le Pen avorté à Montréal: Non au fascisme!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/rassemblement-le-pen-avorte-a-montreal-non-au-fascisme/): Le 22 septembre 1993, les camarades de la Tendance bolchévique internationale ont participé dans un rassemblement antifasciste important à Montréal. La manifestation était une réponse à une tentative par les fascistes locaux d’organiser un... - [Volte-face spartaciste sur Rutskoi](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/volte-face-spartaciste-sur-rutskoi/): Traduit de 1917, no. 13, édition anglaise, 1994 Au lendemain de la confrontation armée d’octobre 1993 à Moscou, la Spartacist League (SL) a correctement indiqué que «Rutskoi/Khasbulatov et la coalition ‘rouge brune’, infestée de... - [La confusion centriste face à la contre-révolution en URSS](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/la-confusion-centriste-face-a-la-contre-revolution-en-urss/): Traduit de 1917, no 12, édition anglaise, 1993 La Tendance bolchévique internationale a vu le coup d’Etat soviétique avorté d’août 1991 comme le dernier acte désespéré du stalinisme. Nous avons dit que son échec... - [A nouveau sur la confusion centriste et la question russe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/a-nouveau-sur-la-confusion-centriste-et-la-question-russe/): Workers Power abandonne Eltsine en faveur de Rutskoi: Traduit de 1917, no 13, édition anglaise, 1994 Le numéro de mai 1993 du journal Trotskyist International, publié par la Ligue pour une Internationale communiste révolutionnaire... - [En bref](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/en-bref/): Il semble que nos critiques des sympathies malsaines des spartacistes à l’égard des régimes staliniens, le «portrait de Jaruzelski» au mur du quartier général à New York, la brigade Andropov, etc., avaient eu un... - [Le Rubicon soviétique et la gauche](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/le-rubicon-sovietique-et-la-gauche/): Traduit de 1917, no 11, édition anglaise, 1992 Dans les semaines qui ont suivi la tentative du putsch échoué du 19-21 août 1991, la Tendance bolchévique internationale était virtuellement seule parmi les groupes trotskystes... - [Introduction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/introduction-5/): Ce numéro de l’édition française de 1917 est consacré à un ensemble d’articles polémiques, traduits de derniers numéros de notre édition anglaise, regroupés autour du thème du défensisme révolutionnaire face à l’offensive contre-révolutionnaire en... - [BT Cringes on Afghanistan Defense](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/bt-cringes-on-afghanistan-defense/): Document 2c.10 Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 482, 21 July 1989 Over the past decade Western imperialism waged a hysterical campaign against Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan. For the anti-Soviet left, which quickly fell... - [TB# 8: Afghanistan & the Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/afghanistan-the-left/): TABLE OF CONTENTS   Introduction 1. Afghanistan Under Imperialist Attack, 2001 1.1 U.S. Imperialist Rule: An Endless Horror International Bolshevik Tendency leaflet, 18 September 2001 1.2 Imperialism’s Bloody Trail Reprinted from 1917 No. 24,... - [Trotskyist Revolutionary Internationalism vs. Robertson’s Bogus Brigade](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/trotskyist-revolutionary-internationalism-vs-robertsons-bogus-brigade/): Document 2c.12 Reprinted from 1917 No. 7, 1990 In our previous issue, we commented on the Spartacist League’s (SL) cynical “offer” to dispatch a military expedition to assist Najibullah and his People’s Democratic Party... - [Pamyat Rides in Moscow](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/pamyat-rides-in-moscow/): Document 2c.11 Appendix Reprinted from 1917 No. 6, 1989 Not so long ago, one of the favorite slogans of the Spartacist League (SL) was “The Klan Doesn’t Ride in Moscow!” It was intended to... - [On ‘Hailing’ Brezhnev’s Afghan Policy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/on-hailing-brezhnevs-afghan-policy/): Document 2c.11 Reprinted from 1917 No. 7, Winter 1990 For well over a year, we have been involved in a continuing polemic with the Spartacists over the political adaptation to the Stalinist bureaucracy implicit... - [Letter to Frederico](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/letter-to-frederico/): Document 2c.5 The following letter was written by James Robertson to Frederico P., one of the iSt’s leading European cadres at the time. Note Robertson’s suggestion that “Trotskyists would have their throats cut upon... - [Report From Heroic Jalalabad: Front Line Afghanistan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/report-from-heroic-jalalabad-front-line-afghanistan/): Document 2c.9 Crush CIA’s Mujahedin Reprinted from Workers Vanguard, No. 482, 21 July 1989 From Our Correspondent in Afghanistan JALALABAD, July 7—Thousands of people thronged through the streets of this revitalized city today to... - [Worldwide Effort for Jalalabad Tops $40,000](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/worldwide-effort-for-jalalabad-tops-40000/): Document 2c.8 The following is excerpted from an article in Workers Vanguard, No. 480, 23 June 1989 In early February, as the Soviet army completed its withdrawal, with basic social gains at stake, the... - [Bolshevik Tendency letter to Trotskyist League of Canada](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/bolshevik-tendency-letter-to-trotskyist-league-of-canada/): Document 2c.7 The following letter was dated 2 April 1989 Dear Comrades: We were pleased to note at your forum last night that, after almost five years, you have finally abandoned your policy of... - [Fake-Trotskyists Make Fake Offer](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/fake-trotskyists-make-fake-offer/): On SL/PDC ‘Brigade’ for Kabul Document 2c.6 Reprinted below is a letter from the Bolshevik Tendency to the Spartacist League regarding a proposal by the SL’s Partisan Defense Committee to organize a combat brigade... - [Letter to William](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/letter-to-william/): Document 2c.4 The following is James Robertson’s response to William C.’s objections. Note that Robertson suggests that if the PDC proposal were accepted it would be the Afghan government’s “problem” to implement it. This... - [Letter to PDC](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/letter-to-pdc/): Document 2c.3 The following is a letter from William C., a leading member of the iSt’s French section at the time, in response to the Partisan Defense Committee’s proposed “International Brigade.” Note that William... - [Letter to Paris](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/letter-to-paris/): Document 2c.2 The following is the letter with which James Robertson initiated the international Spartacist tendency’s projected “International Brigade” for Afghanistan in 1989. This letter was originally published in the iSt’s International Discussion Bulletin... - [PDC: For Internationalist Military Support to Afghan Government!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/pdc-for-internationalist-military-support-to-afghan-government/): Document 2c.1 Reprinted from Workers Vanguard, No. 471, 17 February 1989 [WV Introduction] We reprint below a letter from the Partisan Defense Committee to the government of Afghanistan, offering concrete support in the struggle... - [On the Slogan ‘Hail Red Army’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/on-the-slogan-hail-red-army/): Bending the Stick Too Far… Document 2b.6 Reprinted from 1917 No. 5, Winter 1988-89 Since the formation of our political tendency, six years ago, our polemics with other leftists on Afghanistan have revolved around... - [Gorbachev’s Afghan Sellout](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/gorbachevs-afghan-sellout/): Soviets Abandon Women, Leftists to Mujahedin Document 2b.5 Reprinted from 1917 No. 5, Winter 1988-89 On 15 May the USSR began a pullout of its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. The withdrawal is being carried... - [Bolshevik Tendency reply to Workers Vanguard No. 453](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/bolshevik-tendency-reply-to-workers-vanguard-no-453/): Document 2b.4 The following letter, dated 21 June 1988, was written in response to Document 2b.3 Comrades: You evidently had difficulty in responding to the political criticisms raised in our letter of 8 April... - [BT Protests Too Much](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/bt-protests-too-much/): Document 2b.3 Workers Vanguard No. 453 (20 May 1988) published the following truncated version of Document 2b.2 [WV Introduction] We print below excerpts of a letter by the “Bolshevik Tendency” (ex-External Tendency) in response... - [Bolshevik Tendency letter to the Trotskyist League, 4 February 1988](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/bolshevik-tendency-letter-to-the-trotskyist-league-4-february-1988/): Document 2b.2 Appendix Comrades: On 2 February the recently reconstituted Toronto Anti-Intervention Coalition (TAIC), sponsored a demonstration to “Oppose U.S. Contra Aid!” which drew almost 300 participants. Unlike other “anti-interventionist” demonstrations held in this... - [Bolshevik Tendency reply to Workers Vanguard No. 449](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/bolshevik-tendency-reply-to-workers-vanguard-no-449/): Document 2b.2 The following letter, dated 8 April 1988, was written in response to Document 2b.1 Comrades: In reading your latest anti-BT screed (Workers Vanguard No. 449, 25 March) we are reminded of James... - [BT Says Don’t Hail Red Army in Afghanistan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/bt-says-dont-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... - [The Fourth International and Afghanistan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/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](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/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](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/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](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/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!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/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](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/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](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/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?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/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](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/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... - [Where Is the ICL Going?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/where-is-the-icl-going/): The Politics of Chicken Revisited Document 1.4 The following statement by the International Bolshevik Tendency, published on 2 December 2001, was reprinted in 1917 No. 24, 2002. Over the past several weeks we have... - [Extract from “Doubletalk in the 2 1/2 Camp,” 1917, No. 10, 3rd quarter 1991](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/extract-from-doubletalk-in-the-2-1-2-camp-1917-no-10-3rd-quarter-1991/): Document 1.3 Appendix In early 1980 Workers Power publicly renounced the third-campist “Neither Washington nor Moscow” position of Tony Cliff’s Socialist Workers Party (SWP), out of which it had emerged in the mid-1970s. Rejecting... - [Workers Power’s Two-stage ‘Trotskyism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/workers-powers-two-stage-trotskyism/): Document 1.3 The following is the text of a leaflet published by the International Bolshevik Tendency (Britain), 5 November 2001 The front page headline of the October issue of Workers Power boldly proclaims: “Defend... - [Some News that Didn’t Fit](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/some-news-that-didnt-fit/): Document 1.2 Appendix The following was posted on the IBT web site on 18 February 2002. One of the outstanding features of the U.S.-led “war” on Afghanistan has been the self-censorship of the capitalist... - [Imperialism’s Bloody Trail](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/imperialisms-bloody-trail/): Enduring Oppression and Infinite Injustice Document 1.2 The following is an edited version of a talk given by Tom Riley at several campuses in the Toronto area in early November 2001. Reprinted from 1917... - [U.S. Imperialist Rule: An Endless Horror](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/u-s-imperialist-rule-an-endless-horror/): World Trade Center Terror Bombing Document 1.1 International Bolshevik Tendency leaflet, 18 September 2001 The destruction of the World Trade Center on 11 September is a horrific act which the International Bolshevik Tendency unequivocally... - [Introduction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/introduction-4/): This bulletin addresses political questions posed by events in Afghanistan since the 1970s. Part 1 contains materials by the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) related to the recent U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan. The second part,... - [Nicaragua & the Permanent Revoution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/nicaragua-the-permanent-revoution/): Trotskyism vs. Pabloism TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction The Arias Peace Plan Six Months Later (by Robert Adam and Neil Henderson, originally appeared in Socialist Challenge [SC], Vol. 2, No.7) A Victory and Danger: Comment... - [BT Letter to Trotskyist League, 4 February 1987](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/pre-november-1987-taic-basis-of-unity/): Bolshevik Tendency Toronto 4 February 1988 Trotskyist League Toronto Comrades: On 2 February the recently reconstituted Toronto Anti-Intervention Coalition (TAIC), sponsored a demonstration to “Oppose U.S. Contra Aid!” which drew almost 300 participants. Unlike... - [Trotskyist League Forum - DEFEND, COMPLETE, EXTEND THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/trotskyist-league-forum-defend-complete-extend-the-nicaraguan-revolution/): Arias “peace” hoax threatens Nicaraguan masses Speaker: Peter Stevens, Trotskyist League Saturday 9 April 1988, 7:30 p.m. International Student Centre 33 St. George St. (n. of College) For more information contact the Trotskyist League,... - [TAIC Basis of Unity Prior to November 1987](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/taic-basis-of-unity-prior-to-november-1987/): TORONTO ANTI-INTERVENTION COALITION c/o 427 BLOOR ST. WEST, TORONTO, ONTARIO M5S 1X7 BASIS OF UNITY OF TORONTO ANTI-INTERVENTION COALITION Purposes of the Coalition 1) To unite all individuals and organizations who oppose military, economic... - [Resignation from the TAIC](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/resignation-from-the-taic/): At the 1987 conference of the TAIC on November 7 the Bolshevik Tendency put forward the following motion: “Proposal to reconstitute the TAIC as a united-front committee on the following basis: “A) i) Opposition... - [All That Glitters...](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/all-that-glitters/): Young Militant Chooses IBT over ICL Reprinted below is an application to the IBT, submitted in September 2003, from a youth in Toronto. Over the past eight months I have carefully compared the politics... - [From the IG to Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/from-the-ig-to-trotskyism/): Dutch ‘VVI’ Joins IBT In the month preceding the U.S./UK attack on Iraq, the web site of the Internationalist Group/League for the Fourth International (IG-LFI) highlighted the activity of its Dutch affiliate in the... - [Leninism & Immigration](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/leninism-immigration/): Polemics with the LRP Reprinted below is a letter to the League for the Revolutionary Party (LRP) on the question of the Marxist position on immigration. 30 May 2003 Comrades: In the report on... - [Fifth Wheel Internationalists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/fifth-wheel-internationalists/): Workers Power Abandons Trotskyist Pretensions In May 2003 the League for a Revolutionary Communist International (LRCI) announced that it henceforth wished to be known as the “League for a Fifth International” (L5I). This was... - [Blowback in Iraq](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/blowback-in-iraq/): Drive Out the Imperialists—By Any Means Necessary! The U.S. “liberation” of Iraq, trumpeted by the invaders as heralding a golden age of prosperity and democracy in the region, was seen for what it was... - [China: Towards the Brink](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/china-towards-the-brink/): Capitalism in a Deformed Workers’ State Millions of workers, poor peasants and other victims of the growth of capitalist social relations in China have been mobilizing on a massive scale. Their organizations are primitive... - [Defend the Palestinians!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/defend-the-palestinians/): Not Jew Against Arab, But Class Against Class! One of the important achievements of the French Revolution was Jewish emancipation—a process initiated in 1791 when the National Assembly, after considerable debate, decreed that henceforth... - [Capitalism & Terrorism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/capitalism-terrorism/): Paranoia & Hypocrisy in the Age of Imperialism The following is an edited version of a talk given in Toronto by Josh Decker on 23 October 2004. Capital, as Karl Marx observed, came into... - [Polemic with the ICL on Tibet and Falun Gong: On Combating Religion & Social Backwardness](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/polemic-with-the-icl-on-tibet-and-falun-gong-on-combating-religion-social-backwardness/): The 28 May 2004 issue of Workers Vanguard (WV—literary flagship of James Robertson’s International Communist League [ICL]) attacked our treatment of Tibet and national oppression in the Chinese deformed workers’ state in 1917 No.... - [No Choice for Working People](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/no-choice-for-working-people/): Canadian Federal Election 2004 The following statement, dated 18 June 2004, was distributed prior to the Canadian federal election. Urging voters to “choose your Canada,” Prime Minister Paul Martin declared that the vote on... - [No to ‘Lesser Evilism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/no-to-lesser-evilism/): Forward to a Revolutionary Workers’ Party! The following statement was distributed during the 2004 American election campaign. This year’s presidential election takes place in the shadow of the dirty colonial war in Iraq, a... - [ICL & the Russian Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/icl-the-russian-question/): Prestige Politics & Programmatic Confusion The following is excerpted from a forthcoming IBT pamphlet. In the Spring 2004 issue of Spartacist (No. 58), the International Communist League (ICL) characterizes its recent political record as... - [‘Bolivarian’or Proletarian Revolution?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/bolivarianor-proletarian-revolution/): Letter to Fire This Time The following letter was sent to Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice 27 November 2004 Dear Comrades, In your recent article, “Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Venezuela” (Fire This... - [Anti-Fascist Protest in Wellington](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/anti-fascist-protest-in-wellington/): Smash the National Front! On 23 October 2004, 40 fascists from the New Zealand National Front (NF) held a rally in Wellington. These thugs, who had been responsible for a series of racist attacks... - [No to the Hijab Ban!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/no-to-the-hijab-ban/): For the Separation of Religion & State When French schools reopened in September 2004 after summer vacation, a new law took effect prohibiting students from wearing the hijab (female Islamic headscarf). Under the pretense... - [Iraq: Imperial Overreach](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/iraq-imperial-overreach/): U.S./UK Troops Out Now! “All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” —Macbeth, Act III Scene... - [Defend Civil Liberties in Britain!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/defend-civil-liberties-in-britain/): ‘The Rules of the Game are Changing…’ On the morning of Thursday, 7 July 2005, as Tony Blair and his cronies prepared for their G8 summit in Scotland, 52 innocent civilians were murdered and... - [Swimming Against the Stream](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/swimming-against-the-stream/): IBT Fourth International Conference The fourth international conference of the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) was held in Western Europe in March 2005. It featured a number of wide-ranging discussions and debates on program, perspectives... - [What’s Bred in the Bone](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/whats-bred-in-the-bone/): Workers Power’s Labourite Reflex An IBT statement distributed in advance of the 5 May 2005 general election in Britain contained the following polemic: Workers Power [British section of the League for the Fifth International],... - [Cliffites, Clerics & Class Collaboration](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/cliffites-clerics-class-collaboration/): SWP’s Respect Gambit In October 2003, a middle-of-the-road social democrat, George Galloway, was kicked out of the Labour Party for his forthright opposition to Tony Blair’s participation in the criminal invasion and occupation of... - [Socialists & Sharia Courts](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/socialists-sharia-courts/): For the Separation of Religion and State! In September 2005, the Liberal government of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, ended months of speculation by announcing that it would not extend the 1991 Arbitration Act... - [Principles & Tactics](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/principles-tactics/): On the 2004 Venezuelan Referendum The following is an edited version of a document adopted at the Fourth International Conference of the IBT. Given a choice, Marxists would generally vote “yes” to removing a... - [From the Horse’s Mouth](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/from-the-horses-mouth/): The following remarks by the late, unlamented, Lee Atwater, the Karl Rove of the 1980s, explains the evolution of the use of racism in American politics. Atwater was the architect of the infamous “Willie... - [New Orleans: Racism & Capitalist Irrationality](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/new-orleans-racism-capitalist-irrationality/): U.S. Imperialism in Decline The following is a slightly edited version of a talk given by Jason Wright in Toronto on 30 September 2005. On 29 August 2005, New Orleans, the cradle of jazz,... - [Imperialist Expansionism & the EU](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/imperialist-expansionism-the-eu/): Predators & Prey This statement was first published prior to the May 2005 French referendum that rejected the EU constitutional treaty. In October 2004, representatives of the European Union’s (EU) 25 member states celebrating... - [Iraq Unravels](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/iraq-unravels/): The Empire Strikes Out “It is my hope, therefore, that by means of an Arab government supported by a moderate military force we may be able to discharge our duties without imposing unjustifiable expense... - [Venezuela: State & Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/venezuela-state-revolution/): For a Socialist Federation of Latin America! Latin America has the world’s widest income gap, with well over a hundred million people forced to eke out an existence on less than two dollars a... - [Imperialism, Zionism & the Middle East](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/imperialism-zionism-the-middle-east/): On the ‘Israel Lobby’ In early 2006, as the U.S. foreign policy establishment debated whether civil war in Iraq was underway or merely imminent, two prominent American academics, John Mearsheimer of the University of... - [Zionist Terror in Lebanon](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/zionist-terror-in-lebanon/): For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East! The following statement was published by the International Bolshevik Tendency on 30 July 2006. Three weeks ago the Mediterranean seaport of Beirut bustled with commercial activity.... - [The ‘Anti-CPE’ Movement in France](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/the-anti-cpe-movement-in-france/): Mass Resistance & Reformist Treachery The following article was originally posted on www.bolshevik.org on 27 May 2006. The recent struggle to spike the Contrat première embauche (CPE—First Job Contract for young workers) demonstrated the... - [On Criticism of Misleaders](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/on-criticism-of-misleaders/): Letter to Workers Vanguard The following letter was sent to Workers Vanguard, newspaper of the Spartacist League/U.S., with a postscript which does not appear below. 10 July 2006 To the editor: The 9 June... - [The Class Nature of the Unions](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/the-class-nature-of-the-unions/): SEP: Defeatist and Confusionist “The question of the relationships between the party, which represents the proletariat as it should be, and the trade unions, which represent the proletariat as it is, is the most... - [The ‘New’ German Reformism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/the-new-german-reformism/): WASG & the ‘Far Left’ In June 2004, dissident members of Germany’s governing Social Democratic Party (SPD) and a handful of trade-union officials launched the Wahlalternative Arbeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit (WASG—Electoral Alternative for Labor... - [Letter to NEFAC](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/letter-to-nefac/): Reformism, Pacifism & Anarcho-Opportunism The following letter was sent to the Montreal branch of the Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists. 5 September 2006 Comrades: On 6 August thousands of people marched in Montreal under the... - [Endgame in Iraq](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/endgame-in-iraq/): Imperialists Out of the Middle East! A month before retiring as United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan observed: “The US is in a way trapped in Iraq, trapped in the sense that it cannot... - [Of Presidents & Principles](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/of-presidents-principles/): ICL Rejects ‘Executive Offices’ The Fifth International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL, formerly the international Spartacist tendency) arrived at a momentous conclusion: “The chief pressure operating on our party, especially in this... - [On ‘Revolutionary Regroupment’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/on-revolutionary-regroupment/): IBT Exchange With ICL On 3 November 2007, the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) held a public meeting in Toronto to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution. Guest speaker Bryan Palmer, James P.... - [Being Determines Consciousness](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/being-determines-consciousness/): Northites Inc.: Toeing the Bottom Line In the spring of 2007, the Socialist Equality Party/Inter-national Committee (SEP/IC) was rocked by a public scandal when Scott Solomon, an embittered former adherent, revealed that David North... - [Screws Out of the TUC!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/22/screws-out-of-the-tuc-2/): Which Side Are You On? The following statement, dated 10 November 2007, was produced by the IBT’s London branch. On 29 August, the Prison Officers Association (POA) defied the government and walked off the... - ['The Main Question of Proletarian Class Strategy'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/22/the-main-question-of-proletarian-class-strategy/): Popular Front: Not a Tactic But a Crime The following quotations were originally printed in Spartacist No.27-28 (Winter 1979-1980) published by the then-revolutionary international Spartacist tendency. “The question of questions at present is the... - [No to Popular Frontism!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/22/no-to-popular-frontism/): French ‘Far Left’ Moving Rightward A month after Nicolas Sarkozy was elected president of France in May 2007, his party, the right-wing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), won a majority in the legislative... - [The Cannon Biography & Its Critics](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/22/the-cannon-biography-its-critics/): Revolutionary Continuity & Historical Memory James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, Bryan D. Palmer, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007, 542 pages, $50 hardcover. The first... - [James P. Cannon: American Bolshevik](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/22/james-p-cannon-american-bolshevik/): From Wobbly to Left Oppositionist We print below, with permission, edited excerpts of Bryan D. Palmer’s presentation at the book launch for James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928,... - [Middle East Morass](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/22/middle-east-morass/): Drive Out the Imperialists! A growing section of America’s traditional foreign policy establishment is beginning to fear that the decline of U.S. imperialism may be irreversible. Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign... - [Venezuela & the Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/22/venezuela-the-left/): Marxism & the ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ In January 2007, shortly after winning re-election, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez declared: “We’re moving toward a socialist republic of Venezuela” (Guardian [London], 10 January 2007). The National Assembly then... - [Die Novemberrevolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/19/die-novemberrevolution/): Lehren für die revolutionäre Organisierung Als vor hundert Jahren am 9. November die Revolution in Deutschland ausbrach und damit das imperialistische Blutvergießen des Ersten Weltkriegs beendete, geschah dies nicht aus dem Nichts. Der deutsche... - [Contents](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/19/contents-2/): Introduction Revolutionary Continuity & Islamic Reaction by Tom Riley On Erdogan’s Bonapartist Regime by HaPe Breitman and Tom Riley Turkey and the Tactic of the Military Bloc by Barbara Dorn and Adaire Hannah Erdogan,... - [Contents](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/19/contents/): Introduction ‘Worried about the Russia Question’ by Bill Logan with Tom Riley response ‘Is Russia imperialist?’ (by Tom Riley) with Decker / Dorn Interpolated Comments For a ‘Concrete Analysis of a Concrete Situation’ by... - [The Road to Jimstown](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/19/the-road-to-jimstown/): SL Over the Brink–Trotskyists Out Now! Originally published May 1985 In November 1984, cadres of the Spartacist League/U.S. (SL) donned witches’ hats, false noses, pigs’ faces and Nazi regalia and paraded around San Francisco... - [James M. Robertson: A Balance Sheet](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/19/james-m-robertson-a-balance-sheet/): The recent report of the death of Spartacist League (SL) founder James Robertson on 7 April has occasioned considerable discussion within the shrinking milieu of leftists interested in the fate of the group he... - [Klassenkampf im Hafen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/17/klassenkampf-im-hafen/): Howard Keylor zum 93. Geburtstag Die folgenden Ausführungen machte Henry Johnson im Namen der Bolschewistische Tendenz bei einem Treffen am 9. Dezember in der International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 zu Ehren... - [Motions on Russian Imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/motions-on-russian-imperialism/): —excerpt from minutes of 2014 IBT Conference, 18 April 2014 Motion by Lichtenberg on Russia: That we endorse the political thrust of the following documents: “Is Russia imperialist?” by Riley. “Why Russia is not... - [Dots for Joining](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/dots-for-joining/): —Bill, 23 March 2014, with interpolations by Tom, 28 March 2014 Tom’s reply to Dave raises some issues about the way in which the argument we have been having has been conducted, expressing frustration... - [Decker’s Response & Riley’s Rejoinder](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/deckers-response-rileys-rejoinder/): —Decker’s 9 April 2014 response to Riley, with Riley’s 11 April 2014 interpolations In his 8 April response to Barbara and me, Tom revisits several old arguments attempting to show how Russia is in... - [Reply to recent documents by cdes. Dorn (20 March) & Decker (27 March)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/reply-to-recent-documents-by-cdes-dorn-20-march-decker-27-march/): —Riley, 8 April 2014 In her 20 March ”Reply to Roxie on Russian Investment” Barbara took up Roxie’s earlier challenge that “if a parallel could be proven today – that Russia is pumping value... - [Russia’s Emergence as an Imperialist Power](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/russias-emergence-as-an-imperialist-power/): Examining Recent Trends in Foreign Investment — Decker, 27 March 2014 Russia inherited much of its economic base from the Soviet Union, which by unplugging from global capitalism and employing centralized planning was able... - [Reply to Roxie on Russian Investment](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/reply-to-roxie-on-russian-investment/): Barbara, 20 March 2014   As promised, here is a link to the document which contains the tables I showed you at the last London local meeting – the whole document is worth reading:... - [Why Russia is not imperialist](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/why-russia-is-not-imperialist/): —Breitman, 23 March 2014 It seems to me that the current discussion is at heart not simply one of different perceptions of what Russia is and how she can be best categorised, given the... - [Russia, Ukraine, Syria](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/russia-ukraine-syria/): —Lichtenberg, 12 March 2014 Nobody disputes that Russia has some investments in Ukraine. It is also clear that the trade balance between Russia and Ukraine is in Russia’s favor. If Russia is really the... - [On the Ukrainian Crisis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/on-the-ukrainian-crisis/): —Draft for discussion, Barbara, Bill, Josh, 5 March 2014 The following draft was circulated and discussed prior to the 2014 Conference, but neither voted on nor published. The Nimps considered that the following passage... - [What is Russia doing in Syria?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/what-is-russia-doing-in-syria/): —Dorn, 25 February 2014 (with interpolated comments by Riley, 2 March 2014) The conflict in Syria allows us to look very concretely at the role Russia plays in the world and whether Marxists should... - [Twenty points on the imperialism discussion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/twenty-points-on-the-imperialism-discussion/): —Logan, 18 September 2013,  with Riley’s 26 October 2013 interpolations 1. In the very weak state the IBT now finds itself in, our failure to either resolve the argument about Russian imperialism or to... - [For a ‘Concrete Analysis of the Concrete Situation’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/for-a-concrete-analysis-of-the-concrete-situation/): Reply to Decker/Dorn on ‘Russian Imperialism’ —Riley, 15 July 2013   “…the concrete analysis of the concrete situation is not an opposite of ‘pure’ theory, but – on the contrary – it is the... - [Decker/Dorn Interpolated Comments on Riley’s ‘Is Russia Imperialist?’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/decker-dorn-interpolated-comments-on-rileys-is-russia-imperialist/): 19 June 2013 Dear comrades, We have not been convinced by Tom’s document to change our position on the imperialist character of Russia. Aside from dismissing major sectors of the economy and failing to... - [‘Worried about the Russia Question’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/worried-about-the-russia-question/): From: Bill Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 7:43 AM Subject: The Russian Question Dear Tom Of course I’m quite worried about the Russian Question, particularly because I think we have to have a decision on it in... - [SAV: Toleranz für kapitalistische Regierungspolitik](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/sav-toleranz-fur-kapitalistische-regierungspolitik/): Ein fester Bestandteil der Taktik der Sozialistischen Alternative (SAV) in der Partei die Linke (PdL) ist es, sich gegen Regierungsbeteiligungen auf Länder- und Bundesebene stark zu machen. So haben die Genossen der SAV gegen... - [Die Reaktion formiert sich – Nicht nur in Chemnitz](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/die-reaktion-formiert-sich-nicht-nur-in-chemnitz/): Der Tod eines jungen Menschen am 26. August 2018 wird zum Auslöser rassistischer Pogrome in Chemnitz. Aufgestachelt durch rechte Propaganda und rassistische Hetze kommt es noch am gleichen Tag zu Hetzjagden auf Migranten und... - [Erklärung zur Wiederaufnahme einer unabhängigen Existenz als BT](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/erklarung-zur-wiederaufnahme-einer-unabhangigen-existenz-als-bt/): Nachfolgend ist eine leicht bearbeitete Version eines Dokuments, das enge Kontakte und Unterstützer informierte, um unsere Entscheidung zu erläutern, die Fusion von 1990 mit der Neuseeländischen Permanent Revolution Group (PRG) aufzulösen und unsere separate... - [Urteil im NSU-Prozess](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/urteil-im-nsu-prozess/): Rassismus, Vertuschung, Verharmlosung “Wir tun alles, um die Morde aufzuklären und die Helfershelfer und Hintermänner aufzu¬decken und alle Täter ihrer gerechten Strafe zuzuführen.” —Rede von Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel bei der Gedenkveranstaltung für die Opfer... - [Marxismus, Feminismus und #MeToo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/marxismus-feminismus-und-metoo/): Das Folgende ist eine bearbeitete Version eines Vortrags der IBT-Unterstützerin Roxanne Baker vom 17. Februar 2018 an der Goldsmiths University in London. Es gab schon immer eine Trennung zwischen Feminismus und Marxismus. Die Bruchlinien... - [In Verteidigung (von Seymours) Marxismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/in-verteidigung-von-seymours-marxismus/): Aufdeckung des „theoretischen Rahmens“ der neo-pabloistischen Wende der IKL Die abrupte Preisgabe des seit längerem bestehenden Herangehens an die nationale Frage durch die Siebte Internationale Konferenz der Internationalen Kommunistischen Liga (IKL – früher die... - [Reply to Mikl et al](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/reply-to-mikl-et-al/): — Decker, Dorn, Breitman, Lichtenberg, 21 June 2018 Dear comrades, It is with deep regret that we read your statement “Iran, nationalism and imperialism” (29 May 2018), which makes it very clear that you... - [Iran, nationalism and imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/iran-nationalism-and-imperialism/): —Mikl et al to IBT, 29 May 2018    Half way correct The debate on the questions of Iran, nationalism and imperialism started after the military coups in Egypt and Turkey, in 2013 and... - [On Khomeini & Counterrevolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/on-khomeini-counterrevolution/): —Riley to Mikl et al, 28 June 2017 To trace the complicated course of the “Iranian Revolution” requires careful study of the actual events in the spirit of Lenin’s injunction to “make a concrete... - [Mikl et al on 1979 Iranian Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/mikl-et-al-on-1979-iranian-revolution/): —Mikl to Riley, 4 June 2017 Following is our tentative conclusion after the biweekly cooperative study in about 4 months before the conference. CGs M The revolution in 1979 in Iran was not Islam... - [Lenin & Trotsky’s Dual Defeatism on the Balkan Wars](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/lenin-trotskys-dual-defeatism-on-the-balkan-wars/): —Riley letter to Mikl, 26 May 2017 Dear Comrade Mikl: When we discussed the position of dual defeatism in the 2016 coup against Erdogan (and the related issues of the Egyptian coup in 2013... - [Erdogan, Pilsudski & Khomeini](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/erdogan-pilsudski-khomeini/): —Riley’s presentation to the IBT conference, 11 April 2017 (with introduction as circulated in the IBT, 13 May 2017) Reprinted below are my remarks to the conference on the issue of the coups against... - [Turkey and the Tactic of the Military Bloc](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/turkey-and-the-tactic-of-the-military-bloc/): —Adaire Hannah and Barbara Dorn, 27 March 2017; with interpolated comments by Tom Riley, 3 April 2017 Breitman and Riley’s document, “On Erdogan’s Bonapartist Regime,” begins with a quote from “Turkey: A War of... - [On Erdogan’s Bonapartist Regime](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/on-erdogans-bonapartist-regime/): —Breitman and Riley, 8 March 2017 “The correct characterization of the coup is not one of democracy defeating dictatorship.  Two despotic forces faced each other and the more gradualist one won.  Anyone who dares... - [Revolutionary Continuity & Islamic Reaction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/revolutionary-continuity-islamic-reaction/): From Khomeini in the 1970s to the Muslim Brotherhood Today —Riley, 15 January 2017 One of the most important political legacies of the revolutionary Spartacist tendency was its steadfast refusal to go with the... - [#aufstehen: Wenn Linke Rechtspopulismus predigen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/aufstehen-wenn-linke-rechtspopulismus-predigen/): Die Gründung von #aufstehen lässt noch offen, welche Organisationsform angestrebt wird. Es geht um eine Bewegung, deren Programm erst noch erarbeitet werden soll. Man versucht, all jene zu sammeln, die „für Gerechtigkeit und sozialen... - [Class, State and Party](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/14/class-state-and-party/): The Lessons of October The following is an extract from “Celebrating Red October: The Russian Revolution in Historical Perspective,” first published 23 October 2017. The Russian Revolution showed that even in relatively backward countries,... - [From Trotskyism to Neo-Pabloism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/14/from-trotskyism-to-neo-pabloism-2/): ICL Breaks with Leninism on the National Question The report of the recent Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL – formerly the international Spartacist tendency [iSt]), which appeared in Spartacist (No.... - [In Defense of (Seymour’s) Marxism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/14/in-defense-of-seymours-marxism-2/): Exposing the ‘Theoretical Framework’ of ICL’s Neo-Pabloist Turn The abrupt abandonment of the longstanding approach to the national question by the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL – formerly the international... - [Spenser Rapone and the Democratic Socialists of America](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/13/spenser-rapone-and-the-democratic-socialists-of-america/): Contribution by a supporter of the BT at the “Endless War No More” forum in Troy, New York, on 18 January 2019. The text has been lightly edited. I thought you [Spenser Rapone, a... - [Is Russia Imperialist?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/13/is-russia-imperialist/): Introduction Our 24 October 2018 statement, “Why Things Fell Apart,” outlined the debate within the International Bolshevik Tendency over whether contemporary Russia should be categorized as an imperialist power—an issue with profound programmatic consequences.... - [Why Things Fell Apart](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/13/why-things-fell-apart/): The following is a slightly edited version of a document circulated to close contacts and supporters to explain our decision to dissolve the 1990 fusion with the New Zealand Permanent Revolution Group (PRG) and... - [Marxism & Islamic Reaction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/12/marxism-islamic-reaction/): Polemics on Khomeini, Morsi & Erdoğan The contents of this bulletin originated in a July 2016 disagreement within the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) over what attitude to take to the attempted military coup against... - [Hands Off Julian Assange!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/12/hands-off-julian-assange-5-april-statement/): The latest news that Assange will be imminently expelled from the Equadorian Embassy in London should remind us that the political reality has not changed fundamentally since he sought asylum nearly 7 years ago.... - [Defend Venezuela Against Imperialist Aggression!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/12/defend-venezuela-against-imperialist-aggression/): Bolivarians Resist U.S. ‘Regime Change’ Attempt On 8 March, Tom Riley of the Bolshevik Tendency (BT) addressed a meeting organized by the Brock Socialists in St. Catharines, Ontario regarding the current crisis in Venezuela.... - [Venezuela & ‘Russian Imperialism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/12/venezuela-russian-imperialism/): Socialist Action, Red Flag & IBT ‘Imps’ Take a Pass on Discussing: At an 8 March Brock Socialist meeting on Venezuela, Bolshevik Tendency (BT) supporter Tom Riley sketched out the material motivations behind the... - [پیش به سوی تروتسکیسم](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/09/%d9%be%db%8c%d8%b4-%d8%a8%d9%87-%d8%b3%d9%88%db%8c-%d8%aa%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%aa%d8%b3%da%a9%db%8c%d8%b3%d9%85/): سند ادغام گرایش بلشویک و گرایش تروتسکیست چپ ترجمه‌ی بابک کسرایی توضیح مترجم: متنی که می‌خوانید از اسناد بنیادین گروهی به نام “گرایش بلشویک بین‌المللی” است که برای اطلاع فارسی‌زبانان ترجمه شده است. از‌... - [Pelo Trotskismo!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/09/pelo-trotskismo/): Este documento é uma tradução da revista 1917, n° 3 (Março-Junho de 1987). Ele foi adotado originalmente como a base para a fusão, em 1987, entre a Tendência Bolchevique e a Tendência de Esquerda... - [O trockizm!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/09/o-trockizm/): Deklaracja programowa Międzynarodowej Tendencji Bolszewickiej Niniejszy dokument służył jako podstawa połączenia Bolshevik Tendency z Left Trotskyist Tendency w Ameryce Północnej w 1987 r. Pomimo upływu lat i rozwoju wydarzeń, pozostaje ważnym podsumowaniem istotnych różnic... - [Voor het Trotskyisme!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/09/voor-het-trotskyisme/): Dit document uit 1987 werd oorspronkelijk aangenomen in Noord-Amerika als fundament voor de fusie tussen de Bolshewistische Tendens en de Linkse Trotskyistische Tendens. Het blijft een van belangzijnde samenvatting van vele wezenlijke verschillen in... - [Por el Trotskismo!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/09/por-el-trotskismo/): Introducción de 1917, en su edición en español Esta primera edición en español de 1917 contiene “¡Por el Trotskismo!”, principal declaración programática de la TBI y que fue publicada originalmente en 1986. También contiene la declaración de la TBI acerca... - [The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/07/the-case-of-mumia-abu-jamal/): Anatomy of a Racist Frame-Up Contents Preface 1. Background 2. How the Frame-Up was Organized 3. The Prosecution’s Case 4. A Tilted Trial 5. Betrayed by his ‘Defenders’ 6. Free Mumia Now! Appendices 1.... - [From Sacco and Vanzetti to Mumia Abu-Jamal (Appendix No. 12 of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/07/appendix-no-12-from-sacco-and-vanzetti-to-mumia-abu-jamal/): The following text is reprinted from 1917, No. 25. It was originally presented at a Hofstra University symposium on Sacco and Vanzetti on 4 October 2002 by Eliot Lee Grossman, then one of Mumia... - [Appendix No. 11: 112 Questions for Leonard Weinglass](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/07/appendix-no-11-112-questions-for-leonard-weinglass/): REMAND MOTION TO TAKE TESTIMONY FROM ATTORNEY LEONARD WEINGLASS INTRODUCTION The numerous acts of sabotage directed against Appellant Jamal’s case by his own Chief Counsel, Leonard Weinglass, could not have been inadvertent or the... - [Appendix No. 10: Declaration of Kenneth Pate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/07/appendix-no-10-declaration-of-kenneth-pate/): I, KENNETH PATE, declare: 1. I am related to Priscilla Durham, now known as Priscilla Ahmed, through marriage: My father, Perry Abner, married Priscilla’s mother, Dolores Durham, about 20-25 years ago. 2. Sometime around... - [MB#2-10](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-10/): Marxist Bulletin No. 2 The Nature of the Socialist Workers Party—Revolutionary or Centrist For a Fighting Perspective! By Shirley Stoute Tim correctly states in “Towards the Working Class” that our Statement of basic position... - [MB#2-09](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-09/): Marxist Bulletin No. 2 The Nature of the Socialist Workers Party—Revolutionary or Centrist What The Discussion Is Really About By Laurence Ireland The recent statement of Comrade Wohlforth, “Towards the Working Class,” offers a... - [MB#2-08](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-08/): Marxist Bulletin No. 2 The Nature of the Socialist Workers Party—Revolutionary or Centrist Theses on the Situation and Tasks of the Revolutionary Tendency in the American Trotskyist Movement by Shane Mage I. The crisis... - [MB#2-07](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-07/): Marxist Bulletin No. 2 The Nature of the Socialist Workers Party—Revolutionary or Centrist The Tendency and the Party By Geoffrey White The American Minority, originating and remaining a tendency within the SWP, is faced... - [MB#2-06](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-06/): Marxist Bulletin No. 2 The Nature of the Socialist Workers Party—Revolutionary or Centrist Towards the Working Class By Tim Wohlforth Our Evolution Many of the problems our tendency faces today stem from the weaknesses... - [MB#2-05](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-05/): Marxist Bulletin No. 2 The Nature of the Socialist Workers Party—Revolutionary or Centrist The Centrism of the SWP and the Tasks of the Minority By Jim Robertson & Larry Ireland I. The Centrism of... - [MB#2-04](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-04/): Marxist Bulletin No. 2 The Nature of the Socialist Workers Party—Revolutionary or Centrist Orientation of the Party Minority in Youth Work (Draft) By Lynne Harper 1) More than half of the revolutionary Marxist tendency... - [MB#2-03](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-03/): Marxist Bulletin No. 2 The Nature of the Socialist Workers Party—Revolutionary or Centrist Proposed Statement on Orientation By Tim Wohlforth 1. The basic political and strategic outlook of our tendency is expressed in our... - [MB#2-02](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-02/): Marxist Bulletin No. 2 The Nature of the Socialist Workers Party—Revolutionary or Centrist Letter to Ed by Tim Wohlforth Oct. 24, 1961 Oakland Dear Ed, I just received a copy of Jim’s letter to... - [MB#2-01](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-01/): Marxist Bulletin No. 2 The Nature of the Socialist Workers Party—Revolutionary or Centrist Letter to Ed by Jim Robertson New York City Oct. 18, 1961 Oakland Calif. Dear Ed, I’m taking a couple days... - [MB#2-Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-preface/): Marxist Bulletin No. 2 The Nature of the Socialist Workers Party—Revolutionary or Centrist Preface “It is necessary that every member of the Party should study calmly and with the greatest objectivity, first the substance... - [Marxist Bulletin No. 2](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/marxist-bulletin-no-2/): The Nature of the Socialist Workers Party—Revolutionary or Centrist Discussion Material of the Revolutionary Tendency within the SWP Published by Spartacist – September 1965 Table of Contents Preface Letter to Ed by Jim Robertson,... - [For Black Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/for-black-trotskyism/): -Against the P.C. draft “Freedom Now” -In defense of programmatic fundamentals -For building a black Trotskyist cadre by James Robertson and Shirley Stoute 3 July 1963 from SWP Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. 30,... - [Toward the Rebirth Of The Fourth International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/toward-the-rebirth-of-the-fourth-international/): DRAFT RESOLUTION ON THE WORLD MOVEMENT submitted to the 1963 SWP Convention by the Revolutionary Tendency. Introduction 1. For the past fifteen years the movement founded by Leon Trotsky has been rent by a... - [In Defense of a Revolutionary Perspective](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/in-defense-of-a-revolutionary-perspective/): The following document was originally presented to the June 1962 plenary meeting of the Socialist Workers Party (U.S.) National Committee as a “Statement of Basic Position by the Revolutionary Tendency” (RT) of the SWP.... - [Ernest Mandel: A Centrist For All Seasons](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/ernest-mandel-a-centrist-for-all-seasons/): SL Confronts USec Leader on U.S. Tour Spartacist, No. 25, Summer 1978 An abbreviated version of this article was distributed at a meeting in New York on May 4 where Mandel spoke on the... - [Cannon Versus Pablo:](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/cannon-versus-pablo/): a review of James P. Cannon’s Speeches to the Party, Pathfinder Press, New York, 1973 published in Workers Vanguard, No. 28, 14 September 1973 The publication of James Cannon’s speeches and letters from the... - [Our Orientation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/our-orientation/): The following article was first published in the May 1954 issue of The Educator, an internal organ of the Socialist Union of America, headed by Bert Cochran. (Draft Resolution Adopted by National Board, April... - [A Letter to Trotskyists Throughout the World](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/a-letter-to-trotskyists-throughout-the-world/): The following letter was first published in the 16 November 1953 issue of the Militant. From the 25th Anniversary Plenum of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party To All Trotskyists: Dear Comrades:... - [Trade Unionists and Revolutionists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/trade-unionists-and-revolutionists/): [From James P. Cannon, Speeches to the Party, Pathfinder 1973, pp. 51–66] At the May 1952 plenum of the SWP National Committee and at the national convention in July, the speeches and reports reflected... - [Report to the May Plenum](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/report-to-the-may-plenum/): [From James P. Cannon, Speeches to the Party, Pathfinder 1973, pp. 136–163] This speech was delivered by Cannon at the May 28–31, 1953, plenum of the SWP National Committee in New York. Comrade chairman,... - [Internationalism and the SWP](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/31/internationalism-and-the-swp/): [From James P. Cannon, Speeches to the Party, Pathfinder 1973, pp. 67–91] The following is a speech to a meeting of the majority caucus of the New York Local, May 18, 1953. We have... - [Declaration of the Delegates of the French Majority and Resolution on the Austrian Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/31/declaration-of-the-delegates-of-the-french-majority-and-resolution-on-the-austrian-question/): These documents appeared in the SWP’s International Information Bulletin, December 1951. Declaration of the Delegates of the French Majority The Congress of the PCI rejected the resolution of the 9th Plenum not because of... - [What Should Be Modified and What Should Be Maintained in the Theses of the Second World Congress of the Fourth International on the Question of Stalinism? (Ten Theses)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/31/what-should-be-modified-and-what-should-be-maintained-in-the-theses-of-the-second-world-congress-of-the-fourth-international-on-the-question-of-stalinism-ten-theses/): by Ernest Germain (Mandel) This document appeared in the SWP’s International Information Bulletin, April 1951 FOREWORD — The theses on general orientation adopted by the 9th Plenum of the IEC have defined the general... - [Where Are We Going?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/31/where-are-we-going/): by Michel Pablo This document appeared in the SWP’s International Information Bulletin, March 1951 The Ninth Plenum of the IEC has opened the preparatory discussion for the Third World Congress of our International and... - [The Rocky Road to the Fourth International, 1933-38](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/15/the-rocky-road-to-the-fourth-international-1933-38/): by George Breitman1 [George Breitman (1916-1986) joined the American Trotskyist movement in 1935 and was elected to the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party/U.S. in 1939. Breitman edited the Militant for some years... - [Trotsky’s Struggle for the Fourth International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/15/trotskys-struggle-for-the-fourth-international/): by John G. Wright first published in Fourth International, August 1946. [John G. Wright (1902-1956–legal name Joseph Vanzler) joined the Communist League of America in 1933 and was elected to the National Committee of... - [How the Fourth International Was Conceived](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/15/how-the-fourth-international-was-conceived/): by Jean van Heijenoort This article was first published in the August 1944 issue of Fourth International. [Jean van Heijenoort (1912-1986) was Trotsky’s secretary in 1932 in Prinkipo, and followed him to France, Norway... - [Marxism & the General Strike](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/marxism-the-general-strike/) - [Apologists for Islamic Reaction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/apologists-for-islamic-reaction/) - [From Cliff to Trotsky](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/from-cliff-to-trotsky/) - [SLP: a Postmortem](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/slp-a-postmortem/) - [Weathering the Storm](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/weathering-the-storm/) - [Hands Off Iraq!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/hands-off-iraq/) - [Free Ocalan! Defend the PKK!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/free-ocalan-defend-the-pkk-2/) - [Disagreeable Sectarians](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/disagreeable-sectarians/) - [Origin of ILWU's Political Action](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/origin-of-ilwus-political-action/) - [Labor: Fight to Free Mumia!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/labor-fight-to-free-mumia/) - [Balkan Quagmire](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/balkan-quagmire/) - [The Brexit Election](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/10/the-brexit-election/): Vote Labour—Break with reformism! The 12 December general election, triggered by parliamentary paralysis over “Brexit,” is taking place in the context of a deeply divided ruling class. The “Remain” faction—traditionally associated with finance capitalists... - [CWI Implodes](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/11/23/cwi-implodes/): After 60 years of opportunist adaptation The profound internal crisis currently wracking the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) has produced a series of splits. The Spanish section Izquierda Revolucionaria (IR-Revolutionary Left), which only... - [On Russian cash flow in Caracas](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/11/14/on-russian-cash-flow-in-caracas/): In an earlier posting this year we challenged three ostensibly Trotskyist groups (Socialist Action/U.S., the British Red Flag grouping [formerly Workers Power] and our former associates in the International Bolshevik Tendency) to comment on... - ["Demokratie"-Provokateure & Hongkongs kapitalistische Dystopie](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/10/06/demokratie-provokateure-hongkongs-kapitalistische-dystopie/): Verteidigt den deformierten Arbeiterstaat China! Zerschlagt die Konterrevolution! Die Massenproteste, die Hongkong in den letzten Monaten erschüttert haben, wurden in den westlichen Medien als Volksaufstand gegen die Herrschaft der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas (KPCh) dargestellt.... - [Genesis of Pabloism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/09/23/genesis-of-pabloism/): The following very important essay on the history of the Trotskyist movement after Trotsky appeared in Spartacist No. 21 (Fall 1972). We have appended an article from 1917 No. 8 (Summer 1990) entitled “Revolutionary... - [‘Democracy’ Provocateurs & Hong Kong’s Capitalist Dystopia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/09/17/democracy-provocateurs-hong-kongs-capitalist-dystopia/): Defend the Chinese Deformed Workers State! Crush Counterrevolution! The mass protests that have shaken Hong Kong in recent months have been presented in the Western media as a popular revolt against the domination of... - [Sklerotische Spartacisten entwirren sich](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/09/12/sklerotische-spartacisten-entwirren-sich/): SL distanziert sich von der ‚Kapitulation vor dem Imperialismus‘ „In einer Stellungnahme im Anschluss an den Bericht Chruschtschows [über die Verbrechen Stalins] fragte Togliatti: ‚Was machte derart gravierende Fehler möglich? Und woran lag es,... - [On the IG’s 2016 Capitulation in Brazil:](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/08/28/on-the-igs-2016-capitulation-in-brazil/): Crystalized Confusionism At this year’s Lutte Ouvrière fête outside Paris, the Internationalist Group (IG) held a forum to address recent developments in Brazil—in particular the reactionary anti-working class politics of newly-elected President Jair Bolsonaro. One... - [100 Years Ago: Revolution in Germany](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/07/28/100-years-ago-revolution-in-germany-2/): Bolshevik Tendency presentation at the 2019 Left Forum in New York - [Jim Who?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/07/14/3370/): James Robertson’s missing obituary There is something a bit odd going on with the Spartacist League (SL), a group I joined at the tender age of 22 and have since maintained an interest in.... - [Workers Vanguard De-Collectivized](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/07/11/workers-vanguard-de-collectivized/): Healyites of the Second Mobilization Reprinted below is the 1 July statement of the International Bolshevik Tendency on recent developments in the Spartacist League/U.S.: The Spartacist League is currently retailing an “internal“ bulletin on... - [Leninism & Nationalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/07/11/leninism-nationalism/): Spartacist League embraces Pabloite Hydra Content 1. Introduction 2. ICL/SL Breaks with Leninism on National Question 3. “Theoretical Framework” of ICL/SL’s Neo-Pabloite Turn 4. The National Question in the Marxist Movement, 1848-1914 5. Lenin... - [Lenin vs. Luxemburg on the National Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/07/11/lenin-vs-luxemburg-on-the-national-question/): A review of The National Question by Rosa Luxemburg (edited by Horace B. Davis) Reprinted from Workers Vanguard, No.150, 25 March 1977 The absence of sustained proletarian revolutionary struggles in the advanced capitalist countries... - [The National Question in the Marxist Movement, 1848–1914](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/07/11/the-national-question-in-the-marxist-movement-1848-1914/): By Joseph Seymour. The following two-part article is the text of a talk given at the July 1976 European summer camp of the international Spartacist tendency, reprinted from Workers Vanguard No.123, 3 September 1976,... - [Spartacist League embraces Pabloite Hydra](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/07/11/introduction-6/): Introduction In 2017, the once Trotskyist Spartacist League (SL) published a lengthy article entitled “The Struggle Against the Chauvinist Hydra,” (Spartacist, No. 65) which capped decades of revisionist departures from its revolutionary past with... - [Die bevorstehende Klimakatastrophe & Wie man sie bekämpft](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/06/30/die-bevorstehende-klimakatastrophe-wie-man-sie-bekampft/): Das vom Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2018 veröffentlichte Update über das Pariser Abkommen von 2016 bestätigt, dass die Menschheit mit einer äußerst ernsten und sich rasch beschleunigenden Krise konfrontiert ist. Die Zeit... - [100 Years Ago: Revolution in Germany](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/06/18/100-years-ago-revolution-in-germany/): Bolshevik Tendency session at #LEFTFORUM2019 Long Island University in Brooklyn – One University Plaza in Brooklyn, NY The Bolshevik Tendency are hosting Session 1 on Saturday June 29th, 10:00am – 12:00pm in Room H316... - [Liberaler Moralismus oder Klassenkampf?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/06/03/liberaler-moralismus-oder-klassenkampf/): Antirassismus für Alle 2018 war geprägt von breiten Mobilisierungen gegen den gesellschaftlichen Rechtsruck, gegen die Überarbeitung der Polizeiaufgabengesetze in vielen Bundesländern, gegen die AfD-Wahlkämpfe in Bayern und Hessen und gegen den Nazimob in Chemnitz.... - [Free Mumia Abu-Jamal - Report on London meeting](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/06/free-mumia-abu-jamal-report-on-london-meeting/): Bolshevik Tendency supporters participated in a meeting on Friday 26 April in Brixton, South London, to celebrate Mumia Abu-Jamal, two days after his 65th birthday. The event was hosted by The Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Campaign and... - [Hände weg von Julian Assange!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/hande-weg-von-julian-assange/): Die jüngste Nachricht, dass Assange unmittelbar aus der ecuadorianischen Botschaft in London ausgewiesen wird, sollte uns daran erinnern, dass sich die politische Realität seit seinem Asylantrag vor fast sieben Jahren nicht grundlegend geändert hat.... - [James M. Robertson: Eine Bilanz](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/james-m-robertson-eine-bilanz/): Der jüngste Bericht über den Tod des Gründers der Spartacist League (SL), James Robertson, am 7. April hat in dem schrumpfenden Milieu von Linken, die sich für das Schicksal der Gruppe interessieren, die er... - [Fun With Figures](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/fun-with-figures/): Inattentive readers of Workers Vanguard (WV), flagship of James Robertson’s Spartacist League (SL), may have missed a remarkable bit of good news buried on page nine of the 10 March issue. It seems that... - [Letter to the Spartacist League](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/letter-to-the-spartacist-league/): No Free Speech for Fascists! International Bolshevik Tendency Box 405, Cooper Station New York, NY 10276 13 November 1999 Spartacist League Box 1377, GPO New York, NY 10116 Comrades: We congratulate you for the... - [Revolutionaries & Imperialist War](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/revolutionaries-imperialist-war/): Cliffites on Kosovo: Born-Again Kautskyites The following article originally appeared in the January issue of Marxist Bulletin, journal of the British section of the IBT. In his 1976 biography of Lenin, Tony Cliff [leader... - [Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/free-mumia-abu-jamal/): No Faith in Capitalist Courts! The struggle to save Mumia Abu-Jamal, America’s most famous political prisoner, is moving toward a climax. Mumia, a former Black Panther, has been behind bars since 1982 when he... - [Seattle & the Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/seattle-the-left/): Opportunists Adapt, Sectarians Abstain On the Monday before the World Trade Organization (WTO) conference opened in Seattle last November, a group of right-wing Republicans, Chamber of Commerce functionaries and bible-thumpers, advertising themselves as “Working... - [Justice for Amadou Diallo!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/justice-for-amadou-diallo/): NYPD: Murder Inc. Reprinted below is an 18 March statement by the IBT on the murder of Amadou Diallo: In the Albany County courtroom on Friday, 22 February, the four cops tried for the... - [The Green, the Orange & the "Peace Process"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/the-green-the-orange-the-peace-process/): From Bloody Sunday to Good Friday The collapse of Northern Ireland’s “power-sharing” government in February, after only nine weeks in office, represented a major setback for the much-touted Irish “peace process.” It took years... - [NATO’s "Humanitarian" Terrorism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/natos-humanitarian-terrorism/): Barbarism in the New World Order The following is an edited version of a talk given by Tom Riley at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario on 12 June 1999. Following NATO’s victory in... - [Globalization & Its Discontents](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/globalization-its-discontents/): Proletarian Internationalism—Not Protectionism! John F. Kennedy’s celebrated early 1960s observation that “a rising tide lifts all boats” has been amply refuted by the bull market of the past decade, which has chiefly benefited yacht... - [Bourgeois Parties: Unsafe At Any Speed](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/bourgeois-parties-unsafe-at-any-speed/): Tailgating Nader The following statement was distributed during the 2000 American election campaign. Since Bill Clinton’s arrival in the White House eight years ago, the gap between rich and poor has widened enormously, welfare... - [Zimbabwe: Cliffites’ Poisoned ‘Victory’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/zimbabwe-cliffites-poisoned-victory/): ‘No Greater Crime’ “There can be no greater crime than coalition with the bourgeoisie in a period of socialist revolution.” —Leon Trotsky, 15 July 1939 Events in Zimbabwe appear to be moving toward a... - [James P. Cannon on 1948 Wallace Campaign](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/james-p-cannon-on-1948-wallace-campaign/): ‘A Diversion & An Obstacle’   In 1948, Henry A. Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s vice president from 1941 to 1945, ran for president on the Progressive Party slate. Wallace’s campaign posed many of the... - [Imperialist World Order: Misery for Profit](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/imperialist-world-order-misery-for-profit/): Global Capitalism & Class Struggle The recent wave of international protest against the institutions of global capitalism is a manifestation of growing dissatisfaction among broad layers of the world’s population with the operation of... - [LRCI’s Left Turn: ‘No Coherent Middle Ground’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/lrcis-left-turn-no-coherent-middle-ground/): Moribund No More? The November 2000 issue of Workers Power announces a dramatic about-face on “the meaning and significance of the shift back to capitalism in Eastern Europe and the former USSR following the... - [Fiji: Permanent Revolution & the ‘Pacific Way’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/fiji-permanent-revolution-the-pacific-way/): Trouble in Paradise On 19 May 2000, a handful of armed men seized Fiji’s parliament buildings and took the prime minister and senior personnel of the Labour-dominated government hostage. For almost two months the... - [Recycled Browderism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/recycled-browderism/): Letter: ISO’s Campaign for Nader 5 May 2001 To the Editor: In introducing James P. Cannon’s remarks on Henry Wallace’s 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign (1917 No. 23), you quite accurately state: “Wallace’s campaign... - [No Vote to Labour!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/no-vote-to-labour/): British Election 2001: Vote SA/SLP/SSP! The following statement was distributed during Britain’s 2001 general election campaign. Labour’s bid for a second term on 7 June pits it against a divided and demoralised Tory party,... - [Open Letter: ‘To All Revolutionaries in the Komsomol’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/open-letter-to-all-revolutionaries-in-the-komsomol/): The following statement by the Young Revolutionary Marxists (YRM—now the Ukrainian section of the IBT) dated 18 March 2001, was issued in response to an “Open Letter” by six members of the Komsomol (the... - [Centrism & Bolshevism in Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/centrism-bolshevism-in-ukraine/): YRM’s Intervention in Anti-Kuchma Movement In early 2001 Ukraine was gripped by an acute political crisis after a former member of the political police, Mykola Melnychenko, leaked tapes implicating President Leonid Kuchma in the... - [A Significant Step](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/a-significant-step/): IBT’s Third International Conference A fusion with the Ukrainian Young Revolutionary Marxists (YRM) capped the Third International Conference of the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) in early October 2001. This represents a significant step forward... - [Where is the ICL Going?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/where-is-the-icl-going-2/): The Politics of Chicken Revisited Over the past several weeks we have been asked what the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) makes of Workers Vanguard‘s recent flurry of (sometimes overlapping) polemics against ourselves and the... - [U.S. Imperialist Rule: An Endless Horror](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/u-s-imperialist-rule-an-endless-horror-2/): World Trade Center Terror Bombing The following is an IBT statement issued on 18 September 2001 after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The destruction of the World Trade Center... - [‘All Shades of Political Thought’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/all-shades-of-political-thought/): Caste & Class in the USSR In analyzing the political and social character of the Stalinist ruling caste in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, Leon Trotsky laid great emphasis on the political heterogeneity... - [Russia: A Capitalist Dystopia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/russia-a-capitalist-dystopia/): Politics & Economics of Counterrevolution The decade since Boris Yeltsin’s August 1991 victory over the remnants of the Stalinist bureaucracy in Moscow has been one of unrelieved misery and hopelessness for the vast majority... - [FTAA Demonstration in Quebec: For Socialist Globalization!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/ftaa-demonstration-in-quebec-for-socialist-globalization/): The following is a May 2001 IBT leaflet issued after the 20-21 April demonstration in Quebec City against the FTAA. For all the pious talk of development, democracy and raising living standards, the “Free... - [Imperialism’s Bloody Trail](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/imperialisms-bloody-trail-2/): Enduring Oppression & Infinite Injustice “Afghanistan is just the beginning,” said George W. Bush in the wake of the brutal, high-tech annihilation of the Taliban regime by U.S. air power. Iraq and Somalia are... - [Mumia's Lawyer Speaks](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/mumias-lawyer-speaks/): On Saturday 8 June 2002, over 200 people (including Rubin “Hurricane” Carter) attended a public talk at the University of Toronto (UofT) by Eliot Grossman, one of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s lawyers. A day earlier Grossman... - [LRCI on Argentina: ‘Blunting the Edge of Revolutionary Criticism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/lrci-on-argentina-blunting-the-edge-of-revolutionary-criticism/): The following letter was sent to Workers Power on 30 March 2002: To the Editor: The international workers’ movement has a vital interest in the dramatic developments in Argentina. In discussing the question of... - [Imperialist War & Socialist Pretenders](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/imperialist-war-socialist-pretenders/): Following the Line of Least Resistance “The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’... - [SPD’s Peace Initiative: ‘The Better to Eat You With’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/spds-peace-initiative-the-better-to-eat-you-with/): The following is an edited excerpt from an article on Germany’s national election that was originally published in Bolschewik No.18, September 2002 The subordination of the SPD (Social Democratic Party) to capital jeopardizes its... - [Blair's New Labour: A Party Fit for Imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/blairs-new-labour-a-party-fit-for-imperialism/): The following is the British introduction to the IBT’s 22 October 2002 statement on the imperialist campaign against Iraq: Tony Blair’s Labour government is the major imperialist supporter of the pending US-led attack on... - [Pacifism as the Servant of Imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/pacifism-as-the-servant-of-imperialism/): Excerpts of an article by Leon Trotsky originally published in Communist International, English Edition, No. 5 New Series, transcribed for the Trotsky Internet Archive by J.J. Plant. While undated, it was clearly written in... - [Lessons from Working-Class History: State Repression & the Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/lessons-from-working-class-history-state-repression-the-left/): The aggressive neo-colonial wars being waged by the Bush administration are accompanied by a massive reorganization and expansion of the domestic security bureaucracy and heightened activity by America’s political police. The “war on terror”... - [Imperialists Run Amok](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/imperialists-run-amok/): U.S./UN Out of the Middle East! The “New World Order” proclaimed by Bush the Elder after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has been marked by a string of brutal neo-colonial wars.... - [‘A Blank Page’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/29/a-blank-page/): IG & Revolutionary Defeatism The Summer 2005 issue of the Internationalist, published by Jan Norden and his comrades in the Internationalist Group (IG—1996 refugees from James Robertson’s Spartacist League) contains an article entitled “Drive... - [The Struggle for Abortion Rights in Ireland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/29/the-struggle-for-abortion-rights-in-ireland-2/): Clerical Reaction & Women’s Oppression The following statement was originally distributed in September 2013. Responding to national and international protests over Savita Halappanavar’s tragic death from septicaemia after she was denied an abortion, the... - [Marxism, Feminism and #MeToo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/29/marxism-feminism-and-metoo/): The following is an edited version of a talk given by BT supporter Roxanne Baker at Goldsmiths, University of London, 17 February 2018. Marxism, Feminism and #MeToo: audio There has always been a separation... - [The Impending Climate Catastrophe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/29/the-impending-climate-catastrophe/): & How to Combat It   The 2018 update on the 2016 Paris Agreement published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms that humanity is facing an extremely serious and rapidly accelerating... - [Neutrality in the Face of Imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/neutrality-in-the-face-of-imperialism/): Why Socialists say ‘Defend Iraq’! Reprinted below is a reply by the International Bolshevik Tendency to an 18 January 2003 leaflet from “an informal group of people in Toronto of varying perspectives (anarchist, communist... - [No Innocent Explanation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/no-innocent-explanation/): CWI Leadership’s Role in Ukrainian Fraud In 1917 No. 24, we announced a “fusion” that took place at the Third International Conference of the IBT in 2001 with a group calling itself the “Young... - [MB3PII-07](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-07/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part II Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Letter to Dobbs by G. Healy Farrell Dobbs, Secretary, SWP 29th May, 1963. Dear Comrade, It has been brought to our... - [MB3PII-06](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-06/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part II Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Letter to Healy by James Robertson New York, N.Y. 27 May 1963 G. Healy, National Secretary, SLL Dear comrade Healy, Thank... - [MB3PII-05](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-05/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part II Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Letter to Dobbs by G. Healy 186a Clapham High Street LONDON, S.W.4. 22nd May, 1963. Farrell Dobbs, Secretary, S.W.P. Dear Comrade... - [MB3PII-04](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-04/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part II Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Letter to Wohlforth by Farrell Dobbs 14 May 1963 New York City Dear Comrade Wohlforth: The party leadership has not received... - [MB3PII-03](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-03/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part II Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Amendment by the Revolutionary Tendency to P.C. Draft Resolution “Preparing for the Next Wave of Radicalism Amendment by Shane Mage, James... - [MB3PII-02](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-02/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part II Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Corrected Draft Reply to the Reorganized Minority Tendency by the Revolutionary Tendency Corrected DRAFT New York City 18 May 1963 Reorganised... - [MB3PII-01](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-01/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part II Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Letter to the Revolutionary Tendency by Tim Wohlforth for the Reorganized Minority Tendency New York. N.Y. May 9, 1963 Dear Comrades,... - [MB3PII-Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-preface/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part II Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Preface “Each compromise with the revolutionary conscience prepares a greater compromise on the morrow, and therefore renders it more difficult to... - [Marxist Bulletin No.3 – Part II](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/marxist-bulletin-no-3-part-ii/): Wohlforth Against the RT Spartacist League pamphlet, first published in 1970 Table of Contents Preface Section I 1.Letter to the Revolutionary Tendency by Tim Wohlforth, for the Reorganized Minority Tendency, 9 May 1963 2.... - [COVID-19: ein geopolitischer Wendepunkt](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/19/covid-19-ein-geopolitischer-wendepunkt/): Sonnenuntergang des amerikanischen Imperiums Die Ausbreitung von COVID-19 hat eine globale soziale Krise ausgelöst, die tiefgreifende und dauerhafte Auswirkungen haben wird. Als die Pandemie im Januar 2020 erstmals ausbrach, befand sich die kapitalistische Weltwirtschaft... - [CWI se desmorona](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/12/cwi-se-desmorona/): Después de 60 años de adaptación oportunista (Traducido de la versión en inglés – CWI Implodes – After 60 years of opportunist adaptation) La crisis interna y profunda que actualmente exaspera al Comité por... - [COVID-19: a Geo-Political Watershed](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/11/covid-19-a-geo-political-watershed/): Sunset of the American Imperium The spread of COVID-19 has triggered a global social crisis that will have profound and lasting effects. When the pandemic initially erupted in January 2020, the global capitalist economy... - [MB3PI-15](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-15/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Letter from G. Healy to J. Robertson 28 December, 1962 Dear Comrade Robertson, In your letter of December 15, you... - [MB3PI-14](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-14/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> Letter from NCY Tendency Majority to the Socialist Labour League New York 15 December 1962 Socialist Labour League... - [MB3PI-13](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-13/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> From The Newsletter (published by the Socialist Labour League, London) November 3, 1962 Defend the Cuban Revolution Statement... - [MB3PI-12](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-12/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> Declaration on the Cuban Crisis The Cuban revolution is now at its hour of greatest peril. The result... - [MB3PI-11](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-11/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> Letter from G. White to G. Healy [San Francisco Bay Area] November 14th, 1962 Dear Comrade Healy, Since... - [MB3PI-10](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-10/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> Call for the Reorganization of the Minority Tendency 1. The tendency expresses its general political agreement with the... - [MB3PI-09](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-09/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> Letter from T Wohlforth to Bertha Nov. 14, 1962 San Francisco Dear Bertha, The enclosed statement was submitted... - [MB3PI-08](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-08/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> Letter from G. Healy to NYC Tendency Majority London 12th November, 1962 Dear Comrades, We have received a... - [MB3PI-07](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/4358/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> Letter from S. Mage to G. Healy New York, N.Y. 4 November 1962 Dear Comrade Healy, I write... - [MB3PI-06](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-06/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> Letter of Behalf of the Majority of the NY section of the RT of the SWP 4 November... - [MB3PI-05](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-05/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> Statement Presented by Albert Philips to the NYC Tendency, Nov. 3, 1962 [NOTE: Portions in parenthesis (-) were... - [MB3PI-04](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-04/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> Statement from the NYC Tendency Majority 4 November 1962 To all members of the SWP Minority, the Revolutionary... - [MB3PI-03](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-03/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> Letter from G. Healy to L. Ireland 24th October, 1962 Dear Comrade Ireland, Thank you for your letter... - [MB3PI-02](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/4340/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> Letter from L. Ireland to G. Healy Wednesday 17 October 1962 Dear Comrade Healy, The discussion in the... - [MB3PI-01](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-01/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> Letter from J Robertson to G White New York October 7, 1962 Geoff White Berkeley Dear Geoff: An... - [MB3PI-Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-preface/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part I 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Next -> Preface In a dispute within the revolutionary movement, no serious revolutionist would take sides without recourse to the... - [Marxist Bulletin No.3 - Part I](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/marxist-bulletin-no-3-part-i/): 1962 Split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency Spartacist League pamphlet, first published in 1968 Table of Contents Preface 1. Letter from J. Robertson to G. White, 7 October 1962 with appended letter to Geoff... - [MB4-32](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-32/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Letter Evading Requested Appeal to National Convention By Edward Shaw Socialist Workers Party 116 University Place New York 3, N.Y. AL 5-7460 James P.... - [MB4-31](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-31/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Letter Requesting Appeal by Representative of the Expelled to 1965 National Convention By James Robertson 13 August 1965 National Committee Socialist Workers Party Dear... - [MB4-30](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-30/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Letter Refusing Appeal to World Congress By Pierre Frank May 28, 1965 Spartacist Resident Editorial Board Box 1377, G.P.O. New York, N.Y. 10001 Etats-Unis... - [MB4-29](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-29/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Letter Seeking Appeal to Next World Congress By Harry Turner Box 1377, G.P.O. New York, N.Y. 10001 18 May 1965 United Secretariat of the... - [MB4-28](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-28/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Resolution on Robertson Group by the United Secretariat (plus cover letter by Pierre Frank) April l7, 1964 Dear Comrade Robertson, At its last meeting,... - [MB4-27](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-27/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Appeal to the “United Secretariat of the Fourth International” By James Robertson New York, N.Y. 23 February 1964 United Secretariat of the Fourth International... - [MB4-26](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-26/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Robertsonite Attack on the Party Motion by the Political Committee To All Branches Dear Comrades Robertsonite Attack on the Party We are attaching for... - [MB4-25](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-25/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Concerning Our Expulsions Letter to the National Committee by Harper, Ireland, Mage, Robertson and White (plus cover letter) New York, N. Y. 12 February... - [MB4-24](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-24/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Notice of Expulsion By Farrell Dobbs Socialist Workers Party 116 University Place New York 3, N.Y. James P. Cannon National Chairman Farrell Dobbs National... - [MB4-23](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-23/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Letter to Wohlforth By James Robertson New York City January 2, 1964 Tim Wohlforth New York Dear comrade Wohlforth, Upon due consideration in the... - [MB4-22](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/03/30/mb4-22/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Plenum Vote on Internal Party Situation National Committee Plenum 28 December 1963 Vote on motion by Presiding Committee: (for text see this Bulletin, Document... - [Report on a public meeting to discuss “How can we build a real alternative to FG/FF"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/03/12/report-on-a-public-meeting-to-discuss-how-can-we-build-a-real-alternative-to-fg-ff/): The following report of a public meeting in Cork, Ireland was first published on the Revolutionary Programme blog by a Bolshevik Tendency supporter On Monday 2 March I attended this public meeting organised by... - [Report on UNAC Conference](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/03/08/report-on-unac-conference/): Pressuring the Democrats—a Bankrupt Strategy Over the weekend of 21-23 February the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) held the fifth national conference since its foundation in 2010. This event, convened in New York City,... - [Discussion on what the Irish election represents in class terms](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/03/07/discussion-on-what-the-irish-election-represents-in-class-terms/): This letter from a supporter of the Bolshevik Tendency was originally published in issue #1289 of the Weekly Worker journal (http://weeklyworker.co.uk) in a slightly edited form. The letter below is as submitted. ============================================================= James... - [Welcher Jim?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/03/01/welcher-jim/): James Robertsons fehlender Nachruf Mit der Spartacist League (SL, deutsche Sektion: Spartakist-Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands), einer Gruppe, der ich im zarten Alter von 22 Jahren beigetreten bin und für die ich mich seitdem interessiere, geht etwas... - [CWI implodiert](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/03/01/cwi-implodiert/): Nach 60 Jahren opportunistischer Anpassung Die tiefgreifende interne Krise, die derzeit das Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) heimsucht, hat zu einer Reihe von Spaltungen geführt. Die spanische Sektion Izquierda Revolucionaria (IR-Revolutionäre Linke), die... - [Venezuela & 'Russischer Imperialismus'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/03/01/venezuela-russischer-imperialismus/): Socialist Action, Red Flag & IBT ‘Imps’ gehen Diskussionen aus dem Weg Auf einem Treffen der Brock-Sozialisten zu Venezuela am 8. März skizzierte Tom Riley, Unterstützer der bolschewistischen Tendenz (BT), die materiellen Beweggründe hinter... - [Verteidigt Venezuela gegen die imperialistische Aggression!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/29/verteidigt-venezuela-gegen-die-imperialistische-aggression/): Bolivaristen widersetzen sich dem Putsch-Versuch der USA Am 8. März sprach Tom Riley von der Bolschewistischen Tendenz (BT) auf einer von den Brock Socialists in St. Catharines (Ontario) organisierten Veranstaltung über die aktuelle Krise... - [Wohnraum statt Profitgier](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/29/wohnraum-statt-profitgier/): Mieten und Privatisierungen steigen: Wohnen im Kapitalismus Seit Jahren gibt es in allen großen deutschen Städten politischen Protest gegen steigende Mieten, Wohnungsnot, steigende Obdachlosigkeit und die Privatisierung des staatlichen Wohnungsbaus. Eine Pressemitteilung des Deutschen... - [The Chinese Question After the Sixth Congress](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/20/the-chinese-question-after-the-sixth-congress/): Excerpt from Leon Trotsky on China, pp 363 – 384 “There cannot even be any question,” said one of the Chinese delegates at the Congress, “of a consolidation of the power of the Guomindang”  (Pravda,... - [Correcting a serious misrepresentation…](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/18/correcting-a-serious-misrepresentation/): On 5 February we received a complaint that Tom Riley’s recent speech on events in the Middle East (which had been posted to our website a few days earlier) seriously misrepresented Socialist Action’s position... - [Speed test page](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/15/speed-test-page/): [speedcheck] - [MB4-21](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-21/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Minority Report to the Plenum on Internal Party Situation By Myra Tanner Weiss 28 December 1963 Our session last night comrades, gave me little... - [MB4-20](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-20/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Report on Internal Party Situation to the Plenum of the National Committee By Farrell Dobbs 28 December 1963 Comrades: The suspension from membership of... - [MB4-19](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb-19/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Oral Statement to the Plenum of the National Committee By Laurence Ireland 28 December 1963 Comrades of the National Committee, I appear before you... - [MB4-18](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-18/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Letter to the National Committee By D.G and R.S. December 17, 1963 December 1963 Plenum National Committee Socialist Workers Party We came into the... - [MB4-17](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-17/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Rescind the Suspensions! Statement to the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party by the five suspended supporters of the Revolutionary Tendency (Lynne Harper,... - [MB4-16](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-16/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party To the National Committee Plenum of December 27-29, 1963 By Arne Swabeck The suspension of Comrades Robertson, White, et al. by the Political Committee... - [MB4-15](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-15/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Letter to the Political Committee By Jack Wright For NC and CC Information Seattle, Washington November 29, 1963 Political Committee Socialist Workers Party Dear... - [MB4-14](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-14/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Motion Passed by New Haven Branch November 28, 1963 The New Haven Branch protests the suspension of the Robertson Group. There is no evidence... - [MB4-13](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-13/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Statement to the National Committee on Robertson Group Suspensions By the Reorganized Minority Tendency 21 November 1963 The Trotskyist movement was born in the... - [MB4-12](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-12/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Letter to the National Committee By Lynne Harper New York November 18, 1963 National Committee Socialist Workers Party Dear Comrades: I have received notification... - [MB4-11](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-11/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Statement on Suspension of Robertson-Tendency Members By Clara Kaye; Dick [Fraser] supports this statement November 15, 1963 1. The Seattle Branch representative to the... - [MB4-10](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-10/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Letter to the National Committee By Wendell Phillips Fullerton, California November 12, 1963 The National Committee Socialist Workers Party 116 University Place New York... - [MB4-09](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-09/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Letter to the Political Committee By Shane Mage New York 10 November, 1963 Political Committee Socialist Workers’ Party 116 University Place New York 3,... - [MB4-08](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-08/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Letter to Dobbs By Laurence Ireland 8 November 1963 Farrell Dobbs National Secretary Socialist Workers Party 116 University Place New York, N.Y. 10003 Dear... - [MB4-07](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-07/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Report to New York Branch on suspensions By Farrell Dobbs I. Presentation Comrades, the purpose of my report tonight is to inform you of... - [MB4-06](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-06/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Letter to the Political Committee By Geoffrey White November 5, 1963 To the Political Committee of The Socialist Workers’ Party Dear Comrades: I have... - [MB4-05](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-05/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Motion presented to the Political Committee By Myra Weiss Nov. 1 1963 MOTION: To reject the report of one elected member of the Control... - [MB4-04](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-04/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Political Committee Motion Suspending Robertson-Mage-White-Harper-Ireland (plus cover letter and appended Control Commission Report) November 2, 1963 James Robertson 305 West 103rd St. Apt. 3... - [MB4-03](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-03/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Political Committee Motion on the Robertson-Ireland-Harper Case, 2 August 1963 (plus Control Commission cover letter) August 16, 1963 James Robertson New York City Dear... - [MB4-02](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-02/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Letter to Dobbs By James Robertson New York July 9, 1963 Farrell Dobbs National Secretary Dear comrade Dobbs: I have carefully considered your letter... - [Revolutionary Marxism & Ireland’s 2020 election](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/05/revolutionary-marxism-irelands-2020-election/): Marxists recognise that capitalist parliaments represent organs of class rule that are designed to protect and advance the interests of those on top, rather than to function as vehicles for fundamental social change. Yet... - [The Struggle for the Middle East](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/03/the-struggle-for-the-middle-east/): Drive Out U.S./NATO Imperialists! The following is a lightly edited transcript of a 24 January speech by Tom Riley of the Bolshevik Tendency to a meeting of the Brock Socialists in St. Catharines, Ontario.... - [`Michael Collins' & Irish Freedom](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/michael-collins-irish-freedom/) - [Marxism, Feminism & Women's Liberation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/marxism-feminism-womens-liberation/) - [Labor Party: Stillborn in the USA](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/labor-party-stillborn-in-the-usa/) - [Trotskyism & Tactics](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/trotskyism-tactics/) - [Resistance & Betrayal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/resistance-betrayal/) - [South Korea on the Brink](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/south-korea-on-the-brink/) - [American Labor Beseiged](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/american-labor-beseiged/) - [Class Politics & Labour Loyalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/class-politics-labour-loyalism/) - [Justin Ryniker](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/justin-ryniker/) - [Canada's No Choice Election](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/canadas-no-choice-election/) - [In Defense of Tactics](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/in-defense-of-tactics/) - [IG: Willful Blindness](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/ig-willful-blindness/) - ['Globalization' & the Unions](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/globalization-the-unions/) - [A Conversation with Myra](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/a-conversation-with-myra/) - [James P. Cannon on Anarchism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/james-p-cannon-on-anarchism/) - [A Life of Struggle](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/a-life-of-struggle/) - [The Revolutionary Betrayed](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/the-revolutionary-betrayed/) - [The Struggle for South Africa](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/the-struggle-for-south-africa/) - [MB4-01](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb4-01/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party For the Right of Organized Tendencies to Exist Within the Party! — Statement on the Political Committee Motion “Party Discussion Procedure” by Mage, Robertson... - [MB4-Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb4-preface/): Marxist Bulletin No. 4 Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Preface Marxist Bulletin #4 documents the provocations, suspensions and finally expulsion by the Socialist Workers Party of its left wing minority, the Revolutionary Tendency... - [Marxist Bulletin No.4](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/marxist-bulletin-no-4/): Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party Documents on the Exclusion of Revolutionary Tendency Supporters 1963-1965 Originally published in two parts by the Spartacist League of the United States in October 1967 Table of Contents... - [BLACK AND RED—Class Struggle Road to Negro Freedom](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/black-and-red-class-struggle-road-to-negro-freedom/): I. Introduction The struggle of the Negro people for freedom and equality has been the most dynamic struggle going on in the United States in the past ten years. It has taken place in... - [Declaration of Principles of the Spartacist League](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/declaration-of-principles-of-the-spartacist-league/): 1. The Socialist Revolution and the Spartacist League The Spartacist League of the U.S. is a revolutionary organization which, as part of the international revolutionary movement, is committed to the task of building the... - [Third IC Conference: Defeat for World Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/third-ic-conference-defeat-for-world-trotskyism/): from Spartacist No. 6, June-July 1966 It is a bitter irony that the Newsletter (organ of the British Socialist Labour League) headlined its article on the April Conference of the International Committee “Rebuilding the... - [Reunification Smashed](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/reunification-smashed/): from Spartacist No. 6, June-July 1966 The unity between the American Committee for the Fourth International and Spartacist has been smashed. The Trotskyist movement internationally and in the U.S. is being seriously disorganized by... - [Marxist Bulletin No. 8](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/marxist-bulletin-no-8/): Cuba and Marxist Theory PREFACE This Marxist Bulletin opens with a reprint of the document which marks the first expression of what was to become the revolutionary left-wing of the SWP. Shane Mage wrote... - [Spartacist Statement to International Conference](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/spartacist-statement-to-international-conference/): Remarks made during the discussion of Cliff Slaughter’s Political Report at the International Committee Conference by Comrade Robertson on 6 April 1966 on behalf of the Spartacist delegation (with minor editorial corrections.) On behalf... - [Dale Reissner: 1942-1994](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/dale-reissner-1942-1994/) - [Spartacist League: The Early Years](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/spartacist-league-the-early-years/) - [Facing the New World Order](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/facing-the-new-world-order/) - [MLP's Long March to Oblivion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/mlps-long-march-to-oblivion/) - [Bonapartist Burlesque](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/bonapartist-burlesque/) - [China: the Gathering Storm](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/china-the-gathering-storm/) - [Capitalism & Homophobia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/capitalism-homophobia/) - [A Dismal Symmetry](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/a-dismal-symmetry/) - [Haiti Under U.S. Guns](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/haiti-under-u-s-guns/) - [Balkan Barbarism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/balkan-barbarism/) - [Korea: Workers Resurgent](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/korea-workers-resurgent/) - [Irish 'Peace Process'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/irish-peace-process/) - [Getting Russia Right](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/getting-russia-right/) - [Marxism vs. Quebec Nationalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/marxism-vs-quebec-nationalism/) - [Korea: the Forgotten War](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/korea-the-forgotten-war/) - [American Reaction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/american-reaction/) - [Protest French Nuclear Tests](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/protest-french-nuclear-tests/): The French government’s renewed round of nuclear weapons testing on the South Pacific Mururoa atoll provoked large-scale protests across the region and around the world. Our comrades in New Zealand’s Permanent Revolution Group (PRG)... - [Labourism & the British Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/labourism-the-british-left/) - [From the SL to Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/from-the-sl-to-trotskyism/) - [O, What a Tangled Web](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/o-what-a-tangled-web/) - [Defend Argentinean Leftists!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/defend-argentinean-leftists/) - [For United Front Defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/for-united-front-defense-of-mumia-abu-jamal/) - [For Working Class Unity Across National Lines!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/for-working-class-unity-across-national-lines/) - [Islam, Empire & Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/islam-empire-revolution/) - [‘Small, Determined and Well-Organized’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/small-determined-and-well-organized/): Charles A. 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When the pandemic initially erupted, the global capitalist economy was already turning downward after a remarkably lack-luster... - [‘Planet of the Humans’ – an uneven critique of capitalist eco-insanity](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/15/planet-of-the-humans-an-uneven-critique-of-capitalist-eco-insanity/): On the 50th anniversary of the first “Earth Day,” 22 April 2020, Jeff Gibbs and Ozzie Zehner released their new film “Planet of the Humans” on YouTube. The film, produced by maverick liberal filmmaker... - [Open Letter to the International Socialists: The Irish Upsurge And The Cliff Group (March 1971)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1971_mar07_oltois/) - [Against NPAC Pop Fronts: For Class Action Against The War (July 1971)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1971_jul_supp/) - [Pop Front Sealed In Blood! 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Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism Behind the “Roots” Craze A Black Horatio Alger Story Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 147, 4 March 1977 One hundred... - [mbiv-08](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-08/): Marxist Bulletin No 5 Revised What Strategy for Black Liberation? Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism Next -> Black Power–Class Power: Once Again On Black Power Reprinted from Spartacist West, Vol. 1, No. 8, 30 September... - [mbiv-07](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-07/): Marxist Bulletin No 5 Revised What Strategy for Black Liberation? Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism Next -> Black Power and the Fascists Reprinted from Spartacist West, Volume 1, No. 8, 30 September 1966 Until just... - [mbiv-06](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-06/): Marxist Bulletin No 5 Revised What Strategy for Black Liberation? Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism Next -> Soul Power or Workers Power? The Rise and Fall of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers Reprinted from... - [mbiv-05](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-05/): Marxist Bulletin No 5 Revised What Strategy for Black Liberation? Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism Next -> Rise and Fall of the Panthers: End of the Black Power Era Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 4,... - [mbiv-04](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-04/): Marxist Bulletin No 5 Revised What Strategy for Black Liberation? Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism Next -> The Secret War Between Brother Klonsky and Stalin (and who won) Reprinted from Spartacist No. 13, August-September 1969... - [mbiv-03](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-03/): Marxist Bulletin No 5 Revised What Strategy for Black Liberation? Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism Next -> The Negro Struggle and the Crisis of Leadership Draft Resolution on Civil Rights Submitted by D. Konstan, A.... - [mbiv-02](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-02/): Marxist Bulletin No 5 Revised What Strategy for Black Liberation? Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism Next -> For Black Trotskyism -Against the P.C. draft “Freedom Now” -In defense of programmatic fundamentals -For building a black... - [mbiv-01](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-01/): Marxist Bulletin No 5 Revised What Strategy for Black Liberation? Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism Next -> For the Materialist Conception of the Negro Struggle by R. S. Fraser Reprinted from SWP Discussion Bulletin A-30,... - [mbiv-preface2](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-preface2/): Marxist Bulletin No 5 Revised What Strategy for Black Liberation? Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism Next -> Preface to the First Edition We are pleased to reprint the present article in accordance with the Marxist... - [mbiv-preface1](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-preface1/): Marxist Bulletin No 5 Revised What Strategy for Black Liberation? Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism Next -> Preface to Revised Edition Any organization which claims a revolutionary perspective for the United States must confront the... - [Marxist Bulletin No 5 Revised](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/marxist-bulletin-no-5-revised/): What Strategy for Black Liberation? Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism Key documents and articles 1955-1978 Spartacist Publishing Co. Table of Contents Preface to Revised Edition, September 1978 Preface to First Edition, Spartacist Editorial Board, June... - [MB3PIV-08](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-08/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part IV Wohlforth Against the RT Spartacist-ACFI Unity Negotiations Eighth Session 8 October 1965 Present: Spartacist: Robertson, Nelson, Stoute; (Harper, Secretary). ACFI: Mazelis, van Ronk, Michael. Meeting convened at... - [MB3PIV-07](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-07/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part IV Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Spartacist-ACFI Unity Negotiations Seventh Session 23 September 1965 Present: Spartacist: Robertson, Nelson, Watts, Mage (late); (Harper, Secretary). ACFI: Wohlforth, Mazelis, Michael,... - [MB3PIV-06](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-06/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part IV Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Spartacist-ACFI Unity Negotiations Sixth Session 5 August 1965 Present: Spartacist: Robertson, Turner, Nelson; (Harper, Secretary). ACFI: Wohlforth, Mazelis, Michael. Meeting convened... - [MB3PIV-05](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-05/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part IV Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Spartacist-ACFI Unity Negotiations Fifth Session 30 July 1965 Present: Spartacist: Robertson, Stoute, Ne1son (alt); (Harper, Secretary). ACFI: Wohlforth, Mazelis, Michael (alt).... - [MB3PIV-04](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-04/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part IV Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Spartacist-ACFI Unity Negotiations Fourth Session 23 July 1965 Present: Spartacist: Robertson, Stoute, Nelson (alt); (Harper, Secretary). ACFI: Wohlforth, Mazelis, Michael (alt).... - [MB3PIV-03](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-03/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part IV Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Spartacist-ACFI Unity Negotiations Third Session 9 July 1965 Present: Spartacist: Robertson, Turner, Stoute; (Harper, Secretary). ACFI: Wohlforth, Mazelis, Michael (alternate for... - [MB3PIV-02](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-02/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part IV Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Spartacist-ACFI Unity Negotiations Second Session June 1965 Present: Spartacist: Robertson, Turner, Stoute, (Henry for point 2); Harper (Secretary). ACFI: Wohlforth, Mazelis,... - [MB3PIV-01](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-01/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part IV Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Spartacist-ACFI Unity Negotiations 1st Session 18 June 1965 Present: Spartacist: Robertson, Turner, Stoute; (Harper, Secretary). ACFI: Wohlforth, Mazelis, van Ronk, Michael... - [MB3PIV-Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/preface-2/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part IV Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Preface The 8 sessions of unity negotiations between Spartacist and the American Committee for the Fourth International (ACFI) took place from... - [MB3PII-10](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-10/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part II Wohlforth Against the RT Discipline and Truth—Reply to Wohlforth by Mage, Robertson and White for the Minority Tendency (reprinted from SWP Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. 30,... - [MB3PII-09](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-09/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part II Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Party and Class A Statement on the Pre-Convention Discussion by the Reorganized Minority Tendency (reprinted from SWP Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 24,... - [MB3PII-08](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-08/): Marxist Bulletin No. 3 – Part II Wohlforth Against the RT Next -> Letter to Robertson by G. Healy 29th May, 1963. Dear Comrade Robertson, Enclosed is a copy of a letter we have... - [Trotskyists Fuse!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/trotskyists-fuse/): BT/LTT Conference Success In a major step forward for revolutionaries in North America, the Bolshevik Tendency (BT) and the Left Trotskyist Tendency (LTT) fused at a joint national conference held in Oakland, California last... - [Nicaragua: An Unfinished Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/nicaragua-an-unfinished-revolution/): Smash the Contras! Workers to Power! The Nicaragua/Iran/hostage imbroglio that has engulfed the Reagan government in recent months has provided plenty of material for political columnists and cartoonists. Jimmy Carter’s fanatically anti-communist national security... - [Class Struggle on the Waterfront](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/class-struggle-on-the-waterfront/): Communist Tactics in the Trade Unions On July 19 we interviewed Howard Keylor, a long-time trade-union militant on the waterfront in San Francisco. Brother Keylor is on the Executive Board of International Longshoremen’s and... - [Hands off the Teamsters!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/hands-off-the-teamsters/): Labor Must Clean its Own House On 10 June the U.S. Justice Department announced that it is preparing a lawsuit against the 1.7 million member International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) under the infamous Racketeer... - [Militant Longshoreman Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/militant-longshoreman-program/): 1. DEFEND OUR JOBS AND LIVELIHOOD—Six hour shift, no extensions, at eight hours pay. Manning scales on all ship operations, one man—one job. Weekly PGP. Full no-cap C.O.L.A. on wages. Joint maritime union action... - [Free Moses Mayekiso!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/free-moses-mayekiso/): Over 40 protesters rallied at Union Square, San Francisco, on 24 August demanding: ‘‘Free Moses Mayekiso’’ and ‘‘Free All Anti-Apartheid Prisoners in South Africa.’’ The demonstration marked the opening day of the trial of... - [For International Labor Solidarity](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/for-international-labor-solidarity/): U.S. Union Militant Tours Britain During the week of July 4-12, Bolshevik Tendency (BT) supporter Howard Keylor was sponsored by the Cambridge Area Trades Union Council to tour Britain and speak about his experiences... - [Solidarity: Anatomy of a Sellout](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/anatomy-of-a-sellout/): The Crises of Leadership in B.C., 1983 Review of Bryan D. Palmer’s Solidarity: The Rise & Fall Of An Opposition In British Columbia by Chris Knox In class-divided society history based on allegedly ‘‘non-class’’... - [Workers States and Markets](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/workers-states-and-markets/): In the 1920’s Evgeny Preobrazhensky, the Left Opposition’s leading economist, engaged in a polemic with Nikolai Bukharin, over the course of Soviet economic development. Bukharin proposed to proceed toward socialism, if only at a... - [Moreno: Any Way the Wind Blows](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/any-way-the-wind-blows/): Letter to the Editor 25 May 1987 San Francisco To the editor: I enjoyed the excellent analysis of the impasse of the Nicaraguan revolution and the role of the organizations to the left of... - [If the Shoe Fits...](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/if-the-shoe-fits/): The January 1972 issue of Workers Vanguard made the following apt comment on corruption in the Black Panther Party: ‘‘Hero worship is one of the ways bourgeois ideology enters the revolutionary movement and destroys... - [Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous/): In Robertson They Trust… All Others Pay Cash Over the last several years Spartacist League lider maximo James Robertson has acquired a substantial material stake in his control of the finances of his group.... - [New York BT Launched](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/new-york-bt-launched/): The Road out of Jimstown The establishment of a Bolshevik Tendency (BT) nucleus in New York City, traditionally the political center of the American left, marks another small but important step forward in our... - [Not Twins, but Antipodes](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/not-twins-but-antipodes/): Leninism and the Third Period In our previous issue we published a critical assessment of the contradictory leftward movement of the formerly Maoist Marxist-Leninist Party (‘‘MLP’s Stalinist Pyrite: The Myth of the Third Period,’’... - [Whither Gorbachev's USSR?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/whither-gorbachevs-ussr/): Glasnost and ‘Market Socialism’ Fifty years after Stalin decreed the advent of ‘‘complete socialism’’ in the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev proposes to open the economy to the world market and replace centralized planning with market... - [LA: Days of Rage](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/la-days-of-rage/): Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Supplement to 1917, May 1992 With the “end of communism” America’s rulers dreamed of a “new world order” in which the oppressed would meekly submit to their oppressors. The... - [Jesse Jackson: Judas-Goat for the Bourgeoisie](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/jesse-jackson-judas-goat-for-the-bourgeoisie/): Democrats, Dixiecrats and Rainbows “When you keep the Democrats in power, you’re keeping the Dixiecrats in power.” –Malcolm X, 1964 Jesse Jackson’s 1988 campaign for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination stirred the hopes of... - [Israel Out of the Occupied Territories!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/israel-out-of-the-occupied-territories/): For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East! For the past year the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza has been locked in a heroic and unequal struggle against Israeli occupation. Forty... - [Revolutionary Program vs. `Historical Process'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/revolutionary-program-vs-historical-process/): Polemic with USec Supporter We print below a polemical exchange with Roy R., a supporter of the Fourth International Tendency (FIT) in New York. Roy’s broadside was occasioned by Neil Henderson’s “open letter” announcing... - [Moscow and Managua](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/moscow-and-managua/): The Pentagon and the CIA understand, even if many in the Nicaraguan “solidarity” milieu do not, that there is an intimate connection between the continued survival of the property relations established by the Bolshevik... - [On the Slogan `Hail Red Army!'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/on-the-slogan-hail-red-army-2/): Bending the Stick Too Far… Since the formation of our political tendency, six years ago, our polemics with other leftists on Afghanistan have revolved around the fundamental question of which way to point the... - [Gorbachev's Afghan Sellout](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/gorbachevs-afghan-sellout-2/): Soviets Abandon Women, Leftists to Mujahedeen On 15 May the USSR began a pullout of its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. The withdrawal is being carried out as a result of an agreement signed in... - [Nicaraguan Revolution in Retreat](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/nicaraguan-revolution-in-retreat/): The End of Sandinista ‘Third Road’ For nine years, since the 1979 insurrection which toppled the bloody Somoza dictatorship, Nicaragua has been a society in which economic and political/military power have been “decoupled.” After... - [Permanent Revolution & Black Labor in South Africa](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/permanent-revolution-black-labor-in-south-africa/): Smash Apartheid Through Workers Revolution The development of powerful trade unions rooted in South Africa’s black proletariat is one of the brightest chapters in the recent history of the international working class. Nowhere on... - [‘Fire and Water'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/fire-and-water/): Workers Sanctions & Capitalist Sanctions What attitude should revolutionaries take toward bourgeois ‘‘sanctions’’ against apartheid? This question, much debated in the international left in connection with South Africa, was similarly posed in the 1930s... - [Mayekiso Acquittal: A Victory for the Oppressed!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/mayekiso-acquittal-a-victory-for-the-oppressed/): On April 24 the international proletariat and the oppressed masses of South Africa won a victory when Moses Mayekiso, general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and his four... - [Pamyat Rides in Moscow](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/pamyat-rides-in-moscow-2/): Not so long ago, one of the favorite slogans of the Spartacist League (SL) was ‘‘The Klan Doesn’t Ride in Moscow!’’ It was intended to cut against anti-Sovietism among sectors of the American population... - [Fake-Trotskyists Make Fake Offer](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/fake-trotskyists-make-fake-offer-2/): On SL/PDC ‘Brigade’ for Kabul Reprinted below is a letter from the Bolshevik Tendency to the Spartacist League regarding a proposal by the SL’s Partisan Defense Committee to organize a combat brigade for Afghanistan:... - [Tony Cliff’s Family Tree](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/tony-cliffs-family-tree/): The largest ‘‘state capitalist’’ group claiming some connection to Trotskyism is the British-based Socialist Workers Party (SWP/B) headed by Tony Cliff. The founders of the SWP/B deserted the Trotskyist movement in the early 1950s... - [On the Nature of the USSR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/on-the-nature-of-the-ussr/): BT Debates LRP The Bolshevik Tendency (BT) and the League for the Revolutionary Party (LRP) held a public debate on the Russian question on December 10 1988, in New York City. Approximately forty people... - [The Decline of the Printers Union](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/the-decline-of-the-printers-union/): Lessons For The U.S. Labor Movement The strike at the San Francisco Progress is just the latest in a long series of attacks on the living standards of American workers in the print trades.... - [Militant Printer’s Class-Struggle Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/militant-printers-class-struggle-program/): Reprinted below is the program of Militant Printer which was published in the first issue of the newsletter, 15 July 1983: The program of ‘‘Militant Printer’’ is first and foremost for a break with... - [S.F. Progress Plundered](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/s-f-progress-plundered/): ‘No Pay, No Work!’: Workers Occupy Plant Frank Lorenzo’s much-publicized corporate union-busting at Eastern Airlines, which led to the recent strike of machinists and pilots, is representative of a host of smaller battles being... - [Perestroika: A Pandora's Box](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/perestroika-a-pandoras-box/): World Revolution—Not ‘Market Socialism’ Ronald Reagan, flying into retirement on 20 January, boasted to reporters on board his plane that he could go down in history as the president who won the Cold War.... - [Kristallisierte Konfusion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/07/kristallisierte-konfusion/): Zur Kapitulation der IG 2016 in Brasilien Dieser Text ist die deutsche Übersetzung des Texts, den wir am 28.August 2019 gepostet haben: Auf dem diesjährigen [2019] Pressefest der Lutte Ouvrière vor den Toren von... - [Marxism and the ecological crisis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/06/marxism-and-the-ecological-crisis/): On Tuesday 9 June (6pm British time) a Bolshevik Tendency supporter is presenting at an online meeting outlining how environmental concerns were integral to the political thinking of Marx and Engels and what that... - [COVID-19 and the law of value](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/covid-19-and-the-law-of-value/): In this interview by fellow Marxist Michael Roberts, Murray Smith explains the relevance of the law of value, the law of capitalist accumulation and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall and... - [Defend Sri Lankan Left!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/defend-sri-lankan-left/): Sri Lankan leftists are currently the victims of a vicious wave of political killings initiated by the Sinhala-chauvinist JVP (Peoples Liberation Front). Over 200 leftists have been killed to date.This includes three members of... - [Smash Anti-Abortion Reaction!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/smash-anti-abortion-reaction/): Women’s Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! The right of American women to choose whether or not to have children is under siege. The reactionary July 3rd United States Supreme Court ruling which upheld a Missouri... - [Women and the Russian Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/women-and-the-russian-revolution/): Lenin’s Bolshevik Party, which in October 1917 led the only successful proletarian revolution in history, understood that Soviet women would never achieve political and social equality unless they were allowed out of the stultifying... - [On ‘Hailing’ Brezhnev’s Afghan Policy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/on-hailing-brezhnevs-afghan-policy-2/): For well over a year, we have been involved in a continuing polemic with the Spartacists over the political adaptation to the Stalinist bureaucracy implicit in their slogan ‘‘Hail Red Army in Afghanistan!’’ We... - [Robertson's Bogus Brigade](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/robertsons-bogus-brigade/): vs. Trotskyist Revolutionary Internationalism In our previous issue, we commented on the Spartacist League’s (SL) cynical ‘‘offer’’ to dispatch a military expedition to assist Najibullah and his People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). As... - [Cynics Who Scorn Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/cynics-who-scorn-trotskyism/): iSt/ICL: ‘New Name, Same Game’ In its 1974 founding document, the international Spartacist tendency (iSt) modestly observed that it had ‘‘little extraneous, symbolic drawing power.’’ Fifteen years later, as the group renames itself the... - [How Low Can Mandel Go?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/how-low-can-mandel-go/): Ernest Mandel and his fake-Trotskyist ‘‘United Secretariat of the Fourth International’’ (USec) have over the past several decades played the role of cheerleaders for a variety of ‘‘mass movements,’’ ranging from the Cuban and... - [From Stalinism to Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/from-stalinism-to-trotskyism/): Interview With Geoff White (Part 1) The following is the first part of an interview with Geoff White, one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Tendency (RT) within the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in... - [For Workers Political Revolution in China!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/for-workers-political-revolution-in-china/): Down with Deng’s Bloody Repression The following statement was published by the Bolshevik Tendency in July 1989: The Bolshevik Tendency condemns the criminal June 4 massacre of protesters in Beijing by the leaders of... - [Polish Powderkeg](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/polish-powderkeg/): Stalinists/Solidarnosc/IMF Attack Workers On August 19, the Polish Stalinist regime handed over governmental responsibility to its avowed enemies in Solidarnosc, inaugurating the first non-Stalinist government in the Soviet bloc since the beginning of the... - [Black Liberation & the Class Struggle](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/black-liberation-the-class-struggle/): Of the many ‘‘Big Lies’’ pushed by the Reagan/Bush administrations in the 1980s, perhaps the biggest is the proclamation of a ‘‘post-civil rights era’’ in which black people have supposedly been assimilated into the... - [Truth or Consequences](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/truth-or-consequences/): Will the Real Political Bandits Please Stand Up? The following is a letter to Workers Vanguard, newspaper of the Spartacist League/US, responding to an article slandering the Bolshevik Tendency. 16 December 1989 Comrades: In... - [Revolutionary Continuity & the Split in the Fourth International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/revolutionary-continuity-the-split-in-the-fourth-international/): The following letter, which deals with the historic split of the Trotskyist movement in the early 1950s, was addressed to the German Gruppe IV. Internationale [GIVI]. Like the Bolshevik Tendency, GIVI was founded by... - [The Struggle for Trotskyism in the SWP](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/the-struggle-for-trotskyism-in-the-swp/): Geoff White Interview (Part 2) The following is the second part of an interview with Geoff White, an early leader of the Spartacist League (SL) and its predecessor, the Revolutionary Tendency (RT) of the... - [Critical Support to the SpAD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/critical-support-to-the-spad/): BT Statement on DDR Elections The following is a translation of a statement distributed in the DDR during the recent election campaign. 23 February 1990 Dear Comrades: At this decisive historical juncture for the... - [A Glimpse Inside the ‘Monolith’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/a-glimpse-inside-the-monolith/): BT Visits SED/PDS Branch FEBRUARY 7—We received an invitation to go and talk to members of the PDS [Party of Democratic Socialism, formerly known as the Socialist Unity Party (SED), the ruling party of... - [The Collapse of the DDR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/the-collapse-of-the-ddr/): Eyewitness Reports MARCH 10—One of the most striking things about events in the DDR [German Democratic Republic] is the almost total absence of political class-conscious activity by workers as workers. To understand why, you... - [Death Agony of Stalinism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/death-agony-of-stalinism/): Eastern European Regimes Implode The unravelling of the political order imposed upon Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union after the Second World War has profoundly altered the configuration of world politics. The dramatic recent... - [Desperately Seeking Snetkov](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/desperately-seeking-snetkov/): A leaflet issued by the Bay Area Bolshevik Tendency on 8 September dealing with the imperialist aggression against Iraq made the elementary observation that: ‘‘Revolutionaries should not look either to the ‘soft’ Stalinists in... - [Defend Iraq!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/defend-iraq/): Imperialist Troops Out—By Any Means Necessary! The illusion that the ‘‘end of the Cold War’’ would usher in an era of global peace and harmony has been abruptly shattered by the recent imperialist provocations... - [Communist Tactics and the Anti-War Movement](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/communist-tactics-and-the-anti-war-movement/): For Class Struggle Against Imperialist Aggression! The domestic political situation in the United States weighs heavily in the calculations of the imperialist chieftains as they prepare to unleash mass destruction on the people of... - [The 'French Turn'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/the-french-turn/): Lessons from the Struggle for the Fourth International In 1938 Trotsky and his co-thinkers founded the Fourth International with the declaration that ‘‘The historical crisis of mankind is reduced to the crisis of the... - [Greetings from the Bureaucratic Robertson Regime](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/greetings-from-the-bureaucratic-robertson-regime/): The fusion between the New Zealand Permanent Revolution Group and the North American Bolshevik Tendency (BT) was first announced publicly on 2 June 1990 at the Lutte Ouvriere fete outside Paris. Ten days later... - [Trotskyism and the New Labour Party](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/trotskyism-and-the-new-labour-party/): The ‘French Turn’ in New Zealand In late April 1990, the Permanent Revolution Group (PRG), New Zealand section of the International Bolshevik Tendency, completed a year-long entry into the New Labour Party (NLP). This... - [We Go Forward!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/we-go-forward/): International Trotskyist Regroupment The recent fusion of three Trotskyist organizations from North America, New Zealand and Germany to form the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) is a breakthrough in the necessary process of international revolutionary... - [Smash Apartheid! No to ‘Power Sharing!’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/smash-apartheid-no-to-power-sharing/): The current round of negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African government marks a new phase in the decades-long struggle against the hated system of apartheid, one of the vilest... - [Soviet Stalinism In Extremis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/soviet-stalinism-in-extremis/): During his first five years as head of the Soviet regime, Mikhail Gorbachev’s ‘‘accomplishments’’ went beyond imperialism’s wildest dreams. He drastically curtailed aid to third-world allies and national liberation movements. He withdrew Soviet troops... - [The National Question in the USSR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/the-national-question-in-the-ussr/): The national question has been a central issue in Soviet politics since the time of Lenin. By guaranteeing the peoples held captive in the Tsarist empire the right to separate and form their own... - [Doubletalk in the 2 1/2 Camp](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/doubletalk-in-the-2-1-2-camp/): Workers Power on the Russian Question The British centrists of Workers Power greeted the overturn of Ceausescu’s regime in Romania with the enthusiastic declaration that: ‘‘a spectre is haunting the world’s rulers. It is... - [Robertsonites in Wonderland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/robertsonites-in-wonderland/): Workers Political Revolution in the DDR? The tragic infatuation of the East European working class with the restoration of capitalism is a result of decades of Stalinist corruption, repression and gross economic mismanagement. The... - [Militant Printer’s 1990 Election Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/militant-printers-1990-election-program/): Break with the Strikebreaking Democratic and Republican Parties! The labor movement must have its own political party, a workers party based on the unions, committed to the fight for our interests, up to and... - [Class Struggle Candidate in SF Printers Union](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/class-struggle-candidate-in-sf-printers-union/): Fred Ferguson, editor of Militant Printer, a union newsletter politically supported by the Bolshevik Tendency, ran as a candidate in the November 1990 elections of the San Francisco Bay Area Typographical Union (BATU). Running... - [From Guardians to Executioners](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/from-guardians-to-executioners/): The Degeneration of the Soviet Secret Police One unintended result of Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost has been a rash of books by and about people who had been on the inside during the Stalin/Khrushchev/ Brezhnev... - [New World Disorder](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/new-world-disorder/): Imperialist Rivalries Sharpen The cheap victory over Iraq won by the United States and its coalition of rivals, hirelings and vassals opens a new and dangerous period of heightened inter-imperialist rivalry. Weeks before the... - [Comrade Nedy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/comrade-nedy/): Comrade Juanita ‘‘Nedy’’ Hillman, administrative counselor for San Francisco Bay Area Local 1100, Department Store Employees Union, and a Trotskyist since her youth, died on 1 February of complications from pneumonia. She was 45... - [Defend the Cuban Revolution!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/defend-the-cuban-revolution/): Smash Yankee Imperialism! The overthrow of the corrupt and brutal neo-colonial regime of Fulgencio Batista in January 1959, and the subsequent expropriation of the Cuban bourgeoisie, was a victory for working people everywhere. With... - [Nationalism & Counterrevolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/nationalism-counterrevolution/): Yugoslav Civil War The historical tragedy of the collapse of the Soviet Union has been paralleled in the Balkans with the bloody demise of the Yugoslav federation. In both the USSR and Yugoslavia the... - [DDR Junked](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/ddr-junked/): First the Wall…Then the Factories The following article is an edited report by a comrade of the Gruppe Spartakus (German section of the International Bolshevik Tendency) outlining the process of capitalist restoration in the... - [Counterrevolution Triumphs in USSR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/counterrevolution-triumphs-in-ussr/): Defend Soviet Workers Against Yeltsin’s Attacks! The International Bolshevik Tendency published the following statement in September 1991: The aborted Moscow coup of 19-21 August was so ill-conceived and executed that it almost didn’t happen.... - [‘His Truth is Marching On’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/his-truth-is-marching-on/): On 16 October 1991 the John Brown Society held its first annual Awards Banquet at the historic Fraunces Tavern in New York City on the anniversary of John Brown’s attack on Harper’s Ferry. Founded... - [German Reunification Fuels Fascist Terror](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/german-reunification-fuels-fascist-terror/): The continuing fascist attacks on immigrants in Germany have been front page news around the world. In an orgy of bloody terror, gangs of fascist thugs armed with iron bars, clubs, pellet guns, chains... - [Soviet Rubicon & the Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/soviet-rubicon-the-left/): Three Days in August In the weeks following the failed coup attempt of 19‐21 August, the International Bolshevik Tendency was virtually alone among self-proclaimed Trotskyists in recognizing that this event marked the end of... - [The Anti-Fascist Wunsiedel Campaign](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/the-anti-fascist-wunsiedel-campaign/): The following is an edited translation of an article which appeared in Bolschewik No. 2. The annual national fascist mobilization at Wunsiedel to honor Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy, is an important event for German... - [Kurdistan and the National Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/kurdistan-and-the-national-question-2/): For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East This article is translated from Bolschewik (No. 2), journal of Gruppe Spartakus. The division of the world under imperialism has subjected many peoples to massacres, oppression... - [ICL/LRCI: False Assertions and Foolish Consistencies](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/icl-lrci-false-assertions-and-foolish-consistencies/): Centrists & Soviet Counterrevolution The International Bolshevik Tendency saw the aborted Soviet coup of August 1991 as Stalinism’s last desperate stand. We said that its failure sounded the death knell of the Soviet workers’... - [Robertsonites in Denial](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/robertsonites-in-denial/): Polemics on the Soviet Coup Last summer comrade Marc D., a Montreal sympathizer of the International Communist League, was won to the program of the Bolshevik Tendency. A pivotal question was the August 1991... - [Spoil Your Ballot!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/spoil-your-ballot/): For Working–Class Unity—Not National Unity Reprinted below is the BT’s October 1992 statement on the referendum which was published in English and French: “Do you agree that the Constitution of Canada should be renewed... - [Canada's Constitutional 'Crisis'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/canadas-constitutional-crisis/): United Front Campaign for Working–Class Independence The 26 October 1992 pan–Canadian referendum on constitutional reform provided the Bolshevik Tendency (BT) a chance to present its program to wider audiences in both Quebec and Ontario,... - [German Fascism on the Rise](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/german-fascism-on-the-rise/): Defend the Left and Workers’ Movement The following is an edited version of an article from the December 1992 issue of Bolschewik, publication of the Gruppe Spartakus, German section of the International Bolshevik Tendency.... - [John Brown Society Banquet](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/john-brown-society-banquet/): On 19 October 1992 the John Brown Society held its second annual awards banquet at Fraunces Tavern in New York City. The recipient of the 1992 gold medal was Dhoruba Bin Wahad who was... - [Capitalism and Racism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/capitalism-and-racism/): It is hard for most people to accept that racial prejudice and antagonism, pervasive phenomena of modern life, have not been permanent features of human society. Yet the very concept of “race,” and the... - [Pornography, Capitalism, & Censorship](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/pornography-capitalism-censorship/) - [New Zealand Socialist Students' Conference](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/new-zealand-socialist-students-conference/) - [Free Mordechai Vannunu!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/free-mordechai-vannunu/) - [CWG: Little League Mensheviks](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/cwg-little-league-mensheviks/) - [The Robertson School of Falsification](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/the-robertson-school-of-falsification/) - [Spartacist Flip-Flop on Rutskoi](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/spartacist-flip-flop-on-rutskoi/) - [Cuba, the LRCI and Marxist Theory](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/cuba-the-lrci-and-marxist-theory/) - [LRCI: From Yeltsin to Rutskoi](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/lrci-from-yeltsin-to-rutskoi/) - [IBT on Moscow Coup](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/ibt-on-moscow-coup/) - [No Platform for Fascists!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/no-platform-for-fascists-2/) - [European Disunity](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/european-disunity/) - [Fascism and the German Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/fascism-and-the-german-left/) - [The Negro Struggle and the Proletarian Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/18/the-negro-struggle-and-the-proletarian-revolution/): Two lectures by Dick Fraser November 1953 Delivered at the SWP Friday Night Forum, Los Angeles. Published in SWP Discussion Bulletin Number A-19, August 1954. Republished in In Memoriam Richard S. Fraser: An Appreciation... - [On Trump, Fascism and the Invasion of the Capitol](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/14/on-trump-fascism-and-the-invasion-of-the-capitol/):   The events on January 6 at the Capitol, like the entire phenomenon of “Trump Nation,” was an expression of the profound crisis of American capitalist society. The storming of the Capitol, spearheaded by... - [The Stalin School of Falsification Revisited](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/the-stalin-school-of-falsification-revisited/): These articles were originally serialized in Workers Vanguard, in 1973, starting in the 22 June issue [No.23] and concluding in the 10 October issue [No. 30] Reply to the GuardianTHE STALIN SCHOOL OF FALSIFICATION REVISITED 1.... - [The Port Kembla pig-iron boycott of 1938](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/the-port-kembla-pig-iron-boycott-of-1938/): Labour Boycotts vs imperialist sanctions Published in Australasian Spartacist no 57, September 1978 The past decade has seen a proliferation of campaigns for economic boycotts of various sorts. Reformists and liberals have urged consumers to boycott... - [The Rebirth of British Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/the-rebirth-of-british-trotskyism/): One Fifth of WSL Walks Out, Fuses with the iSt Workers Vanguard, No. 200, 7 April 1978 LONDON—When 24 supporters of the Trotskyist Faction (TF) walked out of the Workers Socialist League (WSL) at the... - [In Defense of Democratic Centralism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/in-defense-of-democratic-centralism/): A speech by James Robertson The speech below was given to a conference of the West German Spartacus (Bolschewiki-Leninisten) in February 1973. Spartacus/BL had derived from a December 1972 split in the Internationale Kommunisten... - [Bibliography](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/bibliography/): Baron, Samuel H., Plekhanov, Father of Russian Marxism (Stanford, 1963) Cliff, Tony, Lenin, Volume 1: Building the Party (London, 1975) Dan, Theodore, The Origins of Bolshevism (New York, 1970) G., Barbara, Democratic Centralism (Chicago, 1972) Gankin, Olga Hess and Fisher, H.H., eds., The... - [Toward the Communist International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/toward-the-communist-international/): The event which transformed Lenin from a Russian revolutionary social democrat into the founding leader of the world communist movement can be precisely dated—4 August 1914. With the start of World War I the... - [The Final Split with the Mensheviks](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/the-final-split-with-the-mensheviks/): Following Stolypin’s coup of June 1907, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDRP) was illegalized and its Duma representatives arrested. Party fractions could continue to exist in legal and semi-legal workers organizations (e.g., trade... - [The Struggle Against the Boycotters](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/the-struggle-against-the-boycotters/): The Fifth Congress of the RSDRP, held in London in May 1907, was almost evenly divided between the Bolsheviks with 89 delegate votes and the Mensheviks with 88. At the Fourth Congress a year... - [Party, Faction & "Freedom of Criticism"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/party-faction-freedom-of-criticism/): The emergence of differences with the Mensheviks over the role of bourgeois liberalism in the revolution weakened, but did not eliminate, the forces of conciliationism in the Bolshevik camp. At the all-Bolshevik Third Congress... - [The 1905 Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/the-1905-revolution/): During 1904, Russian defeats in the war with Japan provoked a surge of liberal bourgeois opposition to the tsarist autocracy. This significant change in the Russian political scene deepened the differences between Menshevism and... - [Bolshevism vs. Menshevism: The 1903 Split](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/bolshevism-vs-menshevism-the-1903-split/): The Second Congress of the RSDRP, held in Brussels and then London in July-August 1903, was to be the culmination of the Iskraist project to create a centralized party based on a comprehensive program.... - [Kautskyism and the Origins of Russian Social Democracy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/kautskyism-and-the-origins-of-russian-social-democracy/): Recently the British International Marxist Group (IMG) and the International Socialists (now Socialist Workers Party—SWP/IS), two of the largest groups of the British “far left,” have taken to revising the history of the Bolsheviks.... - [Lenin and the Vanguard Party](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/lenin-and-the-vanguard-party/): Lenin and the Vanguard Party was a series of articles by Joseph Seymour published in Workers Vanguard in 1977-78. The following text is based on the Spartacist League pamphlet of 1978, but incorporates some... - [Toward the Rebirth of the Fourth International!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/toward-the-rebirth-of-the-fourth-international-2/): Declaration for the Organizing of an International Trotskyist Tendency (statement formally initiating the international Spartacist tendency) Adopted July 1974; published in Spartacist, No. 23, Spring 1977 1. The Spartacist League of Australia and New Zealand... - [Spartacusbund Expels Left Opposition: Trotskyist Faction Fuses with TLD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/spartacusbund-expels-left-opposition-trotskyist-faction-fuses-with-tld/): Spartacist No. 23, Spring 1977 Reprinted below is the founding document of the Trotskyist Fraction (TF) of the German Spartacusbund. When confronted by a principled Trotskyist opposition at their sixth national conference in January 1977,... - [Leninism and Workers Control](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/leninism-and-workers-control/): By Joseph Seymour Workers Vanguard no 162, 17 June 1977 The following article is based on a talk by Joseph Seymour at a West Coast Spartacus Youth League educational in mid-March 1977 There is... - [The Fight to Implement Busing: For Labor/Black Defence to Stop Racist Attacks and to Smash Fascist Threats](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/the-fight-to-implement-busing-for-labor-black-defence-to-stop-racist-attacks-and-to-smash-fascist-threats/): Spartacist Youth League pamphlet, 1975 - [On the United Front Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/on-the-united-front-question/): by Joseph Seymour Published in the Spartacist League Internal Discussion Bulletin number 23, 1974, reprinted in On the United Front, Spartacus Youth League pamphlet, 1976, and Spartacist Publishing Company 1996. A united front does not... - [Letter to the OCRFI and the OCI](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/letter-to-the-ocrfi-and-the-oci/): from Spartacist No. 22, Winter 1973-74, 15 January 1973 Organizing Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International; and Organisation Communiste Internationaliste Dear Comrades, At the Third National Conference of the Spartacist League/U.S. we held... - [On The Labor Party Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/on-the-labor-party-question/): by James Robertson [Transcript from a tape recording of a 5 November 1972 speech at an internal meeting, published in the Spartacist League (US), Internal Discussion Bulletin # 23, August 1974, “edited only to make coherent sentences”.]... - [West Coast Auto Local Rejects Preferential Seniority](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/west-coast-auto-local-rejects-preferential-seniority/): Workers Vanguard, No. 39, 1 March 1974 FREMONT, Calif., February 25 – The worst layoffs to hit the auto industry since the depression of the 1930’s (more than 100,000 United Auto Workers members currently... - [Proletarian Military Policy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/proletarian-military-policy/): Revolutionary Communist Youth Newsletter, No. 13, August-September 1972 The sharpening inter-imperialist antagonisms upsurge in imperialist rivalry and “surprising” new alignments pose for the third time in this century the specter of a world war,... - [Kronstadt & Counterrevolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/kronstadt-counterrevolution/): The subject of this pamphlet is the Bolshevik suppression of the revolt of the Kronstadt naval garrison in March 1921. Over the years, the more sophisticated elements in the anarchist and social democratic milieus... - [The Necessity of Revolutionary Leadership](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/12/22/the-necessity-of-revolutionary-leadership/): Who We Are—Introducing Bolshevik ‘‘The whole history of the struggle between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks is dotted with this little word ‘process.’ Lenin always formulated tasks and proposed corresponding methods. The Mensheviks agreed with the... - [‘A Working-Class Hero’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/12/22/a-working-class-hero/): Honoring our comrade Howard Keylor The following remarks were made by Henry Johnson on behalf of the Bolshevik Tendency at a meeting held on 9 December 2018 in the ILWU Local 10 hall in... - [Hands off Julian Assange!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/12/22/hands-off-julian-assange/): After nearly 10 nightmarish years, Julian Assange was brutally dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to Belmarsh Prison in April 2019, and is currently awaiting trial to determine whether he will be extradited... - [Howard Keylor's 95th birthday](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/12/15/howard-keylors-95th-birthday/): One of the founding members of the Bolshevik Tendency (BT), and longtime waterfront militant, Howard Keylor, celebrated his 95th birthday on Sunday 6th December 2020. Two other founding BT members attended his online event... - [Socialist Party on China](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/12/01/socialist-party-on-china/): A pseudo-Trotskyist hybrid Comrades of the Bolshevik Tendency participated in two sessions that touched on the question of China at the Socialist Party of England and Wales’ (SP) online Socialism 2020 weekend on 21... - [Audio recording of "Is China Capitalist?" online public forum](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/11/23/audio-recording-of-is-china-capitalist-online-public-forum/): An audio recording of the Bolshevik Tendency public meeting “Is China Capitalist” held on Sunday 22 November 2020 - [Once more on the IG & ‘Jailing Killer Cops’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/11/16/once-more-on-the-ig-jailing-killer-cops/): Cameron Woodford, who acts as a moderator for the Trotskyoid “Leftist Trainspotters” page, recently took umbrage when a Bolshevik Tendency supporter responded to a Facebook query about differences between various Trotskyist tendencies by posting... - [Trotsky’s Three Questions](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/11/16/trotskys-three-questions/): Leon Trotsky’s last major political struggle was against a revisionist faction in the Socialist Workers Party (SWP—the American flagship section of the then recently founded Fourth International) which proclaimed that the Soviet workers’ state... - [Register for online public meeting (22 November) - Is China capitalist?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/11/07/register-for-online-public-meeting-22-november-is-china-capitalist/): Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_30oovXm4Q9moTX-n7G7uhw Start time is 09:00 North American Pacific Time, 12:00 North American Eastern Time, 17:00 Britain & Ireland, 18:00 Central Europe After registering, you will receive a confirmation... - [The Myth of Capitalist China](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/11/06/the-myth-of-capitalist-china/): ‘Trotskyist’ impressionists can’t explain resurgent state sector The triumph of counterrevolution in the Soviet Union in 1991, heralded by bourgeois ideologues as representing the “end of history,” was widely seen as signifying that capitalism... - [The Development of the Spartacist League](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/the-development-of-the-spartacist-league/): by the Spartacist League of New Zealand, August 1972 Introductory Note The New Zealand Spartacist League broke in March from a state of complete disorganisation, but until recently largely confined its activity to serious... - [For Class Action Against the War: Against NPAC Pop Fronts](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/for-class-action-against-the-war-against-npac-pop-fronts/): Spartacist Supplement, July 1971 The “Spring Offensive” is over, but the Vietnam war drags on. The Mayday Tribe’s threat to “Stop the Government” if the government did not stop the war only demonstrated with what... - [Chilean Popular Front](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/chilean-popular-front/): Spartacist, No. 19, November-December 1970 The electoral victory of Dr. Salvador Allende’s Popular Front coalition in Chile poses in sharpest form the issue of revolution or counter-revolution. The Chilean crisis is a fully classic... - [Syndicalism and Leninism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/syndicalism-and-leninism/): Spartacist, No. 19, November-December 1970 One surprising effect of the French May-June 1968 events has been a resurgence of anarcho-syndicalism within the U.S. left. In fact, the French events completely reaffirmed the fundamental thesis... - [Terrorism and Communism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/terrorism-and-communism/): First published in Spartacist, No. 17-18, August-September 1970. - [To the Brink and Back: French Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/to-the-brink-and-back-french-revolution/): Spartacist No. 12, September-October 1968 The immediate origins of the French struggles can be traced to student activity at Nanterre and the Sorbonne, but these student rebellions had revolutionary significance only insofar as they were... - [Theses on Guerrilla Warfare](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/theses-on-guerrilla-warfare/): Spartacist No. 11, March-April 1968 The strategy of guerrilla warfare has been raised to the level of a “principle” by the Castroites. With last January’s publication of Régis Debray’s Revolution in the Revolution? the Cuban bureaucracy formulated... - [For a Labor-Socialist Ticket in 1968](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/for-a-labor-socialist-ticket-in-1968/): Spartacist number 11, March-April 1968 The 1968 elections come at a time of enormous discontent over the Vietnam war, deeply-felt and violent outbursts of disillusionment among the Negro masses, and an upsurge in labor militancy... - [Trotskyism versus Maoism: Why the USSR is not Capitalist](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/trotskyism-versus-maoism-why-the-ussr-is-not-capitalist/): A Spartacus Youth League pamphlet, April 1977 - [Lenin vs. Luxemburg on the National Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/lenin-vs-luxemburg-on-the-national-question-2/): A review of The National Question by Rosa Luxemburg (edited by Horace B. Davis) Reprinted from Workers Vanguard, No.150, 25 March 1977 The absence of sustained proletarian revolutionary struggles in the advanced capitalist countries... - [The National Question in the Marxist Movement, 1848–1914](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/the-national-question-in-the-marxist-movement-1848-1914-2/): By Joseph Seymour. The following two-part article is the text of a talk given at the July 1976 European summer camp of the international Spartacist tendency, reprinted from Workers Vanguard No.123, 3 September 1976, and No.125,... - [Youth, Class and Party](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/09/25/youth-class-and-party/): From RCY Newsletter, No. 9, October-November 1971 “Youth” in itself is neither revolutionary nor a class. The “youth” consists of young workers, future petty-bourgeois technocrats and administrators, members of the ruling class, as well as... - [For a Revolutionary Socialist Youth Movement!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/09/25/for-a-revolutionary-socialist-youth-movement/): From Revolutionary Marxist Caucus Newsletter, No. 5, December 1970 The need for a revolutionary socialist youth organization, open to all political tendencies seeking revolutionary change, was clearly demonstrated by the spontaneous upsurge of students and... - [Founding Conference of the 4th International: "Resolution on Youth"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/09/25/founding-conference-of-the-4th-international-resolution-on-youth/): Introduction from Revolutionary Communist Youth Newsletter, No. 17, May-June 1973 Trotsky was always keenly aware of what he called the problem of generations. He began the New Course (1923), his opening shot in the struggle against the... - [The Spartacus Youth League and the Student Upsurge of the 1930’s](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/09/25/the-spartacus-youth-league-and-the-student-upsurge-of-the-1930s/): Lessons from History From Young Spartacus No. 22, March-April 1974 The Lessons from History series has in the past included articles on the early years of the Communist Youth International and the development of a “Resolution on the... - [Youth-Party Relations in the Communist Youth International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/09/25/youth-party-relations-in-the-communist-youth-international/): Lessons from History From Young Spartacist, No. 21, January-February 1974 The question of youth-party relations is an important aspect of Leninist organizational traditions. Many of those socialist youth sections that operated autonomously from the Social-Democratic... - [Marxist Bulletin No. 7](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/09/25/marxist-bulletin-no-7/): The Leninist Position on Youth-Party Relations Documents from the YSA & SWP, 1957-61 Preface The present collection of documents deals with the vital issue of the relationship between a revolutionary party and its youth... - [Solidarität mit dem Roten Aufbau Hamburg!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/09/25/solidaritat-mit-dem-roten-aufbau-hamburg/): Kampf der Klassenjustiz! Am 31. August 2020 organisierte der Staat einen Großangriff auf die Strukturen des Roten Aufbaus Hamburg. Man durchsuchte 28 Objekte bei 22 Beschuldigten. Genossen berichten von gezückten Maschinenpistolen, mit denen sie... - ["Green New Deal: Eco-socialist solution or capitalist swindle?" online public meeting](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/08/31/green-new-deal-eco-socialist-solution-or-capitalist-swindle-online-public-meeting/): An audio recording of the Bolshevik Tendency public meeting “Green New Deal: Eco-socialist solution or capitalist swindle?” held on Saturday 29 August 2020 - [Online public meeting (29 August)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/08/03/online-public-meeting-29-august-to-discuss-the-green-new-deal/): Green New Deal: Eco-socialist solution or capitalist swindle? Register for the Zoom webinar – https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kidprpJERlaSus6oz7bV6A Start time is 09:00 North American Pacific Daylight Time, 12:00 North American Eastern Daylight Time, 17:00 British Summer Time,... - [Racism, Trade Unions & the U.S. Working Class](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/17/racism-trade-unions-the-u-s-working-class/): The SEP’s color-blind, anti-union cul de sac In our article on the social upheaval in America triggered by the brutal murder of George Floyd, we observed that there were hints that a few groups... - [For Class-Struggle Defense](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/for-class-struggle-defense/): by Toni Reade Discussion Bulletin, No. 28, Spartacist League/U.S., June 1977 Since the third North American Summer Camp in 1975, at which the successful conclusion of the Jagadish Jha fund-raising campaign was announced, the... - [On the Partisan Defense Committee](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/on-the-partisan-defense-committee/): By Reuben Samuels from Spartacist League/U.S. Discussion Bulletin No. 27, June 1977 The Partisan Defense Committee was launched over two years ago. Since then the PDC has been involved in numerous defense and legal cases, the... - [Class-Struggle Defense Saves Mario Muñoz](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/class-struggle-defense-saves-mario-munoz/): USLA Redbaiting: Sectarian Sabotage Fails [from Workers Vanguard, No. 123, 3 September 1976] The safe exit from Argentina of Chilean miners’ leader Mario Muñoz Salas in early August was a victory for the international workers... - [PDC Forum Hails Victory of Muñoz Campaign](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/pdc-forum-hails-victory-of-munoz-campaign/): How International Working-Class Defense Was Built [from Workers Vanguard, No. 123, 3 September 1976] NEW YORK, August 29—A hundred people attended a forum here last night on class-struggle defense work and the successful campaign... - [Muñoz Delegation Meets with UN Refugees Commissioner](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/munoz-delegation-meets-with-un-refugees-commissioner/): At UNHCR Headquarters in Geneva [from Workers Vanguard, No. 119, 23 July 1976] GENEVA, July 16 —An international delegation organized by the Committee to Save Mario Muñoz met today with the United Nations High Commissioner... - [What Defense Policy for Revolutionaries?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/what-defense-policy-for-revolutionaries/): Revolutionary Communist Youth Newsletter No. 17, May-June 1973 The decline of U.S. economic hegemony and the resultant economic chaos has meant intensified capitalist attacks on the labor and radical movements. Facing an increasing inability to... - [Coalitionism in Spain & Sri Lanka](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/coalitionism-in-spain-sri-lanka/): A talk given by Bill Logan at the Permanent Revolution Group Winter School, Wellington, New Zealand, 19-20 August 1989 We talked this morning about the Bolsheviks’ struggle against Kerensky’s popular front of 1917, the... - [Letter to James Robertson by Edmund Samarakkody](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/letter-to-james-robertson-by-edmund-samarakkody/): Mount Lavinia [Ceyon] 9th February 1974 Comrade James Robertson Spartacist League United States Dear Comrade, This is regarding your letter of 27th October and the accompanying drafts (marked rejected). Your decision to arrange Comrade... - [Letter to Edmund Samarakkody by James Robertson](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/letter-to-edmund-samarakkody-by-james-robertson/): New York 27 October 1973 Ceylon Dear Comrade Samarakkody, We received your long article, “Struggle for Trotskyism in Ceylon,” earlier this week and have been studying it most attentively. Its handling for our public... - [The Struggle for Trotskyism in Ceylon](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/the-struggle-for-trotskyism-in-ceylon/): by Edmund Samarakkody Spartacist No. 22, Winter 1973-74 The Editorial Board of Spartacist is proud to bring to our readers an important article making accessible to Trotskyists in the U.S. and internationally an analysis... - [American Upheaval online public meeting](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/12/american-upheaval-online-public-meeting/): An audio recording of the Bolshevik Tendency public meeting “American Upheaval: Race, Reform and Revolution” held on Saturday 11 July 2020 - [American Upheaval](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/03/american-upheaval/): Chickens Coming Home to Roost “How soon the English workers will throw off what seems to be a bourgeois contagion remains to be seen….Only your small-minded German philistine who measures world history by the... - [Witchcraft and Statecraft](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/01/witchcraft-and-statecraft/): Witchcraft and Statecraft: A Materialist Analysis of the European Witch Persecutions - [Early Communist Work Among Women: Part 2](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/01/early-communist-work-among-women-part-2/): Early Communist Work Among Women: Part 2 - [Early Communist Work Among Women: Part 1](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/01/early-communist-work-among-women-part-1/): Early Communist Work Among Women: Part 1 - [Shiela Rowbotham: Hiding from History](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/01/shiela-rowbotham-hiding-from-history/): Shiela Rowbotham: Hiding from History - [Dalla Costa / James and the Subversion of Marxism: A Critique](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/01/dalla-costa-james-and-the-subversion-of-marxism-a-critique/): Dalla Costa / James and the Subversion of Marxism: A Critique - [American Upheaval: Race, Reform and Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/29/american-upheaval-race-reform-and-revolution/): Black Lives Matter protests and their aftermath Online public forum – register for the Zoom webinar – https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5TsyAaOvTbuJtB1L3uSo_g The speed and scope of developments following the hideous racist murder of George Floyd sent a... - [„Planet of the Humans“ - eine unausgewogene Kritik des kapitalistischen Öko-Wahnsinns](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/25/planet-of-the-humans-eine-unausgewogene-kritik-des-kapitalistischen-oko-wahnsinns/): Am 50. Jahrestag des ersten “Tages der Erde“ , dem 22. April 2020, veröffentlichten Jeff Gibbs und Ozzie Zehner ihren neuen Film “Planet of the Humans” auf YouTube. Der vom liberalen Querdenker und Filmemacher... - [Video of BT supporter speaking on Marxism and the ecological crisis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/18/video-of-bt-supporter-speaking-on-marxism-and-the-ecological-crisis/) - [TestPDF](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/testpdf/) - [What Choice for Workers?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/what-choice-for-workers/): Labour, trade unions and reformist dead ends British Supplement to 1917, April 2005 Tony Blair goes to the electorate on 5 May at the head of a party, created by the organisations of the... - [The ‘Parallel’ Economy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/the-parallel-economy/): (The following remarks were made to a Bolshevik Tendency gathering last summer by a comrade who had recently returned from a trip to Nicaragua.) The crisis in Managua is so apparent. You go into... - [Nicaragua at the Crossroads](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/nicaragua-at-the-crossroads/): Time Running Out for Sandinistas ‘‘When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward—or go back.’’ —V.I. Lenin, quoted in Ten Days That Shook the World The Nicaraguan revolution... - [‘Powerful Testimony’... to the Police](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/powerful-testimony-to-the-police/): SL’s Cop-Baiting Celebrity Last summer in the aftermath of the brutal incineration of eleven black people in a MOVE commune in Philadelphia, the Spartacist League (SL) sponsored a forum in New York featuring two... - [The Robertson School of Party Building](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/the-robertson-school-of-party-building/): ‘I Liked Gerry Healy…’ The dust is just beginning to settle after the biggest (and dirtiest) explosion in recent memory among the international pretenders to Trotskyism: the spectacular rupture of the British Workers Revolutionary... - [South African Menshevism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/south-african-menshevism/): In every capitalist society on the planet the Moscow-loyal Communist parties parrot the same line: ‘‘now is not the time for socialism, first we need unity with the progressive capitalists.’’ South Africa is no... - [Pretorias Praetorians](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/pretorias-praetorians/): Notably absent from the coverage of the continuing upheavals in South Africa by the international ‘‘revolutionary’’ press is any serious consideration of exactly how the apartheid state apparatus, overwhelmingly drawn from the ranks of... - [The Necessity of Revolutionary Organization](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/the-necessity-of-revolutionary-organization/): Introducing 1917 ‘‘The whole history of the struggle between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks is dotted with this little word ‘process.’ Lenin always formulated tasks and proposed corresponding methods. The Mensheviks agreed with the same ‘aims’... - [Smash Apartheid! Workers to Power!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/smash-apartheid-workers-to-power/): South Africa’s bloody apartheid regime is staggering from a year and a half of massive upheavals by a disenfranchised black majority determined to end the white monopoly on economic and political power. The Botha... - [A Letter to the SL](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/a-letter-to-the-sl/): The following is a letter from a working-class militant who had been a supporter of the Spartacist League for over a dozen years. 27 March 1986 Oakland, CA [Spartacist League] Att. Oakland Local To... - [Not ‘People Power', but Workers Power!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/not-people-power-but-workers-power/): Filipino Elite Still in the Saddle ‘‘We love you, sir,’’ gushed George Bush after Ferdinand Marcos ‘‘won’’ the rigged Philippines presidential election of 1981 with a modest 88 percent of the vote. ‘‘We love... - [No Disaster for the Working Class](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/no-disaster-for-the-working-class/): Challenger’s ‘Major Malfunction’ The spontaneous abortion of space shuttle Challenger on January 28 was followed by an outpouring of government-prompted, electronically-orchestrated grief. From Pope to Queen, a variety of ‘‘world leaders’’ were quick to... - [BAFSAM’s Impotent Tactics](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/bafsams-impotent-tactics/): Reprinted below is the text of Militant Longshoreman No. 15, which was distributed to participants in a impotent BAFSAM-initiated ‘‘picket’’ of Pier 80 last January. BAFSAM (Bay Area Free South Africa Movement) has had... - [Feminism & ‘Moral Panics’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/feminism-moral-panics/): The AIDS hysteria cannot be seen in isolation from the more general right-wing ideological offensive. Preaching a gospel of unregulated greed in the marketplace, the Reaganite right simultaneously aims to reimpose Victorian standards of... - [The Politics of AIDS](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/the-politics-of-aids/): Reactionaries Fan Homophobic Hysteria AIDS is the most terrifying public health calamity in the U.S. since the spread of paralytic polio in the early fifties. Gay people, already the victims of a medical nightmare,... - [Bull’s Eye!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/bulls-eye/): It is always gratifying to receive confirmation that a polemic has drawn blood. In this connection we were pleased with the response to a major article in our first issue (‘‘The Robertson School of... - [Smash Apartheid!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/smash-apartheid/): For International Labor Solidarity! The spirit of the 11-day 1984 San Francisco longshore boycott against South African cargo (in solidarity with the struggles of black workers and youth in Botha’s racist hell-hole) was continued... - [The Myth of the ‘Third Period’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/the-myth-of-the-third-period/): MLP’s Stalinist Pyrite In the summer before the 1984 election that swept Ronald Reagan into the White House for his second term, Michael Harrington and Irving Howe, two prominent American social democrats, commented in... - [Keylor Upholds Class-Struggle Program in ILWU](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/keylor-upholds-class-struggle-program-in-ilwu/): SL Absence Marks End of Era For the first time in over a dozen years, the Spartacist League (SL) will have no supporters on the Executive Board of San Francisco Local 10 of the... - [Defend Workers Democracy!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/defend-workers-democracy/): Down with Slander and Hooliganism! Workers democracy—the commitment to full and free discussion within the labor movement and the resolution of differences through rational argument and political debate—is for Marxists a question of principle.... - [For Trotskyism!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/for-trotskyism/): BT/LTT Fusion Document The following document was adopted by the fusion conference of the Bolshevik Tendency and the Left Trotskyist Tendency as a codification of the programmatic agreement reached by the two organizations. 1.... - [Theses on Solidarnosc](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/theses-on-solidarnosc/): Poland 1981: Acid Test for Trotskyists The following theses were adopted by the fusion conference of the Bolshevik Tendency and the Left Trotskyist Tendency. 1. Prior to its September 1981 Congress, Solidarnosc could not... - [Against the Stream](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/against-the-stream/): LTT’s Struggle in the IWP The following has been excerpted from factional documents produced by the Left Trotskyist Tendency during its political struggle inside the International Workers Party from April to June 1986. Corrections... - [The People’s Front: The New Betrayal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/the-peoples-front-the-new-betrayal/): by James Burnham, Pioneer Publishers, New York, 1937. Origin and Theory of the People’s Front Analysis of the Theory of the People’s Front History and the People’s Front Can the People’s Front Win the... - [What is a "Mass Paper"?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/what-is-a-mass-paper/): By Leon Trotsky, 30 November 1935, published in The Crisis of the French Section (1935-36) To the Members of the Bolshevik-Leninist Group: I have just learned that my letter to the Political Bureau on the... - [Introduction to The Fight For Socialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/introduction-to-the-fight-for-socialism/): Introduction to The Fight For Socialism: The Principles and Program of the Workers Party, by Spartacist. Introductory works on socialism too often oversimplify to the point of being liberal mush. At the same time the author... - [The Theory of State Capitalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/the-theory-of-state-capitalism/): The Clock Without a Spring The following document, by Ken Tarbuck, was originally published in the Winter 1969-70 issue of Marxist Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1. The invasion of Czechoslovakia in August of 1968 by... - [What is Revolutionary Leadership?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/what-is-revolutionary-leadership/): The following article, written by Cliff Slaughter, was originally published nearly forty years ago in Labour Review, theoretical organ of the British Socialist Labour League (SLL). It was reprinted, along with several others from the... - [Brilliant Tactics … But Where Do They Lead?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/brilliant-tactics-but-where-do-they-lead/): The Campaign against the Springbok Tour The leaflet below was first published on 29 August 1981 during a period of sharp social struggle in New Zealand around sporting ties to apartheid-ruled South Africa. There... - [Die Notwendigkeit einer revolutionären Führung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/06/27/die-notwendigkeit-einer-revolutionaren-fuhrung/): Wer wir sind – Vorstellung der Bolshevik Tendency ”Die ganze Geschichte des Kampfs zwischen Bolschewismus und Menschewismus ist mit dem kleinen Wort „Prozess“ gesprenkelt. Lenin formulierte immer Aufgaben und schlug entsprechende Methoden vor. Die... - [Eko-Sosyalizm & "Yeşil Yeni Mutabakat" Hayalleri](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/06/22/eko-sosyalizm-yesil-yeni-mutabakat-hayalleri/): İnsanlığın Yaşaması İçin, Kapitalizm Ölmeli! Bir insan nefes almayı bırakmaya ne kadar ‘ikna’ edilebilirse, kapitalizm de büyümeyi sınırlamaya o kadar ‘ikna’ edilebilir. Onu ‘ekolojik’ yapmak için ‘yeşil’ kapitalizm girişimleri, sonsuz bir büyüme sistemi olarak... - [Socialist Action: Time to Own Up](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/06/16/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"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/06/06/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,... - [Spartacist Principles Betrayed](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/06/06/spartacist-principles-betrayed/): The social-pacifist position taken by Workers Vanguard in relation to the United States presence in Lebanon (WV number 341, 4 November 1983) marks the international Spartacist tendency’s qualitative break from the programme of revolution.... - [WV-The Bolshevik Tendency and the Pathology of Renegades](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/06/06/wv-the-bolshevik-tendency-and-the-pathology-of-renegades/): [from Workers Vanguard, No. 766, 12 October 2001] The Bolshevik Tendency and the Pathology of Renegades On the Pentagon Attack The International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) responded to the attack on the World Trade Center... - [Exchange with a former Spartacist](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/06/01/exchange-with-a-former-spartacist/): The following are lightly edited excerpts from a recent communication with a former Spartacist:   I’ve checked periodically over the years and have tended to agree with your co-thinkers, and my instinct is to... - [Militant Longshoreman No.22 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-22-1987/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.21 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-21-1987/) - [Militaqnt Longshoreman No.20 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militaqnt-longshoreman-no-20-1987/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.19 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-19-1987/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.18 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-18-1987/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.17 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-17-1987/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.16 (1986)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-16-1986/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.15 (1986)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-15-1986/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.14 (1986)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-14-1986/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.13 (1985)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-13-1985/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.12 (1984)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-12-1984/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.11 (1984)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-11-1984/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.10 (1984)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-10-1984/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.9 (1984)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-9-1984/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.8 (1984)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-8-1984/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.7 (1984)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-7-1984/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.6 (1983)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-6-1983/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.5 (1983)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-5-1983/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.4 (1983)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-4-1983/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.3 (1982)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-3-1982/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.2 (1982)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-2-1982/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.1 (1981)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-1-1981/) - [Eine konflikteiche Pipeline](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/18/eine-konflikteiche-pipeline/): Nord Stream 2 und die inter-imperialistischen Rivalitäten Der Konflikt zwischen den USA und Deutschland um die Fertigstellung der Gaspipeline Nord Stream 2 ist von enormer Bedeutung und ein Zeichen der wirtschaftlichen und politischen Umbrüche,... - [Defend the Palestinians! Down with Zionist Terror!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/18/defend-the-palestinians-down-with-zionist-terror/): On 15 May, the BT joined hundreds of thousands of demonstrators around the world in protesting the murderous Zionist assault on Gaza and the West Bank. We salute the refusal of Italian dockers to... - [Open letter to the IMT on the class character of the police](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/04/08/open-letter-to-the-imt-on-the-class-character-of-the-police/): Comrades, In a recent Socialist Appeal article on the brutal murder of Sarah Everard (allegedly by a police officer), the subsequent attack by police on the vigil held for her and the Tory government’s... - [London "Kill the Bill" protest](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/04/05/london-kill-the-bill-protest/): The Bolshevik Tendency joined thousands of others at the “Kill the Bill” demonstration in London on Saturday 3rd April, part of a national day of action across the UK against the Police, Crime, Sentencing... - [Audio recording of "Eco-Socialism & ‘Green New Deal’ Pipe Dreams" online forum](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/03/29/audio-recording-of-eco-socialism-green-new-deal-pipe-dreams-online-forum/): An audio recording of the Bolshevik Tendency public meeting “Eco-Socialism & ‘Green New Deal’ Pipe Dreams” held on Sunday 28 March 2021   - [Support the Alabama Amazon Workers!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/03/27/support-the-alabama-amazon-workers/): 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are fighting for unionization. Throughout February and March they have been voting on whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). On... - [Eco-Socialism & ‘Green New Deal’ Pipe Dreams](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/03/17/eco-socialism-green-new-deal-pipe-dreams/): For Humanity to Live, Capitalism Must Die! “Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’,... - [Online public meeting (28 March) - A critical analysis of the response to the GND by eco-socialists such as John Bellamy Foster](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/03/14/online-public-meeting-28-march-a-critical-analysis-of-the-response-to-the-gnd-by-eco-socialists-such-as-john-bellamy-foster/): Register for this Zoom webinar @ https://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_5a2pBDJzSuurL5EvO63ABg Start is 09:00 North America Pacific, 12:00 North America Eastern, 17:00 Britain , 18:00 Central Europe A discussion on the ability of Green New Deal proposals to deal... - [Statement by Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/03/13/labor-action-committee-to-free-mumia-abu-jamal-statement/): The following is an important update on the very serious threat posed to Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has contracted COVID-19. Mumia, an innocent victim of a racist police frame-up, has languished in jail for decades... - [On the Current Situation of the Revolutionary Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/02/28/on-the-current-situation-of-the-revolutionary-left/): The following are excerpts from a 23 January letter sent by a former Spartacist League cadre to Tom Riley of the Bolshevik Tendency: I must admit…my worries about what is happening to the revolutionary... - [Trump, Faschismus und die Erstürmung des Kapitols](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/02/24/trump-faschismus-und-die-ersturmung-des-kapitols/): Die Ereignisse am 6. Januar im Kapitol waren, wie das gesamte Phänomen der “TrumpNation”, ein Ausdruck der tiefgreifenden Krise der amerikanischen kapitalistischen Gesellschaft. Die Erstürmung des Kapitols, angeführt von faschistischen Akteuren und ermöglicht durch... - [Aclaración teórica](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/aclaracion-teorica/): (Parte de los comentarios hechos en representación de Spartacist a la Conferencia del Comité Internacional en Londres, extraído de Spartacist No. 6) Las experiencias de las luchas de Argelia y Cuba, cada una desde su... - [Apuntes sobre la discusión acerca de Cuba dentro de la Tendencia Revolucionaria](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/apuntes-sobre-la-discusion-acerca-de-cuba-dentro-de-la-tendencia-revolucionaria/): (Resumen de los comentarios hechos en la discusión oral) (1) El florecimiento desde 1943 de toda una serie de estados anticapitalistas en varias de las zonas más atrasadas del mundo ha clavado al movimiento trotskista... - [La Revolución Cubana](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/la-revolucion-cubana/): (Resolución de la minoría presentada a la Convención de la YSA de 1961, extraido de Spartacist No. 2) “El documento siguiente, presentado en 1961 a la Young Socialist Alliance por nuestra tendencia, ha sido... - [Cuba y los estados obreros deformados](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/cuba-y-los-estados-obreros-deformados/): Su método y el nuestro Desde el momento en que empezamos a discutir sobre Cuba en el Partido, la mayoría ha intentado forzarnos a llegar a una posición inmediata sobre la naturaleza del estado... - [Nota de introducción](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/nota-de-introduccion/): (al documento “Cuba y los estados obreros deformados”) El documento que a continuación sigue fue escrito en julio de 1961 por Tim Wohlforth que se separó en 1962 de la tendencia que más tarde se transformó en el... - [La Revolución Cubana y la teoría marxista](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/la-revolucion-cubana-y-la-teoria-marxista/): (Documento sometida al Pleno del Comité Central del Socialist Workers Party (SWP-Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores] de enero de 1961) La Revolución Cubana, tal y como se ha desarrollado en los últimos 19 meses,... - [Prefacio y Addendum al prefacio](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/prefacio-y-addendum-al-prefacio/): Este Cuaderno Marxista comienza con una reimpresión del documento que marca la primera expresión de lo que más tarde constituiría el ala izquierda revolucionaria del SWP [Socialist Workers Party de EE.UU.]. Shane Mage escribió el documento... - [Declaración para organizar una tendencia trotskista internacional](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/declaracion-para-organizar-una-tendencia-trotskista-internacional/): 1. La Spartacist League de Australia y Nueva Zelanda y la Spartacist League de los Estados Unidos declaran constituir el núcleo para la pronta cristalización de una tendencia trotskista internacional basada sobre la Declaración... - [Conferencia internacional interina](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/conferencia-internacional-interina/): -de Workers Vanguard no. 39, I de marzo de 1974 Una Conferencia interina consagrada a las perspectivas y al trabajo europeo de los marxistas revolucionarios tuvo lugar en Alemania en este mes de enero [1974]. Entre... - [Genesis pablismo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/genesis-pablismo/): –de Spartacist No. 21, otoño de 1971 El Socialist Workers Party (SWP) norteamericano y los pablistas europeos han andado a velocidades diferentes y siguiendo diferentes caminos hacia el revisionismo, hasta converger, en los primeros años del... - [Declaración de principios de la Spartacist League](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/declaracion-de-principios-de-la-spartacist-league/): 1. LA REVOLUCION SOCIALISTA Y LA SPARTACIST LEAGUE La Spartacist League de los EE.UU. es una organización revolucionaria que, como parte del movimiento revolucionario internacional, se dedica a la tarea de la construcción del partido... - [Informe de Spartacist a la Conferencia de Londres (1966) del Comité Internacional](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/informe-de-spartacist-a-la-conferencia-de-londres-1966-del-comite-internacional/): [Observaciones hechas durante la discusión del informe político de Cliff Slaughter a la Conferencia del Comité Internacional por el- camarada Robertson, el 6 de abril de 1966, en nombre de la delegación de Spartacist... - [Hacia el renacimientode la Cuarta Internacional](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/hacia-el-renacimientode-la-cuarta-internacional/): (Proyecto do resolución sobre el movimiento mundial, sometido a la Convención del SWP [Socialist Workers Party-Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores de los EE.UU.] por la Tendencia Revolucionaria en 1963.) INTRODUCCION 1. Durante los últimos... - [B. T. #3: Respuesta a Workers Power de Bolshevik Tendency](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/b-t-3-la-contestacion-del-ibt/): 5 de mayo de 1988 Estimados camaradas: Les agradecemos su extensa critica de nuestra declaración programática “Por el Trotskismo”. Apreciamos también la oportunidad que nos permitió elaborar algunos de las cuestiones programáticas y metodológicas... - [B. T. #3: La carta del MICR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/b-t-3-la-carta-del-micr/): B. T. #3: La crítica de Workers Power Movimiento para una Internacional Revolucionaria Comunista Londres, Inglaterra 2 de abril de 1987 Estimados camaradas, Hemos estado esperando la llegada de vuestro periódico para comparar la... - [B. T. #3: Por el Trotskismo!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/b-t-3-por-el-trotskismo/): (El siguiente documento fue adaptado en 1986 por la conferencia de fusión de la Tendencia Bolchevique y la Tendencia Trotskista de Izquierda, como una codificación del acuerdo programático, al cual llegaron ambas organizaciones.) 1. Partido y programa “Los intereses de... - [Boletín Trotskista #3: En Defensa Del Programa Trotskista](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/boletin-trotskista-3-en-defensa-del-programa-trotskista/): Polémica con el Poder Obrero Índice de contenidos Por el Trotskismo La carta del MICR La contestación del IBT Introducción Este folleto contiene tres documentos. El primero es “¡Por el trotskismo!”, la declaración programática... - ["Ustedes no pueden defender a la Unión Soviética con Yuri Andropovs"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/ustedes-no-pueden-defender-a-la-union-sovietica-con-yuri-andropovs/): Las polémicas 1982-83 con James Robertson de la Liga Espartaquista 13 de diciembre de 1982 Estimados Camaradas de la Liga Espartaquista: Felicitaciones por su victoria del 27 de noviembre. Adjunto les enviamos un cheque por... - [El "Malfuncionamento más importante" del Challenger no es un desastre para la clase obrera](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/el-malfuncionamento-mas-importante-del-challenger-no-es-un-desastre-para-la-clase-obrera/): Texto traducido del ingles, y que fuera publicado orginariamente en “1917” N°2, verano de 1986. El aborto espontáneo de la nave espacial Challenger el 28 de enero fue seguido de un sentimiento de pesar... - [La Contrarrevolución triunfa en la U.R.S.S.](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/la-contrarrevolucion-triunfa-en-la-u-r-s-s/): ¡Defendamos a los trabajadores soviéticos de los ataques de Yeltsin! (La Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional publicaba la siguiente declaración en septiembre de 1991) El fracasado golpe de Estado del 19 al 21 de agosto en Moscú... - [Compare y Contraste](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/compare-y-contraste/): LCI vs. TBI sobre el estalinismo y el defencismo soviético A continuación mostramos una selección de citas de las publicaciones de la Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional (TBI, incluyendo la Tendencia Externa de la Tendencia Espartacista... - [La presente son extractos del BOLETIN TROTSKISTA Nº 5](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/la-presente-son-extractos-del-boletin-trotskista-no-5/): ACLARACIÓN AL LECTOR La presente son extractos del BOLETIN TROTSKISTA Nº 5, “LCI VS. IBT”, publicado por la Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional que reimprime la totalidad del contenido de un material de la Liga Comunista... - [La guerra de las Malvinas/Falkland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/la-guerra-de-las-malvinas-falkland/): Una polémica de 1988 con LRCI [League For A Revolutionary Communist International — affiliated with British Workers Power group] Vuestro apoyo al “anti-imperialismo” hipócrita de Khomeini encuentra su análogo en el apoyo a la aventura de Galtieri... - [La LRCI EN LA ARGENTINA](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/la-lrci-en-la-argentina/): “El borde desafilado de la critica revolucionaria La presente carta fue enviada a Poder Obrero el 30 de marzo de 2002 Al Editor: El movimiento obrero internacional tiene vital interés en el dramático desarrollo... - [Venezuela: Estado y Revolución](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/venezuela-estado-y-revolucion/): ¡Por una Federación Socialista de América Latina! Traduccion de 1917 No. 28, 2006 América Latina tiene la diferencia de ingresos más amplia del mundo, con más de un centenar de millones de personas forzadas a sobrevivir... - [PACIFISMO COMO SIRVIENTE DEL IMPERIALISMO](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/pacifismo-como-sirviente-del-imperialismo/): Extractos de un artículo de la Internacional Comunista, Edición en Ingles.N°5 Nueva Serie, transcrito del Archivo de Internet de Trotsky de JJ Plant. Si bien no está fechado, está claramente escrito en el invierno... - [LA LOCURA IMPERIALISTA](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/la-locura-imperialista/): FUERA DE MEDIO ORIENTE LOS EEUU/ONU El “Nuevo Orden Mundial” proclamado por el mayor de los Bush después de la caída del Muro de Berlín en 1998, fue marcado por un coro de brutales... - [Capitalismo y Homofobia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/capitalismo-y-homofobiacapitalismo-y-homofobia/): El Marxismo y la Lucha por los Derechos de los Gay y las Lesbianas Traduccion de 1917 No. 15, 1995 Los que están a favor de la revolución deben intentar entender la cuestión de los homosexuales,... - [El Marxismo, el Feminismo y la Liberación de la Mujer](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/el-marxismo-el-feminismo-y-la-liberacion-de-la-mujer/): Traduccion de 1917 No. 19, 1997 A pesar de todas las conferencias internacionales y de las “declaraciones universales” a favor de la igualdad de la mujer, la vida de la mayoría de las mujeres en todas... - [Unidad, clase, programa](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/unidad-clase-programa/): Versión editada de la contribución de Barbara Dorn, de la Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional, a una mesa redonda sobre “¿Es necesaria la unidad de la izquierda?”, en la Conferencia Europea Platypus, celebrada en Londres el... - [Ucrania: un enfoque revolucionario e internacionalista](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/ucrania-un-enfoque-revolucionario-e-internacionalista/): Este texto es una versión ligeramente modificada de la intervención de un portavoz de la Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional en un encuentro público en Toronto, patrocinado por la Tendencia Marxista Internacional sobre la situación en... - [Agitación en Oriente Medio](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/agitacion-en-oriente-medio/): Crímenes y maquinaciones imperialistas Traduccion de 1917 nº 36, 2014 Las derrotas estratégicas sufridas por el ejército de los EE.UU. en Afganistán e Irak han reforzado la posición de los dirigentes teócratas de Irán,... - [Un Microcosmo de todas las Deformaciones del Sistema Juridico Gringo: El Caso de Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/un-microcosmo-de-todas-las-deformaciones-del-sistema-juridico-gringo-el-caso-de-mumia-abu-jamal/) - [¡Independencia para Cataluña!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/independencia-para-cataluna/): ¡Abajo la represión del gobierno de Madrid! La Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional condena el flagrante uso de la fuerza del gobierno de Madrid para reprimir el referéndum de independencia de Cataluña del 1 de octubre,... - [Em Defesa do Centralismo Democrático](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/em-defesa-do-centralismo-democratico/): Um Discurso de James Robertson O discurso abaixo foi feito numa conferência do Grupo Spartacus da Alemanha Ocidental (Bolchevique-Leninista) em fevereiro de 1973. O Spartacus/BL tinha se originado de um racha em dezembro de... - [LVP-Bibliografia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/lvp-bibliografia/): Bibliografia Ao longo do texto foram traduzidos do original em inglês, russo e alemão, tanto os títulos das fontes quanto os trechos citados como forma de facilitar a compreensão para o leitor de língua... - [Em Direção à Internacional Comunista](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/em-direcao-a-internacional-comunista/): O evento que transformou Lenin de um socialdemocrata revolucionário russo no líder fundador do movimento comunista mundial pode ser precisamente datado – 4 de agosto de 1914. Com o começo da Primeira Guerra Mundial,... - [O Racha Final com os Mencheviques](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/o-racha-final-com-os-mencheviques/): Seguindo o golpe de Stolypin em junho de 1907, o Partido Operário Social Democrata Russo (POSDR) foi posto na ilegalidade e seus representantes na Duma presos. Restos do partido poderiam continuar a existir em... - [A Luta Contra os Boicotadores](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/a-luta-contra-os-boicotadores/): O quinto congresso do POSDR, ocorrido em Londres em maio de 1907 foi quase igualmente dividido entre os Bolcheviques com 89 delegados os Mencheviques com 88. No quarto congresso um ano antes, três partidos... - [Partido, Tendência e “Liberdade de criticar”](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/partido-tendencia-e-liberdade-de-criticar/): A explosão das diferenças com os Mencheviques sobre o papel do liberalismo burguês na revolução enfraqueceu, mas não eliminou, as forças dos conciliadores no campo bolchevique. No terceiro congresso (composto apenas por bolcheviques) do... - [A Revolução de 1905](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/a-revolucao-de-1905/): Durante 1904, a derrota russa na guerra com o Japão provoca um ascenso da oposição liberal burguesa contra a autocracia czarista. Essa mudança significativa no cenário político russo aprofundou as diferenças entre menchevismo e... - [Bolchevismo vs. Menchevismo: o Racha de 1903](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/bolchevismo-vs-menchevismo-o-racha-de-1903/): O segundo congresso do POSDR, realizado em Bruxelas e posteriormente em Londres em Julho e Agosto de 1903, deveria ser a culminância do projeto do grupo do Iskra para criar um partido centralizado baseado... - [Kautskismo e as Origens da Socialdemocracia Russa](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/kautskismo-e-as-origens-da-socialdemocracia-russa/): Recentemente o Grupo Marxista Internacional britânico (GMI) e os Socialistas Internacionais (hoje Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores – SWP/IST), dois dos maiores grupos da “extrema esquerda” britânica, decidiram revisar a história dos Bolcheviques. Esses grupos... - [Teses sobre o Solidariedade](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/teses-sobre-o-solidariedade/): As seguintes teses foram adotadas pela conferência de fusão entre a Tendência Bolchevique e a Tendência Leninista-Trotskista (1986). 1. Antes de seu Congresso de setembro de 1981, o Solidariedade não podia ser caracterizado definitivamente;... - [A Contra-Revolução Triunfa na URSS](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/a-contra-revolucao-triunfa-na-urss/): Defender os Trabalhadores Soviéticos Contra os Ataques de Yeltsin! A Tendência Bolchevique Internacional publicou a seguinte declaração em setembro de 1991 O golpe abortado em Moscou de 19-21 agosto foi tão mal concebido e... - [Uma carta para o Grupo Internacionalista (E.U.A.) e para a Liga Quarta-Internacionalista do Brasil](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/uma-carta-para-o-grupo-internacionalista-e-u-a-e-para-a-liga-quarta-internacionalista-do-brasil/): Uma tradução em português das partes políticas mais importantes de uma carta para o Grupo Internacionalista (E.U.A.) e para a Liga Quarta-Internacionalista do Brasil (15 Dezembro 1996). 7 Fevereiro 1997 Queridos Camaradas da LQB:... - [Piquete de massas bloqueia navio israelense!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/piquete-de-massas-bloqueia-navio-israelense/): Trabalhadores Palestinos Saúdam Ação em Oakland, Califórnia Na segunda, 20 de junho 2010, um piquete de massas totalizando 700-800 trabalhadores e ativistas conseguiu impedir com sucesso que o navio israelense Zim Shenzhen, da empresa... - [Down With Corporate Censorship: Reinstate SEP/SWP (UK) Facebook Sites Immediately!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/23/down-with-corporate-censorship-reinstate-sep-swp-uk-facebook-sites-immediately/): The Bolshevik Tendency protests the gross violations of free speech carried out by Facebook when it blocked various pages of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and the Socialist Workers Party (UK) on Friday 22... - [On “Color Caste”](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/18/on-color-caste/): Letter from Dick Fraser to James Robertson 15 January 1984 Published in the Spartacist League/U.S. Internal Information and Discussion Bulletin whole No. 43, March 1984. Republished in In Memoriam Richard S. Fraser: An Appreciation and Selection of... - [On Federal Troops in Little Rock](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/18/on-federal-troops-in-little-rock/): Letter to the Political Committee of the Socialist Workers Party 10 October 1975 Attached to SWP Political Committee Minutes Number 18, 5 November 1957. Republished in In Memoriam Richard S. Fraser: An Appreciation and Selection... - [Summary Remarks on Negro Discussion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/18/summary-remarks-on-negro-discussion/): In the debate on the “Negro Question” at the 17th National Convention of the SWP June 1957 Published in SWP Discussion Bulletin Volume 18, Number 14, October 1957. Republished in In Memoriam Richard S. Fraser: An Appreciation and... - [Resolution on the Negro Struggle](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/18/resolution-on-the-negro-struggle/): For discussion at the SWP’s 17th Convention (June 1957) 25 May 1957 Published in the SWP Discussion Bulletin Volume 18, Number 11, September 1957. Republished in In Memoriam Richard S. Fraser: An Appreciation and Selection of His Work,... - [Contribution to the Discussion on the Slogan “Send Federal Troops to Mississippi”](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/18/contribution-to-the-discussion-on-the-slogan-send-federal-troops-to-mississippi/): 10 March 1956 Published in SWP Discussion Bulletin, Volume 18, Number 13, October 1957. Republished in In Memoriam Richard S. Fraser: An Appreciation and Selection of His Work, Prometheus Research Library, New York, August 1990. In... - [For the Materialist Conception of the Negro Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/18/for-the-materialist-conception-of-the-negro-question/): January 3 1955 Reprinted from SWP Discussion Bulletin A-30, August 1955 1. Nationalism and the Negro Struggle For a number of months both Comrade Breitman and myself have been working toward the opening of... - [Stoppt die Verfolgungen!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/stoppt-die-verfolgungen/): Die IBT solidarisiert sich mit allen verfolgten Linken und Arbeitern, die aufgrund politischer Aktivitäten in Konflikt mit dem bürgerlichen Staat gekommen sind. Solidarität mit Nick Brauns Nick Brauns wurde die Anwesenheit bei einer legitimen... - [Gruppe Arbeitermacht zurück in der WASG](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/gruppe-arbeitermacht-zuruck-in-der-wasg/): Anbiederung statt Arbeiterpartei Die Gruppe Arbeitermacht hangelt sich derzeit von einem Tiefpunkt zum nächsten. Die Anbiederung an das Wahlbündnis aus Linkspartei.PDS und WASG, kurz nach der Erklärung des Austritts aus der WASG, war schon... - [KEINE STIMME FÜR DIE NEUE LINKSPARTEI!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/keine-stimme-fur-die-neue-linkspartei/): Hochzeit der Reformisten — Linke will mitfeiern Die vorgezogenen Bundestagswahlen haben eine neue Wende genommen. Nachdem ein möglicher Wahlsieg von CDU/CSU mit FDP in allen Medien als sicher berichtet wurde, ist nun das Linksbündnis... - [Keine Stimme für SPD, PDS, Grüne und WASG!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/keine-stimme-fur-spd-pds-grune-und-wasg/): Für die politische und organisatorische Unabhängigkeit der Arbeiterklasse! Unter der Führung von linkeren Funktionären aus der SPD und der mittleren Gewerkschaftsführung formierte sich über das ganze Jahr 2004 hinweg die Wahlalternative Arbeit und soziale... - [Klassenkampf statt Linkspartei](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/klassenkampf-statt-linkspartei/): Die Wahl ist vorbei — der Kampf geht weiter Das Kapital war zunächst gar nicht erfreut über den Wahlausgang der vorgezogenen Bundestagswahlen. Doch schon nach wenigen Tagen der Konsolidierung der Grossen Koalition ist der... - [Imperialismus & Afghanistan: Drei Fragen, drei Antworten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/imperialismus-afghanistan-drei-fragen-drei-antworten/): Erste Frage: 1979 führten Trotzkisten das Schicksal der afghanischen Frauen an, um die Intervention der Sowjetunion zu rechtfertigen. Wie könnt ihr dann heute so entschlossen gegen die Intervention kämpfen? Es ist schon bemerkenswert, wie... - [Der Krieg nach innen und die deutsche „Antikriegsbewegung“](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/der-krieg-nach-innen-und-die-deutsche-antikriegsbewegung/): „Kampf gegen Terror“ bedeutet Abbau demokratischer Rechte! Der Krieg ist Bestandteil einer unvermeidlichen Entwicklung im Kapitalismus. Die Arbeiterklasse trägt nicht nur die immensen Kosten für die militärische Aufrüstung, sondern sie zahlt auch die teuren... - [Rivalitäten unter Räubern — eine Analyse in zwei Teilen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/rivalitaten-unter-raubern-eine-analyse-in-zwei-teilen/): Erster Teil: Räuberstaat USA Wir leben in einer Welt, in der das Streben nach Profit zu einer schier unglaublichen Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich geführt hat: Die drei Reichsten Familien dieser Welt, allesamt US-Amerikaner,... - [Verteidigt Afghanistan! Verteidigt demokratische Rechte!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/verteidigt-afghanistan-verteidigt-demokratische-rechte/): Imperialisten wollen Kontrolle über Zentralasien Zunächst einmal ist es unablässig, folgende Feststellung zu treffen: Das Attentat auf die Zwillingstürme des World Trade Center und andere Symbole des US-Imperialismus hat nichts aber auch gar nichts... - [China: In Richtung Abgrund](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/china-in-richtung-abgrund/): Kapitalismus in einem deformierten Arbeiterstaat Millionen von ArbeiterInnen, armen LandarbeiterInnen und anderen Opfern des Wachstums von kapitalistischen sozialen Verhältnissen in China haben enorm mobilisiert. Ihre Organisationen sind einfach und lokal beschränkt, aber die Teilnehmerzahlen... - [Weg mit Hartz IV](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/weg-mit-hartz-iv/): Für eine revolutionäre Orientierung im Kampf gegen den Sozialabbau Reformismus ist Klassenverrat Dieser Artikel ist eine erweiterte und aktualisierte Version eines Flugblattes vom 26. September 2004. Die Linke und Arbeiterbewegung ging mit einigen Erwartungen... - [Liebesgrüße aus Absurdistan - Polemiken mit der SpAD/IKL](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/liebesgruse-aus-absurdistan-polemiken-mit-der-spad-ikl/): In der Ausgabe Herbst 2003 des SPARTAKIST spuckt die Spartakist-Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SpAD) in einem hysterischen Anfall Gift und Galle gegen die Internationale Bolschewistische Tendenz. Vorausgegangen war dem ein noch heftigerer Ausbruch im Workers Vanguard... - [Eine Antwort an die SpAD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/eine-antwort-an-die-spad/): Lernt lesen, bevor Ihr schreibt In ihrem Artikel “BT/GLT: Anti-Spartakisten fusionieren” schreibt die SpAD, “für diese zentristischen Betrüger ist das höchste Prinzip: ‘Die Spartakisten hassen!'” (SPARTAKIST Nr. 152, Herbst 2003). Der Fusion von Gruppe... - [Pro-Stalinismus versus Trotzkismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/pro-stalinismus-versus-trotzkismus/): IKL versus IBT über die DDR 1989/90 Mit Verdrehungen und rhetorischem Nebel versucht die SpAD, deutsche Sektion der IKL, in ihren Tiraden gegen die IBT von dem klaren und einfachen Kern unserer Differenzen über... - [Multinationale Arbeiterrevolution wird Kurdistan befreien!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/multinationale-arbeiterrevolution-wird-kurdistan-befreien/): Für eine Sozialistische Föderation des Nahen Ostens Ausgangspunkt des aktuellen polemischen Schlagabtauschs zwischen der Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz (IBT) und der Internationalen Kommunistischen Liga (IKL) war eine Entstellung unserer Kurdistanposition. In einem ausführlichen Workers-Vanguard-Artikel des... - [Kurdistan - Bindeglied der Revolution im Nahen Osten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/kurdistan-bindeglied-der-revolution-im-nahen-osten/): Die Aufteilung der Welt unter die imperialistischen Mächte bedeutet für viele Völker Massaker, Vertreibung und Unterdrückung bis auf den heutigen Tag. Wenige Nationen haben mehr unter den Auswirkungen des Machtkampfes der Imperialisten gelitten als... - [Leninismus und Lostrennung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/leninismus-und-lostrennung/): Die IBT vertritt das Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Nationen als einen Teil ihres revolutionären Programms. Das nationale Selbstbestimmungsrecht gilt für alle Fälle einer lebendigen Nationalbewegung. Diese hat das Recht auf staatliche Lostrennung. Marxisten bauen jedoch keine... - [Kollektivschuld und Klassenkampf](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/kollektivschuld-und-klassenkampf/): Das Oberthema von Hohmanns Rede war die Kollektivschuldthese: “Trotz der allseitigen Beteuerungen, daß es Kollektivschuld nicht gebe, trotz nuancierter Wortneuschöpfungen wie ‘Kollektivverantwortung’ oder ‘Kollektivscham’: Im Kern bleibt der Vorwurf: die Deutschen sind das ‘Tätervolk'”.... - [Antisemitismus auf dem Vormarsch](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/antisemitismus-auf-dem-vormarsch/): 13 Jahre nach der Konterrevolution Der CDU-Bundestagsabgeordnete Hohmann hatte in seinem Wahlkreis Neuhof vor ca. 120 Zuhörern, darunter der Chef des Bergwerks von “Kali + Salz”, der evangelische Pfarrer, die CDU-Bürgermeisterin, eine antisemitische Rede... - [Stoppt Schröders Sozialraub durch revolutionären Klassenkampf](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/stoppt-schroders-sozialraub-durch-revolutionaren-klassenkampf/): Die vergangene Periode war durch den Irak-Krieg, die damit verbundene, offen ausgetragene imperialistische Konkurrenz und die innere Mobilmachung für die Ambitionen des deutschen Imperialismus gekennzeichnet. Militarismus, Abbau demokratischer Rechte, Sozialabbau, Lohnraub, Rassismus entwickeln sich... - [Auf dem Weg des geringsten Widerstandes: Imperialistischer Krieg und Pseudo-Sozialisten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/auf-dem-weg-des-geringsten-widerstandes-imperialistischer-krieg-und-pseudo-sozialisten/): Die Linke im Krieg Im Folgenden drucken wir die Übersetzung einer Polemik aus der Nummer 25 unseres englischsprachigen, internationalen Organs 1917 (2003) ab. Sie erschien bereits vor Beginn des Irak-Krieges und unterzieht die Politik... - [Sozialistische "Alternative" Voran: Wer von der Revolution nicht reden will, sollte vom Frieden schweigen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/sozialistische-alternative-voran-wer-von-der-revolution-nicht-reden-will-sollte-vom-frieden-schweigen/): Mit Jugend gegen Krieg versucht die SAV-Führung, das Wasser der Anti-Kriegsbewegung auf die eigenen Mühlen zu lenken. Auch wir wollen, dass eine sozialistische Alternative an Boden gewinnt, aber ist die SAV wirklich eine sozialistische... - [Kommunismus, Antiimperialismus & Krieg](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/kommunismus-antiimperialismus-krieg/): Das Wesen kommunistischer Politik erschöpft sich nicht in einzelnen Aspekten wie Anti-Rassismus oder Anti-Imperialismus. So wichtig diese auch sein mögen, sie leiten ihre Berechtigung aus dem Kern kommunistischer Politik ab. Dies verbietet eine verkürzte... - [SPD / Grüne rüsten für Raubzüge nach innen und außen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/spd-grune-rusten-fur-raubzuge-nach-innen-und-ausen/): Im Mittelpunkt ‘deutscher Politik’ steht die Aufgabe, Deutschland fit zu machen für die wirtschaftliche, politische und militärische Konkurrenz um die Aufteilung der Welt unter den größten Mächten. Im Namen der Standortkonkurrenz müssen Löhne und... - [Klassenkrieg statt Heiligem Krieg: Islam, Imperium & Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/klassenkrieg-statt-heiligem-krieg-islam-imperium-revolution/): Iran 1979, Trotzkisten warnten: Weder Schah noch Ajatollah – Für Arbeitermacht! Neuerdings ist der Islamismus auch (wieder) ein Thema in der deutschen Linken – wie u.a. die Resonanz auf das Buch “Djihad und Judenhass”... - [Trotzkisten fusionieren](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/trotzkisten-fusionieren/): Erklärung zur Fusion der Gruppe Spartakus und der Gruppe Leo Trotzki zur Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz Deutschland Im Mai 2002 haben sich Gruppe Spartakus (Deutsche Sektion der Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz) und die Gruppe Leo Trotzki... - [Keine Illusion in die deutsche Bourgeoisie! SPD/Grüne rüsten für neue Kriege!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/keine-illusion-in-die-deutsche-bourgeoisie-spd-grune-rusten-fur-neue-kriege/): Humanitärer BRD-Imperialismus gegen Wildwest-Yankee-Imperialismus? Die bundesdeutsche Friedensbewegung zeichnet sich seit jeher durch eine antiamerikanische Schlagseite aus. Diese besteht nicht in der berechtigten Kritik der Verbrechen Washingtons sondern äußert sich vielmehr in einer vergleichsweisen Beschönigung... - [Verteidigt den Irak gegen die imperialistischen Angriffe!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/verteidigt-den-irak-gegen-die-imperialistischen-angriffe/): Brecht die UN-Blockade! USA/BRD/UNO: Hände weg vom Nahen Osten! Der Irak ist seit 1991 Opfer einer fortwährenden imperialistischen Aggression. Gedeckt durch UNO-Beschlüsse greifen amerikanische und britische Bomber permanent militärische und zivile Ziele in den... - [Deutsche Linke: Im Schlepptau des 'Friedenskanzlers'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/deutsche-linke-im-schlepptau-des-friedenskanzlers/): Eine antideutsche bzw. antinationale Minderheit wird sich wie schon 1991 mit pro-zionistischen Begründungen gegen Deutschland auf die Seite der kriegsführenden Imperialisten stellen und dabei ihr rassistisches Wahnkonstrukt eines arabischen “Mordkollektivs” bemühen. Sie sind damit... - [Workers Power's Two-stage "Trotskyism"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/workers-powers-two-stage-trotskyism-2/): 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... - [Nieder mit Bushs Terrorkrieg! Verteidigt den Irak!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/nieder-mit-bushs-terrorkrieg-verteidigt-den-irak/): Der Hauptfeind steht im eigenen Land George W. Bushs Erklärung vor der UN-Hauptversammlung vom 12. September 2002, dass die USA “keinen Groll gegen das irakische Volk hegen” war ein Signal, dass die weltstärkste Armee... - [PDS: Alternativer Stratege für den deutschen Imperialismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/pds-alternativer-stratege-fur-den-deutschen-imperialismus/): Opportunismus, Anbiederung, Krisenverwaltung für das Kapital Auch keine Stimme für die PDS! Während die deutsche Bourgeoisie über die richtige Taktik für die zukünftige Ausrichtung des deutschen Imperialismus diskutiert, bewirbt sich die PDS als alternativer... - [Angepasste PDS wählen, um Linke und Arbeiterklasse zu "stärken"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/angepasste-pds-wahlen-um-linke-und-arbeiterklasse-zu-starken/): SAV = Sozialistische Alternative Verwirrung Die Sozialistische Alternative Voran (SAV) hat einen Wahlaufruf publiziert, in dem die SAV in Städten, wo sie auch über Ortsgruppen verfügt, zur Abgabe der Erststimme für ihre Kandidaten aufruft.... - [Von "Kohl muss weg!" zu "Stoppt Stoiber!"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/von-kohl-muss-weg-zu-stoppt-stoiber/): Schröders Linksruck-Freundeskreis Linksruck (LR) hat vor vier Jahren zur Wahl der SPD aufgerufen. Als damals die Massen von dem ‘Dicken’ die Schnauze voll hatten, wollte LR nicht beiseite stehen und setzte mit dem Schlachtruf... - [Kritische Wahlunterstützung als revolutionäre Taktik](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/kritische-wahlunterstutzung-als-revolutionare-taktik/): Die meisten vorgeblich revolutionären Organisationen, die bei der letzten Bundestagswahl noch die Trommel für SPD und PDS gerührt haben, sind nach vier Jahren Regierung Schröder leiser geworden. Die angeblich trotzkistische Gruppe Arbeitermacht erklärte beispielsweise... - [Revolutionäre Arbeitermobilisierung gegen imperialistische Mobilmachung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/revolutionare-arbeitermobilisierung-gegen-imperialistische-mobilmachung/): Keine Stimme für SPD und PDS! Statt Blut, Schweiß und Tränen Die Bundestagswahlen finden statt vor dem Hintergrund von Krieg und Krise. Während der Krieg in Afghanistan noch läuft, bereiten die USA bereits entschlossen... - [Terrorismus und Imperialismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/terrorismus-und-imperialismus/): Dieser Artikel erschien zuerst in REDFIST – FÜR DEN KOMMUNISMUS Nr. 1 als Beilage zu Bolschewik Nr. 17 Seit dem Anschlag auf das World Trade Center erleben wir rund um die Uhr auf allen... - [Imperialisten Hände weg!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/imperialisten-hande-weg/): Von Afghanistan bis Somalia Von demokratischen Rechten und Immigranten Das erste Opfer des Krieges ist bekanntlich die Wahrheit. Zahlreiche Ungereimtheiten und Lügen, angefangen von dem unbegreiflichen Versagen der U.S.-Geheimdienste vor und am 11. September,... - [Hände weg von Afghanistan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/hande-weg-von-afghanistan/): Der folgende Text ist eine überarbeitete Version eines Vortrags, gehalten von Tom Riley an verschiedenen Universitäten in Kanada, Anfang November. Ein Teil des Vortrags, dessen Inhalte so ähnlich an anderer Stelle in dieser Ausgabe... - [Berichtigung zum Artikel: "'Marxistische Kritik' im imperialistischen Kriegslager" (in BOLSCHEWIK Nr. 17)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/berichtigung-zum-artikel-marxistische-kritik-im-imperialistischen-kriegslager-in-bolschewik-nr-17/): In diesem Artikel polemisierten wir gegen die pro-imperialistische Kriegstreiberei der “Marxistischen Kritik”. Diese hatte nicht nur den imperialistischen Eroberungskrieg gegen Afghanistan als antifaschistischen Befreiungskrieg gerechtfertigt. Darüber hinaus war der ehemals trotzkistischen SWP der USA... - ["Marxistische Kritik" im imperialistischen Kriegslager](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/marxistische-kritik-im-imperialistischen-kriegslager/): Die E-Mail vom 1.10.01 der MAK an die Gruppe Spartakus: Hallo Genossen und GenossInnen, eure Stellungnahmen zum Terroranschlag auf das WTC und die Folgen habe ich erhalten. Sie überzeugen mich nicht wirklich. Insbesondere die... - [Spartacist League: Manchmal ist weniger drin als man glaubt](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/spartacist-league-manchmal-ist-weniger-drin-als-man-glaubt/): Die Spartacist League/USA (SL) posiert genauso gern wie ihre deutsche Schwesterorganisation Spartakist Arbeiterpartei Deutschland (SpAD) als die Härtesten der Harten. Viel davon ist allerdings tatsächlich nur Gepose. Denn wiederholt hat die SL, die führende... - [Allah, Afghanistan & Antiimperialismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/allah-afghanistan-antiimperialismus/): Arbeitermacht statt Gottesstaat Samuel P. Huntingtons Theorie vom “Zusammenstoss der Zivilisationen” (engl. “clash of civilisations”, im Deutschen allgemein unpräzise als “Kampf der Kulturen” übersetzt) schien ihre akademische Karriere be-reits vollendet zu haben, als sie... - [Kampf der Klassen- und Rassenjustiz!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/kampf-der-klassen-und-rassenjustiz/): Befreit Mumia Abu-Jamal! Solidaritätsbewegung am Scheideweg Mumia Abu Jamal, ehemaliger Black Panther und engagierter afro-amerikanischer Journalist, wurde in einem abgekarteten Gerichtsverfahren, in dessen Verlauf selbst bürgerlich-demokratische Rechtsstandards verletzt wurden, zu Unrecht wegen Polizistenmordes verurteilt.... - [LRKIs Linkswende: "Keine schlüssige Zwischenposition"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/lrkis-linkswende-keine-schlussige-zwischenposition/): Nicht mehr todgeweiht? Die November 2000 Ausgabe von Workers Power gibt eine dramatische Wende über die Bedeutung und Wichtigkeit der Rückkehr zum Kapitalismus in Osteuropa und der ehemaligen UdSSR nach dem Zusammenbruch des Stalinismus... - [PDS - Pro-imperialistische Deutsche Sozialchauvinisten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/pds-pro-imperialistische-deutsche-sozialchauvinisten/): Deutscher Imperialismus und der Nah-Ost-Konflikt Es ist ein Irrtum der Antideutschen zu glauben, Deutschland blase zur Treibjagd gegen Israel. Zunächst einmal ist festzustellen, daß bei keiner diplomatischen Intervention Deutschlands im Nahen Osten das Schicksal... - [Permanente Revolution und Palästina](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/permanente-revolution-und-palastina/): Vom nationalen Volkskrieg zum internationalen Klassenkampf Der Besuch des rechtsgerichteten Likud-Politikers Ariel Sharon – des Verantwortlichen für die Massaker in den palästinensischen Flüchtlingslagern von Qibya (1953) und Sabrah und Schatila (1982) und für die... - [Putsch in Belgrad: Kein Gewinn für serbische Arbeiter](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/putsch-in-belgrad-kein-gewinn-fur-serbische-arbeiter/): Weder Milosevic noch Kostunica Im Folgenden dokumentieren wir die Position der Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz, in der die Gruppe Spartakus organisiert ist, zu den Präsidentschaftswahlen in Jugoslawien und zum Sturz Milosevic. In diesen Ereignissen erwies... - [Reformismus, Antifaschistischer Kampf & Revolutionäre Bündnispolitik](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/reformismus-antifaschistischer-kampf-revolutionare-bundnispolitik/): Bürgerliche Arbeiterparteien und reformistische Gewerkschaftsführungen tragen Mitverantwortung am Wachstum der Faschisten. Gerade bezüglich der PDS gibt es in der (antifaschistischen) Linken jedoch trotz zunehmender Kritik nach wie vor eine weitverbreitete Haltung, die PDS noch... - [Jubel-Linke im "antifaschistischen" Staatszirkus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/jubel-linke-im-antifaschistischen-staatszirkus/): Die Linksruck-Führung veranlaßt der staatliche “Antifaschismus” zu wahren Freudensprüngen: “Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder ruft zum ‘Aufstand der Anständigen’ auf. Wir begrüßen seinen Aufruf.” “Genau das brauchen wir: einen ‘Aufstand der Anständigen’, den Bundeskanzler Schröder gefordert... - [Revolutionärer Antifaschismus kontra "antifaschistisches" Staatstheater](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/revolutionarer-antifaschismus-kontra-antifaschistisches-staatstheater/): Der Ausgangspunkt der plötzlichen staatlich inszenierten Aufregung über faschistische Gewalt war ein Bombenanschlag am 27. Juli 2000 in Düsseldorf. Dabei wurden 10 Aussiedler aus der ehemaligen UdSSR, darunter sechs Juden, auf ihrem Weg zu... - [Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Haider](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/dr-jekyll-und-mr-haider/): Eine marxistische Analyse Ende Januar 2000 wurde in Wien die schwarz-blaue Koalitionsregierung von ÖVP und FPÖ gebildet. Seitdem führt die Regierungsbeteiligung der FPÖ in Österreich und auch in anderen Ländern zu massiven Protesten. Tausende... - [Spartakist Arbeiterpartei Deutschland: Vergessen, was gestern war…?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/spartakist-arbeiterpartei-deutschland-vergessen-was-gestern-war/): Spartakist heute…: “Haiders FPÖ ist eine reine Wahlmaschine und entspricht nicht dem, was Marxisten unter Faschismus verstehen. Reaktionäre Ansichten allein definieren nicht Faschismus” (Spartakist-Flugblatt, 18.02.2000). … und ihr Geschwätz von gestern: “Nach den Wahlerfolgen... - [Britische Demokraten gegen österreichische "Faschisten"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/britische-demokraten-gegen-osterreichische-faschisten/): Im folgenden drucken wir den Beitrag eines Genossen der Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz aus Britannien ab. Die britische Socialist Workers Party (SWP), deren Führer Tony Cliff vor kurzem in London verstarb, ist mit (nach eigenen... - [Mit Linksruck gegen Rechts?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/mit-linksruck-gegen-rechts/): Nazi Haider? “Das erste Ziel der Faschisten ist, jede Art von Arbeiterorganisationen zu zerschlagen.”, “Eine paramilitärische Bewegung aus uniformiertem Pöbel ist deshalb das Herz der faschistischen Machtergreifung.” (Linksruck Nr. 83, 8. März 2000) Haider... - [Verhindert den Nazi-Aufmarsch am 6. Mai in Essen!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/verhindert-den-nazi-aufmarsch-am-6-mai-in-essen/): Am 6. Mai will der Kreisverband Essen der NPD mit einer landesweiten Mobilisierung demonstrieren. Sollte den Nazis am 1. Mai kein größerer Aufmarsch gelingen, so ist für den 6. Mai in Essen sogar mit... - [Winfried Wolf, die alte Tante SPD und der Krieg](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/winfried-wolf-die-alte-tante-spd-und-der-krieg/): Auf einer Veranstaltung zu seinem Buch “Bombengeschäfte” in Duisburg rechtfertigte Winfried Wolf (PDS, MdB) seine Politik, auf eine sozialpazifistische Anti-Kriegsbewegung, statt auf die revolutionäre Mobilisierung der Arbeiterbewegung gegen die Kriegstreiber, zu setzen. Kein Wunder,... - [Die Linke zwischen den Kriegen - 2. Teil](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/die-linke-zwischen-den-kriegen-2-teil/): KOMMUNISTISCHE ORGANISATION für die VIERTE INTERNATIONALE (KOVI-BRD) An die Gruppe Spartakus Betr.: ‘Die Linke im Krieg -Eine Abrechnung‘ in: BOLSCHEWIK Nr.13, Januar 2000 Liebe GenossInnen! Wir bedanken uns auch dafür, daß Ihr die Freundlichkeit... - [Brief an die Spartacist League: Anti-KKK-Demo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/brief-an-die-spartacist-league-anti-kkk-demo/): Im folgenden dokumentieren wir die Übersetzung des Briefes eines amerikanischen Genossen an die Spartacist League (SL), die zentrale Sektion der Internationalen Kommunistischen Liga (IKL), die in Deutschland durch die Spartakist Arbeiterpartei (SpAD) vertreten ist.... - [Enteignet die Enteigner!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/enteignet-die-enteigner/): Nieder mit der Neuen Weltordnung von IWF und Weltbank: Verschiedene Ereignisse der vergangenen Jahre verdeutlichten die Stimmung des wachsenden populären Widerstands unter Jugendlichen gegen die kapitalistische Weltordnung. Am 18. Juni letzten Jahres überraschten tausende... - [ArbeiterInnen aller Nationalitäten vereinigt Euch!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/arbeiterinnen-aller-nationalitaten-vereinigt-euch/): 1. Mai: Kampftag der internationalen Arbeiterklasse: Migration und Revolution Der Kapitalismus hat durch Weltmarkt und Migration eine internationale, vermischte Arbeiterklasse erzeugt. MarxistInnen begrüßen das: so wird eine Klasse objektiv immer weiter zusammengeschweißt – innerhalb... - [Freiheit für Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/freiheit-fur-mumia-abu-jamal/): Mumia Abu-Jamal, ehemaliges Mitglied der Black Panther und radikaler Journalist, ist seit 17 Jahren in der Todeszelle. Er wurde von einem brutalen und rassistischen Regime mit gefälschten Beweisen und erzwungenen Zeugenaussagen für schuldig befunden.... - [Der Bundeswehr/NATO-Krieg gegen Serbien und die PDS](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/der-bundeswehr-nato-krieg-gegen-serbien-und-die-pds/): Leserbrief: Die zur Schau getragene Position der PDS gegen die Bundeswehr/NATO-Aggression gegen Serbien war für viele Linke Anlass sich im Sinne von Aktionseinheiten an Demonstrationen der PDS zu diesem Thema zu beteiligen. Allerdings geben... - [PDS auf Kriegspfad](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/pds-auf-kriegspfad/): Die PDS profilierte sich während der NATO-Angriffe in den Augen Tausender ArbeiterInnen und Linker als Anti-Kriegspartei. Ihr “Nein” zum NATO-Krieg und ihre Mobilisierungen steigerten das Ansehen und die Wählergunst erheblich. Es brachte den Unmut... - [Imperialistischer Krieg und sozialistische Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/imperialistischer-krieg-und-sozialistische-revolution/): Reformismus und Sozialpatriotismus Im Zeitalter des imperialistischen Raubstaates reicht ein Minimalprogramm ‘konkreter’ Reformen nicht aus, um einen revolutionären Arbeiterwiderstand gegen den Imperialismus zu begründen. Das Schicksal der ArbeiterInnen einer Nation im Kapitalismus wird immer... - [Marxismus und Imperialismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/marxismus-und-imperialismus/): Die Entstehung des Imperialismus Der Imperialismus entstand gegen Ende des vorigen Jahrhunderts aus der freien Konkurrenz, der Bildung bürgerlicher Nationalstaaten und ihrer “freibeuterischen” Kolonialpolitik. Der Konkurrenzkampf und die (internationalen) kapitalistischen Krisen, sowie die vom... - [Sozialpazifismus: Friedensbewegung statt Klassenkampf](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/sozialpazifismus-friedensbewegung-statt-klassenkampf/): Der Sozialpazifismus beschränkt sich auf Friedenslosungen. Er kann in allen Farben der Angst und Betroffenheit wegen des Krieges schillern. Von “Stoppt die Bombardierungen” bis “Nie wieder Krieg” wird alles propagiert; nur revolutionäre Klassenkampfpropaganda ist... - [Multinationale Demonstration zur Verteidigung Jugoslawiens gegen NATO-Angriffe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/multinationale-demonstration-zur-verteidigung-jugoslawiens-gegen-nato-angriffe/): Eine Aktionseinheit aus der Sozialistischen Aktion, Blockbuster – Jugend gegen Rassismus, der Roten Aktion Duisburg, dem jugoslawischen Kulturverein Jedinstvo e.V. , dem kurdischen Kulturverein Welate Roj in Mönchengladbach und der Gruppe Spartakus organisierte in... - [Die Linke im Krieg](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/die-linke-im-krieg/): Eine Abrechnung Sowohl proletarische als auch kleinbürgerliche Linke – wer während der NATO-Angriffe auf Jugoslawien nicht im Sog von Sozialdemokratie, Grünen und Gewerkschaftsbürokratie Sozialpatriotismus bekundete, rang sich bis auf eine kleine Minderheit bestenfalls zu... - [Versagen vor dem Hauptfeind](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/versagen-vor-dem-hauptfeind/): Die Linke zwischen den Kriegen Die deutsche Linke bot auch in Anbetracht des Krieges, wie seit Jahren bei jedem größeren Klassenkampfereignis üblich, ein erbärmliches Bild. Nach dem – zumindest für die Herrschenden – offensichtlichen... - [US/NATO-Niederlage in Afghanistan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/us-nato-niederlage-in-afghanistan/): Die willkommene Niederlage des US/NATO-Imperialismus durch die afghanischen Taliban kommt zu einem Zeitpunkt, an dem sich der 20. Jahrestag der Zerstörung des World Trade Centers in New York am 11. September 2001 nähert. In... - [US-imperialistische Herrschaft: Horror ohne Ende](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/us-imperialistische-herrschaft-horror-ohne-ende/): Terroranschlag auf das World Trade Center Die Zerstörung des World Trade Center am 11. September war eine schreckliche Tat, welche die Internationale Bolschewistische Tendenz eindeutig verurteilt. Hunderttausende New Yorker hatten Freunde oder Familienmitglieder, die... - [Keine Wahl bei den Wahlen! Brecht mit der Partei die Linke!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/03/keine-wahl-bei-den-wahlen-brecht-mit-der-partei-die-linke/): Die Bundestagswahl steht ganz im Zeichen des Abganges der Kanzlerin Angela Merkel nach 16 Jahren als Regierungschefin. Die Pandemiebekämpfung, die deutlich spürbaren Folgen des Klimawandels, die weiter wachsende soziale Ungleichheit, besonders ausgeprägt in der... - [US/NATO defeat in Afghanistan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/26/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... - [Eine Partei greift nach der Macht](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/14/eine-partei-greift-nach-der-macht/): Grünes Gift für die Linke und Arbeiterbewegung Die Partei Bündnis 90/Die Grünen ist in den letzten Jahren von einer wichtigen Stütze des Systems zu einem ernstzunehmenden Herausforderer um die politische Führung der bürgerlichen Klasse... - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix E (iii)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-e-iii/): ICL vs. IBT on the Logan Question Excerpted from “ICL vs. IBT,” Trotskyist Bulletin No. 5, 1996. The text in bold is reprinted from the ICL’s 1995 pamphlet “The International Bolshevik Tendency—What is it?” The... - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix E (ii)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-e-ii/): The ‘Logan Question’ in the Spartacist Tendency Excerpted from “We Go Forward!”, 1917 No. 9 The founders of the New Zealand Permanent Revolution Group, Bill Logan and Adaire Hannah, were the victims of the most hysterical... - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix E (i)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-e-i/): The Question of Logan Excerpted from “Declaration of an External Tendency of the iSt”, October 1982 The genesis of the fall of Logan is contained in the post-resignation statement of Schaefer in which he... - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix D (ii)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-d-ii/): Note to the international control commission on L and Y It’s necessary to write a note on the aspects of L and Y’s swan song (17-23 August 1976) which touch on me. 1) re:... - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix D (i)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-d-i/): Excerpt from 17 August 1976 document by Libby S. When Y. [Rad] was in New York over two years ago, he stayed at [Steve] Green’s place in Chicago for a week. He later told... - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix C (iii)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-c-iii/): Reflections on the Case of Keith O. by Bill Logan, 11 December 1989 In retrospect this was the worst case in which I had responsibility. Keith O. was a dedicated and political member of... - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix C (ii)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-c-ii/): Excerpt of letter from Bill Logan to John Sharpe, iSt International Secretary Sydney 28 March 1975 Dear John . . . While the Melbourne comrades were fighting together on a completely principled (if wrong)... - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix C (i)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-c-i/): Partial transcript of discussion on election of SL/ANZ Central Committee OPM [OrganisationalPlenum Meeting/nationalconference] 16 March 1975 Keith: I support the slate proposed by the outgoing CC. Comrade Logan: I think that in the comrade... - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix B (ii)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-b-ii/): The Case of John E. Paranoid bureaucratism in a small international propaganda group Notes to introduce a discussion in the Permanent Revolution Group, 4 December 1989 by Bill Logan 1974 was the hardest year... - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix B (i)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-bi/): The Case of Comrade John E (excerpt) by Bill Logan, 4 August 1974 “For us the party must be a combat organization which leads a determined struggle for power. The Bolshevik party which leads... - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix A](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-a/): Letter by Logan to Robertson Melbourne 6 March 1973 SLUS, New York. Dear Jim, I’m writing this shortly after speaking to you on the phone. Sorry we haven’t kept you better informed on the... - [On the Logan Show Trial](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial/): ICL Dossier: Robertson Scores ‘Own Goal’ (Originally published February 2008) The International Communist League (ICL—formerly the international Spartacist tendency [iSt]) has recently published a 199-page, densely-typeset “dossier” consisting of “Documentary Evidence and Testimony in... - [Aufstand in den USA](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/07/aufstand-in-den-usa/): Die Geister, die ich rief… „Wie bald die englischen Arbeiter von ihrer scheinbaren Bourgeoisansteckung sich befreien, muß man abwarten. … Nur die kleinen deutschen Spießgesellen, die die Weltgeschichte an der Elle und der jedesmal... - [Crystallised confusion - Socialist Alternative on the State and the Police](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/03/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](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/30/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!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/10/uk-nato-stay-out-of-russias-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... - [The Real Meaning of the People’s Front](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/the-real-meaning-of-the-peoples-front/): 1 Every important political act at the present time can be understood only in the light of the approach of the new imperialist war. This is true of the acts both of all national... - [The People’s Front in the United States](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/the-peoples-front-in-the-united-states/): 1 The People’s Front has not, of course, advanced as far in the United States as in France or Spain. In the formal sense, there is not yet in the United States an established... - [The People’s Front in Spain](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/the-peoples-front-in-spain/): The crisis in Spain is neither new nor unexpected. After its brief and reckless period of glory at the dawn of the modern era, Spain was thrust back into obscurity by the short-sighted policies... - [The People’s Front in France](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/the-peoples-front-in-france/): 1 On February 6, 1934, gangs of fascists, reactionaries and royalists–for the most part young students and irresponsible sons of noblemen–rioted in Paris, across the river from the Chamber of Deputies. Less than a... - [Can the People’s Front Stop Fascism?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/can-the-peoples-front-stop-fascism/): 1 We have already seen, in general, the answer to this question. The answer requires further amplification. The People’s Front cannot stop fascism. The theory of the People’s Front rests upon a false account... - [Can the People’s Front Win the Middle Classes?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/can-the-peoples-front-win-the-middle-classes/): 1 One of the chief arguments made in favor of the People’s Front is that through it there can be brought about an alliance between the working class and the middle classes against the... - [History and the People’s Front](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/history-and-the-peoples-front/): 1 We have seen that the People’s Front is in content equivalent to class collaboration and coalition government. Consequently, the lessons of history with respect to class collaboration and coalition government apply with full... - [Analysis of the Theory of the People’s Front](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/analysis-of-the-theory-of-the-peoples-front/): 1 It would be a great mistake to imagine that the People’s Front is a new policy. It is, it is true, a new slogan; but, in actual content, it is simply an old policy in... - [Origin and Theory of the People’s Front](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/origin-and-theory-of-the-peoples-front/): 1 The slogans of the People’s Front were first advanced by the Communist International and its sections. They began to appear toward the end of 1933; moved forward slowly for some while; and received... - [The Myth of "Orthodox" Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/01/17/the-myth-of-orthodox-trotskyism/): (By Martin Cook – 1975) - [La Fracción Trotskista sobre Ucrania: la vacilación del centrismo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/01/17/la-fraccion-trotskista-sobre-ucrania-la-vacilacion-del-centrismo/): A diferencia de la mayor parte de la autodenominada izquierda trotskista, la Fracción Trotskista (FT) no ha caracterizado a Rusia como imperialista. En su declaración internacional del 30 de enero de 2022 sobre la... - [James P. Cannon: America’s Pioneer Trotskyist](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/31/james-p-cannon-americas-pioneer-trotskyist/): A Review of Bryan D. Palmer’s James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928–38 (This is an expanded version of Murray E.G. Smith’s presentation at “Historical Materialism 2022,” November... - [Mumia's response to notice of intent to dismiss PCRA petition - 26 October 2022](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/27/mumias-response-to-notice-of-intent-to-dismiss-pcra-petition-26-october-2022/) - [UN Amicus Brief for Mumia Abu Jamal - 6 December 2022](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/27/un-amicus-brief-for-mumia-abu-jamal-6-december-2022/) - [China en África](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/23/china-en-africa/): Desmontando las falsificaciones seudo marxistas sobre el “imperialismo chino” La frecuente presentación de China como una siniestra amenaza para la “seguridad nacional” en los medios de comunicación populares del “mundo Libre” es un índice... - [Amicus brief filed by Attorney Mike Yamamoto on 27 August 2002](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/12/amicus-brief-filed-by-attorney-mike-yamamoto-on-27-august-2002/) - [NATO gegen Russland in der Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/09/nato-gegen-russland-in-der-ukraine/): Ein Lackmustest für Trotzkisten Beim nachfolgenden Text handelt es sich um eine Übersetzung der englischen Erklärung “NATO v Russia in Ukraine – A Litmus Test for Trotskyists“, die am 10. Oktober 2022 auf bolsheviktendency.org... - [Audio recording of online forum "Russia’s campaign to de-NATOize Ukraine"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/06/audio-recording-of-online-forum-russias-campaign-to-de-natoize-ukraine/): An audio recording of the Bolshevik Tendency public meeting “Russia’s campaign to de-NATOize Ukraine – A challenge for the revolutionary left” held on Saturday 03 December 2022 - [Fake "Socialist" Boyd Barrett supports European imperialism against Russia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/06/fake-socialist-boyd-barrett-supports-european-imperialism-against-russia/): Thursday 1 December saw a special session of both houses of the Irish Parliament to hear a presentation by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Richard Boyd Barrett (TD for People... - [Path to Mumia’s Freedom](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/05/path-to-mumias-freedom/): By Rachel Wolkenstein A new legal action filed by Mumia Abu-Jamal in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas on August 7, 2016 provides a path in the courts to overturn Mumia’s conviction and win... - [La OTAN contra Rusia en Ucrania](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/28/la-otan-contra-rusia-en-ucrania/): Una prueba de fuego para los trotskistas La incursión rusa en Ucrania ha acelerado el declive del imperialismo estadounidense, ha debilitado gravemente a sus “socios” europeos y a la OTAN en su conjunto, al... - ['Bullseye': ex-SL cadre reacts to BT statement on IG correction re: Russia v NATO](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/28/bullseye-ex-sl-cadre-reacts-to-bt-statement-on-ig-correction-re-russia-v-nato/): A long-time former cadre of the Spartacist League sent us the following observation on “Better late than never”—the commentary on the Internationalist Group’s change of position regarding Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine we posted... - [Better late than never](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/25/better-late-than-never/): IG correction on Russia v NATO…‘should be more precise and more honest’ “Frankly acknowledging a mistake, ascertaining the reasons for it, analysing the conditions that have led up to it, and thrashing out the... - [Upcoming online forum - Russia's campaign to de-NATOize Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/18/upcoming-online-forum-russias-campaign-to-de-natoize-ukraine/): A challenge for the revolutionary left The proxy war of US/NATO against Russia taking place in Ukraine enters its 10th month with no end in sight. Europe stands on the edge of a deep... - [Nicaragua, la Revolución Permanente y el camino hacia el poder obrero](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/16/nicaragua-la-revolucion-permanente-y-el-camino-hacia-el-poder-obrero/): Extractos . . . …La teoría de la revolución permanente sostiene que no hay un camino independiente de desarrollo capitalista posible en la era del imperialismo. Al rechazar la teoría de la revolución permanente,... - [Will Lehman’s UAW presidential campaign: a poison pill](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/07/will-lehmans-uaw-presidential-campaign-a-poison-pill/): WSWS/SEP’s anti-Trotskyist trade union policy In mid-November the ballots of 900,000 workers and pensioners of the United Autoworkers (UAW) will be tallied to elect a new president. This will be the first time in... - [Arbeiter- und Immigrantenmobilisierung zur Verhinderung von Naziaufmärschen!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/06/arbeiter-und-immigrantenmobilisierung-zur-verhinderung-von-naziaufmarschen/): Die Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) mobilisiert für den 1. Mai 1999 nach Bremen zu ihrer “revolutionären Demonstration des gesamten nationalen Widerstandes”. Wie schon letztes Jahr am Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig erwarten die Nazis 5 000... - [Modernisierter Rassismus und rassistische Modernisierung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/06/modernisierter-rassismus-und-rassistische-modernisierung/): Reform des deutschen Staatsbürgerschaftsrechts Selbst die Reform des rassistischen deutschen Staatsbürgerschaftsrechts, geriet in den “rot”-grünen Händen zur reaktionären Posse. Urspüglich geplant war im Kern eine Ablösung des deutschen “Blutrechts” (wonach Deutscher nur ist, wer... - [Revolution oder Krieg - Sozialismus oder Barbarei](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/06/revolution-oder-krieg-sozialismus-oder-barbarei/): Kaum war Anfang der 90er Jahre das sowjetische “Reich des Bösen” (Ronald Reagan) durch die kapitalistische Konterrevolution vernichtet worden, da verkündete George Bush eine Neue Weltordnung des Friedens. Sofort entpuppte sich die Weltfriedensordnung als... - [Nachwuchsausbildung für das politische Management des imperialistischen Deutschland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/06/nachwuchsausbildung-fur-das-politische-management-des-imperialistischen-deutschland/): PDS-Regierungsbeteiligung in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Die Regierungspolitik von PDS und SPD in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Unterordnung unter kapitalistische Interessen statt Vertretung von Arbeiterinteressen: SPD und PDS werden mit ihrer Politik “die Eigenständigkeit Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns vertreten” (Koalititionsvertrag, Punkt 8), es... - [Kalter Kaffee: Keynesianismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/06/kalter-kaffee-keynesianismus/): 1. Im allgemeinen Der Keynesianismus ist ein nationalstaatliches Konzept kapitalistischer Wirtschaftsförderung, sein objektiver Zweck daher die ökonomische und politische Stabilisierung des Systems kapitalistischer Ausbeutung. Dafür empfiehlt er im wesentlichen zwei Mittel: a) direkte Aufträge... - [SPD/Grüne verschärfen bürgerliche Offensive](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/06/spd-grune-verscharfen-burgerliche-offensive/): Blut, Schweiß und Tränen für den deutschen Imperialismus Mit der letzten Bundestagswahl ging die Regierungsverantwortung für den deutschen Imperialismus an die Koalition aus SPD und Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen über. Das strategische Ziel des... - [Update on the case of Mumia Abu Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/06/update-on-the-case-of-mumia-abu-jamal/): FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL Oakland, California, October 26, 2022 A Speech by Eliot Lee Grossman[1] Prize-winning journalist and ex-Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal was framed up and sentenced to death for the murder of a white... - [El "Malfuncionamento más importante" del Challenger no es un desastre para la clase obrera](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/03/el-malfuncionamento-mas-importante-del-challenger-no-es-un-desastre-para-la-clase-obrera-2/): Texto traducido del ingles, y que fuera publicado orginariamente en “1917” N°2, verano de 1986. El aborto espontáneo de la nave espacial Challenger el 28 de enero fue seguido de un sentimiento de pesar... - [El mito de la China capitalista](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/10/25/el-mito-de-la-china-capitalista/): Los falsos “trotskistas” no pueden explicar el resurgimiento del sector estatal El triunfo de la contrarrevolución en la Unión Soviética en 1991, anunciado por los ideólogos burgueses como el “fin de la historia”, fue... - [China in Africa](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/10/15/china-in-africa/): Debunking pseudo-Marxist falsifications re: ‘Chinese Imperialism’ The frequent portrayal of China as a sinister threat to “national security” in the “Free World” popular media is an index of rising anxiety at the growing economic... - [CWI se desmorona](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/10/10/cwi-se-desmorona-2/): Después de 60 años de adaptación oportunista (Traducido de la versión en lengua inglesa  CWI Implodes – After 60 years of opportunist adaptation) La crisis interna y profunda que actualmente corroe al Comité por... - [NATO v Russia in Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/10/10/nato-v-russia-in-ukraine/): A litmus test for Trotskyists The Russian incursion into Ukraine has accelerated the decline of US imperialism, severely weakened its European “partners” and NATO as a whole, while shrinking its influence in Latin America... - [Offener Brief an die Genossinnen und Genossen der Kommunistischen Organisation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/09/25/an-die-genossen-und-genossinnen-der-kommunistischen-organisation/): Der folgende Brief ist eine leicht editierte Version einer E-Mail, die wir am 10. Juni 2022 an die Kommunistische Organisation schickten. Wir haben mit großem Interesse eure Debatte um den Einmarsch russischer Truppen in... - [Rusia reacciona ante la invasión imperialista](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/09/12/rusia-reacciona-ante-la-invasion-imperialista/): Ucrania, la OTAN y EEUU ignoraron las líneas rojas del Kremlin La reciente intervención militar rusa en Ucrania es un ejemplo de lo que puede ocurrir cuando se recibe “una oferta que no se... - [Presentation at online panel discussion on Ukraine war](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/09/11/presentation-at-online-panel-discussion-on-ukraine-war/): The following presentation was made by a BT supporter on Saturday 10 September at the online panel discussion “Marxists Speak Out: 200 Days of War. Stop US/NATO imperialism against Russia! Stop US preparations of... - [NATO/USA gegen Russland in der Ukraine - eine trotzkistische Analyse](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/08/19/nato-usa-gegen-russland-in-der-ukraine-eine-trotzkistische-analyse/): Im Folgenden veröffentlichen wir eine bearbeitete Fassung einer Rede, die auf dem Pressefest von der französischen Gruppe Lutte Ouvrière am 27. Mai 2022 gehalten wurde. Der gegenwärtige Konflikt in der Ukraine kann zukünftig aller... - [A comment on Ukraine to former SL members](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/08/16/a-comment-on-ukraine-to-former-sl-members/): The following comment was posted by Tom Riley of the BT to a recent online discussion among a group predominantly composed of former Spartacist League supporters: It is disappointing, but not entirely surprising, that... - [Audio recording of BT presentation at Emergency International Anti-War Conference](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/07/22/audio-recording-of-bt-presentation-at-emergency-international-anti-war-conference/): An audio recording of the BT presentation at the Emergency International Anti-War Conference hosted by the Rakovsky Center and RedMed on 26 June 2022 - [On RedMed’s 'International Anti-Imperialist and Anti-War Declaration'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/07/22/on-redmeds-international-anti-imperialist-and-anti-war-declaration/): On 25-26 June the BT participated in an “Emergency International Anti-War Conference” initiated by the Christian Rakovski Balkan Socialist Centre and RedMed. On 27 June, immediately following the conference, the organisers circulated a proposed draft... - [Exchange with a former member of the Spartacus Youth League](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/07/19/exchange-with-a-former-member-of-spartacus-youth-league/): The following is a recent exchange between a former member of the Spartacus Youth League (SYL–the youth group of the Spartacist League/U.S. [SL]) and Tom Riley of the BT.   Greetings, I have been... - [Correction on Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/07/12/correction-on-ukraine/): In our 19 June 2022 posting of a speech held at the LO Fete about the Ukraine conflict we asserted: ‘Whilst in Western Ukraine there are Hungarian, Romanian and Polish national minorities, about 20... - [Defend Abortion Rights Through Mass Action!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/07/10/defend-abortion-rights-through-mass-action/): Reactionary US Supreme Court strikes down Roe v Wade The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling which established a woman’s right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy has sparked... - [Remarks at a conference on the Russia/Ukraine war](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/07/08/remarks-at-a-conference-on-the-russia-ukraine-war/): The following remarks were delivered by a BT supporter on Sunday 26th June at a conference on the Russia/Ukraine war held by the Christian Rakovsky International Socialist Center. An audio recording of this presentation... - [NATO/US vs Russia in Ukraine—A Trotskyist Analysis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/06/19/nato-us-vs-russia-in-ukraine-a-trotskyist-analysis/): Below is an edited version of a speech delivered at Lutte Ouvrière’s Fête, 27 May 2022 The current conflict in Ukraine seems in all likelihood to eventually be viewed as a major historical turning... - [Shifting Positions on Ukraine Conflict](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/06/07/shifting-positions-on-ukraine-conflict/): We have had considerable correspondence from people interested in our observations regarding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Recently a link was sent to a report on Henry Kissinger’s remarks on the subject at Davos with... - [Öko-Sozialismus & „Green New Deal“-Wunschträume](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/06/05/oko-sozialismus-green-new-deal-wunschtraume/): Wenn die Menschheit leben soll, muss der Kapitalismus sterben! „Der Kapitalismus kann ebenso wenig zur Begrenzung des Wachstums ‚überredet‘ werden, wie ein Mensch dazu ‘überredet’ werden kann, mit dem Atmen aufzuhören. Versuche, den Kapitalismus... - [May Day 2022](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/05/04/may-day-2022/): In London and Toronto on May Day BT comrades marched with the following slogans touching on the current conflict in Ukraine: Russia has the right to defend itself against imperialist encroachment! Down with NATO’s... - [Exposição da Tendência Bolchevique no painel: Os marxistas falam sobre o conflito entre a Rússia e o Imperialismo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/04/05/exposicao-da-tendencia-bolchevique-no-painel-os-marxistas-falam-sobre-o-conflito-entre-a-russia-e-o-imperialismo/): As apresentações de todos os participantes do painel traduzidas para português estão disponíveis no sítio web – http://www.folhadotrabalhador.org/search/label/_Declaração O vídeo da reunião completa (em inglês) está disponível em https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo5hsobzg7c Gostaria de iniciar minhas observações... - [A correction to ‘Jimstown as we knew it’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/04/03/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... - [A ‘technical problem’ motivating Russian opposition to NATO on its border](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/04/03/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... - [Arnold Beverly Confession](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/04/01/arnold-beverly-confession/): Affidavit by Arnold R. Beverly on the Events of December 9, 1981   UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, Case No. 99 Civ 5089 (YOHN) Petitioner, -vs- MARTIN HORN, Commissioner,... - [William Dale Singletary, Witness of Mumia's Innocence](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/03/31/william-dale-singletary-witness-of-mumias-innocence/): February 3, 1950 – December 31, 2011 William Dale Singletary died on December 31, 2011 at the age of sixty-one. Being an eyewitness to the murder of Daniel Faulkner, and his unwavering insistence that... - [November 5 2001 Press Release by Mumia Abu Jamal's attorneys](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/03/31/november-5-2001-press-release-by-mumia-abu-jamals-attorneys/): MUMIA ABU-JAMAL’S ATTORNEYS, COMPARING HIS CASE TO THAT OF SACCO AND VANZETTI CASE IN THE 1920’s, URGE FEDERAL JUDGE YOHN TO ENSURE THAT HISTORY DOES NOT REPEAT ITSELF … WITH AN INNOCENT MAN BEING... - [Video of "Marxists speak out on the conflict between Russia and imperialism"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/03/27/video-of-marxists-speak-out-on-the-conflict-between-russia-and-imperialism/) - [Marxists speak out on the conflict between Russia and imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/03/24/marxists-speak-out-on-the-conflict-between-russia-and-imperialism/): The Bolshevik Tendency will be participating in a 26 March panel discussion entitled “Marxists speak out on the conflict between Russia and imperialism.” This event was initiated by classconscious.org based in Australia and Liga... - [Bolshevik Tendency supporter speaks at "Crisis in Ukraine! The Left and the Current Crisis"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/03/15/bolshevik-tendency-supporter-speaks-at-crisis-in-ukraine-the-left-and-the-current-crisis/): This event, which took place on 10 March 2022, was organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society of New York City. Originally scheduled for Columbia University, the meeting had to be moved to a church... - [Russland reagiert auf imperialistisches Vorrücken](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/03/09/russland-reagiert-auf-imperialistisches-vorrucken/): Ukraine/NATO/USA ignorierten die roten Linien des Kremls Die jüngste russische Militärintervention in der Ukraine ist ein Beispiel dafür, was passieren kann, wenn man „ein Angebot erhält, das man nicht ablehnen kann“ und beschließt, es... - [IG joins centrist muddleheads on Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/03/01/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... - [Audio recording of "NATO/US v Russia in Ukraine – a Trotskyist Analysis"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/02/28/audio-recording-of-nato-us-v-russia-in-ukraine-a-trotskyist-analysis/): An audio recording of the Bolshevik Tendency public meeting “NATO/US v Russia in Ukraine – a Trotskyist Analysis” held on Sunday 27 February 2022 - [Russia reacts to imperialist encroachment](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/02/27/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](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/02/25/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... - [Online public meeting (27 February)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/02/19/online-public-meeting-27-february/): NATO/US v Russia in Ukraine – a Trotskyist Analysis The recent propaganda claims by the US and its NATO allies about an impending Russian invasion of Ukraine is widely recognized as having the potential... - [Once More on IBT & ‘Russian Imperialism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/02/14/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’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/02/06/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](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/02/01/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... - [Testing123](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/01/30/testing123/): This content is password-protected. To view it, please enter the password below. Password: - [Statement dissolving PRG/BT fusion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/01/30/statement-dissolving-prg-bt-fusion/): Comrades: Thirty-six years ago, three of us (Jensen, Nason and Riley, plus comrade Harlan, who is with us politically but no longer able to actively participate) published the “Declaration of an external tendency of... - [CDLM: WSL’s “Short Cut” to Nowhere](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/01/30/cdlm-wsls-short-cut-to-nowhere/): The recall conference of the “Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement” (CDLM) promises to be pretty much a rerun of the October 24 founding conference — when Workers Socialist League (WSL) members and... - [Der Mythos vom kapitalistischen China](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/01/09/der-mythos-vom-kapitalistischen-china/): ‚Trotzkistische‘ Impressionisten können den wiederauflebenden Staatssektor nicht erklären Der nachfolgende Artikel ist eine Übersetzung des Artikels The Myth of Capitalist China, der am 6. November 2020 auf dieser Website erschien. Der Triumph der Konterrevolution... - [In China stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm (Teil 2)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/01/09/in-china-stehen-die-zeichen-auf-sturm-teil-2/) - [In China stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/01/09/in-china-stehen-die-zeichen-auf-sturm/) - [Audio recording of "What was the Chinese Revolution and where is it going?" panel discussion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/01/01/audio-recording-of-what-was-the-chinese-revolution-and-where-is-it-going-panel-discussion/): Audio recording of the online panel discussion hosted by the Platypus Society (platypus1917.org/) – “What was the Chinese Revolution and where is it going?” on 23 Oct 2021. The panel included Bolshevik Tendency supporter... - [Twilight Capitalism - A Book Review](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/12/10/twilight-capitalism-a-book-review/): A review by Michael Roberts of Murray Smith’s important recent book Twilight Capitalism – reposted here with permission: Twilight capitalism: Karl Marx and the decay of the profit system is the best book on Marxist political... - [COP26 - how much more blah, blah, blah?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/11/28/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... - [Kyle Rittenhouse Goes Free—Fascists Celebrate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/11/27/killer-rittenhouse-goes-free-fascists-celebrate/): Wheels of racist U.S. Injustice System grind on The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenage rightist vigilante who killed two people and seriously wounded a third at a 25 August 2020 anti-racist protest in... - [Correcting an Error on the CCP and COVID-19](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/11/18/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.”... - [Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt 1](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/10/24/bulletin-of-the-external-tendency-of-the-ist-1/) - [Contribution to a discussion on the implosion of the Spartacist tendency](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/10/14/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... - [Audio recording of "What is 'Socialism with Chinese characteristics'?" online forum](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/10/05/audio-recording-of-what-is-socialism-with-chinese-characteristics-online-forum/): An audio recording of the Bolshevik Tendency public meeting “What is ‘Socialism with Chinese characteristics’?” held on Sunday 03 October 2021   - [From the NEP to forced collectivisation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/10/03/from-the-nep-to-forced-collectivisation/): After four years of civil war following three years of devastating world war, by 1921 the Russian proletariat, never more than a few million strong, had almost ceased to exist. Russia’s cities were depopulated... - [Marx or Deng?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/10/03/marx-or-deng/): Critical observations on China’s Great Road by John Ross At a time when most of the world’s ostensibly Trotskyist tendencies have mistakenly declared the Chinese deformed workers’ state to be “capitalist,” in China’s Great... - [Marxist Bulletin No.3 – Part IV](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/10/02/marxist-bulletin-no-3-part-iv/): Wohlforth Against the RT Spartacist League pamphlet, first published in 1970 Table of Contents Preface Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Session 5 Session 6 Session 7 Session 8 - [Online public meeting (3 October)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/20/online-public-meeting-3-october/): What is “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”? Does China need a Political Revolution? The Chinese Communist Party has proven to be surprisingly effective in managing the Chinese economy and controlling its large capitalist sector. Does... - [On Brazil 2016 and Egypt 2013](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/20/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... - [UK/NATO: Raus aus den russischen Hoheitsgewässern!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/10/uk-nato-raus-aus-den-russischen-hoheitsgewassern/): Neutralität heißt “bewusste oder unbewusste” Unterstützung der Imperialisten Am 22. Juni führte der britische Zerstörer HMS Defender eine bewusste Provokation durch, als er in die russischen Hoheitsgewässer vor der Halbinsel Krim einfuhr. Niemand nahm... - [Endspiel im Irak](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/endspiel-im-irak/): Imperialisten raus aus dem Nahen Osten! Einen Monat vor Ende seiner Amtszeit als Generalsekretär der Vereinten Nationen bemerkte Kofi Annan: “Die Vereinigten Staaten befinden sich im Irak in einer Art Falle, einer Falle in... - [Das politische Gruselkabinett der selbsternannten "Partei der Russischen Revolution" "Partei der Russischen Revolution"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/das-politische-gruselkabinett-der-selbsternannten-partei-der-russischen-revolution-partei-der-russischen-revolution/): Im Spartakist Nr. 167, Sommer 2007 glaubte die Spartakist-Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SpAD), deutsche Sektion der Internationalen Kommunistischen Liga (IKL), nach Jahren endlich den Beweis gefunden zu haben, dass der Existenzgrund der IBT wütender Antikommunismus sei.... - [Rede über die russische Frage](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/rede-uber-die-russische-frage/): James P. Cannon Gehalten auf dem Mitgliedertreffen der Socialist Workers Party, 15. Oktober 1939 (Veröffentlicht in James P. Cannons The Struggle For a Proletarian Party und in The New International vom Februar 1940) Die... - [Opportunismus oder Opposition?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/opportunismus-oder-opposition/): Die Linken und DIE LINKE Die Stärke des Kapitalismus liegt nicht in ihm selbst und seinen eigenen Institutionen; er überlebt nur wegen seiner Stützpunkte in den Organisationen der Arbeiter. Wie wir es nun im... - [Sieg dem GDL-Streik!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/sieg-dem-gdl-streik/): Der Tarifkonflikt der Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokführer (GDL) hat sich längst zu einem Klassenkampf entwickelt, der die sozialen und politischen Interessen der gesamten multinationalen Arbeiterklasse in den Mittelpunkt gerückt hat. Das monatelange Streikverbot der bürgerlichen... - [Sofortige Freiheit für Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/sofortige-freiheit-fur-mumia-abu-jamal/): Der afroamerikanische Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal sitzt seit nunmehr 25 Jahren unschuldig in der Todeszelle. Mumia Abu-Jamal wird beschuldigt, 1981 den Polizisten Daniel Faulkner ermordet zu haben. Anfang der 70er Jahre war Mumia führendes Mitglied... - [Für den Aufbau einer revolutionären Arbeiterpartei!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/fur-den-aufbau-einer-revolutionaren-arbeiterpartei/): Krise, Krieg, Sozialabbau 2006 gründete sich das Netzwerk der Linken Opposition (NLO) in der Wahlalternative Arbeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit (WASG). Die Ursache für die Gründung war die beschlossene Fusion zwischen der WASG und der... - ["Defensive Armee" - Eine missverständliche Formulierung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/defensive-armee-eine-missverstandliche-formulierung/): Wir haben in der Nr. 24 unserer Zeitung BOLSCHEWIK eine missverständliche Formulierung benutzt. Wir schrieben: “Neue Waffensysteme, die ein schnelles Eingreifen überall auf der Welt für deutsche Interessen ermöglichen, werden angeschafft. Ausserdem wurden Schritte... - [Für eine sozialistische Föderation des Nahen Ostens!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/fur-eine-sozialistische-foderation-des-nahen-ostens/): Nieder mit dem mörderischen zionistischen Terror im Libanon und in Gaza! Vor drei Wochen pulsierte der Seehafen von Beirut am Mittelmeer mit kommerzieller Aktivität. Seither besteht der Hauptexport aus nordamerikanischen und europäischen Flüchtlingen, die... - [Deutscher Imperialismus weiter auf dem Vormarsch](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/deutscher-imperialismus-weiter-auf-dem-vormarsch/): Mit der Entsendung von deutschen Soldaten in den Libanon, und dem Kongo, der Ausweitung des Einsatzes in Afghanistan, sowie der Bestätigung weiterer Einsätze in Afrika und auf dem Balkan, ist der deutsche Imperialismus weiter... - [Der Staat rüstet auf - auch nach innen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/der-staat-rustet-auf-auch-nach-innen/): “Anti-Terror”-Datei – Sondergesetze – anti-muslimische Hetze In Lenins Schrift “Der Imperialismus als höchste Stufe des Kapitalismus” werden mehrere Seiten des Imperialismus aufgezeigt. Neben der oft betonten Seite der Expansion nach außen – sei sie... - [Deutscher Imperialismus im Kongo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/deutscher-imperialismus-im-kongo/): Im Schatten der Eskalation im Nahen Osten wurde der deutsche Imperialismus an einer weiteren Front aktiv. Mit der Teilnahme an einer EU-Truppe im Kongo konnte ein weiterer Mosaikstein zur Normalisierung von deutscher Einflussnahme in... - [Was ist Bonapartismus?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/was-ist-bonapartismus/): Unter Bonapartismus wird in der marxistischen Diskussion traditionell (in Bezug auf die Schrift “Die achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte” von Karl Marx) eine autoritäre Herrschaftsform verstanden, in der die Bourgeoisie auf die unmittelbare politische... - [Venezuela: Staat und Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/venezuela-staat-und-revolution/): Für eine sozialistische Föderation Lateinamerikas Lateinamerika weist weltweit die größten Einkommensunterschiede auf, mit weit über hundert Millionen Menschen, die gezwungen sind, von weniger als zwei Dollar am Tag zu existieren, laut “World Development Indicators”... - [Die Zerstörung von New Orleans](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/die-zerstorung-von-new-orleans/): Dies ist die Stellungnahme der IBT zum Desaster in New Orleans auf einer öffentlichen Veranstaltung zum gleichen Thema am 9. September 2005 in Toronto: Die Zerstörung von New Orleans – eine der größten und... - [Imperialistische Ost-Erweiterung & die europäische Verfassung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/imperialistische-ost-erweiterung-die-europaische-verfassung/): Für die sozialistischen Vereinigten Staaten von Europa! Im Folgenden dokumentieren wir die Erklärung der Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz vom 26. Mai 2005: Im Oktober 2004 feierten die Repräsentanten der 25 Mitgliedsstaaten der Europäischen Union (EU)... - [A Marxist Programme for the Socialist Labour Party](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/a-marxist-programme-for-the-socialist-labour-party/): 1 Labour Party/Election The basis of the Socialist Labour Party is the need to break with the Labour Party and form an independent organisation to fight for the interests of the working class. Among... - [Nein zur EU-Verfassung!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/nein-zur-eu-verfassung/): Die Sehnsucht des deutschen Kapitals nach dem Osten Im Mai 2005 wurden in Europa in verschiedenen Ländern Referenden über die Annahme der EU-Verfassung durchgeführt. Das Ziel war die erneute Annahme der Verträge von Rom,... - [Spartacist Nr. 2 Herbst 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-2-herbst-1974/): Inhalt: Erklärung für die Organisierung einer internationalen trotzkistischen Tendenz, SL/ÖBL Übereinkommen, Grundsatzerklärung, SWP-Säuberung, VS: PST-Skandal - [Spartacist Nr. 1 Frühling 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-1-fruhling-1974/): Inhalt: Vorwärts zur Wiedergeburt der Vierten Internationale, Erklärung zum Internationalen Kommittee, Der Kampf innerhalb des Vereinigten Sekretariats, Brief an die französische OCI und das Internationale Organisationskommittee, Grüße an Spartacus B-L - [Beilagen-Kreis im Radius der SPD - Rede über die russische Frage](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/beilagen-kreis-im-radius-der-spd-rede-uber-die-russische-frage/): James P. Cannon Gehalten auf dem Mitgliedertreffen der Socialist Workers Party, 15. Oktober 1939 (Veröffentlicht in James P. Cannons The Struggle For a Proletarian Party und in The New International vom Februar 1940) Die... - [Beilagen-Kreis im Radius der SPD - Vorwort zu James P. Cannon](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/beilagen-kreis-im-radius-der-spd-vorwort-zu-james-p-cannon/): Vorwort zu James P. Cannons Rede über die russische Frage Wir veröffentlichen im folgenden die „Rede über die russische Frage“ von James P. Cannon. Der Vorsitzende der Socialist Workers Party, amerikanische Sektion der Vierten... - [Beilagen-Kreis im Radius der SPD - Denn sie wissen, was sie nicht tun](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/beilagen-kreis-im-radius-der-spd-denn-sie-wissen-was-sie-nicht-tun/): Denn sie wissen, was sie nicht tun „Marxisten beginnen immer mit dem Programm. Sie scharen ihre Anhänger um dieses Programm und erziehen sie im Verlauf des Kampfes in dessen Sinn. Die politischen Siege der... - [Beilagen-Kreis im Radius der SPD - Der Hauptfeind steht im eigenen Land](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/beilagen-kreis-der-spd-der-hauptfeind-steht-im-eigenen-land/): Der Hauptfeind steht im eigenen Land Die militärische Verteidigung der deformierten Arbeiterstaaten ist die eine Seite revolutionärer Politik; den deutschen Imperialismus, repräsentiert in der jeweiligen Regierung, als zentralen Klassengegner zu bekämpfen, die andere. „Der... - [Тріумф контрреволюції в СРСР](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/triumph-counterrev-ussr-ukra/): Захистити радянських робітників від єльцинських нападок! Інтернаціональна Більшовицька Тенденція опублікувала у своєму бюлетені в жовтні 1991 року: Провал московського виступу 19-21 серпня призвів до небачених раніш важких і хворобливих наслідків. Ця подія запам’ятається як... - [Гноблення жінок – не в наших генах](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/women-oppression-ukra/): перекладено з 1917 No. 19 Гноблення жінок, найбільш універсальна і глибоко укорінена форма буржуазного гніта, є характеристикою капіталістичного ладу, на відміну від расової дискримінації, що виникла задовго до капіталізму. У своїй видатній роботі “Походження... - [Ріст німецького фашизму](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/rise-german-fash-ukra/): Захистимо лівий і робітничий рух перекладено з 1917 No. 12 Ця стаття є відредагованою версією статті видання Bolschewik (грудень 1992 року), що публікується Групою Спартакус, німецькою секцією Інтернаціональної Більшовицької Ліги. Торік, коли біженці врятували... - [Радянський Рубікон та лівий рух](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/soviet-rubicon-ukra/): Три дні в серпні перекладено з 1917 No. 11 У тижні, що пішли після провалу «путчу» 19-21 серпня, Інтернаціональна Більшовицька Тенденція була практично єдиною політичною силою серед безлічі самопроголошених троцькістських організацій, що побачила в... - [З приводу гасла “Хай живе Червона Армія!”](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/hail-red-army-ukra/): Не варто перегинати ціпок… перекладено з 1917 No. 5 З часів формування нашої політичної тенденції, 6 років тому, полеміка з іншими лефтістами по Афганістану оберталася навколо основного питання, а саме: в якому напрямку направити... - [Beilagenkreis im Radius der SPD - Zum Klassencharakter der Sowjetunion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/beilagenkreis-im-radius-der-spd-zum-klassencharakter-der-sowjetunion/): Zum Klassencharakter der Sowjetunion Alle Vereinigungswilligen akzeptieren das Etikett „revolutionäre Sozialisten“. Stellt man jedoch die ABC-Frage: Was ist denn nun eigentlich Sozialismus? — so wird man die unterschiedlichsten Antworten zu hören bekommen. Das einzige... - [Beilagen-Kreis im Radius der SPD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/beilagen-kreis-im-radius-der-spd-2/): Zur Vereinigungsdebatte von BWK, GIM, KPD Inhaltsverzeichnis Einleitung Zum Klassencharakter der Sowjetunion Der Hauptfeind steht im eigenen Land Denn sie wissen, was sie nicht tun Vorwort zu James P. Cannons Rede über die russische... - [Триумф контрреволюции в СССР](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/counterrev-ussr-rus/): Защитить советских рабочих от ельцинских нападок! Интернациональная Большевистская Тенденция опубликовала в своем бюллетене в октябре 1991 года: Провал московского выступления 19-21 августа привел к невиданным ранее тяжелым и болезненным последствиям. Это событие запомнится как... - [Угнетение женщин – не в наших генах](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/women-oppression-rus/): Угнетение женщин, наиболее универсальная и глубоко укоренившаяся форма буржуазного гнета, является характеристикой капиталистического строя, в отличие от расовой дискриминации, возникшей задолго до капитализма. В своей выдающейся работе «Происхождение семьи, частной собственности и государства» (1884)... - [Bürgerkrieg in Jugoslawien - Nationalismus und Konterrevolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/burgerkrieg-in-jugoslawien-nationalismus-und-konterrevolution/) - [Die ehemalige UdSSR nach dem Putschversuch](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/die-ehemalige-udssr-nach-dem-putschversuch/) - [Nazi-Terror und Rassismus in der BRD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/nazi-terror-und-rassismus-in-der-brd/) - [Рост немецкого фашизма](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/rise-german-fash-rus/): Защитим левое и рабочее движение переведено из 1917 No. 12 Эта статья является отредактированной версией статьи издания Bolschewik (декабрь 1992 года), публикующегося Группой Спартакус, немецкой секцией Интернациональной Большевистской Лиги. 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Die Regulierung der Arbeitszeit und Arbeitsbedingungen, die... - [Vom Lucky-Streik zum Klassenkampf](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/vom-lucky-streik-zum-klassenkampf/) - [Rassismus im linken Schafspelz](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/rassismus-im-linken-schafspelz/) - [Die Ziele der Gruppe Spartakus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/die-ziele-der-gruppe-spartakus-2/) - [Linke und Arbeiterbewegung: Zerschlagt das Nazipack!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/linke-und-arbeiterbewegung-zerschlagt-das-nazipack/) - [Niederlage am 1. Mai](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/niederlage-am-1-mai/) - [Weg mit den Verboten von DHKP-C und THKP-C!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/weg-mit-den-verboten-von-dhkp-c-und-thkp-c/) - [Für eine bildungspolitische Gegenoffensive!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/fur-eine-bildungspolitische-gegenoffensive/) - [Revolutionary Trotskyist Bulletin No 3](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/revolutionary-trotskyist-bulletin-no-3/) - [Wahlkampf, Antikommunismus und Antisemitismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/wahlkampf-antikommunismus-und-antisemitismus/) - [Die Ziele der Gruppe Spartakus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/die-ziele-der-gruppe-spartakus/) - [Revolutionary Trotskyist Bulletin No 2](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/revolutionary-trotskyist-bulletin-no-2/) - [Die bürgerliche Offensive geht weiter](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/die-burgerliche-offensive-geht-weiter/) - [Revolutionary Trotskyist Bulletin No 1 Pt ii](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/revolutionary-trotskyist-bulletin-no-1-pt-ii/) - [Revolutionary Trotskyist Bulletin No 1 Pt i](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/revolutionary-trotskyist-bulletin-no-1-pt-i/) - [Sobre el apoyo militar y el apoyo político](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/sobre-el-apoyo-militar-y-el-apoyo-politico/): Recientemente recibimos una pregunta de un lector respecto a “la diferencia entre apoyo militar y político” en relación con el actual conflicto en Ucrania (en donde estamos a favor de una victoria militar rusa... - [IBT-26Feb](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/26/ibt-26feb/): This content is password-protected. To view it, please enter the password below. Password: - [On military vs political support](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/22/on-military-vs-political-support/): We recently received an inquiry from a reader asking about “the difference between military and political support” in connection with the current conflict in Ukraine (where we favour a Russian military victory over US/NATO... - [Upcoming Madrid protest against the war in Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/22/upcoming-madrid-protest-against-the-war-in-ukraine/): The Bolshevik Tendency calls on all revolutionary Marxist sympathizers and working-class militants to attend the Madrid protest called for Friday, February 24 opposing the US/NATO proxy war against Russia. - [Protest demands freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/21/protest-demands-freedom-for-mumia-abu-jamal/): BT supporters were part of a crowd of 300 that marched behind the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) banner on Thursday 16 February demanding freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal. The ILWU Local 10 in... - [Sobre la ‘Asamblea Constituyente Revolucionaria’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/20/sobre-la-asamblea-constituyente-revolucionaria/): Carta a los izquierdistas franceses L0 siguiente es una traducción de una carta enviada a Courant Communiste Révolutionnaire (parte de la Plataforma 4 del Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste francés y simpatizantes de la Fracción Trotskista-Cuarta... - [Más vale tarde que nunca](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/16/mas-vale-tarde-que-nunca/): La rectificación del Grupo Internacionalista sobre Rusia contra la OTAN… ‘debiera ser más precisa y más honesta’ “Reconocer con franqueza un error, determinando las razones del mismo, analizando las condiciones que han conducido a... - [19 February ‘Rage Against the War Machine’ Protest in D.C.](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/12/19-february-rage-against-the-war-machine-protest-in-d-c/): Why socialists should attend On 19 February a “Rage Against the War Machine” (RAWM) demonstration is being co-sponsored by the left-liberal “People’s Party” comprised of disgruntled former supporters of Bernie Sanders and the bourgeois... - [BT supporters attended protests against the racist police murder of Tyre Nichols](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/11/bt-supporters-attended-protests-against-the-racist-police-murder-of-tyre-nichols/): BT supporters attended protests against the racist police murder of Tyre Nichols in Hartford, CT, on Saturday 28th January 2023 and Worcester, MA, on Monday 30th January.     - [On Trotskyist history & revolutionary continuity](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/10/on-trotskyist-history-revolutionary-continuity/): Exchanges with a former leading Spartacist The following is an edited and abbreviated version of an exchange between a former leading Spartacist cadre and Tom Riley of the Bolshevik Tendency. Dear Tom, It has... - [Event - International Action to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/10/event-international-action-to-free-mumia-abu-jamal/): Thursday, February 16 — International Action to:  Free Mumia Abu Jamal! This is the hour to fight for Mumia’s freedom. On Thursday, Feb. 16th, longshore workers in ILWU Local 10 will shut down the Ports... - [1971 Communist Tendency document on Historical Roots of Degeneration of the 4th International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/05/1971-communist-tendency-document-on-historical-roots-of-degeneration-of-the-4th-international/) - [¡Solidaridad con Heiner Bücker! ¡Fuera los artículos de censura 130 y 140!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/02/solidaridad-con-heiner-bucker-fuera-los-articulos-de-censura-130-y-140/): La restricción de la libertad de expresión en la lucha de la “democracia” imperialista contra la “autocracia” El 22 de julio de 2022, Heiner Bücker, miembro del VVN-BDA y de Die Linke, pronunció un... - [Solidarity with Heiner Bücker! Down with censorship clauses 130 and 140!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/02/solidarity-with-heiner-bucker-down-with-censorship-clauses-130-and-140/): Restriction of freedom of expression in the struggle of imperialist “democracy” against “autocracy” On 22 July 2022, VVN-BDA and Die Linke member Heiner Bücker gave a speech at the Soviet War Memorial in Treptow... - [British Labour Party Adopts ‘Socialist’ Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/01/30/british-labour-party-adopts-socialist-program/): A Left Face for Labourism The following excerpt from an article in the 23 November 1973 issue of Workers Vanguard contains a critique of the Labourite politics of the Revolutionary Communist League (RCL), aka... - [Solidarität mit Heiner Bücker! Weg mit den Zensur-§ 130 und 140!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/01/30/solidaritat-mit-heiner-bucker-weg-mit-den-zensur-%c2%a7-130-und-%c2%a7-140/): Einengung der Meinungsfreiheit im Kampf der imperialistischen „Demokratie“ gegen „Autokratie“ Am 22. Juli 2022 hielt VVN-BDA- und Die Linke-Mitglied Heiner Brücker eine Rede am sowjetischen Ehrendenkmal in Treptow, in der er faktisch präzise die... - [BT presentation at Ukraine debate with SL](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/11/12/bt-presentation-at-ukraine-debate-with-sl/): As people probably know, we in the Bolshevik Tendency want to see a Russian military victory in Ukraine whereas the Spartacist League takes a position of defeatism on both sides. Most left groups which... - [Initial report on Ukrainian war debate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/11/11/initial-report-on-ukrainian-war-debate/): On 11 November the Bolshevik Tendency debated the Spartacist League in London on our differences regarding the current conflict in Ukraine. Some 52 people attended the event. We have attached a draft of the... - [Defend the Palestinians - Oppose Zionist Terror Attack on Gaza](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/10/21/defend-the-palestinians-oppose-zionist-terror-attack-on-gaza/): Bolshevik Tendency comrades attended protests against the Israeli state’s attack on the Palestinian population of Gaza. Cork, Ireland – 11 October 2023 Toronto, Canada – 14, 21 & 28 October 2023   London, Britain... - [Ukraine War Debate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/10/13/ukraine-war/): What strategy for Marxists?   Bolshevik Tendency and Spartacist League 2pm, Saturday 11 November Room MAL 421 Birkbeck Malet Street London WC1E 7HX All welcome - [End NATO’s Proxy War in Ukraine! Disband NATO! Canada Out of NATO!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/10/08/end-natos-proxy-war-in-ukraine-disband-nato-and-canada-out-of-nato/): Bolshevik Tendency speakers’ remarks to protest against NATO’s Proxy War in Ukraine – Toronto on 1 October   The BT is pleased to be in the Toronto Coalition Against NATO, a united front based... - [Palästinensische Befreiung & bi-nationaler Arbeiterstaat](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/10/02/palastinensische-befreiung-bi-nationaler-arbeiterstaat/): Eine Antwort auf Noel Bamens „Weder Verrat, noch Utopismus!“ In einem Artikel vom 13. September 2023 mit dem Titel „Weder Verrat, noch Utopismus! Zur Debatte um die Ein- und Zweistaatenlösung für Palästina“ behandelt Noel... - [Toronto Anti-War Protest - 1 October 2023 - 1pm](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/09/30/toronto-anti-war-protest-1-october-2023-1pm/): On Sunday, 1 October 2023 at 1pm, the Toronto Coalition Against NATO will hold a protest under the slogans: End NATO’s Proxy War in Ukraine! Canada out of NATO! Disband NATO! At Spadina/Bloor, Matt... - [Lenin über den Imperialismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/09/24/lenin-uber-den-imperialismus/): Im August 1914, bei Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs, war Wladimir Lenin fassungslos über die Welle des Sozialpatriotismus, die die Zweite Internationale, einschließlich ihrer deutschen Vorzeigesektion, der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands (SPD), überrollte. All die feierlichen... - [Sur l'attitude des révolutionnaires à l'égard de la police](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/09/08/sur-lattitude-des-revolutionnaires-a-legard-de-la-police/): Lettre ouverte à la rédaction de Révolution (Envoyé le 29 juillet 2023) (Comme nous ne disposons que d’une capacité linguistique très limitée en français, nous avons dû recourir à une traduction automatique de ce... - [Alerting the Socialist Party to an omission on their website](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/08/21/alerting-the-socialist-party-to-an-omission-on-their-website/): The following letter was sent to the Socialist Party alerting them to an omission in the archive of their paper (The Socialist). As of the date of this posting (21 August) our letter has... - [Хто ми](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/21/%d1%85%d1%82%d0%be-%d0%bc%d0%b8/): Дивитися відкрито у вічі дійсності; не шукати лінії найменшого опору; називати речі своїми іменами; говорити масам правду, якою б гіркою вона не була; не боятися перешкод; бути вірним у малому, як і великому; спиратися... - [Solidarność: Prueba de fuego para los trotskistas](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/18/solidarnosc-prueba-de-fuego-para-los-trotskistas/): Panfleto publicado por la Tendencia Bolchevique en 1988 I. Polonia 1981: Clave del reagrupamiento trotskista “No puede pensarse, está claro, en la construcción de una nueva Internacional por organizaciones que tienen bases de principios... - [Audio du forum sur l'initiative chinoise "la ceinture et la route"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/15/audio-du-forum-sur-linitiative-chinoise-la-ceinture-et-la-route/): Audio du forum de la Tendance bolchevique (en français) sur l’initiative chinoise Belt and Road qui s’est déroulé à la Fête de Lutte Ouvrière le 27 mai 2023. - [Breve esbozo de la historia de la Tendencia Militante](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/14/breve-esbozo-de-la-historia-de-la-tendencia-militante/): Christoph Lichtenberg Los orígenes del Comité por una Internacional de los Trabajadores (CWI – Commitee for a Workers’ International, antes conocido como la Tendencia Militante) se remontan a una escisión en 1937 en un... - [¡Fuera carceleros del TUC!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/14/fuera-carceleros-del-tuc/): ¿De qué lado estáis? La siguiente declaración, fechada el 10 de noviembre de 2007, ha sido elaborada por la sección londinense de la Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional. El 29 de agosto, la Asociación de Funcionarios... - [¡Por un Nuevo Partido Obrero Revolucionario!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/14/por-un-nuevo-partido-obrero-revolucionario/): Por qué no firmamos la “Declaración” del Socialist Party La “Campaña por un nuevo partido obrero” del Socialist Party (www.cnwp.org.uk), lanzada en su fin de semana “Socialism 2005” en noviembre, ha elaborado una “Declaración... - [La derrota más vergonzosa](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/14/la-derrota-mas-vergonzosa/): La capitulación del PCS (*) sobre los planes de pensiones “Ningún revolucionario que sopese sus palabras sostendrá que ninguna victoria habría estado garantizada de seguir esta línea. Pero la victoria sólo era posible por... - [Un exemple de manuel](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/12/un-exemple-de-manuel/): WV flanche face à 007 [Traduction automatique] – Trotskyist Bulletin No. 1, “A textbook example” Extrait de Workers Vanguard, n° 337, 9 septembre 1983 “Si le gouvernement de l’Union soviétique savait que l’avion intrus... - [A la recherche désespérée de Snetkov](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/12/a-la-recherche-desesperee-de-snetkov/): [Traduction automatique] – “Desperately Seeking Snetkov“, 1917 No. 9 Un tract publié par la Tendance bolchevique de la région de Bay le 8 septembre [1990], traitant de l’agression impérialiste contre l’Irak, faisait l’observation élémentaire... - [Plier le bâton trop loin](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/12/plier-le-baton-trop-loin/): À propos du slogan “Hail Red Army” (salut à l’armée rouge) Document 2b.6 [Traduction automatique] – “‘On the Slogan ‘Hail the Red Army’“, 1917 No. 5 Reproduit de 1917 n° 5, hiver 1988-89 Depuis... - [Déclaration d'une tendance externe de l'iSt](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/12/declaration-dune-tendance-externe-de-list/): [Traduction automatique] – Declaration of an External Tendency of the iSt Octobre 1982 Jim : “…soit le parti est comme vous l’avez dit, rempli de la contradiction fondamentale d’avoir une direction bureaucratique, abusive et... - [Soutien essentiel au SpAD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/11/soutien-essentiel-au-spad/): Déclaration du BT sur les élections en RDC [Traduction automatique] – “Critical support to the SpAD“, 1917 No. 8 Ce qui suit est une traduction d’une déclaration distribuée en RDA lors de la récente... - [Les cyniques qui méprisent le trotskisme](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/11/les-cyniques-qui-meprisent-le-trotskisme/): iSt/ICL : “Nouveau nom, même jeu” [Traduction automatique] – “Cynics who scorn Trotskyism“, 1917 No. 7 Dans son document fondateur de 1974, la tendance spartaciste internationale (iSt) observait modestement qu’elle avait ” peu de pouvoir d’attraction symbolique... - [Qu'est-il advenu de la Spartacist League ?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/11/quest-il-advenu-de-la-spartacist-league/): Stalinophilie, stalinophobie, flonflons et opportunisme [Traduction automatique] – Whatever Happened to the Spartacist League Dans le numéro de printemps 2004 de Spartacist (n° 58), la Ligue communiste internationale (LCI) caractérise ses récents résultats politiques... - [Les faux trotskystes font une fausse offre](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/11/les-faux-trotskystes-font-une-fausse-offre/): Sur la “brigade” SL/PDC pour Kaboul [Traduction automatique] – “Fake Trotskyists make fake offer“, 1917 No. 6 Nous reproduisons ci-dessous une lettre de la Tendance Bolchevique à la Ligue Spartaciste concernant une proposition du... - [La brigade bidon de Robertson](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/11/la-brigade-bidon-de-robertson/): contre l’internationalisme révolutionnaire trotskiste [Traduction automatique] – “Robertson’s bogus brigade“, 1917 No. 7 Dans notre précédent numéro, nous avons commenté l'” offre ” cynique de la Ligue spartaciste (SL) d’envoyer une expédition militaire pour... - [Pas de catastrophe pour la classe ouvrière](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/11/pas-de-catastrophe-pour-la-classe-ouvriere/): Le “dysfonctionnement majeur” de Challenger [Traduction automatique] – “No disaster for the working class“, 1917 No. 2 L’avortement spontané de la navette spatiale Challenger, le 28 janvier, a été suivi d’une vague de chagrin... - [Une perte de nerfs et une perte de volonté](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/11/une-perte-de-nerfs-et-une-perte-de-volonte/): [Déclaration de l’ET du 12 novembre 1983] [Traduction automatique] – Trotskyist Bulletin No. 2, “A loss of nerve and a loss of will“ Nous condamnons le slogan “Marines Out of Lebanon, Now, Alive” comme une... - [La Policía](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/08/la-policia/): 1. ¡Derechos sindicales! La policía y el movimiento obrero Los trabajadores que llevan a cabo acciones sindicales -especialmente cuando organizan piquetes, un derecho sindical vital- han entrado una y otra vez en conflicto con... - [El Estado: El programa marxista y las reivindicaciones transitorias](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/08/el-estado-el-programa-marxista-y-las-reivindicaciones-transitorias/): Reflejado de www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/108183/23-04-2006/marxism-and-the-state-an-exchange/ lunes, 14 abril 2008 12:20:38 GMT (Editado para verlo fuera del ‘frame’ de la ICM) Debate sobre el marxismo y Estado Lynn Walsh INTRODUCCIÓN El 29 de marzo de 2006, Michael... - [Los marxistas y el Estado](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/08/los-marxistas-y-el-estado/): Michael Wainwright Durante los últimos dos años y medio, mi participación en el Partido Socialista me ha proporcionado un considerable grado de competencia organizativa, la capacidad de intervenir en el movimiento obrero en su... - [La caricatura kautskiana del trotskismo por parte del Committee for a Workers’ International – (CWI-CIT)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/08/la-caricatura-kautskiana-del-trotskismo-por-parte-del-committee-for-a-workers-international-cwi-cit/): ‘Que el Estado es un órgano de gobierno de una determinada clase que no puede reconciliarse con su antípoda (la clase opuesta a ella) es algo que los demócratas pequeñoburgueses nunca podrán entender. Su... - [Solidarnosc : Épreuve de vérité pour les trotskystes (version abrégée)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/07/solidarnosc-epreuve-de-verite-pour-les-trotskystes/): Le texte qui suit est une version abrégée d’une brochure de la Tendance bolchévique parue en 1988. D’après notre expérience, les porte-parole « trotskystes » de Solidarnosc ne sont pas guidés par un seul argument cohérent.... - [Compare et contraste](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/07/compare-et-contraste/): La LCI et la TBI sur le stalinisme et le défensisme soviétique Ce qui suit est un assortiment de citations tirées de publications de la Tendance bolchévique internationale (TBI — y compris la Tendance... - [За троцкизм!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/05/%d0%b7%d0%b0-%d1%82%d1%80%d0%be%d1%86%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%b7%d0%bc/): Программная декларация Большевистской тенденции Следующий документ был принят объединенной конференцией Большевистской тенденции и Левой Троцкистской тенденции в 1987 году как кодификация программного соглашения, достигнутого обеими организациями. 1. Партия и Программа «Нельзя формулировать интересы [рабочего]... - [Marxismo y el reformismo de ‘Militant’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/03/marxismo-y-el-reformismo-de-militant/):   Contenido Artículo principal: La caricatura kautskiana del trotskismo por parte del Committee for a Workers’ International – (CWI-CIT) Apéndice A Debate sobre el Estado entre Michael W. y Lynn Walsh Los marxistas y... - [Kronstadt & Counterrevolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/06/27/kronstadt-counterrevolution-2/) - [« En plein dans le mille » : un ancien cadre de la SL réagit à la déclaration de la TB sur la correction du GI concernant la Russie contre l'OTAN](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/05/30/en-plein-dans-le-mille-un-ancien-cadre-de-la-sl-reagit-a-la-declaration-de-la-tb-sur-la-correction-du-gi-concernant-la-russie-contre-lotan/): Un ancien cadre de longue date de la Spartacist League nous a envoyé l’observation suivante sur « Mieux vaut tard que jamais » – le commentaire sur le changement de position du groupe internationaliste... - [Mieux vaut tard que jamais](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/05/30/mieux-vaut-tard-que-jamais/): Correction du GI sur la Russie contre l’OTAN… «  devrait être plus précise et plus honnête » « Reconnaître ouvertement son erreur, en découvrir les causes, analyser la situation qui l’a fait naître, examiner... - [Nieder mit den Angriffen auf die Kommunistische Organisation! Gegen jegliche Gewalt innerhalb der Linken und Arbeiterbewegung!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/05/23/nieder-mit-den-angriffen-auf-die-kommunistische-organisation-gegen-jegliche-gewalt-innerhalb-der-linken-und-arbeiterbewegung/): Am 1. Mai kam es auf der Revolutionären 1.Mai-Demonstration in Frankfurt nach ersten Attacken auf Genossen der Kommunistischen Organisation (KO) durch Anarchisten und Antideutsche, die durch die Unterstützung der Ukraine motiviert sind, zu weiteren... - [L'OTAN contre la Russie en Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/05/17/lotan-contre-la-russie-en-ukraine/): Une épreuve de vérité pour les trotskistes L’incursion russe en Ukraine a accéléré le déclin de l’impérialisme américain, gravement affaibli ses « partenaires » européens et l’OTAN dans son ensemble, tout en réduisant son... - [Telling the truth to the masses: On Russia v NATO in Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/05/14/telling-the-truth-to-the-masses-on-russia-v-nato-in-ukraine/): A letter to RedMed On 25-26 June the BT participated in an “Emergency International Anti-War Conference” initiated by the Christian Rakovski Balkan Socialist Centre and RedMed. On 27 June, immediately following the conference, the organisers... - [Drop the charges against APSP supporters!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/04/24/drop-the-charges-against-apsp-supporters/): Defend the right to dissent! On Tuesday 18 April the US Department of Justice charged four people associated with the black nationalist African People’s Socialist Party/Uhuru Movement (APSP) for “weaponizing” free speech in what... - [Mumia's birthday celebrated in London](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/04/24/mumias-birthday-celebrated-in-london/): BT supporters participated in a demonstration in London on Saturday 22nd April to celebrate the birthday of Mumia Abu-Jamal and call for his freedom. Mumia has been incarcerated for 42 years for a crime... - [Audio of BT online forum "China's Belt and Road Initiative & Imperialist Blowback](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/04/04/audio-of-bt-online-forum-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-imperialist-blowback/): An audio recording of the Bolshevik Tendency public meeting “China’s Belt and Road Initiative & Imperialist Blowback” held on Sunday 02 April 2023 - [Audio recording of presentation at BT Forum “Class Struggle on the Waterfront – Lessons from the ILWU”](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/30/audio-recording-of-presentation-at-bt-forum-class-struggle-on-the-waterfront-lessons-from-the-ilwu/): This presentation was given on 25 March 2023 at the Building Worker Power conference, held at the University of Massachusetts. - [Online forum - China's Belt and Road Initiative & Imperialist Blowback](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/25/online-forum-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-imperialist-blowback/): The Belt and Road Initiative has made the Peoples’ Republic one of the top five investors on most continents. The western media and many on the left denounce China as a new “imperialist” power... - [BT Forum "Class Struggle on the Waterfront - Lessons from the ILWU"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/20/bt-forum-class-struggle-on-the-waterfront-lessons-from-the-ilwu/): Saturday March 25th from 9-10:30am University of Massachusetts Amherst in Campus Center 903. On May 1, 2008 25,000 dockers belonging to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) shut down every port from San Diego to... - [Besser verspätet als nie](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/20/besser-verspatet-als-nie/): Internationalistische Gruppe: Korrektur zu Russland gegen NATO…„sollte präziser und ehrlicher sein” „Einen Fehler offen zuzugeben, seine Ursachen aufdecken, die Umstände, die ihn hervorgerufen haben, analysieren, die Mittel zur Behebung des Fehlers sorgfältig prüfen –... - [Кто мы](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/20/%d0%ba%d1%82%d0%be-%d0%bc%d1%8b/): Смотреть открыто в глаза действительности; не искать линии наименьшего сопротивления; называть вещи своими именами; говорить массам правду, как бы горька она ни была; не бояться препятствий; быть верным в малом, как и в большом;... - [‘En el blanco': un antiguo cuadro de la Liga Espartaquista comenta la declaración de Tendencia Bolchevique sobre la rectificación del Grupo Internacionalista respecto a Rusia y la OTAN](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/19/en-el-blanco-un-antiguo-cuadro-de-la-liga-espartaquista-comenta-la-declaracion-de-tendencia-bolchevique-sobre-la-rectificacion-del-grupo-internacionalista-respecto-a-rusia-y-la-otan/): Un antiguo cuadro de la Liga Espartaquista nos envió la siguiente observación sobre “Más vale tarde que nunca“, comentario sobre el cambio de posición del Grupo Internacionalista respecto a la intervención militar rusa en... - [The Issue Is Mumia Abu-Jamal:Innocent and Framed (By Rachel Wolkenstein 2014)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/18/the-issue-is-mumia-abu-jamalinnocent-and-framed-by-rachel-wolkenstein-2014/) - [Zu politischer gegenüber militärischer Unterstützung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/13/zu-politischer-gegenuber-militarischer-unterstutzung/): Kürzlich erhielten wir eine Anfrage einer Leserin, die sich nach dem „Unterschied zwischen militärischer und politischer Unterstützung“ im Zusammenhang mit dem aktuellen Konflikt in der Ukraine erkundigte (wo wir für einen militärischen Sieg Russlands... - [FREE MUMIA! Event at ILWU Local 10, San Francisco - Saturday 11 March](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/11/free-mumia-event-at-ilwu-local-10-san-francisco-saturday-11-march/) - [Lenin und die Avantgardepartei](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/08/lenin-und-die-avantgardepartei/): Kautskyanertum und die Ursprünge der russischen Sozialdemokratie Vor kurzem haben zwei Gruppen, die zu den größten der britischen „extremen Linken“ zählen, die International Marxist Group (IMG) und die International Socialists (nunmehr die Socialist Workers... - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 30 - April 1980](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-30-april-1980/): Inhalt: Keine Entspannungsillusionen! Sieg der Roten Armee in Afghanistan! Ein neuer Kalter Krieg?, Rhodesien: Wahl entscheidet nichts, 47% für Hafenarbeiter Rex Reinhart!, Morenisten rufen zur Konterrevolution in der UdSSR auf, Die KPD, die keine... - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 29 - Februar 1980](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-29-februar-1980/): Inhalt: Moslemfanatiker/Maoisten verüben Mordanschlag auf Trotzkisten, Keine Entlassungen bei AEG! Für gewerkschaftliche Kampfmaßnahmen!, Nein zum Schmidt/Genscher-Übel!, ISA: Mit der SPD gen Osten!, Erster KB-Kongreß: Nichts gewonnen, bald zeronnen, Westberlin: Tausende demonstrieren gegen Mord an... - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 24. Mai 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-24-mai-1979/): Coca Cola in China, Gulf Oil in Angola Identitätskrise im KB - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 1.Mai 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-1-mai-1979/): Iran: Arbeiterrevolution gegen islamische Reaktion! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 22. März 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-22-marz-1979/): Zusammenspiel mit dem US-Imperialismus Chinas reaktionärer Krieg in Vietnam - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 4. Januar 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-4-januar-1979/): Brecht mit dem Pabloismus! Tauziehen im Sumpf - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 28 - Dezember 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-28-dezember-1979/): Inhalt: Die Kulturrevolution entläßt ihre Kinder, Hände weg von Iran!, Kampuchea-Kongreß: Im Fahrwasser imperialistischer Propaganda, Brief an einen Maoisten, Wer ist Nahuel Moreno?, Tübinger GIM-Genossen: Iran – Nur die iST hatte Recht!, Spaltung im... - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 27 - November 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-27/): Inhalt: Wohin geht Nicaragua?, Carters Geheimdienst verschleppt Gewerkschaftsmilitante, TLD contra linke Mullah-Anhänger, Massaker in Kurdistan, Kriminelle Politik von GIM/VS: Ihr wolltet Chomeini – jetzt habt ihr ihn!, Kommunistischer Bund: Keine Perspektive für Arbeit unter... - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 26 - September 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-26-september-1979/): Inhalt: Verteidigt die iranische Linke! Mullahs schreiten zur Endlösung, „Rock gegen Rechts“ – Ruck nach Rechts, Warum sie die islamische Reaktion unterstützen, Austritt aus der GIM, Wovor hat der Spartacusbund Angst? - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 25 - Juni 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-25-juni-1979/): Inhalt: Für die Vereinigten Sozialistischen Staaten von Europa! Nieder mit dem NATO-Parlament!, Freiheit für Zheng Chaolin!, USA-Tour: Fatima Khalil sagt Wahrheit über Iran, Wann und warum eine revolutionäre Konstituante?, Identitätskrise im KB, Nahost: Carters... - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 24 - Februar 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-24-februar-1979/): Inhalt: Für eine Arbeiterrevolution in Iran!, Ausverkauf im Stahlstreik, Sofortige Einstellung der Prozesse gegen den KB!, Russell-Tribunal: Zensur gegen TLD, Bahro-Kongreß: Tummelplatz für Antikommunisten, Nieder mit den Urteilen gegen Semler und Horlemann!, Lenin gegen... - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 23 - Oktober 1978](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-23-oktober-1978/): Inhalt: Nieder mit dem Schah! Nieder mit den Mullahs! Iran im Aufruhr, Hessenwahlen und Klassenpolitik, Ernest Mandel: Zentrist für jede Saison, „Freie“ Gewerkschaften in der UdSSR?, Freiheit für Rudolf Bahro! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 22 - Juli 1978](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-22-juli-1978/): Inhalt: Nieder mit dem imperialistischen Mordarsenal! Neutronenbombenhysterie und Abrüstungsillusionen, Keine Auslieferung von Mohnhaupt, Wagner, Boock und Hoffmann!, Weg mit den Bonner KPD-Prozessen!, Für proletarische Aktionseinheit gegen die Faschisten!, Ursprünge revolutionärer Arbeit unter Frauen in... - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 21 - April 1978](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-21-april-1978/): Inhalt: Für die revolutionäre Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands! Bahro – keine Alternative!, Nieder mit den „Anti-Terror“-Gesetzen!, Vom Maoismus zum Trotzkismus, Vereinigtes Sekretariat: Vorwärts zur 2 1/4 Internationale, Spartacist League/Britain gegründet, Erklärung der Trotzkistischen Fraktion - [Kommunistische Korrepondenz Nr. 20 - November 1977](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrepondenz-nr-20-november-1977/): Inhalt Westdeutsche Linke kapituliert vor der Hexenjagd, Spartacist League/U.S. und Red Union fusionieren, Fusionserklärung, Ursprünge revolutionärer Arbeit unter Frauen in Deutschland, Landshut-Enführung: Nieder mit kriminellem wahllosen Terror! Stammheim: Für eine internationale Untersuchungskommission!, Dokumente zur... - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 19 - Juli 1977](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-19-juli-1977/): Inhalt: Für eine kommunistische Frauenbewegung!, Russell-Initiative, Weg mit den Terrorurteilen gegen die RAF-Genossen!, Zerfall des Spartacusbundes, Volksfront: Bremsklotz der Revolution, Neokolonialistische Nationalisten verraten rhodesische Massen - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 18 - Mai 1977](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-18-mai-1977/): Inhalt: Spanien: Pulverfaß Europas, Keine Träne für Buback, Leninistische Fusion TF-TLD, Arbeiterbewegung und Kernenergie, Anti-AKW-„Bewegung“: Zurück zur Natur, Für eine vereinigte klassenkämpferische GEW im DGB! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 17 - Februar 1977](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-17-februar-1977/): Inhalt: Vom Zentrismus zum Bolschewismus Trotzkistische Fraktion aus dem Spartacusbund ausgeschlossen, Deklaration der Trotzkistischen Fraktion, Erfolgreiche gemeinsame Veranstaltung von TF und TLD, TLD-TF-Brief an den Spartacusbund: Erneute Aufforderung zu Debatten, Elend der maoistischen Wirtschaftstheorie,... - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 1. Mai 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-1-mai-1976/): Kampf dem Opportunismus und Sektierertum! Vorwärts mit der TLD! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 16 - Dezember 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespopndenz-nr-16-dezember-1976/): Inhalt: Für die politische Revolution zum Sturz aller Flügel der Bürokratie! Bürokratischer Machtkampf in China, Chauvinistisches Blutbad im Libanon, Das VS am Abgrund, Herzliche Grüße von Pablo, Aktionseinheit oder Propagandablock?, Weg mit dem Einreiseverbot... - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 15 - September 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-15-september-1976/): Inhalt: Bundestagswahlen 1976 Kritische Unterstützung für die GIM, Stalinismus in Kuba, ÖBL verurteilt - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 14 - Juni 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-14-juni-1976/): Inhalt: Rettet das Leben von Manuel Muñoz! Internationale Solidarität mit allen Opfern des reaktionären Terrors in Argentinien!, FMR: Antidogmatische Zentristen in Italien, Stalinismus in Kuba, Verteidigung gegen die Bourgeoisie: eine Klassenfrage, Solidarität mit den... - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 13 - April 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-13-april-1976/): Inhalt: Proletarische Aktionseinheit gegen bürgerliche Klassenparagraphen!, KBW-Attacke gegen TLD, GIM-Kompaß und SPD, Portugal und die Aufgaben der Revolutionäre, Portugal: Prüfstein für Zentristen - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 12 - Januar/Februar 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-12-januar-februar-1976/): Inhalt: Angola: Vom nationalistischen Machtkampf zur imperialistischen Intervention, Kampf gegen die Arbeitslosigkeit, GIM/VS-Impressionen über den Maostalinismus - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 22. November 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-22-november-1975/): Zur Verteidigung des Trotzkismus und der Arbeiterdemokratie Trotzkismus: Der Marxismus unserer Epoche!   - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 30. Oktober 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-30-oktober-1975/): Kampf der Jugendarbeitslosigkeit! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 8. Mai 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-8-mai-1975/): Maoisten vom Krebs des Chauvinismus ergriffen Gegen den Sozialchauvinismus Stalins und Mao Tse-Tungs! Für den proletarischen Innternationalismus Lenins! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 11 - November 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-11-november-1975/): Inhalt: Briefwechsel zwischen TLD und Spartacusbund Zentristische Haltlosigkeit, Diskussionsangebot der TLD, Portugal: Der Spartacusbund am Scheideweg, Antwort des Spartacusbundes - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 10 - September 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-10-september-1975/): Inhalt: Portugal: Kein weiteres Chile mehr! Arbeiter an die Macht!, Europäisches Spartacist-Sommerlager, Zur Umgruppierungstaktik, Spartacist League zur Spartacusbund-Gründung (1974), Fahrpreiskampf in Köln, RAF-Prozeß, Perón-Regime am Ende - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 9 - Juni 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-9-juni-1975/): Inhalt: Revolution oder Konterrevolution in Portugal, Indischer Bauernführer entführt, Der KBW und der §218, „Internationalismus“ des Spartacusbundes, Säuberung der LCR, Kapitalismus in Kambodscha und Südvietnam zerschlagen - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 8 - April 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-8-april-1975/): Inhalt: Eine Lektion in marxistischer Staatstheorie Polizeiterror in Westberlin, Aktionseinheit zur Verteidigung der Linken, Stalinistischer Wahlkretinismus, Spartacusbund schließt Trotzkisten aus!, Extrablatt: Kampf dem Polizeiterror, Revolutionäre in Chinas Gefängnissen - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 7 - Februar 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-7-februar-1975/): Inhalt: Für einen arabisch-hebräischen Arbeiterstaat in Palästina!, Zum Charakter der SPD, Internationalismus in den US-Gewerkschaften, Strauß in der VR China - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra - 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-1974/): Chile Extra Eine Bilanz und ein Programm - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 6 - Dezember 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-6-dezember-1974/): Inhalt: SPD, „linke“ Wahlpolitik und Kommunismus, Internationalismus in den US-Gewerkschaften, Befreit die MIR-Genossen, 25 Jahre VR China, Solidaritätskampagne mit der R.A.F. - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 5 - November 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-5-november-1974/): Inhalt: Europäische Impressionen des VS Entrismus in der „neuen Massenavantgarde“, Trotzkistische Liga Deutschlands, GIM-Kompass und VS-Revisionismus, Revolutionäre Chile-Solidarität - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 4 - Juli 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-4-juli-1974/): Inhalt: Der Zentrismus des Spartacusbundes, Eine ernste Wende tut Not!, Die „Geschlossenheit“ des Spartacusbundes, Trade Unionismus oder revolutionäre Politik   - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 3 - Juni 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-3-juni-1974/): Inhalt: Zu den Wahlen in Frankreich, Ein Kompaß ohne Orientierung, Der Weltkongreß des „Vereinigten Sekretariats“ – Einheit am seidenen Faden, VS-Gruppen gegen Arbeiterdemokratie, Eine Berichtigung und eine Bestätigung, Deklaration der Spartacist League/US und der... - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 2 - April 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-2-april-1974/): Inhalt: Frauenfrage und revolutionärer Marxismus, Das Programm der Frauenkommission der „Spartacist League/US“, Die Permanente Revolution und die Frauen   - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 1 - Februar 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-1-februar-1974/): Inhalt: Aktuelle Kriterien des Bolschewismus in Deutschland, Chauvinisten im Trotzkipelz, Ein Vater der (Kon)Fusion, Leitartikel aus Workers Vanguard Nr. 30, Brief einer Beliner Genossin zur Chile-Demo, Erklärung zur Gründungskonferenz des Spartacusbundes, Literaturliste - [Spartacist Nr. 9 Frühjahr 1981](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-9-fruhjahr-1981/): Inhalt: Ein Arbeiterpolen, ja! Papst Wojtylas Polen, nein!, SWP 1956 contra SWP 1980: „Reine Demokratie” oder politische Revolution in Osteuropa, Afghanistan und die russische Frage: Feuerprobe für die Linke - [Spartacist Nr. 7-8 Sommer 1980](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-7-8-sommer-1980/): Inhalt: Hoch die Rote Armee in Afghanistan, Tibet: Maos Afghanistan, Losungen zu Iran, Der Trotzkismus und die sino-sowjetische Spaltung, Keine „kritische Unterstützung” für die Volksfront, Dokument der ersten Delegiertenkonferenz der iST - [Spartacist Nr. 6 Juni 1978](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-6-juni-1978/): Inhalt: Thesen über Irland, Leninismus und Arbeiterkontrolle, Brief an die Liga Comunista de España - [Spartacist Nr. 5 Mai 1977](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-5-mai-1977/): Inhalt: Maos „Sozialismus”: Weder Elektrifizierung noch Sowjets, Entstehung des kubanischen deformierten Arbeiterstaates, Rede über die Labor Party-Frage, Die vielen Gesichter und langen Wellen Ernest Mandels - [Spartacist Nr. 4 August 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-4-august-1976/): Inhalt: Erklärung brüderlicher Beziehungen zwischen der international Spartacist Tendenz und der Organización Trotskista Revolucionaria Chiles, Sowjetische Dissidenten: Zwischen Leninismus und Liberalismus, Ungarischer Maoist verurteilt, Roy Medwedew über die sowjetischen Dissidenten, Das Vereinigte Sekretariat: „Beste... - [Spartacist Nr. 3 März 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-3-marz-1975/): Inhalt: Ursprünge des Pabloismus, Gewerkschaftstaktik und Übergangsprogramm, Kritische Geschichte der Ligue Communiste - [LWM Joint Issue #11, Feb 14, 1980](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/25/lwm-joint-issue-11-feb-14-1980/) - [Stop Loading Scab Boron Cargo - May 14, 2010](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/25/stop-loading-scab-boron-cargo-may-14-2010/) - [Al Nelson - Howard the Coward, 1983](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/20/nelson-howard-the-coward/) - [Howard Keylor application letter, 1983](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/20/howard-keylor-application-letter/):   - [1986 interview with Howard Keylor on Huk rebellion, Philippines](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/19/1986-interview-with-howard-keylor-on-huk-rebellion-philippines/) - [Unpublished 1917 text on TLD decline and Uli Sandler, 1989](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/18/unpublished-1917-text-on-tld-decline-and-uli-sandler-1989/) - [Jack Heyman to WV on Redwood IBU strike falsifications, 16/12/1987](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/18/jack-heyman-to-wv-on-redwood-ibu-strike-falsifications-16-12-1987/) - [Jack Crowley, IBU, 1987](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/18/jack-crowley-ibu-1987/) - [Jack Heyman thanks ET, 21/5/1985](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/18/jack-heyman-thanks-et-21-5-1985/) - [Levin contract, June 1983](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/18/levin-contract-june-1983/) - [Ken Gates quit - 2/3/1981](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/18/ken-gates-quit-2-3-1981/) - [TUC DB 2 - Guidelines, 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/18/tuc-db-2-guidelines1976/) - [Militant Caucus founding document, 16/12/1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/18/militant-caucus-founding-document-16-12-1974/) - [A Marxist Programme for the Socialist Labour Party](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/14/a-marxist-programme-for-the-socialist-labour-party-2/): 1 Labour Party/Election The basis of the Socialist Labour Party is the need to break with the Labour Party and form an independent organisation to fight for the interests of the working class. Among... - [Where Are We Going?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/14/where-are-we-going-2/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 1, April 1997] A paper distributed within the Socialist Labour Party by Ian Dudley (Dulwich and West Norwood CSLP) Geoff Palmer (Hackney North and Stoke Newington CSLP)... - [A letter to Arthur Scargill](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/14/a-letter-to-arthur-scargill/): Open letter to all SLP members [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 1, April 1997] 25 February 1997 Dear Arthur, I was disappointed to read your comment in the Morning Star of 3... - [No Vote to Labour!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/14/no-vote-to-labour-3/): Build the Socialist Labour Campaign [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 1, April 1997] It is now over a year since the first membership meeting of the Socialist Labour Party was held in... - [Letter to the NEC regarding Tony Goss](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/14/letter-to-the-nec-regarding-tony-goss/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 1, April 1997] 3 March 1997 Dear NEC Comrades, I am writing to report a serious incident which took place before the London election rally on Tuesday... - [Letter to Diane Abbott MP](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/14/letter-to-diane-abbott-mp/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 1, April 1997] Dear Diane Abbott, As you will be aware, the Socialist Labour Party was founded in May last year, to build a mass working class... - [Purge Period Statistics - May 1981 - SL IIB No. 34](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/02/purge-period-statistics-may-1981-sl-iib-no-34/) - [Gates resignation - May 1981 SL IIB No. 34](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/02/gates-resignation-may-1981-sl-iib-no-34/) - [Transitional organization for revolutionary trade union work](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/02/transitional-organization-for-revolutionary-trade-union-work/) - [End the Siege of Gaza!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/01/end-the-siege-of-gaza-2/): Picket the Zim Shanghai Starting September 27 at the Port of Oakland! Call from the Stop ZIM Action Committee Israel and Hamas agreed to a set of conditions for a ceasefire on August 26th,... - [Lessons from the ILWU Battle Against EGT in Longview and the Struggle Ahead](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/01/lessons-from-the-ilwu-battle-against-egt-in-longview-and-the-struggle-ahead/): On 29 July, the Transport Workers Solidarity Committee held a forum in San Francisco titled “Lessons from the ILWU Battle Against EGT in Longview and the Struggle Ahead,” which reviewed the long-running fight waged... - [Comments on ILWU Local 21 Longview contract with EGT, LLC](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/01/comments-on-ilwu-local-21-longview-contract-with-egt-llc/): by Howard Keylor, retired longshoreman and member of the International Bolshevik Tendency Supporting documents: – Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between EGT, LLC & ILWU Local 21. (Also available at Labournet) – Addendum to CBA... - [SL Sides with Bureaucrats against Occupy and Union Militants](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/01/sl-sides-with-bureaucrats-against-occupy-and-union-militants/): The following is an annotated version of an appalling article published by the Spartacist League/U.S. (SL) in the 17 February issue of its newspaper, Workers Vanguard (WV), on the recent struggle by Local 21 of the International... - [A United Front in Tweets](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/01/a-united-front-in-tweets-2/): Oakland Militants Successfully Block Unloading of Israeli Ship A militant blockade in the Port of Oakland on Saturday 27 September prevented the Israeli ship Zim Shanghai from unloading for two shifts, forcing the vessel... - [Defence rallies for French pro-Palestine activists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/06/21/defence-rallies-for-french-pro-palestine-activists/): BT comrades attended rallies in London and New York on Tuesday 17th June, in defence of French comrades targeted for their pro-Palestine positions. BT speech at London rally: Hello, My name is H, speaking... - [Le confusionnisme ‘trotskiste’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/06/17/le-confusionnisme-trotskiste/): Double pensée de la Fraction Trotskyste concernant l’impérialisme, l’Ukraine, la Chine et la multipolarité Contrairement à de nombreuses tendances pseudo-trotskistes, les post-morénoïstes de la Fraction Trotskyste (FT) se sont développés ces dernières années, en... - [La Chine en Afrique](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/06/17/la-chine-en-afrique/): Démystifier les falsifications pseudo-marxistes concernant l’’impérialisme chinois’ Ces articles ont d’abord été rédigés en anglais, puis traduits en français à l’aide d’un outil de traduction automatique, avec une légère révision. Les citations de sources... - [‘Trotskyist’ Confusionism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/06/14/trotskyist-confusionism/): Trotskyist Fraction doublethink re: imperialism, Ukraine, China & multi-polarity Unlike many pseudo-Trotskyist tendencies, the post-Morenoites of the Trotskyist Fraction (TF) have grown in recent years, particularly in France. The sharpening class conflicts across Europe... - [China in Afrika](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/06/02/china-in-afrika/): Widerlegung pseudo-marxistischer Fälschungen bezüglich eines „chinesischen Imperialismus“ Dieser Text ist eine leicht abgeänderte Übersetzung des Artikels „China in Africa“, der am 15. Oktober 2022 auf bolsheviktendency.org erschien. Sämtliche Zitate, soweit wir sie auf Deutsch... - [Toronto Mayday march](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/05/06/toronto-mayday-march/): BT marched alongside comrades from half a dozen other organizations in the annual Mayday march held on 3 May.   - [Mumia Legal Update - March 2025](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/04/22/mumia-legal-update-march-2025/): March 26, 2025: PA SUPREME COURT DENIES MUMIA ABU-JAMAL PERMISION TO APPEAL –Rachel Wolkenstein, attorney, April 1, 2025 - [The Mumia Freedom Tour](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/04/22/the-mumia-freedom-tour/): From April 21-25, 2025, the Mumia Freedom Tour will be visiting the Bay Area to educate people about the path to Mumia’s freedom. Julian Assange and Leonard Peltier have been freed. Mumia can be freed... - [Remembering Comrade Chris](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/04/21/rememberingcomradechris/): The following is an edited and expanded version of a note sent by Tom Riley to a group of comrades, mostly former Spartacists from the Bay Area, on 15 April, a day after Chris... - [Free Levent Dölek, free the prisoners of despotism in Türkiye!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/04/07/free-levent-dolek-free-the-prisoners-of-despotism-in-turkiye/): The protests that have rocked Turkey for the last week have been met by a wave of house raids and arrests by the despotic regimes. Levent Dölek, the deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Workers’... - [CORRECTION—SL Comrades attended Howard Keylor Memorial](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/02/20/correction-sl-comrades-attended-howard-keylor-memorial/): In the introduction to our 30 January report on the Spartacist League’s retraction of Workers Vanguard’s 1986 slander of our comrade Howard Keylor as a “union narc,” we mistakenly reported that “The SL did not attend”... - [Katerstimmung nach „demokratischer“ Kriegsorgie](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/02/13/katerstimmung-nach-demokratischer-kriegsorgie/): Wahlen sollen helfen Die Bundestagswahl im Februar 2025 steht im Zeichen der wirtschaftlichen Krise des deutschen Imperialismus. Scheiterte die Ampel-Koalition noch am Streit um die Finanzierung der Hilfe für die Ukraine, war der Wahlkampf... - [A surprising deviation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/02/10/a-surprising-deviation/): Jack Heyman’s apologetics for Harry Bridges On 25 January nearly 100 people attended a memorial for Howard Keylor in the headquarters of San Francisco’s Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).... - [Honoring comrade Howard](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/02/06/honoring-comrade-howard/): These slightly edited remarks were delivered by Tom Riley on behalf of the Bolshevik Tendency at a memorial meeting for Howard Keylor in the Henry Schmidt room in the union hall of Local 10... - [Mutiger Gewerkschafter gegen Apartheid](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/02/06/mutiger-gewerkschafter-gegen-apartheid/): Mumia dankt unserem Genossen Howard Keylor Der folgende Text wurde am 3. Februar 2025 in der Zeitung die junge Welt veröffentlicht. Von Mumia Abu-Jamal Übersetzung: Jürgen Heiser Mutiger Gewerkschafter gegen Apartheid Schon in jungen... - [Honor Howard - Special Edition of Bolshevik](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/01/30/honor-howard-special-edition-of-bolshevik/) - [Video of memorial meeting for Howard Keylor](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/01/30/video-of-memorial-meeting-for-howard-keylor/): Memorial meeting held for Howard Keylor at the ILWU Local 10 hall in San Francisco on Saturday 25 January 2025. - [Spartacist League Retracts Slander](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/01/30/spartacist-league-retracts-slander/): We have corrected our original 30 January report which stated that “The SL did not attend the memorial.” On 18 January, a week prior to a memorial meeting to honor our comrade Howard Keylor at... - [„Unerschütterliche revolutionäre Loyalität“](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/01/27/unerschutterliche-revolutionare-loyalitat/): Zum Tod des ET-/BT-Gründers Howard Keylor Howard (rechts) bespricht Taktiken mit der Schlepper-Besatzung während des erfolgreichen „illegalen“ Streiks zur Beseitigung von Streikbrechern auf den Levin Terminals, Juni 1983 Am 5. Oktober 2024, nur zwei... - [Trotzki zur Taktik: „Lernt denken“](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/01/27/trotzki-zur-taktik-lernt-denken/): Sollten Marxisten der NATO gegenüber gleichgültig sein? Ein Genosse kritisierte uns dafür, dass wir vor einem Jahr an einer Einheitsfront in Toronto teilgenommen hatten, die als Teil ihrer Einheitsgrundlage die Forderung „Kanada raus aus... - [Memorial Meeting in San Francisco for Howard Keylor, our beloved comrade](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/01/23/memorial-meeting-in-san-francisco-for-howard-keylor-our-beloved-comrade/): Saturday, January 25, 2025, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Local 10, International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Henry Schmidt Room 400 North Point Street, San Francisco (near Fisherman’s Wharf) Zoom Registration Link: https://bit.ly/howardkeylormemorial - [For working-class independence!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/11/24/for-working-class-independence/): Irish election 2024: No to multi-class ‘Left Government’ In the previous Irish election in 2020, we argued: “Marxists recognise that capitalist parliaments represent organs of class rule that are designed to protect and advance... - [The Birth of the Zionist State](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/11/23/the-birth-of-the-zionist-state/): A Marxist Analysis First published in Workers Vanguard: Part 1 in No.33, November 1973, Part 2 in No.45, May 1974. Part 1: Jewish Colonization in Palestine While the “Yom Kippur” war of 1973 is... - [Workers Must Crush Sectarian Terror](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/11/21/workers-must-crush-sectarian-terror/): British Troops out of Northern Ireland A talk by David Strachan of the London Spartacist Group delivered in New York on 14 March 1977. This edited text was published in Workers Vanguard No. 156... - [Theses on Ireland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/11/21/theses-on-ireland/): From Spartacist No. 24, 1978, reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 172, 9 September 1977 The theses on Ireland […] were adopted by the International Executive Committee of the iSt on 5 August 1977. They... - [A letter to ‘Revolution Festival 2024’ attendees](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/11/16/a-letter-to-revolution-festival-2024-attendees/): On Ted Grant’s view of cops & screws as ‘fellow workers’ In October 2019, Socialist Revolution, newspaper of the International Marxist Tendency’s American section, published a wide-ranging critique of “ultraleft sectarianism” which, among other... - [‘Unshakeable revolutionary loyalty’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/30/unshakeable-revolutionary-loyalty/): On the loss of ET/BT founder Howard Keylor Howard (right) discussing tactics with tugboat crew during successful ‘illegal’ strike to remove scabs from Levin Terminals, June 1983 On 5 October 2024, just two months... - [Howard Keylor - Condolences from The Liverpool Dockworkers/Initiative Factory](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/30/howard-keylor-condolences-from-the-liverpool-dockworkers-initiative-factory/) - [Howard Keylor - Solidarity message From NUMSA](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/30/howard-keylor-solidarity-message-from-numsa/):     - [A United Front in Tweets](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/20/a-united-front-in-tweets/): Oakland Militants Successfully Block Unloading of Israeli Ship A militant blockade in the Port of Oakland on Saturday 27 September prevented the Israeli ship Zim Shanghai from unloading for two shifts, forcing the vessel to leave... - [End the Siege of Gaza!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/20/end-the-siege-of-gaza/): Picket the Zim Shanghai Starting September 27, 2014, at the Port of Oakland! Call from the Stop ZIM Action Committee Israel and Hamas agreed to a set of conditions for a ceasefire on August... - [PORT SHUT DOWN FOR OSCAR GRANT!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/20/port-shut-down-for-oscar-grant/): The Bay Area based Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal has issued the following statement on an upcoming labor action by San Francisco dockers to protest the outrageously indulgent treatment of a notorious... - [The ‘Force of Will’ in the 1984 Longshore Boycott](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/20/the-force-of-will-in-the-1984-longshore-boycott/): In November and December 1984, the International Warehouse and Longshore Union (ILWU) in the port of San Francisco carried out a historic 11-day strike against cargo from apartheid South Africa. To commemorate the 30th... - [Program and Action in the 1984 Longshore Boycott](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/20/program-and-action-in-the-1984-longshore-boycott/): Jack Heyman: Class-Struggle Politics on the Waterfront In November and December 1984, the International Warehouse and Longshore Union (ILWU) in the port of San Francisco carried out a historic 11-day strike against cargo from... - [Class Struggle on the Waterfront](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/20/class-struggle-on-the-waterfront-2/): Celebrating the anniversary of the 1984 anti-apartheid longshore boycott For eleven days in November-December 1984, the Nedlloyd Kimberley, full of cargo from South Africa, sat and rusted in San Francisco harbor as 300 longshoremen refused... - [Memories of the 1984 Longshore Boycott](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/20/memories-of-the-1984-longshore-boycott/): Howard Keylor, initiator of the action, speaking three decades later In November and December 1984, the International Warehouse and Longshore Union (ILWU) in the port of San Francisco carried out a historic 11-day strike... - [Trotsky on tactics: ‘Learn to think’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/19/trotsky-on-tactics-learn-to-think/): Should Marxists be indifferent to NATO? A comrade criticised us for participating in a united front in Toronto a year ago which included the demand “Canada Out of NATO” as part of its basis... - [It is hard to square a circle](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/09/21/it-is-hard-to-square-a-circle/): Spartacist incoherence re: Robertson, Logan & Vicky circa 1973 The “glasnost” policy recently introduced by the new leadership of the Spartacist League has created ripples among those who identify with the Revolutionary Tendency/Spartacist League... - [Response to ICL retraction of historic slanders](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/08/15/response-to-icl-retraction-of-historic-slanders/): On 12 August we sent the following letter to the International Communist League in response to their recent retraction <https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/69/bt> of slanders levelled against us several decades ago. Comrades: We appreciate your clear and... - [Revolution and Truth](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/08/11/revolution-and-truth/) - [Leaflet distributed at IG/SL debate in New York (Saturday 13 January 2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/08/09/leaflet-distributed-at-ig-sl-debate-in-new-york-saturday-13-january-2024-2/): IG/SL debate: an opportunity to set a few things straight During our November 2023 debate with the Spartacist League in London we noted a new openness to addressing past positions. Unfortunately, thus far this... - [No Vote to Labour!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/06/26/no-vote-to-labour-2/): Down with Starmer—no to austerity, genocide and war! After 14 years Britain’s ruling class is turning away from the Tories and looking to Labour leader “Sir” Keir Starmer to rescue British capitalism from relentlessly... - [RESPECT-able Reformism and Cross-class ‘Unity’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/06/09/respect-able-reformism-and-cross-class-unity/): For a revolutionary workers’ party! RESPECT – The Unity Coalition, launched at a ‘convention of the left’ on 25 January 2004, is a new electoral alliance planning to contest the European and Greater London... - [Leninismus gegen Stalinismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/05/24/leninismus-gegen-stalinismus-2/): Lehren der deutschen Katastrophe 1933   - [Was ist das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW)?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/05/23/was-ist-das-bundnis-sahra-wagenknecht-bsw/): Der multipolare Flügel der deutschen Arbeiteraristokratie Der lange Weg von der Formierung eines Wagenknecht-Lagers in der Partei Die Linke (PDL) hin zur endgültigen Abspaltung und Gründung einer eigenen Partei ist beendet. Die neue Partei... - [Débat IG/SL : l'occasion de faire quelques mises au point](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/05/23/debat-ig-sl-loccasion-de-faire-quelques-mises-au-point/): Lors de notre débat de novembre 2023 avec la Spartacist League [SL] à Londres, nous avons constaté une nouvelle disponibilité de la SL pour aborder les positions passées. Malheureusement, jusqu’à présent, cette discussion s’est... - [Pour un État ouvrier binational en Palestine-Israël !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/05/23/pour-un-etat-ouvrier-binatio-nal-en-palestine-israel/): De la rivière à la mer : Briser la tyrannie sioniste ! La campagne de terreur généralisée en cours à Gaza est la réponse pathologique de la classe dirigeante sioniste détraquée d’Israël face à... - [An injury to one is an injury to all—Drop the charges against Michael Pröbsting](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/05/01/an-injury-to-one-is-an-injury-to-all-drop-the-charges-against-michael-probsting/): Bolshevik Tendency supporter, Roxanne Baker, spoke at the protest on Monday 29 April outside the Austrian Embassy in London, organised by the Partisan Defence Committee, in support of activist Michael Pröbsting, who is facing... - [О военной поддержке против политической](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/04/25/%d0%be-%d0%b2%d0%be%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b9-%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%b4%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b6%d0%ba%d0%b5-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%be%d1%82%d0%b8%d0%b2-%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b8%d1%87%d0%b5%d1%81/): Недавно мы получили запрос от читателя, который спрашивал о «разнице между военной и политической поддержкой» в связи с текущим конфликтом на Украине (где мы выступаем за военную победу России над США/НАТО и их украинскими... - [Für einen bi-nationalen Arbeiterstaat in Palästina-Israel!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/04/17/fur-einen-bi-nationalen-arbeiterstaat-in-palastina-israel/): Vom Fluss bis zum Meer: Zerschlagt die zionistische Tyrannei! Der nachfolgende Text ist eine Übersetzung des gleichnamigen englischsprachigen Artikels For a bi-national workers’ state in Palestine-Israel, der am 30. März in unserer englischen Zeitung... - ['The Arab-Jewish War in Palestine'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/03/30/the-arab-jewish-war-in-palestine/): Trotskyists’ 1948 declaration re: founding of Zionist state The following editorial appeared in the 31 May 1948 issue of the Militant, published by the Socialist Workers Party (US) led by James P. Cannon. At... - [Why a ‘bi-national workers’ state’?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/03/30/why-a-bi-national-workers-state/): In a 1988 polemic against the British Workers Power group we addressed our differences over Vladimir Lenin’s approach to the “national question.” In particular we discussed how the interpenetration of the two peoples living... - [A few questions for Irish Socialist Party comrades](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/03/24/a-few-questions-for-irish-socialist-party-comrades/): Reprinted below is a leaflet written by a supporter of the Bolshevik Tendency living in Cork, Ireland who was struck by the starkly contrasting attitudes of the Irish Socialist Party (SP) and their American... - [For a bi-national workers’ state in Palestine-Israel!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/03/06/for-a-bi-national-workers-state-in-palestine-israel/): From the river to the sea: Smash Zionist tyranny! The campaign of wholesale terror underway in Gaza is the pathological response of Israel’s deranged Zionist ruling class to the remarkably successful 7 October 2023... - [Lenin on Imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/02/21/lenin-on-imperialism/): In August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, Vladimir Lenin was stunned by the wave of social-patriotism that swept the Second International, including its German flagship, the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD). All... - [Former Spartacist cadre comments on BT statement re: IG-SL debate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/31/former-spartacist-cadre-comments-on-bt-statement-re-ig-sl-debate/): A long-time former Spartacist League cadre made the following observation on our 28 January commentary “On the recent IG-SL debate.” Very powerful. If people were rational and fair-minded and willing to say, “I was... - [On the recent IG-SL debate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/28/on-the-recent-ig-sl-debate/): The 13 January two-part public debate in New York City between the International Communist League/Spartacist League (ICL/SL) and the Internationalist Group (IG) offered few surprises, but it dramatically showcased the SL’s rapid movement away... - [A letter to an IG contact](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/25/a-letter-to-an-ig-contact/): 19 January 2024 Hi [comrade],  All parties agree that Logan was guilty of running an abusive regime in Australia. I am glad you recognize that Robertson was aware of what was going on and... - [Marx oder Deng?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/24/marx-oder-deng/): Kritische Betrachtungen zu „China’s Great Road“ von John Ross Der nachfolgende Artikel ist eine leicht überarbeitete Übersetzung des Texts Marx or Deng?, der am 3. Oktober 2021 auf bolsheviktendency.org erschien. Zitate aus Ross‘ Buch... - [Von der NÖP zur Zwangskollektivierung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/21/von-der-nop-zur-zwangskollektivierung/): Nach vier Jahren Bürgerkrieg und drei Jahren eines verheerenden Weltkriegs hatte das russische Proletariat, das nie mehr als ein paar Millionen Menschen zählte, 1921 fast aufgehört zu existieren. Die russischen Städte waren entvölkert, und... - [BT contribution to the second session of the IG/SL debate (13 January 2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/18/bt-contribution-to-the-second-session-of-the-ig-sl-debate-13-january-2024/): Hello, I am Christoph from the Bolshevik Tendency. Comrades, this afternoon we have heard a lot of political name-calling and while this can be fun, I am not going to engage in it, because... - [BT contribution to the first session of the IG/SL debate (13 January 2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/18/bt-contribution-to-the-first-session-of-the-ig-sl-debate-13-january-2024/): Tom Riley speaking for the Bolshevik Tendency: today’s event is significant because, as we wrote in “The Road to Jimstown”: “The Spartacist League was not just one left grouping among many—it was the crystallization... - [Spartacist degeneration up close & personal: the 1980 Toronto purge](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/18/spartacist-degeneration-up-close-personal-the-1980-toronto-purge/): Excerpted from “Jimstown as we knew it” by Tom Riley After returning to Canada [after participating in founding of the Spartacist League/Britain], [Cathy] Nason became Toronto organizer and I took over Spartacist Canada. In the... - [Flugblatt, das bei der IG/SL-Debatte in New York verteilt wurde (Samstag, 13. Januar 2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/18/flugblatt-das-bei-der-ig-sl-debatte-in-new-york-verteilt-wurde-samstag-13-januar-2024/): Deutsche Übersetzung des englischen Originals   - [Leaflet distributed at IG/SL debate in New York (Saturday 13 January 2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/18/leaflet-distributed-at-ig-sl-debate-in-new-york-saturday-13-january-2024/) - [Defeatism and the Ukrainian working class](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/01/defeatism-and-the-ukrainian-working-class/): We recently received the following communication from a former Spartacist: I did just watch [the BT-SL debate]—you did a fine job, and I much appreciated your wrap-up, with its encomium of the early SL... - [Defend Gaza--Down with Murderous Zionist Aggression](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/12/11/defend-gaza-down-with-murderous-zionist-aggression/) - [Präsentation der BT bei der Ukraine-Debatte mit der SL](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/12/09/prasentation-der-bt-bei-der-ukraine-debatte-mit-der-sl/): Wie ihr wahrscheinlich wisst, wollen wir von der Bolschewistischen Tendenz einen russischen militärischen Sieg in der Ukraine, während die Spartacist League auf beiden Seiten eine defätistische Position vertritt. Die meisten linken Gruppen, die eine... - [Presentación de la Tendencia Bolchevique en el debate sobre Ucrania con la Liga Espartaquista](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/12/01/intervencion-de-la-tendencia-bolchevique-en-el-debate-sobre-ucrania-con-la-liga-espartaquista/): Como seguramente se sabe, en la Tendencia Bolchevique queremos ver la victoria militar rusa en Ucrania, mientras que la Liga Espartaquista adopta una posición derrotista en ambos bandos. La mayoría de los grupos de... - [An exchange on BT-SL debate with a former Spartacist cadre](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/11/27/an-exchange-on-bt-sl-debate-with-a-former-spartacist-cadre/): Former Spartacist cadre: Thanks for this, Tom. There was a problem with the link you sent me, so I tried the one that [J] sent out later and it worked well. Just finished watching... - [BT comments prepared for Toronto anti-NATO protest](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/11/23/bt-comments-at-toronto-anti-nato-protest/):   The following remarks were prepared for a Toronto Coalition Against NATO rally on 22 November in front of the convention of the Ontario Federation of Labour: The Bolshevik Tendency is here today as... - [Toronto protest - "End NATO's Proxy War in Ukraine"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/11/20/toronto-protest-end-natos-proxy-war-in-ukraine/) - [Hidden audio of debate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/11/15/hidden-audio-of-debate/) - [Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed—Onward to a Socialist Future!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/21/capitalism-cant-be-fixed-onward-to-a-socialist-future/): <9 December 2025 version> https://yvesforndpleader.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Capitalism-Cant-Be-Fixed%E2%80%94Onward-to-a-Socialist-Future_Dec9_2025_final.pdf Canada is at a crossroads. Workers, small business owners, and entire communities are being squeezed by rising costs, stagnant wages, and record debt. Housing and food prices have spiraled out of reach for millions, while public services — from healthcare to transit — are defunded and left to decline while the private sector waits to fill the gap at a price. Successive governments, be they Liberal or Conservative, seize sweeping powers to restrict Indigenous and labour rights, and crush democratic protest. At the same time, the billionaire class has accumulated its wealth from centuries of stealing... - [Ecosocialism: planned, sustainable development](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/21/ecosocialism-planned-sustainable-development/): On political orientation The central message of the Yves Engler campaign for NDP leadership is that we need to start thinking outside the capitalist box if we are to make progress toward reorganizing society on a socialist basis. The NDP, from its birth in 1961, has often advocated social justice, and sometimes even talked about “socialism,” but has never seriously challenged the rights and prerogatives of the wealthy ruling elite. Yves Engler proposes to do just that. “Building a Clean and Sustainable Canada” https://www.ndp.ca/sites/default/files/ndp-con2021-resolutions-section-02-en-v6.pdf compiles a number of resolutions on the environment from the NDP’s 2021 convention. Many of them contained... - [Eco-Socialism or Extinction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/21/eco-socialism-or-extinction/): If humanity is to survive, capitalism must be eliminated! The deterioration of the global biosphere is approaching a catastrophic crisis. This is not a natural disaster but the direct result of the operation of a social system which prioritizes pursuit of private profit over all else. Humanity faces a choice between socialism or barbarism as our planet becomes increasingly less habitable. Human survival requires ending the capitalist system of production for profit by expropriating the existing apparatus of industrial production, communication, transport and finance in order to initiate the creation of a rational, egalitarian, planned economy which prioritizes the common good.... - [Protestors denounce Canadian prime minister Mark Carney's "Canada Investment Summit"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/21/protestors-denounce-canadian-prime-minister-mark-carneys-canada-investment-summit/): The BT joined more than 2000 protesters in Toronto on 14 September to denounce Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s “Canada Investment Summit” where financial oligarchs (both domestic and foreign) discussed government plans to attract $1 trillion in private capital by shredding regulations on working conditions, environmental protection and the rights of Indigenous peoples. The night before the protest we participated in a public forum alongside representatives of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Socialist Action and the Trotskyist League. The following is the text of our speaker’s remarks: We are at an important historical juncture—a lot of tectonic plates are shifting in the... - [Carta a los asistentes al ‘Revolution Festival 2024’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/21/carta-a-los-asistentes-al-revolution-festival-2024/): Sobre la visión de Ted Grant de los policías y los funcionarios de prisiones como ‘compañeros de trabajo’ En octubre de 2019 Socialist Revolution, periódico de la sección estadounidense de la International Marxist Tendency, publicó una amplia crítica del “sectarismo ultraizquierdista” que entre otras cosas abordaba la visión marxista de los policías y los funcionarios de prisiones. La polémica surgió a raíz de la deserción de James B. de la citada I.M.T. al Grupo Internacionalista (IG), organización cuyos cuadros fundadores, como los nuestros, procedían de la Liga Espartaquista. El artículo postulaba que el pensamiento “‘binario’ y ‘y de talla única’” de los... - [Freiheit für Bogdan Syrotiuk!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/21/freiheit-fur-bogdan-syrotiuk/): Der nachfolgende Brief ist eine Übersetzung des englischen Originals, das wir am 26. August auf bolsheviktendency.org veröffentlichten. An das Stadtbezirksgericht Perwomaisk und das Berufungsgericht Nikolajew: 24. August 2026 Freiheit für Bogdan Syrotiuk! Wir haben kürzlich erfahren, dass Bogdan Syrotiuk, ein sozialistischer Aktivist, am 10. August wegen „Hochverrats“ zu 15 Jahren Haft verurteilt wurde, weil er angeblich im Zusammenhang mit dem aktuellen militärischen Konflikt russlandfreundliche politische Ansichten geäußert haben soll. Wir verurteilen dies aufs Schärfste als grobe Verhöhnung der Gerechtigkeit. Bogdan wird ins Gefängnis geworfen, weil er politische Ansichten geäußert hat, die von der Führung des derzeitigen reaktionären Regimes in Kiew nicht... - [Trotsky sobre las tácticas: ‘Aprender a pensar’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/14/trotsky-sobre-las-tacticas-aprender-a-pensar/): ¿Deberían los marxistas ser indiferentes a la OTAN? Un camarada nos criticó por participar en un frente unido en Toronto hace un año que incluía la demanda “Canadá fuera de la OTAN” como parte de su base de unidad junto con llamamientos a “Poner fin a la guerra por intermediarios de la OTAN en Ucrania” y “Disolución OTAN.” Nuestro crítico, que comparte nuestra oposición al pérfido papel de la OTAN en la devastación de Ucrania, opina que pedir que un determinado Estado imperialista abandone la alianza militar liderada por Estados Unidos equivale a abogar por la participación en un enfrentamiento diferente pero cualitativamente... - [¡Libertad para Bogdan Syrotiuk!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/31/libertad-para-bogdan-syrotiuk/): Al Juzgado de Distrito de la ciudad de Pervomaisk y al Tribunal de Apelación de Nikolaev: 24 de agosto de 2026 ¡Liberad a Bogdan Syrotiuk! Recientemente hemos sabido que Bogdan Syrotiuk, activista socialista, fue condenado el 10 de agosto a 15 años de prisión por «alta traición», debido supuestamente a expresar opiniones políticas favorables a Rusia en relación con el actual conflicto militar. Condenamos enérgicamente este hecho como una flagrante parodia de la justicia. Bogdan está siendo encarcelado por expresar opiniones políticas que no cuentan con la aprobación de los dirigentes del actual régimen reaccionario de Kiev. Su verdadero “delito” es... - [Sobre nuestro rechazo a una oferta de la ICL](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/31/sobre-nuestro-rechazo-a-una-oferta-de-la-icl/): En febrero de 2025 la Liga Comunista Internacional (ICL) escribió a Tendencia Bolchevique preguntándonos si queríamos unirnos a su organización como facción minoritaria. La rechazamos. A continuación incluimos la carta de la ICL y nuestra respuesta. 13 de febrero de 2025 A la Tendencia Bolchevique Estimados camaradas: Desde la reorientación de la ICL entre 2022 y 2023 nuestras dos organizaciones han mantenido conversaciones sobre diversos temas, desde el debate público que celebramos en 2023 sobre la guerra de Ucrania hasta una reciente reunión con miembros de vuestra sección británica centrada en la cuestión nacional. Nuestras conversaciones han estado caracterizadas por la... - [Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/26/free-bogdan-syrotiuk/): To the Pervomaisk City District Court and the Nikolaev Court of Appeal: 24 August, 2026 Free Bogdan Syrotiuk! We recently learned that Bogdan Syrotiuk, a socialist activist, was sentenced on 10 August to 15 years in prison for “high treason”, for allegedly expressing political opinions favorable to Russia with regard to the current military conflict. We strongly condemn this as a gross travesty of justice. Bogdan is being thrown in prison for expressing political views which are not approved by the leadership of the current reactionary regime in Kiev. His real “crime” is being a member of the Young Guard of... - [Manifestaciones en defensa de los activistas franceses pro-Palestina](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/18/manifestaciones-en-defensa-de-los-activistas-franceses-pro-palestina/): Los camaradas de Tendencia Bolchevique asistieron el martes 17 de junio [2025] a las manifestaciones de Londres y Nueva York en defensa de los compañeros franceses perseguidos por sus posturas a favor de Palestina. Discurso de BT en la manifestación de Londres: Hola! Me llamo H y hablo en nombre de la Tendencia Bolchevique. En primer lugar, me gustaría dar las gracias a los organizadores por convocar esta protesta. Compañeros del grupo francés Fracción Trotskista (Révolution Permanente) y del NPA-R (Le Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste – Révolutionnaires), entre otros en Francia, se encuentran en prisión o se enfrentan a penas de cárcel... - [¿Por qué un «Estado obrero binacional»?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/18/por-que-un-estado-obrero-binacional/): En una polémica de 1988 con la organización británica Workers Power abordamos nuestras diferencias sobre el enfoque de Vladimir Lenin respecto a la “cuestión nacional”. En concreto, discutimos cómo la interpenetración de los dos pueblos que viven en el territorio de Palestina-Israel hace imposible resolver de forma equitativa sus reivindicaciones contrapuestas mediante una solución de dos Estados, o de un solo Estado dentro de un marco capitalista: «Autodeterminación» y pueblos mezclados La mayoría de las cuestiones nacionales que se planteaban en la época de Lenin se han resuelto: las antiguas colonias de las potencias imperialistas han alcanzado en general una independencia... - ['La Guerra árabe-judía en Palestina'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/08/la-guerra-arabe-judia-en-palestina/): Declaración trotskista en 1948 sobre la refundación del estado sionista El siguiente editorial apareció en la edición del 31 de mayo de 1948 de Militant, publicado por el Socialist Workers Party (EE.UU.) dirigido por James P. Cannon. En aquel momento, Militant era el órgano dirigente de la Cuarta Internacional, fundada una década antes por León Trotsky. Las actuales intrigas de las grandes potencias y las maniobras furtivas en la ONU sobre Palestina reflejan la marcada brecha entre el imperialismo británico y estadounidense en este tema. La posición británica en Oriente Medio se está debilitando constantemente como reflejo de la desintegración general... - [Lenin sobre el imperialismo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/08/lenin-sobre-el-imperialismo/): Cuando estalla la Primera Guerra Mundial en agosto de 1914 Vladimir Lenin quedó atónito ante la ola de socialpatriotismo que se extendió por la Segunda Internacional, incluida su abanderado alemán, el Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD). Todas las solemnes resoluciones adoptadas por los principales dirigentes socialistas del mundo, en las que se afirmaba que los trabajadores de los países beligerantes lanzarían huelgas generales simultáneas para resistirse a la guerra inter imperialista, resultaron no ser más que papel mojado. El afán con el que los líderes de los partidos de masas de la clase obrera instaron a sus seguidores a alistarse en una... - [¡Por un Estado obrero binacional en Palestina-Israel!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/08/por-un-estado-obrero-binacional-en-palestina-israel/): Desde el río hasta el mar: ¡Acabemos con la tiranía sionista! La campaña de terror generalizado que se está llevando a cabo en Gaza es la respuesta patológica de la desquiciada clase dominante sionista de Israel a la huida del gueto del 7 de octubre de 2023, que tuvo un éxito notable, liderada por Hamás, la principal organización de resistencia islamista en los territorios palestinos ocupados. Desde la creación del Estado judío en 1948, una cosa en la que todas las facciones de la clase dominante sionista han coincidido es que su supervivencia depende de proyectar una imagen de superioridad militar... - [Confusionismo 'trotskista'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/07/21/confusionismo-trotskista/): La doble verdad de la Fracción Trotskista sobre el imperialismo, Ucrania, China y la multipolaridad A diferencia de muchas tendencias pseudo-trotskistas, los post-morenistas de la Fracción Trotskista (FT) han crecido en los últimos años, particularmente en Francia. Los agudos conflictos de clases en toda Europa se han visto alimentados por las consecuencias económicas de la guerra en Ucrania, en particular el boicot a las exportaciones de energía rusas. Esta guerra es una parte importante de un orden multipolar emergente, impulsado por la revuelta de varios países neocoloniales y capitalistas dependientes, y lo que es más importante, por el Estado obrero deformado... - [¡Por la victoria militar de Irán!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/07/21/por-la-victoria-militar-de-iran/): Derrotemos la agresión criminal de EE. UU. e Israel — Por una Federación Socialista de Oriente Medio El ataque militar contra Irán por parte de Estados Unidos y su socio sionista tiene como objetivo un «cambio de régimen», es decir, el derrocamiento de la República Islámica en favor de un gobierno títere proimperialista. Hasta ahora, las cosas no van bien para los agresores y, ante las inminentes y desastrosas consecuencias económicas que supondría el cierre del estrecho de Ormuz por parte de Irán, los partidarios de Trump están barajando el envío de tropas terrestres para reforzar su considerable flota naval, ya... - [Für den militärischen Sieg des Iran!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/07/20/fur-den-militarischen-sieg-des-iran/): Nieder mit der kriminellen Aggression der USA und Israels — Für eine sozialistische Föderation des Nahen Ostens Dieser Text ist eine Übersetzung aus dem Englischen, den wir am 14. März auf bolsheviktendency.org veröffentlichten. Der militärische Angriff der Vereinigten Staaten und ihres zionistischen Juniorpartners auf den Iran zielt auf einen „Regimewechsel“ ab, d. h. den Sturz der Islamischen Republik zugunsten einer pro-imperialistischen Marionettenregierung. Bislang läuft es für die Aggressoren nicht gut, und angesichts der drohenden katastrophalen wirtschaftlichen Folgen einer Schließung der Straße von Hormus durch den Iran erwägen die Trump-Anhänger nun die Entsendung von Bodentruppen, um ihre bereits in der Region stationierte beträchtliche... - [The End of NATO](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/07/16/the-end-of-nato/): BT speech at RedMed’s Anti-NATO conference, 4 July The EEK [The Workers Revolutionary Party, Greece] and the DIP [Revolutionary Workers’ Party, Turkey] hosted the event with participants ranging from Argentina, Cuba and Venezuela to India, Romania and Russia. Thank you for inviting me. In a 2021 paper the German government noted that the geopolitical terrain was gradually shifting towards multi-polarity as many dependent-capitalist and neo-colonial countries became less dependent on Western governments and financial institutions. Last February, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio obscenely lauded Europe’s brutal colonial history at the Munich Security Conference and declared US intentions to replicate it. [The Chinese deformed workers’ state] is America’s... - [La fin de l'OTAN : les retombées de l'Ukraine et de l'Iran](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/07/08/la-fin-de-lotan-les-retombees-de-lukraine-et-de-liran/): Voici le texte en anglais d’un discours prononcé le 26 mai par la TB lors de la Fête de Lutte Ouvrière, près de Paris. 77 ans après sa création, l’OTAN – l’alliance impérialiste la plus dangereuse de l’histoire – est au bord du gouffre. L’OTAN n’a jamais été une « alliance défensive » : dès sa création, c’était un cartel contrerévolutionnaire agressif dirigé par les États-Unis, qui visait à « faire reculer » l’Union soviétique et les États ouvriers déformés d’Europe de l’Est. Mais même au plus fort de la Guerre froide, l’OTAN n’a jamais entièrement transcendé les tensions inter-impérialistes entre... - [Interview at Upstate Anarchist Bookfair 2026](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/06/30/interview-at-upstate-anarchist-bookfair-2026/): An interview of Bolshevik Tendency comrades attending the Upstate Anarchist Bookfair in Binghampton, New York on the weekend of 2nd & 3rd May 2026. - [The Primacy of Politics](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/06/27/the-primacy-of-politics/): 14 July 2024 Comrades: As you will undoubtedly agree, the present historical moment offers significant opportunities for the growth of a revolutionary Marxist current within the international workers’ movement. Yet the forces upholding the tradition of genuine Trotskyism are far too small to be able to take full advantage of current possibilities. We think that a unification of the cadres of the BT with your larger and more influential (although still very modest) organization could represent a step in the right direction. We have long regarded the IG as the organization with which we have the highest degree of formal programmatic... - [LaVerne Sims and MOVE's attitude to her](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/06/27/laverne-sims-and-moves-attitude-to-her/): Letter to Workers Vanguard Toronto 10 June 2005 To the Editor: The 13 May issue of Workers Vanguard (WV No. 848) chose to revisit one of the more outrageous violations of workers’ democracy ever committed by the Spartacist League (SL). In July 1985 the SL held a public meeting in New York to denounce the racist murder of eleven MOVE members in Philadelphia two months earlier. At the meeting, LaVerne Sims, a former MOVE member and featured speaker, gratuitously cop-baited a member of the League for the Revolutionary Party (LRP). The SL leaders present not only refused to defend the LRP... - [End of NATO: Blowback from Ukraine and Iran](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/06/05/end-of-nato-blowback-from-ukraine-and-iran/): The following is the English-language text of a 26 May BT talk at Lutte Ouvrière’s Fête outside Paris. 77 years after its launch, NATO—the most dangerous imperialist alliance in history—is on the rocks. NATO was never a “defensive alliance”: it was, from its inception, an aggressive counter-revolutionary cartel led by the US which aimed to “roll back” the Soviet Union and the East European deformed workers’ states. But even at the height of the Cold War, NATO never entirely transcended the inter-imperialist tensions between its member states, as the French withdrawal from the integrated command structure in the mid-1960s dramatically illustrated.... - [Lénine sur l'impérialisme](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/05/08/lenine-sur-limperialisme/): En août 1914, au déclenchement de la Première Guerre mondiale, Vladimir Lénine fut stupéfait par la vague de social-patriotisme qui envahit la Deuxième Internationale, y compris le fleuron allemand, le Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD). Toutes les résolutions solennelles adoptées par les principaux socialistes du monde, affirmant que les travailleurs des pays belligérants lanceront des grèves générales simultanées pour résister à la guerre inter-impérialiste, se révélèrent n’être que de simples bouts de papier. L’empressement avec lequel les dirigeants des partis ouvriers de masse incitèrent leurs militants à s’engager dans un conflit fratricide mutuel obligea Lénine à entreprendre une réévaluation complète de nombre... - [Release Yousof Azizi immediately!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/04/28/release-yousof-azizi-immediately/): On 14 April 2026 Yousof Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at the University of Virginia and a valid visa holder was arrested by ICE agents. Azizi is an opponent of the U.S./Israeli war against Iran and it seems clear that his arrest was politically motivated. The Bolshevik Tendency calls for his immediate release. Click Here to Sign the Petition for his Release - [Your Party "Left" appeal to their executioner](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/04/14/your-party-left-appeal-to-their-executioner/): A member of the Democrat Socialists of Your Party (DSYP) asked the Bolshevik Tendency to sign this statement: Your Party – No to Bans! No to Expulsions!. But we did not sign it, despite our contempt for this cowardly attempt by the Corbyn clique to preemptively purge any potential left critics. We certainly agree that “A confident, democratic socialist party does not fear organised ideas but tests them openly and democratically,” but Your Party (YP) is not such a party – it’s now effectively a political corpse. Its leadership are reformist cynics who eagerly offer electoral support to the Green Party,... - [Your Party: a stillbirth](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/03/31/your-party-a-stillbirth/): Sabotaged by Corbyn, oblivious to the class line The 3 July 2025 announcement by former Labour left MP Zarah Sultana that she and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn were going to launch a new party was greeted with a surge of popular enthusiasm. Within a week, some 600,000 signed up for “Your Party”, including many who had participated in the “Enough is Enough” (EIE) campaign during the wave of public sector strikes that peaked in February 2022. Sultana, who played a leading role in EIE, sought to channel this working-class militancy back into the Labour Party by suggesting that Keir Starmer... - [Military Victory to Iran!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/03/15/military-victory-to-iran/): Defeat US/Israeli Criminal Aggression — For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East The military assault on Iran by the United States and its Zionist junior partner is aimed at a “regime change” over-throw of the Islamic Republic in favor of a pro-imperialist puppet government. Thus far, things are not going well for the aggressors and with the looming disastrous economic consequences of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, the Trumpites are considering dispatching ground troops to supplement their sizeable “armada” already in the region. Iran is taking a lot of punishment from the air but it has been able to... - [„Trotzkistischer“ Konfusionismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/11/09/trotzkistischer-konfusionismus/): Das Doppeldenken der Trotzkistischen Fraktion in Bezug auf Imperialismus, Ukraine, China und Multipolarität Im Vergleich zu vielen pseudo-trotzkistischen Strömungen sind die ehemaligen Moreno-Anhänger der Trotzkistischen Fraktion (TF, in Deutschland repräsentiert durch die Revolutionäre Internationalistische Organisation (RIO) und deren Publikation Klasse gegen Klasse) in den letzten Jahren gewachsen, vor allem in Frankreich. Die sich verschärfenden Klassenkonflikte in ganz Europa wurden durch die wirtschaftlichen Folgen des Krieges in der Ukraine angeheizt, insbesondere durch den Boykott russischer Energieexporte. Dieser Krieg ist ein wichtiger Teil einer sich abzeichnenden multipolaren Ordnung, die von der Revolte verschiedener neokolonialer und abhängiger kapitalistischer Länder und vor allem des deformierten... - [Communists and elections](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/communists-and-elections/): Never mind the ballots? [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 11, May 2000] An adaptation of ‘Alle Jahre wieder – die Qual mit der Wahl’ from Bolschewik, no. 6, September 1994, journal of the IBT’s German section In times of undisputed bourgeois rule, the capitalist class likes to invite ‘our people’ to make use of the ballot box – a bourgeois democratic ritual often leading to confusion on the left. What is to be done if there is no revolutionary candidate? Can revolutionaries participate in elections to a bourgeois parliament, or does participation itself amount to class betrayal? Revolutionaries cannot simply answer these... - [Mayoral and GLA elections: London calling](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/mayoral-and-gla-elections-london-calling/): The left flank of chameleon Ken [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 11, May 2000] If Ken Livingstone succeeds in becoming mayor of London on 4 May, he will hardly know which victory party to attend and will wake in the morning with a welter of often conflicting expectations to fill – a hangover that can only be described as self-inflicted. His appeal for support to ‘millions of ordinary Londoners’, has gained him a following not only among vast numbers of disgruntled Labour voters but from across the whole political spectrum. An ICM poll in the Guardian the day after he announced his... - [Don't be fooled by APEC tears over East Timor](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/dont-be-fooled-by-apec-tears-over-east-timor/): Full independence for East Timor! – No UN/imperialist involvement! [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 10, January 2000] We reprint below a leaflet published by the New Zealand section of the International Bolshevik Tendency for the occasion of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) heads of government meeting held in Auckland from 9–13 September 1999. The leaflet was published on 10 September, shortly before Indonesia, under economic threat, acquiesced to an imperialist ‘peacekeeping’ force. Our New Zealand comrades sharply denounce any imperialist intervention, with or without Indonesia’s ‘permission’, and put the blame for the carnage and oppression in East Timor firmly on... - [Cliffites on Kosovo: Born-again Kautskyites](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/cliffites-on-kosovo-born-again-kautskyites/): Revolutionaries and imperialist war [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 10, January 2000] In his 1976 biography of Lenin, Tony Cliff warmly endorsed the Bolsheviks’ call to convert ‘the present imperialist war [World War I] into a civil war’. Cliff asserted that, ‘to aim at overthrowing one’s own ruling class through civil war, one must welcome the defeat of one’s “own” country’, and noted that ‘Lenin rejected with utter disgust the pacifist programme of Kautsky and his group’. But Karl Kautsky, long regarded as the champion of Marxian orthodoxy within the Second International, was not the only self-proclaimed revolutionary who capitulated to his... - [Build a mass campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/build-a-mass-campaign-to-free-mumia-abu-jamal/): [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 10, January 2000] After 17 years on death row in Philadelphia USA, black journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal remains under threat of political execution. Last October Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge signed a new death warrant, which set a date of 2 December for Mumia to be executed by lethal injection. A stay of execution has now been granted to allow for an appeals process, but Mumia’s life is still in grave danger. Last year the US Supreme Court rejected a petition that the court examine Mumia’s case without waiting for it to work up through the usual... - [After Kosovo War, imperialism and the left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/after-kosovo-war-imperialism-and-the-left/): [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 10, January 2000] Since June 1999, when Nato forced Slobodan Milosevic to pull his forces out of Kosovo after an 11 week bombing campaign, the hollowness of the imperialist claim to be waging ‘humanitarian’ war in the Balkans is plain for all to see. The bombing campaign killed over 2,000 civilians in Serbia and Kosovo, and in the years to come there are likely to be tens of thousands more unnecessary deaths directly resulting from Nato’s assault, just as after other imperialist attacks such as the 1991 Gulf War. The Nato powers have made it... - [Defend civil liberties](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/defend-civil-liberties/): Rights threatened in Blair’s new Britain [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 10, January 2000] The Labour government is embarking on a programme of legislation that should ring warning bells for Marxists and all those interested in defending civil liberties. Measures include the revision and extension of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, mandatory drug testing for suspected criminals, and an increase in the government’s powers to intercept private communication. The new anti-terrorism bill will broaden the definition of terrorism, amending the current ‘use of violence for political ends’ to ‘the use of serious violence against persons or property, or the threat... - [Political Origins of Labor Actions for Mumia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/political-origins-of-labor-actions-for-mumia/): (International Bolshevik Tendency statement 22 April 1999) [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 9, April 1999] The idea of mobilizing the power of the organized working class for Mumia’s freedom did not arise spontaneously in the Bay Area or Brazil. Many of the militants associated with the Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal (LAC), as well as some of the key initiators of the Oakland school teach-ins, were involved in the trade-union work of the then-revolutionary Spartacist League (SL) of the 1970s. Some also participated in the more modest activities of the forerunners of the International Bolshevik Tendency. In Rio... - [For Class-Struggle Defense of Mumia!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/for-class-struggle-defense-of-mumia/): Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! (International Bolshevik Tendency statement 22 April 1999) [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 9, April 1999] Mumia Abu-Jamal, former Black Panther and radical journalist, has been on death row in Pennsylvania for 17 years–framed for an act he did not commit by a vicious and racist system that aims to silence an eloquent critic. Mumia, whose passionate arguments on behalf of the oppressed have earned him a well-deserved reputation as “the Voice of the Voiceless,” is undoubtedly the best known death-row inmate in the U.S. today. On Mumia’s birthday, April 24th, hundreds of thousands of people around the... - [Capitalist Justice = No Justice](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/capitalist-justice-no-justice/): British police: Murderous troops of a racist state [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 9, April 1999] Roland Adams, Panchadcharam Sahitharan, Navid Sadiq, Mohammed Sarwar, Siddik Dada, Donald Palmer, Rohit Duggal, Ruhullah Aramesh, Ashiq Hussain, Khoaz Aziz Miah, Sher Singh Sagoo, Fiaz Mirza, Stephen Lawrence, Saied Ahmad, Ali Ibrahim, Donna O’Dwyer, Mohan Singh Kullar, Mushtaq Hussain, Liam Harrison, John Reid, Michael Menson, Manish Patel, Lahkvinder ‘Ricky’ Reel, Imran Khan, Farhan Mohomoud Mire, Sheldon Anton Bobb. These are only a few of those who have been killed in racially motivated attacks in Britain since 1991. The case of black teenager Stephen Lawrence... - [Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/free-mumia-abu-jamal-2/): Abolish the racist death penalty! [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 8, February 1999] In October last year the US courts ruled against the appeal of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the black activist and journalist who is on death row for a crime he did not commit. Ever since his days as a teenager fighting for racial equality and social justice in the Black Panther Party, the US government has targeted Mumia for elimination. The FBI has a file 700 pages long on Mumia, and called him ‘armed and dangerous’ even though he had committed not one crime in his life. The rulers... - [Bolshevism and Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/bolshevism-and-trotskyism/): Defending our history [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 8, February 1999] In the middle of last year, Marxist Bulletin supporters received a document from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) which stated their desire to ‘clarify the attitude of a number of Trotskyist organisations and individuals towards the project of revolutionary unity at this stage’. The CPGB are advocating a process of ‘rapprochement’, which consists of attempting to convince other groups on the left to join with them in the ‘Communist Party’ and argue out political differences within that framework. The International Bolshevik Tendency has a different project. We believe that... - [CPGB's Fake 'Partyism'Exposed](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/cpgbs-fake-partyismexposed/): [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 8, February 1999] The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) are well-known on the British left for their frequent invitations to all who consider themselves communist to join with them in one big communist party or, failing that, to attend their many events and seminars or write for their paper, the Weekly Worker. While we have differences with their conception of a communist party, the IBT is certainly in favour of political debate and in the past year since our comrades left the SLP we have participated in various CPGB-initiated events, debating crucial questions such as... - [Solidarity Declaration: Stop State Attacks on Leftists!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/solidarity-declaration-stop-state-attacks-on-leftists/): [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 8, February 1999] On 24 September 1998 there were police raids against three cultural associations in Duisburg the Cultural Association of Immigrants, Workers and Youth, the Association for the Advancement of the Cultural and Social Situation of the Turkish People, and the FABRIK Cultural Association. The FABRIK Cultural Association was searched by order of the Duisburg county court. Rooms were photographed, identity details recorded, and a leaflet confiscated (in both German and Turkish versions). The judicial excuse for these police infringements are proceedings being taken against a young female immigrant charged with breaking paragraph 164... - [State racism and repression continue](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/state-racism-and-repression-continue/): Whether black/yellow [CDU/FDP] or ‘red’/green [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 8, February 1999] The German section of the IBT has recently been involved in opposition to state attacks against immigrant groups in Duisburg, working in a united-front to build a protest demonstration that took place on 9 January. On page 23 we publish the text of a solidarity declaration for the victimised leftists, initiated by our comrades, and signed by a range of international organisations. The following text is translated from a 22 November 1998 supplement to Bolschewik, published by Gruppe Spartakus, German section of the IBT. At the beginning of August the... - [Defend Iraq Against Imperialist Attack!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/defend-iraq-against-imperialist-attack/): Down With UN Starvation Embargo Supplement, 19 December 1998 [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 8, February 1999] At 12:49 am Thursday morning Baghdad air raid sirens sounded, and minutes later the city was subjected to the first wave of a punitive imperialist terror-bombing operation dubbed “Desert Fox” by the U.S. Pentagon. Clinton’s “Desert Fox,” like George Bush’s 1991 “Desert Storm,” is all about maintaining U.S. hegemony in the oil-rich Middle East. Britain’s social-democratic prime minister, Tony Blair, volunteered British bombers for the murderous campaign. Blair has also vigorously defended Clinton against suggestions that the timing of the assault had anything... - [Railworkers Fight Effects of Government and Bosses’ Privatisation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/railworkers-fight-effects-of-government-and-bosses-privatisation/): For a class-struggle leadership, not conciliation! Supplement, 1 October 1998 [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 8, February 1999] Over the summer two groups of railworkers in the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) trade union have been battling a drive by New Labour and the bosses to cut jobs, cut pay, increase hours and further privatise the rail industry. This fight, carried out by a union with a reputation for militancy in a key industry, could have broad ramifications. The attacks faced by railworkers are the same attacks faced by all working people in Blair’s Britain – healthworkers, firefighters, teachers and... - [The Popular Front: A well-covered trap](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/the-popular-front-a-well-covered-trap/): [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 8, February 1999] When comrade Ian D resigned from the Marxist Bulletin/International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) last year, his resignation letter, subsequently published in his journal Revolution & Truth, accused his former comrades of refusing to debate his political differences with him. He claims that the leadership prevented any real debate on positions he raised regarding the popular front and the tradition of the Spartacist League. On several occasions he has repeated these accusations at political forums. Comrade Ian produced several documents while still in the IBT in which he criticised our refusal to give any electoral support... - [Is the Socialist Alliance a step forward?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/is-the-socialist-alliance-a-step-forward/): As Socialist Labour collapses… [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 8, February 1999] ‘The interests of the class cannot be formulated otherwise than in the shape of a programme; the programme cannot be defended otherwise than by creating the party.’ Leon Trotsky, ‘What Next? Vital questions for the German proletariat’, 27 January 1932 The Socialist Labour Party held its third annual congress on 14 November last year, revealing itself once again as a pitiful organisation – even more so than most critical observers expected. Delegates discussed no substantive politics, they travelled to the Manchester conference merely to elect a new leadership... - [US: Hands Off Iraq!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/us-hands-off-iraq/): Down With Imperialist State Terrorism! [Published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 7, May 1998] 23 February–We have just learned that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has announced an agreement with Saddam Hussein. Based on preliminary reports, it seems that the Iraqi government has acceded to the demands of the U.S. in exchange for some slight relaxation of the sanctions. The initial response of the American government has been to declare that its military deployment will remain in place. 22 February–The International Bolshevik Tendency condemns the imperialist plans to commit mass murder in Iraq. In recent weeks the world has been subjected... - [No Vote to Labour!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/no-vote-to-labour-4/): Local elections and London referendum [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 7, May 1998] On 7 May, as local elections are held in many parts of England, the Labour Party has been administering capitalism from Westminster for just over a year. On many local councils, they have been doing so for much longer. The local elections are the first chance for voters to tell the Labour government what we think of them so far. We should build for a result that shows the widest possible class-based expression of dissatisfaction in the government. We can only do this by not voting... - [Open Letter of Resignation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/open-letter-of-resignation/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 7, May 1998] 4 March 1998 Arthur Scargill General Secretary, SLP Dear Arthur, This letter is the joint resignation of the undersigned comrades from the Socialist Labour Party. As supporters of the Marxist Bulletin, we have always declared our support for the aims on which the SLP was founded – to build a party capable of destroying capitalism and instituting socialism. We have participated fully in party discussions on how to achieve this aim, and in building the party as a step towards that, for over two years. Your break from the Labour Party and... - [Party, Programme and Propaganda](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/party-programme-and-propaganda/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 7, May 1998] Supporters of the Marxist Bulletin resigned from the Socialist Labour Party in early March. The response of the party and its membership to the December congress continued to confirm our analysis that this congress was a significant turning point in the degeneration of the SLP (see ‘Opportunity Squandered’, MB6). We joined the party in early 1996, like many others excited by the opportunities it presented. But the party these days is anything but exciting. A few loyal activists do most of the work, tiny constituencies struggle to build viable groups, membership numbers... - [The Socialist Labour Party: From Opportunity to Obstacle](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/the-socialist-labour-party-from-opportunity-to-obstacle/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 7, May 1998] The following article, reprinted from What Next? No.7, 1998, is by Ian Dudley, one of the comrades who published the Marxist Bulletin inside the Socialist Labour Party. The December conference of the Socialist Labour Party was the culmination of a good deal of effort by the leadership of the party, centred around Arthur Scargill, to destroy the revolutionary potential that this highly contradictory left-wing split from Labour showed in its early months. For in early 1996 when Scargill called for the formation of a new working class party, many of the best militants of the British workers... - [A Better Bourgeois Britain?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/a-better-bourgeois-britain/): Republicanism and the National Question [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 7, May 1998] The SLP Republicans advocate a federal republic of England, Scotland and Wales and a united Ireland. Supporters of the Marxist Bulletin believe that without specifying the class content, this slogan merely calls for a different form of bourgeois state. After informal discussions outside the SLP Congress in December it was decided that the two groups should debate the question. This took place on 4 March 1998, attended by past and present SLP members and representatives of other organisations. Below is an edited version of the presentation given by... - [Black Liberation and the SLP Black Section](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/black-liberation-and-the-slp-black-section/): Race, Class and the Bloc Vote [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 6, February 1998] At the second SLP congress the SLP black section was ‘deleted’ by the bureaucratic and fraudulent use of a 3000 bloc vote from one affiliated organisation, the North West, Cheshire and Cumbria Miners’ Association (NWCCMA), an organisation of retired and ex-miners. This undemocratic use of a bloc vote to abolish the black section caused uproar at the congress and throughout the party as it was against the clear wishes of the majority of delegates and SLP members. While this debate on the existence of the... - [Opportunity Squandered](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/opportunity-squandered/): Setback in the fight for a revolutionary workers’ party [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 6, February 1998] The Socialist Labour Party has been a contradictory and diverse formation ever since its beginnings. In the early months of 1996 a wide spectrum of the left, seeking an alternative to the ever rightward moving Labour Party, responded to Arthur Scargill’s call for a working class party that would really answer the needs of the working class. The initial pronouncements of Scargill and other leading figures were far from perfect. The programme of the founding leadership stayed firmly within the bounds of... - [Stalinism: Rising from the grave?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/stalinism-rising-from-the-grave/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 5, December 1997] An edited version of a talk given by Christoph Lenk to a meeting of SLP members in November, organised by the Marxist Bulletin Stalinism as a historical phenomenon was the form reaction took after the 1917 October revolution. It was more than the dictatorial rule of one man, Joseph Stalin. Stalin was the representative of a whole social layer, the bureaucracy that arose in struggle against the democratic rule of the working- class. Leon Trotsky, leader of the revolutionary Red Army, analysed the consequences of the Stalinist triumph in the USSR... - [Socialist News and China](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/socialist-news-and-china/): The Stalinist School of Falsification [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 5, December 1997] Issue 8 of Socialist News contained an article by Don Hoskins about the hand over of Hong Kong to China, entitled ‘A “loss” we can only welcome’. The article described this event in terms of it representing a great victory for world socialism and a serious blow to world capitalism. Comrade Hoskins also argued that the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student/worker uprising was a necessary defence of socialism and indeed the comrade went so far as to claim that the Chinese democracy movement was the instigator... - [What Price Compromise?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/what-price-compromise/): Italian ‘sister party’ has second thoughts about hacking down the Olive Tree [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 5, December 1997] The Italian Party of Communist Refoundation (Rifondazione Comunista – RC), an organisation designated by Socialist Labour’s leadership as one of our ‘sister parties’, has recently been making headlines. In October, five days after bringing down Italy’s first ‘left’ government since 1945, RC was coaxed back into a position of once again supporting the ‘left’ austerity coalition. In the early stages of the political crisis RC withdrew its support for the 1998 budget, which the Italian ruling class considers crucial... - [Should we be publishing this bulletin?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/should-we-be-publishing-this-bulletin/): Free Speech and the Constitution [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 5, December 1997] Recently several members of the editorial collective of this publication received a letter from the General Secretary, Arthur Scargill, asking us to explain why we were involved in its publication when we ‘know these actions are in conflict with the Socialist Labour Party’s constitution’. The SLP Marxist Bulletin is published within the party by a group of party members with similar political views, as expressed in ‘A Marxist Programme for the SLP’). This programme is within the broad range of views held by SLP members and constitutes one strand... - [Socialist Labour & the trades union movement](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/socialist-labour-the-trades-union-movement/): Break with New Labour, break their anti-trades union laws [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 5, December 1997] The founders of the SLP in May l996 understood that things in the workers’ movement in Britain were changing. Being the oldest working-class movement in the world, and possibly the slowest, the ideas of gradualism are deeply ingrained. The British Labour Party has always been, is today and will always be – so goes the dominant view. But clearly the Labour Party is in the process of changing from what Lenin called a bourgeois workers party into an openly bourgeois party. The... - [Labour Movement on its Knees](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/labour-movement-on-its-knees/): Volatile Politics in Blair’s Britain [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 5, December 1997] British politics in 1997 is marked by the virtual absence of the working class as a distinct political force. In the aftermath of the election of the Blair government, politics has been characterised by a government-led drive for ‘reforms’ of some of the most blatantly undemocratic aspects of the political system, designed to deflect and dissipate the massive resentment that has built up in British society through the many years of savage Tory attacks, while keeping independent working class politics firmly off the mainstream political agenda. Thus the Blairites, having... - [Political Clarity and the NEC Elections](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/political-clarity-and-the-nec-elections/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 5, December 1997] For some time now supporters of the Marxist Bulletin have been involved with a number of other comrades in a campaign to democratise the SLP based on gathering support for the ‘Statement to the NEC and SLP Members on the Question of Party Democracy.’ As the Congress approached the majority of comrades involved in this bloc decided to stand a slate for the NEC elections based on another (very similar to the original) statement calling for a more democratic SLP. A number of supporters of the Marxist Bulletin are standing for the NEC as a slate... - [National Executive Committee Election Statement](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/national-executive-committee-election-statement/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 5, December 1997] Marxist Candidates Vice President: Alan Gibson (Secretary, Streatham CSLP; TGWU member) Representing CSLPs: Barbara Duke (Secretary, Islington North CSLP; North London women’s section member; contributor to Socialist News; NUJ workplace committee member) Representing Trade Unions: Gary Henson (Secretary, Hampstead & Highgate CSLP; edited North London newsletter; contributor to Socialist News; NUJ London Magazine branch executive member( Christoph Lenk (Secretary, Dulwich & West Norwood CSLP; BIFU shop steward & South-East Area Council delegate) Geoff Palmer (President, Hackney North & Stoke Newington CSLP; RMT member; SLP Rail Advisory Committee) The above candidates are part... - [The Membership Speaks](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/the-membership-speaks/): The Marxist Bulletin Voting Guide [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 5, December 1997] Party Congress is the highest point in the democratic life of the party. Here is where we can have our say – our chance to challenge or affirm existing policy and the existing leadership. Here is where the views of all members meet and interact with each other. Motions and amendments put up before Congress cover a vast range of topics – most worthy of hours of discussion in themselves. There are only two days. How to vote? We offer our suggestions – concentrating on key... - [Letter to the Editor, Socialist News](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/letter-to-the-editor-socialist-news/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 4, October 1997] Dear comrade, In issue 7 of Socialist News you printed an article entitled ‘Cuba Lives, 1997!’ written by myself. This was a report on a Cuba solidarity festival held in London in July, and included some commentary on the current situation in Cuba. However, several paragraphs of the article I submitted were either deleted or altered before publication. While I am happy to have my articles edited for stylistic or space reasons, the changes made in this case clearly changed the political content of the letter. I reproduce the relevant portions of my original text... - [Open Letter to SLP Marxist Bulletin](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/open-letter-to-slp-marxist-bulletin/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 4, October 1997] Dear comrades, For a democratic Socialist Labour Party I was most disappointed, upon arriving at the conference of the Campaign for a Democratic SLP on 14th June 1997, to receive the SLP Marxist Bulletin leaflet entitled ‘Don’t support this anti-SLP lash up’. The leaflet was thrust into my hand by your representative, immediately after I had received, from NEC member Terry Dunn, the ‘Message to Members from the NEC’, which threatened that any member attending the conference, or any other meeting intended to discuss changes to the Party constitution, would ‘be... - [Clarity Through Debate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/clarity-through-debate/): A reply to the General Secretary on the SLP constitution : unpublished letter to Socialist News [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 4, October 1997] Socialist News issue 7 carried an article by the SLP General Secretary entitled ‘Tackling danger head-on’ in which Arthur Scargill defended the existing constitution of the SLP and harshly criticised those comrades who want to change it. It is good to see a debate about this happening in our party, especially in view of the congress in December when the constitution will be voted on. Comrade Scargill is obviously worried about those comrades who are... - [Defend the Cuban Revolution!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/14709/): Only International Workers’ Struggle Can Save The Workers’ States [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 4, October 1997] Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European workers’ states, the world’s ruling classes have sought to instil in working people the ‘lesson’ that there is no alternative to capitalism. Working people faced with mass unemployment, poverty, homelessness, racism and other forms of social oppression, ecological destruction and all the other evils of modern capitalist society are told, however much some of these things are to be ‘regretted’, there is no alternative. The powers that be point to the... - [Sex, Censorship and Women’s Rights](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/sex-censorship-and-womens-rights/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 4, October 1997] by Barbara Duke I submitted the following resolution to the North London women’s section in the lead up to the national women’s section conference in late August. Unfortunately it did not gain enough support there for it to be further discussed at the national meeting or at our forthcoming congress. Below I argue why I believe this is an essential discussion on an issue which is important not only for the women’s section but for the party as a whole and the development of our policies. Sexual Freedom Socialist Labour is... - [New Scotland, New Wales](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/new-scotland-new-wales/): Is the working class better off? [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 4, October 1997] Tony Blair’s devolution referenda gave him the result he wanted. The people of Scotland (enthusiastically) and Wales (diffidently) voted to establish a Scottish Parliament with tax-raising powers and a Welsh Assembly with few powers of any kind. However there are a wide variety of interpretations of what this actually means for the people of these countries. In Scotland, Labour campaigned for a ‘Yes, Yes’ vote on the grounds that it would strengthen the United Kingdom; the Scottish Nationalist Party claims that the same result was... - [London Regional Committee Election Statement](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/london-regional-committee-election-statement/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 3, August 1997] Marxist Candidates: Vice-president: Barbara Duke (Secretary, Islington North CSLP; former treasurer, West London branch; member, North London women’s section; NUJ chapel committee member) Socialist News: Ian Dudley (President, Dulwich & West Norwood CSLP; contributor to Socialist News; member of MSF) Publicity: Gary Henson (Secretary, Hampstead & Highgate CSLP; edited North London newsletter; contributor to Socialist News; working journalist; NUJ London Magazine Branch executive member) Vote Marxist! We are part of the collective that produces the Socialist Labour Party Marxist Bulletin, a political journal for Socialist Labour members, which argues for the programme... - [Statement to the NEC and SLP Members on the question of Party Democracy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/statement-to-the-nec-and-slp-members-on-the-question-of-party-democracy/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 3, August 1997] From the following branches/CSLPs: Berkshire; Bracknell; Brighton; Ealing, Action & Shepherds Bush; Exeter; Harrow; Swindon; Walthamstow and over 50 individual party members, including 5 SLP parliamentary candidates The post-election situation, with a Blair government in office, will sharpen the political struggle within the Labour movement, between those who seek to discipline the movement according to the needs of the government, and those who want to strive for the interests of the working class. In this situation our new party will be tested out. If we are to grow significantly we shall... - [Don’t support this anti-SLP lash up!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/dont-support-this-anti-slp-lash-up/): Fight for democracy in the party! [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 3, August 1997] Today’s meeting of the Campaign for a Democratic Socialist Labour Party (CDSLP) has been called to organise a struggle against the bureaucratic expulsions of both individual SLP members, and whole branches, by the leadership. No doubt the participants in this meeting sincerely want to build Socialist Labour into a genuinely democratic mass working-class party, open to revolutionary ideas. There is certainly a need for a campaign to qualitatively improve the SLP’s democratic functioning. Despite a reasonable showing as a new party in the General Election,... - [Statements on Democracy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/statements-on-democracy/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 3, August 1997] On Democracy On 14 June the Campaign for a Democratic Socialist Labour Party (CDSLP) held a meeting in London, attended by a number of SLP members. As the name of the campaign suggests, the comrades involved want to establish Socialist Labour as a democratic working-class party. However, this intention was linked with the desire to make our party the object of public criticism by producing a non-internal journal. This is a serious mistake. It means that the subjectively good intentions of many participants appeared to other SLP members as not-so-good intentions... - [Anti-Racism and the Fight against the Bosses’ Immigration Controls](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/anti-racism-and-the-fight-against-the-bosses-immigration-controls/): Socialist Internationalism or National Chauvinism? [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 3, August 1997] The questions of fighting racism and stopping the fascists organising are key for any socialist. Our Socialist Labour Party must champion the rights of all immigrant workers, refugees and asylum-seekers and seek unity of all workers. An important part of this fight is campaigning against immigration controls imposed by ‘our’ British ruling class (and their related import controls). The SLP must fight reactionary and divisive demands such as ‘British jobs for British workers’ or ‘Buy British, boycott foreign goods’. These demands tie workers in Britain to... - [British Troops out of Ireland, Now!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/british-troops-out-of-ireland-now/): We need a workers’ solution to the ‘national’ divide! [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 3, August 1997] Tony Blair’s election on May 1st, together with the election of a Fianna Fail-dominated coalition government in the Irish Republic in June, has produced a flurry of activity by British, Irish and American politicians to revive the ‘peace process’ that foundered in February 1996, when the Docklands bombing signalled the end of the IRA’s 17-month long ceasefire. The Major government, desperate to cling onto power until the last possible moment with a parliamentary majority shrinking to non-existence, became chronically dependent on Unionist... - [Howard Keylor & the tragedy of the Militant Caucus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/11/howard-keylor-the-tragedy-of-the-militant-caucus/): Trotskyist work in the ILWU 1974-87 “Everything depends upon the interrelation between the party and the class. A single employed Communist who is elected to the factory committee or to the administration of a trade union has a greater significance than a thousand new members, picked up here and there, who enter the party today in order to leave it tomorrow.” Leon Trotsky, “What Next?” 27 January 1932 Howard Keylor, who was exactly the kind of worker-communist militant praised by Trotsky, died on 5 October 2024—two months short of his 99th birthday. At a meeting held to honor Howard at the... - [Nieder mit dem deutschen Militarismus!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/03/nieder-mit-dem-deutschen-militarismus/): „Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch‘ ich Gewalt“ Der deutsche Imperialismus rüstet sich für neue Kriege. Der Hintergrund ist die im Aufstieg befindliche multipolare Weltordnung, in der nicht mehr nur westlich-imperialistische Staaten das Sagen haben. Die Imperialisten, Deutschland miteingeschlossen, führen nicht nur Krieg in der Ukraine gegen Russland und in Westasien an der Seite Israels, sondern planen mittelfristig die Konfrontation mit China, das aufgrund seiner rasanten wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung – wesentlich gefördert durch den geplanten Kern seiner Wirtschaft – die westliche Hegemonie herausfordert, die sich seit der kapitalistischen Weltwirtschaftskrise in Stagnation befindet. Berlins vorrangiges Ziel ist wieder einmal die Unterjochung Russlands.... - [Declining an offer from the ICL](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/09/06/declining-an-offer-from-the-icl/): In February 2025, The International Communist League (ICL) wrote to the Bolshevik Tendency asking if we wanted to join their organisation as a minority faction. We declined. Here is the ICL’s letter and our response. 13 February 2025 To the Bolshevik Tendency Dear comrades, Since the reorientation of the ICL in 2022-23, both our organisations have had discussions on several subjects, from the public debate we held in 2023 on the Ukraine war to a recent sit-down with members of your British section centred on the national question. Our discussions have been comradely but neither side has moved closer on any... - [For Workers Soviets - Now!, Jan 1991](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/08/09/for-workers-soviets-now/) - [MC on KNC solidarity, Jan 3, 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/08/02/mc-on-knc-solidarity-jan-3-1975/) - [LEVIN Contract, June, 1983](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/08/02/levin-contract-june-1983-2/) - [KNC Strike Settled, Jan 25, 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/08/02/knc-strike-settled-jan-25-1975/) - [ILA & ILWU Boycott Chilean Cargo, Sep 21, 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/08/02/ila-ilwu-boycott-chilean-cargo-sep-21-1974/) - [No Goods to Chile's Junta, Sep 17, 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/08/02/no-goods-to-chiles-junta-sep-17-1974/) - [LMW Issue #5, April 4, 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/08/02/lmw-issue-5-april-4-1975/) - [Stop Repression in Chile, Feb, 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/08/01/stop-repression-in-chile-feb-1974/) - [Letter to the NEC from expelled members of the Vauxhall CSLP](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/27/letter-to-the-nec-from-expelled-members-of-the-vauxhall-cslp/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 2, May 1997] 12 April 1997 Dear NEC comrades, This letter is from the comrades in Vauxhall who have been expelled from the SLP for defending Barry Biddulph’s membership at the farcical ‘reconstitution’ of the Vauxhall CSLP which took place on Monday 7th April. The Vauxhall comrades received a letter from NEC member Terry Dunn saying that we were all no longer members of the SLP and that the Vauxhall CSLP would be ‘reconstituted’ with only those comrades who agreed to the following three questions: Do you agree to abide by the Constitution of... - [Of and Within the SLP](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/27/of-and-within-the-slp/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 2, May 1997] (The following motion is currently being discussed by Socialist Labour comrades in Vauxhall) This meeting of comrades from the Vauxhall CSLP: Rejects the following decisions taken by the majority at the meeting on April 13th called to defend the Vauxhall CSLP; – To politically link the Vauxhall and Brent East election campaigns – To sponsor the ‘Campaign for a Democratic SLP’ – To publish a public journal as they are counterposed to our perspective of working within the SLP. Resolves to continue with our perspective of demanding that the NEC provide... - [For working class independence!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/27/for-working-class-independence-2/): No vote to the Labour Party! [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 2, May 1997] The following document was submitted by Alan Gibson of the Vauxhall CSLP to the journal Socialist Labour Action in reply to an article by Bernie McAdam in issue 1 of that journal. However, despite Socialist Labour Action’s call for responses in issue 1, comrade Gibson’s article was not published in issue 2, although other articles supporting comrade McAdam were included. Clearly, the argument was more immediately relevant before the general election, but it does cover wider concerns to do with the role and nature of the Labour Party. We print... - [Party Debates on Ireland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/27/party-debates-on-ireland/): On Bourgeois ‘Peace Talks’ and ‘Nationalist’ Bombs [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 2, May 1997] At the first congress of our party the draft policy paper on Ireland received an important amendment. The call for ‘Troops out now!’ was added to the list of demands and signalled that the majority of members was committed to fight the enemy at home. In fact, any socialist organisation that does not call for the immediate withdrawal of the British army from Ireland is not worth anything. However, there is an alarming element of illusion regarding the ‘peace talks’ in the party’s perspectives.... - [Defend branches and individuals against expulsion without appeal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/27/defend-branches-and-individuals-against-expulsion-without-appeal/): Let the Party Membership Decide! [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 2, May 1997] The Vauxhall CSLP was unceremoniously shut down by the NEC before the election on unsubstantiated grounds of contravening the party constitution. But the branch is not taking this treatment lying down. As well as running an energetic election campaign which saw its candidate, Ian Driver, gain 983 votes, the branch hosted a meeting on 13 April to discuss the disbanding of the branch, the mass suspension of its membership and other issues of democracy in the party. This meeting was attended by about 40 party members,... - [Labour, the SLP and the Election](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/27/labour-the-slp-and-the-election/): Fight the Blairite Tide! [First published in Marxist Bulletin – Issue 2, May 1997] Tony Blair’s massive election victory on May 1st was described by the Guardian (3rd May) as a ‘revolution’. The Guardian went on to add: ‘The single most important thing to say about the election result is that it transforms virtually every possibility on the political landscape. It doesn’t just redraw the map, it alters what the map itself can actually be about. . . . Whatever happens in the years ahead – and who knows after such a turnaround how many of those years there will be – it is vital... - [LMW Joint Issue #9, Feb 1, 1980](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/25/lmw-joint-issue-9-feb-1-1980/) - [LM Issue #35, Dec 8, 1977](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/25/lm-issue-35-dec-8-1977/) - [LMW Joint Issue #15, Aug 17, 1981](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/25/lmw-joint-issue-15-aug-17-1981/) - [LM Issue #47, Dec 26, 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/25/lm-issue-47-dec-26-1979/) - [LWM Joint Issue #17, Jan 14, 1983](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/25/lwm-joint-issue-17-jan-14-1983/) ## Pages - [1917 #25 (2003)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-25-2003/): Imperialists Run Amok U.S./UN Out of the Middle East! Lessons from Working-Class History: State Repression & the Left Pacifism as the Servant of Imperialism Blair’s New Labour: A Party Fit for Imperialism SPD’s Peace... - [1917 #26 (2004)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-26/): Defend the Palestinians! Not Jew Against Arab, But Class Against Class! China: Towards the Brink Capitalism in a Deformed Workers’ State Blowback in Iraq Drive Out the Imperialists—By Any Means Necessary! Fifth Wheel Internationalists... - [1917 #27 (2005)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-27-2005/): Iraq: Imperial Overreach U.S./UK Troops Out Now! No to the Hijab Ban! For the Separation of Religion & State Anti-Fascist Protest in Wellington Smash the National Front! ‘Bolivarian’or Proletarian Revolution? Letter to Fire This... - [1917 #28 (2006)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-28-2006/): Venezuela: State & Revolution For a Socialist Federation of Latin America! Iraq Unravels The Empire Strikes Out Imperialist Expansionism & the EU Predators & Prey New Orleans: Racism & Capitalist Irrationality U.S. Imperialism in... - [Stellungnahmen/Flugblätter](https://bolsheviktendency.org/stellungnahmen-flugblatter/): Freiheit für Bogdan Syrotiuk! (21. September 2026) Für den militärischen Sieg des Iran! (20. Juli 2026) „Trotzkistischer“ Konfusionismus: Das Doppeldenken der Trotzkistischen Fraktion in Bezug auf Imperialismus, Ukraine, China und Multipolarität (9. November 2025)... - [1917 #29 (2007)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-29-2007/): Endgame in Iraq Imperialists Out of the Middle East! In Defense of Leninism Anarchist Organization and Vanguardism Letter to NEFAC Reformism, Pacifism & Anarcho-Opportunism The ‘New’ German Reformism WASG & the ‘Far Left’ The... - [1917 #30 (2008)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-30-2008/): Venezuela & the Left Marxism & the ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ Middle East Morass Drive Out the Imperialists! James P. 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Neither the... - [1917 #38 (2016)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-38-2016/): Middle East Chaos Imperialism, Islamic Reaction & Syria’s Civil War Proletarian Internationalism & the Struggle against Fortress Europe Defend refugees against terror and deportation! Smash racist and fascist mobilizations! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! United-Front Rally... - [1917 #37 (2015)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-37-2015/): Ukraine, Russia & the Struggle for Eurasia Tectonic Shifts in Global Politics Confronting a World in Turmoil Seventh International Conference of the IBT Unity, Class, Program Managing the Greek Crisis Syriza & the Dangers... - [1917 #36 (2014)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-36-2014/): Middle East Upheaval Imperialist Crimes & Machinations Déjà vu All Over Again Socialist Action & the ‘Syrian Revolution’ Communism & Ecology Human Emancipation & the Materialist Conception of History Marxism vs. Keynesianism CWI Debates... - [1917 #35 (2013)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-35-2013/): Capitalist Crisis & the EU For the Socialist United States of Europe! Black Bloc Streetfighters & Liberal Pacifists The Politics of Confrontation Quebec Students Fight Back Mass Struggle Repels Austerity Attack For Workers’ Strikes... - [1917 #34 (2012)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-34-2012/): Pathologies of Capitalism Economic Crisis & Neocolonial Wars Libya & the Left NATO, Rebels & ‘Revolutionary’ Apologists Defeat the Imperialists! IBT Statement on NATO’s Libya Campaign Anti-Imperialism vs. Pro-Intervention ‘Solidarity’ Polemic with Irish Anarchists... - [1917 #33 (2011)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-33-2011/): Israel Apartheid & Palestinian Oppression For Joint Arab-Jewish Class Struggle to Smash Zionism! Strategies for Palestinian Liberation On the ‘Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions’ Campaign Mass Revolt in Egypt A Crisis of Revolutionary Leadership Class... - [Pamphlets](https://bolsheviktendency.org/pamphlets/): Marxism vs. ‘Militant’ Reformism The CWI’s Kautskyan Caricature of Trotskyism Solidarność: Acid Test for Trotskyists   - [Trotzkistische Bulletins](https://bolsheviktendency.org/trotzkistisches-bulletins/): Nr. 1 Die SpAD in der DDR Opportunismus in revolutionärer Verkleidung Zur Geschichte der Internationalen Kommunistischen Liga Nr. 2 Der August-Putsch 1991 – das Ende der Sowjetunion Drei Tage im August Nr. 3 NEPAL:... - [For Trotskyism!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/for-trotskyism/): Programmatic declaration of the Bolshevik Tendency The following document was adopted by the fusion conference of the Bolshevik Tendency and the Left Trotskyist Tendency in 1987 as a codification of the programmatic agreement reached... - [Trotskyist Bulletins](https://bolsheviktendency.org/trotskyist-bulletins/): TB #1: Only Trotskyism Can Defend the Gains of October The material in this pamphlet is chiefly comprised of polemics between the External Tendency of the international Spartacist tendency (ET—a grouping of former members... - [Bolschewik Nr. 35 (2018)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-35-2018/): Rechtsruck, und jetzt? Nieder mit Madrids staatlicher Repression! Unabhängigkeit für Katalonien! Die Lehren des Roten Oktobers Staat und Partei Offener Brief an die Opposition innerhalb der „Vierten Internationale“ Die Politik der Verwässerung Gestern und... - [Bolschewik Nr. 34 (2017)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-34-2017/): Die Rolle der AfD und die Aufgaben der Linken Lügenpartei AfD Widerstand gegen Rassismus 35 Jahre zu viel – Freiheit für Mumia jetzt! Syrien-Position bestätigt Imperialismus, Islamische Reaktion & Syriens Bürgerkrieg Chaos im Nahen... - [Pour le trotskysme!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/pour-le-trotskysme/): Pour le trotskysme! Ce document (traduit en français de 1917, no. 3, édition de langue anglaise) spécifie les positions politiques fondamentales sur lesquelles la Quatrième Internationale était établie. En même temps, il adresse aux... - [Bolschewik Nr. 33 (2016)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-33-2016/): Europas Krieg gegen Flüchtlinge Verteidigt die Flüchtlinge gegen Terror und Abschiebungen! Zerschlagt die rassistischen und faschistischen Mobilisierungen! Proletarischer Internationalismus und der Kampf gegen die Festung Europa Partei die Linke in Regierung und Opposition Das... - [Bolschewik Nr. 32 (2015)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-32-2015/): SPD greift Gewerkschaftsrechte an Nahles ganz Schröder TTIP: Ein Angriff auf die Arbeiterklasse Einheit, Klasse, Programm Die Ukraine: Eine revolutionäre internationalistische Perspektive Wer wir sind Von Ferguson bis New York – Steckt die Polizeimörder... - [Bolschewik Nr. 31 (2014)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-31-2014/): Für die Sozialistischen Vereinigten Staaten von Europa! Kapitalistische Krise & die EU Rechte Politik und Kapitulation der Partei DIE LINKE Wie der RSB die kapitalistische Krise lösen will Immer schön realistisch Trotzkismus versus Castroismus... - [1917, édition française, n° 8 (2013)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-8-2013/): Pour la révolution socialiste ! Grèce : l’austérité capitaliste & la classe ouvrière Genèse d’une idéologie reactionnaire Capitalisme et racisme Les étudiants du Québec montrent la voie Grèves ouvrières pour écraser l’austérité ! Lettre... - [1917, édition française, n° 7 (2012)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-7-2012/): Crise économique et guerres néocoloniales Pathologies du capitalisme OTAN, rebelles et apologistes « révolutionnaires » La Libye et la gauche Lettre au Courant Communiste Révolutionnaire Sur l’assemblée constituante révolutionnaire Sur Jack Layton & le NPD Lettre... - [1917, édition française, n° 6 2011](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-6-2011/): Pas Juif contre Arabe, mais classe contre classe ! Défense des Palestiniens ! Révolution politique ou contrerévolution Où va la Chine ? Défense de la Libye contre l’agression OTAN ! Pour la défaite des impérialistes... - [1917, édition française, n° 5 2010](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-5-2010/): Les pablistes français renoncent au trotskysme NPA : Nouveau Parti réformiste Non à la collaboration des classes ! A bas les attaques contre les retraites ! Pour la séparation de la religion et de l’État ! L’islam, la... - [1917, édition française, n° 4 2003](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-4-2003/): L’ordre impérialiste mondial: misère pour profit Le capitalisme mondial et la lutte des classes Suivre la ligne de moindre résistance : La guerre impérialiste et les prétendus socialistes Ex-membre de la Spartacist Youth Club... - [1917, édition française, n° 3 1995](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-3-1995/): Un échange sur la question nationale au Québec Marxisme ou nationalisme? A bas le duvaliérisme – Romprons avec Aristide ! Haïti sous le feu des Etats-Unis Défendez les programmes sociaux Pour la défaite des... - [1917, édition française, n° 2 1994](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-2-1994/): Introduction Le Rubicon soviétique et la gauche — En Bref: Réponse au Bolchévik Workers Power abandonne Eltsine en faveur de Rutskoi: A nouveau sur la confusion centriste et la question russe La confusion centriste... - [1917, édition française, n° 1 1993](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-1-1993/): Pour le trotskysme! Défendez les travailleurs soviétiques contre les attaques d’Eltsine! La contre-révolution triomphe en URSS Un échange polémique à propos du coup d’État d’août 1991… Deux marques concurrentes de la contre-révolution? Le devoir... - [1917, édition française index](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/): 1917, édition française, n° 8 (2013) Pour la révolution socialiste ! Grèce : l’austérité capitaliste & la classe ouvrière Genèse d’une idéologie reactionnaire Capitalisme et racisme Les étudiants du Québec montrent la voie Grèves... - [Bolschewik Nr. 30 (2013)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-30-2013-2/): Kapitalistische Sparprogramme & griechische Arbeiterklasse Die Grenzen des linken Pabloismus Die Organisation fällt nicht weit vom Programm Kapitalismus und Homophobie Gleiches Recht für Schwule und Lesben - [Bolschewik Nr. 29 (2012)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-29-2012/): Zur Kampagne „Boykott, Desinvestition und Sanktionen“ Strategien der palästinensischen Befreiung Kein Vertrauen in den bürgerlichen Staat! Für einen klassenkämpferischen Antifaschismus! Nieder mit dem NATO-Krieg gegen Libyen! NATO-Bomben für die Revolution – Die Gruppe Arbeitermacht... - [Bolshewik Nr. 28 (2011)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolshewik-nr-28-2011/): Der politische Streik Verteidigt Nordkorea! Stürzt die Bürokratie — Für revolutionäre Wiedervereinigung! Israels Angriff auf Pazifisten Massen-Streikposten blockieren israelisches Schiff! Sparsamer Widerstand gegen Sparpaket Kapitalismus mit Grünem Punkt Für die sofortige Freilassung von Mumia... - [Bolshewik Nr. 27 (2010)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolshewik-nr-27-2010/): Wahlbetrug, Vergewaltigung und NATO-Terror: Imperialistische ‚Aufklärung‘ scheitert am Hindukusch Eine Krise der Führung der Arbeiterklasse Widerstand statt Kapitulation Protektionismus – Gift für internationale Arbeitersolidarität Zur Abstimmung über den Lissabon-Vertrag Klassenjustiz und Rassismus — Mumia... - [Bolshewik Nr. 26 (2009)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolshewik-nr-26-2009/): US-Hafenarbeiter Streik gegen den Krieg Die SAV und die bürgerlichen Arbeiterparteien: Eine Liebe der besonderen Art Für einen revolutionären Antifaschismus Proletarische Revolution statt Staatsverneinung Staatlichkeit & Anarchie in der Spanischen Revolution Der moderne Moloch... - [Bolschewik Index](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34... - [1917 #32 (2010)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-32-2010/): Capitalist Meltdown ‘Inequality, Unemployment & Injustice’ ‘People’s War’ in the Himalayas Maoist ‘New Democracy’ or Permanent Revolution? NPA: France’s New Reformist Party USec Flagship Renounces Trotskyism Doubletalk & Zigzags Workers Power, Chávez & the... - [1917 Index](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34... - [1917 #31 (2009)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-31/): Whither China? Political Revolution or Counterrevolution U.S. Empire in Decline Global Realignment and Sharpening Imperialist Rivalry Imperialism & Global Inequality Capitalist Accumulation & Neo-Colonial Pillage Capitalism in Crisis A Marxist Analysis of the Global... - [Part V: Revolutionary Continuity and Transitional Demands](https://bolsheviktendency.org/part-v-revolutionary-continuity-and-transitional-demands/): Revolutionary Continuity and Transitional Demands   Transitional Demands:From the Comintern to the Fourth International In 1939, Marceau Pivert, a prominent French socialist, disparaged the Fourth International for fetishizing the “dogmas” of the Communist International... - [Part IV: Spartacist Trade Union Work in the 1970s: Selected Readings](https://bolsheviktendency.org/part-iv-spartacist-trade-union-work-in-the-1970s-selected-readings/): Spartacist Trade Union Work in the 1970s:Selected Readings National Maritime Union 10 Percent of Seamen Vote for Class-Struggle Opposition Militants Make Big Gains in NMU Elections Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 209, 16 June... - [Part III: Organizing the Unemployed in the Great Depression](https://bolsheviktendency.org/part-iii-organizing-the-unemployed-in-the-great-depression/): Organizing the Unemployed in the Great Depression   Fighting for Unity By Len Meyers and Chris Knox. Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 73, 18 July 1975 The onset of depression in the early 1930’s... - [Part II: Revolutionary Work in the American Labor Movement: 1920s–1950s](https://bolsheviktendency.org/part-ii-revolutionary-work-in-the-american-labor-movement-1920s-1950s/): Revolutionary Work in the American Labor Movement: 1920s–1950s   Program for Power: Early Communist Work in the Trade Unions By Chris Knox. Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 22, 8 June 1973 Opportunists denounce the... - [Part I: The Transitional Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/part-i-the-transitional-program/): The Transitional Program [1] The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International   The Objective Prerequisites for a Socialist Revolution The world political situation as a whole is chiefly characterized... - [Introduction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/introduction/): Introduction to the IBT’s 1998 edition of The Transitional Program by Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky, co-leader of the October Revolution and founder of the Red Army, wrote the Transitional Program in March and April... - [Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/preface/): The Transitional Program The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth InternationalLeon Trotsky Edited by the International Bolshevik Tendency with a new introduction and related materials This edition of Trotsky’s Transitional... - [Home Page](https://bolsheviktendency.org/): Protestors denounce Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s “Canada Investment Summit” (21 September 2026) Carta a los asistentes al ‘Revolution Festival 2024’ (21 septiembre 2026) Freiheit für Bogdan Syrotiuk! 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Defeat US/Israeli Criminal Aggression — For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East Your Party: a stillbirth Sabotaged by Corbyn, oblivious to the class line ‘Trotskyist’ Confusionism Trotskyist Fraction doublethink re: imperialism, Ukraine, China & multi-polarity Declining an offer from the ICL A letter to ‘Revolution Festival 2024’ attendees On Ted Grant’s view of cops & screws as ‘fellow workers’ Trotsky on tactics: ‘Learn to think’ Should Marxists be indifferent to NATO? - [bolschewik-nr-43-januar-2025](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-43-januar-2025/): Was ist das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht? Der multipolare Flügel der deutschen Arbeiteraristokratie Für einen bi-nationalen Arbeiterstaat in Palästina-Israel! Zerschlagt die zionistische Tyrannei! ‚Unerschütterliche revolutionäre Loyalität‘ Zum Tod des ET-/BT-Gründers Howard Keylor Trotzki zur Taktik: „Lernt denken!“ Sollten Marxisten der NATO gegenüber gleichgültig sein? - [Issues of the Marxist Bulletin](https://bolsheviktendency.org/issues-of-the-marxist-bulletin/): A Marxist Programme for the Socialist Labour Party Issue 1 – April 1997 No Vote to Labour! Where Are We Going? Tony Goss Incident Letter to Arthur Scargill regarding Ken Livingstone Letter to Diane Abbott Issue 2 – May 1997 Labour, the SLP and the election For Democracy in the SLP Party Debates on Ireland For working class independence! Of and Within the SLP Letter to the NEC from expelled members of the Vauxhall CSLP Issue 3 – August 1997 Issue 4 – October 1997 British troops out of Ireland, now! Anti-Racism and the Fight against the Bosses’ Immigration Controls Statements... - [Bolshevik édition française N°1](https://bolsheviktendency.org/index-de-ledition-francaise-bolshevik/bolshevik-edition-francaise-n1/): Pour un État ouvrier binational en Palestine-Israël ! De la rivière à la mer : Briser la tyrannie sioniste ! 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Débat IG/SL : l’occasion de faire quelques mises au point - [Bolschewik Nr. 44 (Januar 2026)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-44-januar-2026/): Nieder mit dem deutschen Militarismus! „Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch‘ ich Gewalt“ „Trotzkistischer“ Konfusionismus Zerschlagt die zionistische Tyrannei! China in Afrika Widerlegung pseudo-marxistischer Fälschungen bezüglich eines „chinesischen Imperialismus“ - [Militant Longshoreman](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/militant-longshoreman/): Issues of Militant Longshoreman A newsletter for members of the U.S. / Canadian West Coast International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU). Published by Howard Keylor after his resignation from the Spartacist League (U.S.). Class Struggle on the Waterfront A 2014 event celebrating the anniversary of the 1984 anti-apartheid longshore boycott   - [Bolshevik #7 (2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/bolshevik-7-2024/): China in Africa Pseudo-Marxist falsifications re: ‘Chinese Imperialism’ No Vote to Labour! Down with Starmer—no to austerity, genocide and war! ‘Rage Against the War Machine’ Why socialists should attend Washington D.C. protest Lenin on Imperialism Extraction of superprofits decisive–not military expansionism - [Bolshevik #6 (2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/bolshevik-6-2024/): For a bi-national workers’ state in Palestine-Israel From the river to the sea: Smash Zionist tyranny! Better late than never IG correction on Russia v Nato…’should be more precise and more honest’ ‘Bullseye’: ex-Spartacist cadre on BT critique of IG flip re: Russian defencism ‘The Arab-Jewish War in Palestine’ Trotskyists’ 1948 declaration re: founding of Zionist state Why a bi-national workers’ state? Will Lehman’s UAW presidential campaign: a poison pill WSWS/SEP’s anti-Trotskyist trade union policy Skeletons in the IG-SL closet On military vs political support Exchange on BT-SL debate with former Spartacist cadre Revolutionary Defeatism & the Ukrainian Working Class Marxism... - [Bolschewik Nr. 42 (Januar 2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-42-januar-2024/): Eine Antwort auf Noel Bamens „Weder Verrat, noch Utopismus!“ Palästinensische Befreiung & bi-nationaler Arbeiterstaat Kritische Betrachtungen zu „China’s Great Road“ von John Ross Marx oder Deng? Von der NÖP zur Zwangskollektivierung Internationalistische Gruppe: Korrektur zu Russland gegen NATO…„sollte präziser und ehrlicher sein” Besser verspätet als nie Präsentation der BT bei der Ukraine-Debatte mit der SL Nieder mit den Angriffen auf die Kommunistische Organisation! Gegen jegliche Gewalt innerhalb der Linken und Arbeiterbewegung! Einengung der Meinungsfreiheit im Kampf der imperialistischen „Demokratie“ gegen „Autokratie“ Solidarität mit Heiner Bücker! Weg mit den Zensur-§ 130 und 140! Zu politischer gegenüber militärischer Unterstützung   - [Les déclarations](https://bolsheviktendency.org/les-declarations/): La fin de l’OTAN : les retombées de l’Ukraine et de l’Iran (08 juillet 2026) Lénine sur l’impérialisme (08 mai 2026) Sur l’attitude des révolutionnaires à l’égard de la police (08 septembre 2023) Audio du forum sur l’initiative chinoise “la Ceinture et la Route” le 27 mai 2023 (15 juillet 2023) « En plein dans le mille » : un ancien cadre de la SL réagit à la déclaration de la TB sur la correction du GI concernant la Russie contre l’OTAN (30 mai 2023) Mieux vaut tard que jamais – Correction du GI sur la Russie contre l’OTAN… «  devrait être... - [Bolshevik #5 (2023)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/bolshevik-5-2023/): NATO v Russia in Ukraine A litmus test for Trotskyists Defend Abortion Rights Through Mass Action! Reactionary US Supreme Court strikes down Roe v Wade Kyle Rittenhouse Goes Free—Fascists Celebrate Wheels of racist U.S. Injustice System grind on Telling the truth to the masses: On Russia v NATO in Ukraine A letter to RedMed Marx or Deng? Critical observations on China’s Great Road by John Ross From the NEP to forced collectivisation - [Lenin & die Avantgardepartei](https://bolsheviktendency.org/lenin-die-avantgardepartei/): Lenin & die Avantgardepartei (Deutschsprachige Übersetzung von 1997 des englischsprachigen Originals von 1978) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 1 - 30 (1974 - 1980)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-1-30-1974-1980/): Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 1 – Februar 1974 Aktuelle Kriterien des Bolschewismus in Deutschland, Chauvinisten im Trotzkipelz, Ein Vater der (Kon)Fusion, Leitartikel aus Workers Vanguard Nr. 30, Brief einer Beliner Genossin zur Chile-Demo, Erklärung zur Gründungskonferenz des Spartacusbundes, Literaturliste Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 2 – April 1974 Frauenfrage und revolutionärer Marxismus, Das Programm der Frauenkommission der „Spartacist League/US“, Die Permanente Revolution und die Frauen Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 3 – Juni 1974 Zu den Wahlen in Frankreich, Ein Kompaß ohne Orientierung, Der Weltkongreß des „Vereinigten Sekretariats“ – Einheit am seidenen Faden, VS-Gruppen gegen Arbeiterdemokratie, Eine Berichtigung und eine Bestätigung, Deklaration der Spartacist League/US und... - [Marxistisches Archiv](https://bolsheviktendency.org/marxistisches-archiv/): Deutschsprachige Publikationen & Dokumente aus der revolutionären Periode der internationalen Spartacist Tendenz Spartacist Nr. 1 – 9 (1974 – 1981) Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 1 – 30 (1974 – 1980) Lenin & die Avantgardepartei (Deutschsprachige Übersetzung von 1997 des englischsprachigen Originals von 1978) Dokumente aus der Geschichte der trotzkistischen Bewegung Leninismus gegen Stalinismus (Lehren der deutschen Katastrophe 1933)   - [Spartacist Deutsch](https://bolsheviktendency.org/spartacist-deutsch/): Spartacist Nr. 1 – Frühling 1974 Inhalt: Vorwärts zur Wiedergeburt der Vierten Internationale, Erklärung zum Internationalen Kommittee, Der Kampf innerhalb des Vereinigten Sekretariats, Brief an die französische OCI und das Internationale Organisationskommittee, Grüße an Spartacus B-L   Spartacist Nr. 2 – Herbst 1974 Inhalt: Erklärung für die Organisierung einer internationalen trotzkistischen Tendenz, SL/ÖBL Übereinkommen, Grundsatzerklärung, SWP-Säuberung, VS: PST-Skandal   Spartacist Nr. 3 – März 1975 Inhalt: Ursprünge des Pabloismus, Gewerkschaftstaktik und Übergangsprogramm, Kritische Geschichte der Ligue Communiste   Spartacist Nr. 4 – August 1976 Inhalt: Erklärung brüderlicher Beziehungen zwischen der international Spartacist Tendenz und der Organización Trotskista Revolucionaria Chiles, Sowjetische Dissidenten:... - [Українська](https://bolsheviktendency.org/ukrainian/): Публікації Більшовицької тенденції, доступні українською мовою Хто ми (21 липня 2023) Тріумф контрреволюції в СРСР (Інтернаціональна Більшовицька Тенденція опублікувала у своєму бюлетені в жовтні 1991 року) Гноблення жінок – не в наших генах (перекладено з 1917 No. 19) Ріст німецького фашизму  (перекладено з 1917 No. 12) Радянський Рубікон та лівий рух (перекладено з 1917 No. 11) З приводу гасла “Хай живе Червона Армія!” (перекладено з 1917 No. 5) Марксистська класика, в тому числі праці Троцького, доступні на російській мові: Марксистський Інтернет-архів (російський відділ) - [Bolschewik Nr. 1 (Mai 1992)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-1-mai-1992/): Nazi-Terror und Rassismus in der BRD Die ehemalige UdSSR nach dem Putschversuch Bürgerkrieg in Jugoslawien – Nationalismus und Konterrevolution - [Русский](https://bolsheviktendency.org/russian-statements/): Публикации Большевистской Тенденции, доступные на русском языках О военной поддержке против политической (25 апреля 2024) За троцкизм! (5 июля 2023) Кто мы (20 марта 2023) Триумф контрреволюции в СССР (заявление, опубликованное Интернациональной Большевистской Тенденцией в Сентябре 1991 года) Угнетение женщин – не в наших генах (переведено из 1917 No. 19) Рост немецкого фашизма (переведено из 1917 No. 12) Советский Рубикон и левое движение (переведено из 1917 No. 11) По поводу лозунга «Да здравствует Красная Армия!» (переведено из 1917 No. 5) Марксистская классика, в том числе работы Троцкого, доступны на руском языке: Марксистский Интернет-архив (русский отдел) - [Gruppe IV. Internationale Bulletins & Dokumente](https://bolsheviktendency.org/gruppe-vierte-internationale-tb-bulletins/): Zeitung der ehemaligen Gruppe IV. Internationale Bulletin Nr. 1 (Januar 1990): Kampf der kapitalistischen Konterrevolution – Für proletarische politische Revolution Bankrott des Stalinismus   Bulletin Nr. 2 (Mai 1990): Gegen die ‚linken‘ Wiedervereiniger auf Raten in Ost und West – Für proletarische politische Revolution Für Arbeiteraktionen zur Verteidigung der DDR   Dokument der ehemaligen Gruppe IV. Internationale Zur Vereinigungsdebatte von BWK, GIM, KPD (März 1986) Beilagen-Kreis im Radius der SPD   - [Bolschewik Nr. 2 (Dezember 1992)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-2-dezember-1992/): Linke und Arbeiterbewegungin der Defensiv Faschisten im Aufschwung Nachtrag zur anti-faschistischen Wunsiedel-Kampagne und zur Politik der SAG (August1992) Bundeswehr als UNO-Friedensstifter? Die Spaltung in Ost und West überwinden Schluß mit der Wende Kurdistan Bindeglied der Revolution im Nahen Oste - [Bolschewik Nr. 3 (Mai 1993)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-3-mai-1993/): Feuert die Gewerkschaftsführung! Stoppt die Offensive von Unternehmern, Regierung und SPD Dokumentation: Aktionsprogramm für den IG Metall-Streik Wie vorwärts? Kritische Anmerkungen zur Politik der SAG Marxismus contra Bewegungsfetischismus Außenpolitische Optionen des deutschen Imperialismus Deutsche Waffen sollen es schaffen Kapitalismus und Rassismus - [Bolschewik Nr. 4 (Dezember 1993)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-4-dezember-1993/): Für einen revolutionären Antifaschismus Leserbrief an VORAN Trotz anvisiertem Rückzug der Bundeswehr aus Somalia Erster Etappensieg des deutschen Imperialismus Das Kartenhaus Maastricht fällt zusammen Ruzkoi – Chasbulatow keine Alternative Nieder mit Jelzin Scharping ganz Kohl – SPD auf Regierungslinie Weg mit dem PKK-Verbot - [Bolschewik Nr. 5 (April 1994)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-5-april-1994/): Keinen Fußbreit den Faschisten! Die Berliner Linke und der 20. April – Eine Zwischenbilanz Ein Schritt VORAN = Zwei Schritte zurück Neue SAG Antifa-Initiative: Auch mit CDU/CSU-Stadträten gegen Nazis? Thesen zum Faschismus und wie man ihn bekämpft Keine Abschiebung der KurdInnen! Bürgerliche Offensive, Frauen und Sozialismus - [Bolschewik Nr. 6 (September 1994)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/10819-2/): Keine Wahl bei den Wahlen – Stimmt ungültig! Die Qual mit der Wahl – Alle Jahre wieder Revolutionäre AntifaschistInnen ziehen Konsequenzen: Austritt aus der sozialdemokratische Hilfstruppe JRE (Lehren der deutschen Katastrophe 1933) “Leninismus gegen Stalinismus” Die Ziele der Gruppe Spartakus In China stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm - [Bolschewik Nr. 7 (April 1995)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-7-april-1995/): BRD auf dem Vormarsch Schulte & Co in Aktion – gegen die Arbeiterklasse Zur Diskussion der Linken über die deutsche Nation Lenin oder Romy Schneider? Die SpAD und ihre IV. Reich-Psychose In China stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm (Teil 2) Der Krieg in Bosnien und die Linke Barbarei auf dem Balkan Die Ziele der Gruppe Spartakus - [Bolschewik Nr. 8 (Oktober 1995)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-8-oktober-1995/): 5 Jahre Wiedervereinigung: Sozialer Kahlschlag, Nationalismus und Repression Ja, Kruzefix! Droht den Flächentarifverträgen das Aus? Rettet Mumia Abu-Jamal! Zum Aktionseinheitsverständnis der IKL/SpAD Ende der Unruhen? Der irische “Friedensprozess”   - [WP Statistics Honey Pot Page [2023-03-04 19:34:48]](https://bolsheviktendency.org/wp-statistics-honey-pot-page-2023-03-04-193448/): This is the Honey Pot for WP Statistics to use, do not delete. - [Bolschewik Nr. 9 (März 1997)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-9-marz-1997/): Gewerkschaftsbürokratie in Aktion: Co-Management für das Kapital Viele Wege führen in die Sackgasse …auch das “Aktionsprogramm” der GAM Die Ziele der Gruppe Spartakus Die AKP kapituliert: Schafft ein, zwei, viele Frankreichs! Die neuen Realitäten des BSA: “Globalisierung” und der Abschied von den Gewerkschaften - [Bolschewik Nr. 10 (April 1998)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-10-april-1998/): Linke und Arbeiterbewegung: Zerschlagt das Nazipack! Die Ziele der Gruppe Spartakus Rassismus im linken Schafspelz Vom Lucky-Streik zum Klassenkampf - [Bolschewik Nr. 11 (September 1998)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-11-september-1998/): Ob Schwarz/Gelb, “Rot”/Grün, Schwarz/”Rot” Die bürgerliche Offensive geht weiter Die Ziele der Gruppe Spartakus Wahlkampf, Antikommunismus und Antisemitismus Für eine bildungspolitische Gegenoffensive! Weg mit den Verboten von DHKP-C und THKP-C! NPD aufmarschiert, DGB/PDS demobilisiert, Autonome isoliert Niederlage am 1. Mai - [Bolschewik Nr. 41 (Januar 2023)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-41-januar-2023/): ,Trotzkistische‘ Impressionisten können den wiederauflebenden Staatssektor nicht erklären Der Mythos vom kapitalistischen China Öko-Sozialismus & „Green New Deal“-Wunschträume Ein Lackmustest für Trotzkisten NATO gegen Russland in der Ukraine Offener Brief an die Genossinnen und Genossen der Kommunistischen Organisation   - [Bolschewik Nr. 40 (September 2022)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-40-2022/): eine trotzkistische Analyse NATO/USA gegen Russland in der Ukraine Ukraine/NATO/USA ignorierten die roten Linien des Kremls Russland reagiert auf imperialistisches Vorrücken   - [Bolschewik Nr. 12 (Mai 1999)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-12-mai-1999/): Blut, Schweiß und Tränen für den deutschen Imperialismus: SPD/Grüne verschärfen bürgerliche Offensive Kalter Kaffee: Keynesianismus PDS-Regierungsbeteiligung in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Nachwuchsausbildung für das politische Management des imperialistischen Deutschland Revolution oder Krieg – Sozialismus oder Barbarei Reform des deutschen Staatsbürgerschaftsrechts: Modernisierter Rassismus und rassistische Modernisierung Arbeiter- und Immigrantenmobilisierung zur Verhinderung von Naziaufmärschen! - [Bolshevik #4 (2022)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/bolshevik-4-2022/): Russia reacts to imperialist encroachment Ukraine/NATO/US ignored Kremlin’s red lines Trotskyist Fraction on Ukraine – Centrist Waffling IG joins centrist muddleheads on Ukraine Nordenites, like TF, WSWS neutral on Ukraine’s ‘right’ to join NATO - [Bolshevik #3 (2021)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/bolshevik-3-2021/): The Myth of Capitalist China ‘Trotskyist’ impressionists can’t explain resurgent state sector On Trump, Fascism and the Invasion of the Capitol Trotsky’s Three Questions Socialist Party on China A pseudo-Trotskyist hybrid Open letter to the IMT on the class character of the police On the Current Situation of the Revolutionary Left Eco-Socialism & ‘Green New Deal’ Pipe Dreams For Humanity to Live, Capitalism Must Die! - [Bolshevik Index](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/):   Bolshevik #8 (2026) Military Victory to Iran! Your Party: a stillbirth ‘Trotskyist’ Confusionism Declining an offer from the ICL A letter to ‘Revolution Festival 2024’ attendees Trotsky on tactics: ‘Learn to think’  Bolshevik #7 (2024) China in Africa No Vote to Labour! ‘Rage Against the War Machine’ Lenin on Imperialism Bolshevik #6 (2024) For a bi-national workers’ state in Palestine-Israel Better late than never ‘Bullseye’: ex-Spartacist cadre on BT critique of IG flip re: Russian defencism ‘The Arab-Jewish War in Palestine’ Why a bi-national workers’ state? Will Lehman’s UAW presidential campaign: a poison pill Skeletons in the IG-SL closet On... - [Bolshewik Nr. 23 Januar 2006](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshewik-nr-23-januar-2006/): Die Wahl ist vorbei – der Kampf geht weiter Klassenkampf statt Linkspartei Für die politische und organisatorische Unabhängigkeit der Arbeiterklasse! Keine Stimme für SPD, PDS, Grüne und WASG! Hochzeit der Reformisten – Linke will mitfeiern Keine Stimme für die neue Linkspartei! Anbiederung statt Arbeiterpartei Gruppe Arbeitermacht zurück in der WASG Stoppt die Verfolgungen! Die Sehnsucht des deutschen Kapitals nach dem Osten Nein zur EU-Verfassung! Für die sozialistischen Vereinigten Staaten von Europa! Imperialistische Ost-Erweiterung & die europäische Verfassung Die Zerstörung von New Orleans - [Bolshewik Nr. 24 Januar 2007](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshewik-nr-24-januar-2007/): Für eine sozialistische Föderation Lateinamerikas Venezuela: Staat und Revolution Was ist Bonapartismus? Deutscher Imperialismus im Kongo Anti-Terror-Datei, Sondergesetze, anti-muslimische Hetze Der Staat rüstet auf auch nach innen Deutscher Imperialismus weiter auf dem Vormarsch Korrektur zu: Deutscher Imperialismus weiter auf dem Vormarsch Defensive Armee – eine missverständliche Formulierung Für eine sozialistische Föderation des Nahen Ostens! Nieder mit dem mörderischen zionistischen Terror im Libanon und in Gaza - [Most popular articles on website](https://bolsheviktendency.org/most-popular-articles-on-website/): This content is password-protected. To view it, please enter the password below. Password: - [Bolshevik #2 (2021)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/bolshevik-2-winter-2021/): American Upheaval Chickens Coming Home to Roost ‘Planet of the Humans’ film review An uneven critique of capitalist eco-insanity Racism, TUs & the U.S. Working Class The SEP’s color-blind, anti-union cul de sac Socialist Action: Time to Own Up ‘Russian Imperialism’ & Flip-flops on Syria and Libya UNAC Conference report Pressuring the Democrats—a Bankrupt Strategy The IG and ‘Jailing Killer Cops’ COVID-19: a Geo-political Watershed Sunset of the American Imperium - [Bolschewik Nr. 13 (Januar 2000)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-13-januar-2000/): Die Linke zwischen den Kriegen Versagen vor dem Hauptfeind Eine Abrechnung Die Linke im Krieg Multinationale Demonstration zur Verteidigung Jugoslawiens gegen NATO-Angriffe Sozialpazifismus: Friedensbewegung statt Klassenkampf Die Entstehung des Imperialismus Marxismus und Imperialismus Reformismus und Sozialpatriotismus Imperialistischer Krieg und sozialistische Revolution PDS auf Kriegspfad Der Bundeswehr/NATO-Krieg gegen Serbien und die PDS Freiheit für Mumia Abu-Jamal! - [Bolschewik Nr. 14 (Mai 2000)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-14-mai-2000/): 1. Mai: Kampftag der internationalen Arbeiterklasse: ArbeiterInnen aller Nationalitäten vereinigt Euch! Nieder mit der Neuen Weltordnung von IWF und Weltbank: Enteignet die Enteigner! Brief an die Spartacist League: Anti-KKK-Demo Die Linke zwischen den Kriegen – 2. Teil Winfried Wolf, die alte Tante SPD und der Krieg Verhindert den Nazi-Aufmarsch am 6. Mai in Essen! Nazi Haider? Mit Linksruck gegen Rechts? Britische Demokraten gegen österreichische “Faschisten” Eine marxistische Analyse Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Haider - [Bolschewik Nr. 15 (Januar 2001)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-15-januar-2001/): Revolutionärer Antifaschismus kontra “antifaschistisches” Staatstheater Jubel-Linke im “antifaschistischen” Staatszirkus Reformismus, Antifaschistischer Kampf & Revolutionäre Bündnispolitik Weder Milosevic noch Kostunica Putsch in Belgrad: Kein Gewinn für serbische Arbeiter - [Bolschewik Nr. 16 (Mai 2001)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-16-mai-2001/): Vom nationalen Volkskrieg zum internationalen Klassenkampf Permanente Revolution und Palästina Deutscher Imperialismus und der Nah-Ost-Konflikt PDS – Pro-imperialistische Deutsche Sozialchauvinisten Nicht mehr todgeweiht? LRKIs Linkswende: “Keine schlüssige Zwischenposition” Befreit Mumia Abu-Jamal! Kampf der Klassen- und Rassenjustiz! - [Bolschewik Nr. 17 (Januar 2002)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-17-januar-2002/): Arbeitermacht statt Gottesstaat Allah, Afghanistan & Antiimperialismus Spartacist League: Manchmal ist weniger drin als man glaubt “Marxistische Kritik” im imperialistischen Kriegslager Berichtigung zum Artikel: “‘Marxistische Kritik’ im imperialistischen Kriegslager” (in Bolschewik Nr. 17) Hände weg von Afghanistan Von Afghanistan bis Somalia – Von demokratischen Rechten und Immigranten Imperialisten Hände weg! Terrorismus und Imperialismus Terroranschlag auf das World Trade Center US-imperialistische Herrschaft: Horror ohne Ende - [Bolschewik Nr. 18 (September 2002)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-18-september-2002/): Keine Stimme für SPD und PDS! Statt Blut, Schweiß und Tränen: Revolutionäre Arbeitermobilisierung gegen imperialistische Mobilmachung Kritische Wahlunterstützung als revolutionäre Taktik Schröders Linksruck-Freundeskreis Von “Kohl muss weg!” zu “Stoppt Stoiber!” SAV = Sozialistische Alternative Verwirrung Angepasste PDS wählen, um Linke und Arbeiterklasse zu “stärken” Opportunismus, Anbiederung, Krisenverwaltung für das Kapital – Auch keine Stimme für die PDS! PDS: Alternativer Stratege für den deutschen Imperialismus - [Bolschewik Nr. 19 (Januar 2003)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-19-januar-2003/): Der Hauptfeind steht im eigenen Land Nieder mit Bushs Terrorkrieg! Verteidigt den Irak! Humanitärer BRD-Imperialismus gegen Wildwest-Yankee-Imperialismus? Keine Illusion in die deutsche Bourgeoisie! SPD/Grüne rüsten für neue Kriege! Trotzkisten fusionieren Klassenkrieg statt Heiligem Krieg: Islam, Imperium & Revolution Deutsche Linke: Im Schlepptau des ‘Friedenskanzlers’ - [Bolschewik Nr. 20 (Mai 2003)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-20-mai-2003/): SPD / Grüne rüsten für Raubzüge nach innen und außen Kommunismus, Antiimperialismus & Krieg Sozialistische “Alternative” Voran: Wer von der Revolution nicht reden will, sollte vom Frieden schweigen Die Linke im Krieg Auf dem Weg des geringsten Widerstandes: Imperialistischer Krieg und Pseudo-Sozialisten - [Bolschewik Nr. 21 (Januar 2004)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-21-januar-2004/): Stoppt Schröders Sozialraub durch revolutionären Klassenkampf 13 Jahre nach der Konterrevolution Antisemitismus auf dem Vormarsch Kollektivschuld und Klassenkampf Leninismus und Lostrennung Für eine Sozialistische Föderation des Nahen Ostens Multinationale Arbeiterrevolution wird Kurdistan befreien! IKL versus IBT über die DDR 1989/90 Pro-Stalinismus versus Trotzkismus Lernt lesen, bevor Ihr schreibt Eine Antwort an die SpAD Liebesgrüße aus Absurdistan – Polemiken mit der SpAD/IKL - [Bolschewik Nr. 22 (Januar 2005)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-22-januar-2005/): Für eine revolutionäre Orientierung im Kampf gegen den Sozialabbau – Reformismus ist Klassenverrat Weg mit Hartz IV Kapitalismus in einem deformierten Arbeiterstaat China: In Richtung Abgrund - [Bolschewik Nr. 23 (Januar 2006)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-23-januar-2006/): Die Wahl ist vorbei — der Kampf geht weiter Klassenkampf statt Linkspartei Für die politische und organisatorische Unabhängigkeit der Arbeiterklasse! Keine Stimme für SPD, PDS, Grüne und WASG! Hochzeit der Reformisten — Linke will mitfeiern Keine Stimme für die neue Linkspartei! Anbiederung statt Arbeiterpartei Gruppe Arbeitermacht zurück in der WASG Stoppt die Verfolgungen! Die Sehnsucht des deutschen Kapitals nach dem Osten Nein zur EU-Verfassung! Für die sozialistischen Vereinigten Staaten von Europa! Imperialistische Ost-Erweiterung & die europäische Verfassung Die Zerstörung von New Orleans - [Bolschewik Nr. 24 (Januar 2007)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-24-januar-2007/): Für eine sozialistische Föderation Lateinamerikas Venezuela: Staat und Revolution Was ist Bonapartismus? Deutscher Imperialismus im Kongo “Anti-Terror”-Datei – Sondergesetze – anti-muslimische Hetze Der Staat rüstet auf – auch nach innen Deutscher Imperialismus weiter auf dem Vormarsch Nieder mit dem mörderischen zionistischen Terror im Libanon und in Gaza! Für eine sozialistische Föderation des Nahen Ostens! - [Bolschewik Nr. 25 (Januar 2008)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-25-januar-2008/): Krise, Krieg, Sozialabbau Für den Aufbau einer revolutionären Arbeiterpartei! Sofortige Freiheit für Mumia Abu-Jamal Sieg dem GDL-Streik! Die Linken und DIE LINKE Opportunismus oder Opposition? Das politische Gruselkabinett der selbsternannten “Partei der Russischen Revolution” “Partei der Russischen Revolution” Imperialisten raus aus dem Nahen Osten! Endspiel im Irak - [Bolschewik Nr. 39 (September 2021)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-39-september-2021/): Grünes Gift für die Linke und Arbeiterbewegung Eine Partei greift nach der Macht Keine Wahl bei den Wahlen! Brecht mit der Partei die Linke! US/NATO-Niederlage in Afghanistan Wer wir sind – Vorstellung der Bolshevik Tendency Die Notwendigkeit einer revolutionären Führung Neutralität heißt “bewusste oder unbewusste Unterstützung” der Imperialisten UK/NATO: Raus aus den russischen Hoheitsgewässern! Die Geister, die ich rief… Aufstand in den USA     - [Video](https://bolsheviktendency.org/video/): Video of “Marxists speak out on the conflict between Russia and imperialism” – BT speaking as one of the panellists, 26 March 2022 BT supporter speaking on Marxism and the ecological crisis at an online forum hosted by the Labour Left Alliance, 9 June 2020 COVID-19 and the law of value – Michael Roberts talks to Professor Murray Smith on the relevance of Marx’s law of value to the COVID-19 pandemic and also on Smith’s book on value theory, Invisible Leviathan - [Issues of Militant Longshoreman](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/issues-of-militant-longshoreman/): A newsletter for members of the U.S. / Canadian West Coast International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU). Published by Howard Keylor after his resignation from the Spartacist League (U.S.). Militant Longshoreman No. 1 (December 1981) Militant Longshoreman No. 2 (January 1982) Militant Longshoreman No. 3 (April 1982) Militant Longshoreman No. 4 (January 1983) Militant Longshoreman No. 5 (February 1983) Militant Longshoreman No. 6 (December 1983) Militant Longshoreman No. 7 (January 1984) Militant Longshoreman No. 8 (February 1984) Militant Longshoreman No. 9 (July 1984) Militant Longshoreman No. 10 (October 1984) Militant Longshoreman No. 11 (November 1984) Militant Longshoreman No. 12 (November 1984)... - [Bolschewik Nr.38 (Mai 2021)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-38-2021/): COVID-19: ein geopolitischer Wendepunkt Trump, Faschismus und die Erstürmung des Kapitols Solidarität mit dem Roten Aufbau Hamburg Zur Kapitulation der IG in Brasilien 2016 “Planet of the Humans” – Eine unausgewogene Kritik des kapitalistischen Öko-Wahnsinns Eine konfliktreiche Pipeline – Nord Stream 2 und die inter-imperialistischen Rivalitäten   - [Archivos Marxistas](https://bolsheviktendency.org/archivos-marxistas/): Cuadernos Marxistas Cuadernos marxistas fue una publicación de la entoces revolucionaria Liga espartaquista/EEUU en los ´70. La tendencia espartaquista ha caído en una profunda degeneración y no puede, en nuestra opinión, ser considerada como una suerte de organización revolucionaria. Pero su historia continua siendo criticamente importante , como representación de la continuidad del troskismo en los ´60 y ´70. La IBT ha producido literatura substancial detalando la desviaciones politicasde la SL del trotskismo, alguna de ellas han sido traducidas al español (ver: Ustedes no pueden defender a la Unión Soviética con Yuri Andropovs, El “Malfuncionamento más importante” del Challenger no es un desastre... - [Declaraciones y folletos](https://bolsheviktendency.org/declaraciones-y-folletos/): Carta a los asistentes al ‘Revolution Festival 2024’ (21 septiembre 2026) Trotsky sobre las tácticas: ‘Aprender a pensar’ (14 septiembre 2026) ¡Libertad para Bogdan Syrotiuk! (31 agosto 2026) Sobre nuestro rechazo a una oferta de la ICL (30 agosto 2026) Manifestaciones en defensa de los activistas franceses pro-Palestina (18 agosto 2026) ¿Por qué un «Estado obrero binacional»? (18 agosto 2026) ‘La Guerra árabe-judía en Palestina’ (8 agosto 2026) ¡Por un Estado obrero binacional en Palestina-Israel! (8 agosto 2026) Lenin sobre el imperialismo (8 agosto 2026) ¡Por la victoria militar de Irán! (21 Juli 2026) Confusionismo ‘trotskista’ (21 Juli 2026) Presentación de... - [Lenin e o Partido de Vanguarda](https://bolsheviktendency.org/lenin-e-o-partido-de-vanguarda/): Lenin e o Partido de Vanguarda é uma série de artigos escritos por Joseph Seymour e publicados em Workers Vanguard entre 1977-78. O texto a seguir é baseado no livro da Liga Espartaquista de 1978, mas incorpora algumas correções feitas na edição da Liga Espartaquista de 1997. A tradução para a língua portuguesa foi realizada a partir do exemplar disponível no sítio da Tendência Bolchevique Internacional. Kautskismo e as Origens da Socialdemocracia Russa Bolchevismo vs. Menchevismo: o Racha de 1903 A Revolução de 1905 Partido, Tendência e “Liberdade de Criticar” A Luta Contra os Boicotadores O Racha Final com os Mencheviques Em Direção à... - [Outras declarações](https://bolsheviktendency.org/outras-declaracoes/): Publicações da Tendência Bolchevique disponíveis em português Piquete de massas bloqueia navio israelense! Trabalhadores Palestinos Saúdam Ação em Oakland, Califórna (20 de junho de 2010). Uma carta para o Grupo Internacionalista (E.U.A.) e para a Liga Quarta-Internacionalista do Brasil (15 de dezembro de 1996). Uma tradução das partes políticas mais importantes. Defender os Trabalhadores Soviéticos Contra os Ataques de Yeltsin! A Contra-Revolução Triunfa na URSS Declaração publicada pela Tendência Bolchevique Internacional em setembro de 1991. Teses sobre o Solidariedade As seguintes teses foram adotadas pela conferência de fusão entre a Tendência Bolchevique e a Tendência Trotskista de Esquerda (1986)   Arquivos Publicações da... - [Bolshevik #1 (2020)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/bolshevik-1-spring-2020/): Climate Catastrophe & How to Combat It The Necessity of Revolutionary Leadership Who We Are—Introducing Bolshevik James M. Robertson: A Balance Sheet Defend Venezuela Against Imperialist Aggression! Bolivarians Resist U.S. ‘Regime Change’ Attempt Venezuela & ‘Russian Imperialism’ Socialist Action, Red Flag & IBT ‘Imps’ Take a Pass on Discussing: On Russian cash flow in Caracas ‘Democracy’ Provocateurs & Hong Kong’s Capitalist Dystopia Defend the Chinese Deformed Workers State! Crush Counterrevolution! Spenser Rapone and the Democratic Socialists of America ‘A Working-Class Hero’ Honoring our comrade Howard Keylor Hands off Julian Assange! On the IG’s 2016 Capitulation in Brazil: Crystalized Confusionism CWI Implodes... - [1917 #1 (1986)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-1-1986/): Smash Apartheid! Workers to Power! The Necessity of Revolutionary Organization Introducing 1917 Pretoria’s Praetorians South African Menshevism The Robertson School of Party Building ‘I Liked Gerry Healy…’ `Powerful Testimony’… to the Police SL’s Cop-Baiting Celebrity Nicaragua at the Crossroads Time Running Out for Sandinistas The Parallel Economy - [1917 #2 (1986)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-2-1986/): Smash Apartheid! For International Labor Solidarity! Bull’s Eye!The Politics of AIDS Reactionaries Fan Homophobic Hysteria Feminism & `Moral Panics’ BAFSAM’s Impotent Tactics Challenger: No Disaster for the Working Class Challenger’s ‘Major Malfunction’ Not `People Power,’ but Workers Power! Filipino Elite Still in the Saddle A Letter to the SL - [1917 #3 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-3-1987/): Nicaragua: An Unfinished Revolution Smash the Contras! Workers to Power! Trotskyists Fuse! BT/LTT Conference Success Against the Stream LTT’s Struggle in the IWP Theses on Solidarnosc Poland 1981: Acid Test for Trotskyists For Trotskyism! BT/LTT Fusion Document Defend Workers Democracy! Down with Slander and Hooliganism! Keylor Upholds Class Struggle Program in ILWU SL Absence Marks End of Era The Myth of the `Third Period’ MLP’s Stalinist Pyrite - [1917 #4 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-4-1987/): Whither Gorbachev’s USSR? Glasnost and ‘Market Socialism’ Not Twins, but Antipodes Leninism and the Third Period New York BT Launched The Road out of Jimstown Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous In Robertson They Trust… All Others Pay Cash If the Shoe Fits… Moreno: Any Way the Wind Blows Letter to the Editor Worker States and Markets Solidarity: Anatomy of a Sellout The Crises of Leadership in B.C., 1983 For International Labor Solidarity U.S. Union Militant Tours Britain Free Moses Mayekiso Militant Longshoreman Program Hands Off the Teamsters! Labor Must Clean its Own House Class Struggle on the Waterfront Communist Tactics... - [1917 #5 (1988)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-5-1988/): Nicaraguan Revolution in Retreat The End of Sandinista `Third Road’ Gorbachev’s Afghan Sellout Soviets Abandon Women, Leftists to Mujahedeen On the Slogan `Hail Red Army!’ Bending the Stick Too Far… Moscow and Managua Revolutionary Program vs. `Historical Process’ Polemic with USec Supporter Israel Out of the Occupied Territories! For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East! Jesse Jackson: Judas-Goat for the Bourgeoisie From the USec to Trotskyism (Not available online) - [1917 #6 (1989)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-6-1989/): Perestroika: A Pandora’s Box World Revolution—Not ‘Market Socialism’ S.F. Progress Plundered ‘No Pay, No Work!’: Workers Occupy Plant Militant Printer’s Class Struggle Program The Decline of the Printers Union Lessons For The U.S. Labor Movement On the Nature of the USSR BT Debates LRP Tony Cliff’s Family Tree Fake Trotskyists Make Fake Offer On SL/PDC ‘Brigade’ for Kabul Pamyat Rides in Moscow Mayekiso Acquittal: A Victory for the Oppressed `Fire and Water’ Workers Sanctions & Capitalist Sanctions Permanent Revolution & Black Labor in South Africa Smash Apartheid Through Workers Revolution - [1917 #7 (1990)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-7-1990/): Polish Powderkeg Stalinists/Solidarnosc/IMF Attack Workers For Workers Political Revolution in China! Down with Deng’s Bloody Repression From Stalinism to Trotskyism Interview With Geoff White (Part 1) How Low Can Mandel Go? Cynics Who Scorn Trotskyism iSt/ICL: ‘New Name, Same Game’ Robertson’s Bogus Brigade vs. Trotskyist Revolutionary Internationalism On `Hailing’ Brezhnev’s Afghan Policy Women and the Russian Revolution Smash Anti-Abortion Reaction! Women’s Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Defend the Sri Lankan Left! - [1917 #8 (1990)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-8-1990/): Death Agony of Stalinism Eastern European Regimes Implode The Collapse of the DDR Eyewitness Reports A Glimpse Inside the `Monolith’ BT Visits SED/PDS Branch Critical Support to the SpAD BT Statement on DDR Elections The Struggle for Trotskyism in the SWP Geoff White Interview (Part 2) Revolutionary Continuity & the Fourth International Truth or Consequences Will the Real Political Bandits Please Stand Up? Black Liberation & the Class Struggle   - [1917 #9 (1991)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-9-1991/): Smash Apartheid! No to `Power Sharing!’ We Go Forward! International Trotskyist Regroupment Greetings from the Bureaucratic Robertson Regime The `French Turn’ Lessons from the Struggle for the Fourth International Trotskyism and the New Labor Party The ‘French Turn’ in New Zealand Communist Tactics and the Anti-War Movement For Class Struggle Against Imperialist Aggression! Defend Iraq! Imperialist Troops Out—By Any Means Necessary! Desperately Seeking Snetkov - [1917 #10 (1991)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-10-1991/): New World Disorder Imperialist Rivalries Sharpen From Guardians to Executioners The Degeneration of the Soviet Secret Police Class Struggle Candidate in S.F. Printers Union Militant Printer’s 1990 Election Program Robersonites in Wonderland Workers Political Revolution in the DDR? Doubletalk in the 2 1/2 Camp Workers Power on the Russian Question The National Question in the USSR Soviet Stalinism in Extremis PRG in New Zealand Anti-War Movement (Not available online)     - [1917 #11 (1992)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-11-1992/): Soviet Rubicon & the Left Three Days in August German Reunification Fuels Fascist Terror`His Truth is Marching On’ Counterrevolution Triumphs in the USSR Defend Soviet Workers Against Yeltsin’s Attacks! DDR Junked First the Wall…Then the Factories Nationalism & Counterrevolution Yugoslav Civil War Comrade Nedy Defend the Cuban Revolution! Smash Yankee Imperialism! Gruppe Spartakus Program for East German Workers (Not available online) LA: Days of Rage Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! (Supplement to 1917) - [1917 #12 (1993)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-12-1993/): Capitalism and Racism John Brown Society Banquet German Fascism on the Rise Defend the Left and Workers’ Movement Canada’s Constitutional ‘Crisis’ United Front Campaign for Working–Class Independence Spoil Your Ballot! For Working–Class Unity—Not National Unity Robertsonites in Denial Polemics on the Soviet Coup ICL/LRCI: False Assertions and Foolish Consistencies Centrists & Soviet Counterrevolution Kurdistan & the National Question For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East The Anti-Fascist Wunsiedel Campaign - [1917 #13 (1994)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-13-1994/): European Disunity (PDF) Maastricht House of Cards Collapses No Platform for Fascists! (PDF) Le Pen Rally Aborted in Montreal IBT on Moscow Coup (PDF) October 3 Memo LRCI: From Yeltsin to Rutskoi (PDF) Cuba, the LRCI and Marxist Theory (PDF) In Defense of the Revolutionary Tendency Spartacist Flip-Flop on Rutskoi (PDF) The Robertson School of Falsification (PDF) From Lebanon to Bosnia CWG: Little League Mensheviks (PDF) Free Mordechai Vannunu! (PDF) New Zealand Socialist Students’ Conference (PDF) Pornography, Capitalism, & Censorship (PDF) WAP Feminists Line Up with Anti-Sex Right Wing   - [1917 #14 (1994)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-14-1994/): China: the Gathering Storm (PDF) Bonapartist Burlesque (PDF) Russian ‘Shock Therapy’ On the Skids MLP: Long March to Oblivion (PDF) Facing the New World Order (PDF) IBT’s First International Conference Spartacist League: The Early Years (PDF) Geoff White Interview (Conclusion) Dale Reissner: 1942-1994 (PDF) Fascism and the German Left (PDF) Fight the Nazi Scourge! - [1917 #15 (1995)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-15-1995/): Korea: Workers Resurgent (PDF) Balkan Barbarism (PDF) Bosnian War and the Left Haiti Under U.S. Guns (PDF) Down with Duvalierism—-Break with Aristide! A Dismal Symmetry (PDF) Ernest Mandel vs. the Spartacist League Capitalism & Homophobia (PDF) Marxism and the Struggle for Gay/Lesbian Rights Free South Korean Leftists! (Not available online) - [1917 #16 (1995)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-16-1995/): American Reaction (PDF) Brave Newt World Korea: the Forgotten War (PDF) Trotskyism vs. the ‘Third Camp’ Marxism vs. Quebec Nationalism (PDF) Exchange with l’Égalité Getting Russia Right (PDF) Former SYC Member Joins IBT Irish ‘Peace Process’ (PDF) An End to the Troubles? - [1917 #17 (1996)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-17-1996/): Islam, Empire & Revolution (PDF) For Working Class Unity Across National Lines! (PDF) For United Front Defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal! (PDF) Defend Argentinean Leftists! (PDF) O, What a Tangled Web (PDF) From the SL to Trotskyism (PDF) Labourism & the British Left (PDF) Imperialist Hands off the Balkans (Not available online) Marxism & Religion (Not available online) Critical Support & Marxist Tactics (Not available online) Protest French Nuclear Tests - [1917 #18 (1996)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-18-1996/): Revolt Against Globalization (PDF) French Workers Take the Lead Spain: War & Revolution (PDF) What ‘Land & Freedom’ Leaves Out ‘Small, Determined and Well-Organized’ Workers Vanguard De-Collectivized (PDF) Healyites of the Second Mobilization Mumia Defense in New Zealand (PDF) Left Split from Labour (PDF) Scargill Launches New Party - [Bolschewik Nr.37 (2020)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-33-2020/): Wohnraum statt Profitgier “Demokratie”-Provokateure & Hongkongs kapitalistische Dystopie Liberaler Moralismus oder Klassenkampf? Verteidigt Venezuela gegen die imperialistische Aggression! Venezuela & “Russischer Imperialismus” Hände weg von Julian Assange! James M. Robertson – Eine Bilanz Welcher Jim? CWI implodiert Die bevorstehende Klimakatastrophe & wie man sie bekämpft - [1917 #19 (1997)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-19-1997/): American Labor Beseiged (PDF) Oust the Bureaucrats—-Unchain the Unions! South Korea on the Brink (PDF) Working Class Flexes Muscle Resistance & Betrayal (PDF) Ontario ‘Days of Action’ Trotskyism & Tactics (PDF) General Strike Slogan–What It Is and How to Use It Labor Party: Stillborn in the USA (PDF) ‘Labor Party’ Auxiliary for the Democrats Marxism, Feminism & Women’s Liberation (PDF) `Michael Collins’ & Irish Freedom (PDF) From the Easter Rising to Partition Women’s Oppression–Not in Our Genes (Not available online) - [1917 #20 (1998)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-20-1998/): The Struggle for South Africa (PDF) From Apartheid to Neo-Apartheid The Revolutionary Betrayed (PDF) Trotsky & the ‘Crisis of Trotskyism’ A Life of Struggle (PDF) Myra Tanner Weiss, 1917-1997 James P. Cannon on Anarchism (PDF) A Conversation with Myra (PDF) Life in Cannon’s SWP ‘Globalization’ & the Unions (PDF) The New Realities of BSA/SEP IG: Willful Blindness (PDF) IG: Ex-Robertsonites in Denial In Defense of Tactics (PDF) Canada’s No Choice Election (PDF) For Independent Working-Class Politics! Justin Ryniker (PDF) Class Politics & Labour Loyalism (PDF) Tony Blair & the British Left - [1917 #21 (1999)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-21-1999/): Balkan Quagmire (PDF) Defend Yugoslavia Against NATO’s Attack! Labor: Fight to Free Mumia! (PDF) Abolish the Racist Death Penalty! Origin of ILWU’s Political Action (PDF) Longshore/Warehouse Militant Caucus: a Great Tradition Disagreeable Sectarians (PDF) Open Letter to Workers Vanguard Free Ocalan! Defend the PKK! (PDF) Permanent Revolution and Kurdistan Hands Off Iraq! (PDF) Down with UN Starvation Embargo! Weathering the Storm (PDF) IBT’s Second International Conference SLP: a Postmortem (PDF) Bolsheviks in King Arthur’s Court From Cliff to Trotsky (PDF) Open Letter to the International Socialists Apologists for Islamic Reaction (PDF) Fake Socialists vs. Women’s Liberation Marxism & the General Strike... - [Miscellaneous archive material](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/miscellaneous-archive/): Brilliant Tactics … But Where Do They Lead? The Campaign against the Springbok Tour A leaflet published on 29 August 1981 during a period of sharp social struggle in New Zealand around sporting ties to apartheid-ruled South Africa and a tour of New Zealand by the white South African Springbok team. Arguing to introduce a class struggle perspective to the anti-tour movement, it was published by the Labour Left, a formation in the Labour Party which included militants from a variety of leftist traditions, among them three comrades who later became founding members of the International Bolshevik Tendency. What is Revolutionary... - [Dick Fraser on the Black Question in America: The revolutionary integrationist perspective](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/dick-fraser/): The Negro Struggle and the Proletarian Revolution – November 1953 Published in SWP Discussion Bulletin Number A-19, August 1954. For the Materialist Conception of the Negro Struggle – January 1955 Published in SWP Discussion Bulletin A-30, August 1955. Contribution to the Discussion on the Slogan “Send Federal Troops to Mississippi” – 10 March 1956 Published in SWP Discussion Bulletin Volume 18, Number 13, October 1957. Resolution on the Negro Struggle – 25 May 1957. Published in SWP Discussion Bulletin, Volume 18, Number 11, September 1957. Summary Remarks on the Negro Discussion – June 1957. Published in SWP Discussion Bulletin, Volume 18,... - [Other materials from the revolutionary period of the Spartacists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/other-spartacists-material/): The National Question in the Marxist Movement, 1848–1914  First published in Workers Vanguard No.123, 3 September 1976, and No.125, 17 September 1976 Lenin vs. Luxemburg on the National Question First published in Workers Vanguard, No.150, 25 March 1977 Workers Must Crush Sectarian Terror First published in Workers Vanguard No. 156, 6 May 1977 and Spartacist No. 14, Autumn 1977 Theses on Ireland First published in Workers Vanguard No. 172, 9 September 1977 and Spartacist No. 24, 1978 The Birth of the Zionist State First published in Workers Vanguard: Part 1 in No.33, November 1973, Part 2 in No.45, May 1974. Trotskyism... - [Spartacist material on the Youth Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/spartacist-on-youth-question/): Marxist Bulletin No. 7 – The Leninist Position on Youth-Party Relations Documents from the YSA & SWP, 1957-61. Youth-Party Relations in the Communist Youth International Young Spartacist, No. 21, January-February 1974 The Spartacus Youth League and the Student Upsurge of the 1930’s Young Spartacus No. 22, March-April 1974 Founding Conference of the 4th International: “Resolution on Youth,” 11 September 1938. Introduction from Revolutionary Communist Youth Newsletter, No. 17, May-June 1973 For a Revolutionary Socialist Youth Movement! Revolutionary Marxist Caucus Newsletter, No. 5, December 1970 Youth, Class and Party RCY Newsletter, No. 9, October-November 1971 - [Spartacist materials on revolutionary defense policy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/spartacist-on-rdp/): What Defense Policy for Revolutionaries? Revolutionary Communist Youth Newsletter No. 17, May-June 1973 Munoz Delegation Meets with UN Refugees Commissioner Workers Vanguard No. 119, 23 July 1976 PDC Forum Hails Victory of Muñoz Campaign Workers Vanguard No. 123, 3 September 1976 Class Struggle Defense Saved Munoz Workers Vanguard No. 123, 3 September 1976 On the Partisan Defense Committee by Reuben Samuels, 7 October 1976, Discussion Bulletin No. 27, Spartacist League/U.S., June 1977 For Class-Struggle Defense, by Toni Reade, 9 June 1977, Discussion Bulletin No. 28, Spartacist League/U.S, June 1977 - [Trotskyism in Ceylon: Edmund Samarakkody and the Spartacists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/trotskyism-in-ceylon/): The Struggle for Trotskyism in Ceylon By Edmund Samarakkody (published in Spartacist No. 22, Winter 1973-74) Letter to Edmund Samarakkody by James Robertson 27 October 1973 (published in International Discussion Bulletin, No. 3, Spartacist League/U.S., May 1974) Letter to James Robertson by Edmund Samarakkody 9 February 1974 (published in International Discussion Bulletin, No. 3, Spartacist League/U.S., May 1974) Coalitionism in Spain & Sri Lanka Talk given by Bill Logan at the Permanent Revolution Group Winter School, Wellington, New Zealand, 19-20 August 1989 - [Selected articles from Women & Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/wr-articles/): Dalla Costa / James and the Subversion of Marxism: A Critique Women & Revolution, Spring 1974 Shiela Rowbotham: Hiding from History Women & Revolution, Summer 1975 Early Communist Work Among Women: The Bolsheviks Part 1 Women & Revolution, Winter 1975–76 Part 2 Women & Revolution, Spring 1976 Witchcraft and Statecraft: A Materialist Analysis of the European Witch Persecutions Women & Revolution, Autumn 1974 - [Origins of the Spartacist Tendency](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/originsst/): In Defence of a Revolutionary Perspective This document was originally presented to the June 1962 plenary meeting of the Socialist Workers Party (U.S.) National Committee as a “Statement of Basic Position by the Revolutionary Tendency” (RT) of the SWP. After the expulsion of the RT the document was published as Marxist Bulletin No. 1 by the Spartacist group. Toward the Rebirth Of The Fourth International Draft resolution on the world movement submitted to the 1963 SWP Convention by the Revolutionary Tendency. For Black Trotskyism By James Robertson and Shirley Stoute, 3 July 1963, from SWP Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. 30,... - [Pabloist Revisionism and the Destruction of the Fourth International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/pabloist-revisionism/): Genesis of Pabloism This very important essay on the history of the Trotskyist movement after Trotsky appeared in Spartacist No. 21 (Fall 1972). We have appended an article from 1917 No. 8 (Summer 1990) entitled “Revolutionary Continuity & the Split in the Fourth International” which contains a few criticisms and some supplementary comments. The question of the 1951-53 split in the Fourth International is one of the issues dealt with in Trotskyist Bulletin No. 3 which reproduces a polemic between the Bolshevik Tendency and Workers Power. Where Are We Going? This document written by Michel Pablo appeared in the SWP’s International... - [Origins of the Fourth International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/origins/): How the Fourth International Was Conceived This article was written by Jean van Heijenoort and first published in the August 1944 issue of Fourth International. Jean van Heijenoort (1912-1986) was Trotsky’s secretary in 1932 in Prinkipo, and followed him to France, Norway and Mexico. As a leader of the Fourth International he headed a provisional international centre in the United States during World War Two and left politics shortly thereafter. Trotsky’s Struggle for the Fourth International This article was written by John G. Wright and first published in Fourth International, August 1946. John G. Wright (1902-1956–legal name Joseph Vanzler) joined the... - [Archive of Marxist material - particularly the history of Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/): – Origins of the Fourth International – Pabloist Revisionism and the Destruction of the Fourth International – Origins of the Spartacist Tendency – Spartacist, issues 1 to 30 (1964-1980), journal of the then-revolutionary international Spartacist tendency – Selected articles from Women & Revolution – Trotskyism in Ceylon: Edmund Samarakkody and the Spartacists – Spartacist materials on revolutionary defense policy – Spartacist material on the Youth Question – Other materials from the revolutionary period of the Spartacists – Dick Fraser on the Black Question in America: The revolutionary integrationist perspective – Militant Longshoreman – Miscellaneous - [1917 #22 (2000)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-22-2000/): Globalization & Its Discontents Proletarian Internationalism—Not Protectionism! NATO’s “Humanitarian” Terrorism Barbarism in the New World Order The Green, the Orange & the “Peace Process” From Bloody Sunday to Good Friday Justice for Amadou Diallo! NYPD: Murder Inc. Seattle & the Left Opportunists Adapt, Sectarians Abstain Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! No Faith in Capitalist Courts! Revolutionaries & Imperialist War Cliffites on Kosovo: Born-Again Kautskyites Letter to the Spartacist League No Free Speech for Fascists! Fun With Figures - [1917 #23 (2001)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-23-2001/): Fiji: Permanent Revolution & the ‘Pacific Way’ LRCI’s Left Turn ‘No Coherent Middle Ground’ Imperialist World Order: Misery for Profit James P. Cannon on 1948 Wallace Campaign Zimbabwe: Cliffites’ Poisoned ‘Victory’ ‘No Greater Crime’ Bourgeois Parties: Unsafe At Any Speed Tailgating Nader       - [1917 #24 (2002)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-24-2002/): Imperialism’s Bloody Trail Enduring Oppression & Infinite Injustice FTAA Demonstration in Quebec: For Socialist Globalization! Russia: A Capitalist Dystopia Politics & Economics of Counterrevolution ‘All Shades of Political Thought’ Caste & Class in the USSR Where is the ICL Going? The Politics of Chicken Revisited U.S. Imperialist Rule: An Endless Horror World Trade Center Terror Bombing A Significant Step IBT’s Third International Conference Centrism & Bolshevism in Ukraine YRM’s Intervention in Anti-Kuchma Movement Open Letter: ‘To All Revolutionaries in the Komsomol’ No Vote to Labour! British Election 2001: Vote SA/SLP/SSP! 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