# Bolshevik Tendency

> For the rebirth of the Fourth International!


## Posts

- [„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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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....
- [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,...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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 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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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/)
- [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 others, we need to win the left of the Labour Party to this perspective. We need to call on those Labour MPs who criticise the leadership from the left to make a definitive break from the pro-capitalist programme of the Labour Party, and stand in defence of the working class. Only then would we vote for them. We should not support New Labour in any constituency,...
- [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) Christoph Lenk (Peckham and Camberwell CSLP) February 1997 Our party, the Socialist Labour Party, was founded because many people in the labour movement have been pushed too far by the Labour Party’s endless betrayals. In the last 20 years at least, every struggle against a hail of ruling-class attacks has been cynically betrayed by the Labour and TUC bureaucrats, from miners, printworkers, dockers, to the struggles...
- [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 February: “Contrary to the report carried in Saturday’s Morning Star, the SLP has never intended to contest and will not be contesting London’s Brent East constituency in the General Election, and the person named as the SLP candidate in that report is not a member of our Party.” This effectively implies that it would be wrong for us to stand a candidate against Ken Livingstone, the...
- [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 Conway Hall to discuss policy documents. The election has been set for May Day, a year to the day after our party was formally launched, and our first General Election campaign is in full swing. Meanwhile, the Labour Party is becoming ever more New Labour, competing (very successfully) with the Tories and Lib Dems on the same territory – how best to manage capitalism. Many of...
- [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 25 February. I saw an altercation taking place in the small foyer area at the Red Lion Square entrance to Conway Hall where the rally was to take place. Wanting to intervene to stop an incident outside our rally which could be detrimental to the reputation of the SLP I went into the foyer area. On arriving in the foyer area I saw SLP member Tony...
- [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 party to fight for socialism and for an end to the capitalist system. Now we have recently formed a local constituency party in Hackney North and Stoke Newington. Socialist Labour is standing candidates in the upcoming General Election in as many places as possible, but unfortunately will not be standing a candidate in Hackney North and Stoke Newington. We will be standing in neighbouring constituencies such...
- [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, after Israel had killed more than 2,100 Palestinians in Gaza – mostly civilians, more than a quarter children – and destroyed much of Gaza’s infrastructure, housing, hospitals, schools and water supply. Israel claims it does not “occupy” Gaza, yet it has complete control of Gaza’s land crossings, seacoast and air space. Israel severely restricts Palestinians’ movement and their access to food, medical supplies, and construction materials....
- [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 by ILWU longshoremen in Longview, WA against the grain conglomerate EGT and the sell-out contract negotiated by the ILWU leadership. The panel consisted of members of the Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity Committee and workers from Longview and other ILWU locals, including long-time IBT supporter Howard Keylor, a retired member of ILWU Local 10 in Oakland. In February, in response to a planned mass mobilization organized by...
- [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 (Also available at Labournet) – Letter from ILWU Local 40 Clerks These comments are based entirely upon my reading of the contract documents. Since Local 21 officers and members have been forbidden to make the contract available to any longshoreman outside of the Local and are prevented from even discussing the contract with other ILWU members, my analysis is based entirely upon my 34 years experience...
- [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 Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in Longview, Washington to resist a concerted attempt to bust the union. Retired ILWU militant Jack Heyman and others in the union worked with the Occupy movement on the U.S. West Coast to build support for the embattled Longview local, which turned out to be an important factor in the way events unfolded. The SL article acknowledges the importance of the...
- [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 to leave the Bay Area completely unworked and divert to Los Angeles. This followed on the heels of a successful blockade of another Zim ship, the Piraeus, in mid-August. A further blockade is planned for 25 October, when the Zim Beijing is due to berth in Oakland. The 27 September action was organized by the Stop ZIM Action Committee, a united front comprised of a number...
- [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 on behalf of the Bolshevik Tendency. First of all, I would like to thank the organizers for initiating this protest. The comrades of the French Trotskyist Fraction group (Révolution Permanente) and the NPA-R (Le Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste – Révolutionnaires) among others in France are in prison, or are facing prison time, because they oppose the terrorism of the Israeli state. The imperialist powers of the so-called...
- [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 particulier en France. L’aggravation des conflits de classe à travers l’Europe a été alimentée par les retombées économiques de la guerre en Ukraine, en particulier le boycott des exportations d’énergie russe. Cette guerre est un élément important d’un ordre multipolaire émergent, porté par la révolte de divers pays néocoloniaux et dépendants du capitalisme, et surtout de l’État ouvrier déformé chinois, contre l’“ordre international fondé sur des...

## Pages

- [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...
- [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 ! Débat IG/SL : l’occasion de faire quelques mises au point
- [Bolshevik édition française N°2](https://bolsheviktendency.org/index-de-ledition-francaise-bolshevik/bolshevik-edition-francaise-n2/): La Chine en Afrique Démystifier les falsifications pseudo-marxistes concernant l’’impérialisme chinois’ Le confusionnisme ‘trotskiste’ Double pensée de la Fraction Trotskyste concernant l’impérialisme, l’Ukraine, la Chine et la multipolarité
- [Index de l'édition française bolshevik](https://bolsheviktendency.org/index-de-ledition-francaise-bolshevik/): Bolshevik édition française N°2 (2025) La Chine en Afrique Démystifier les falsifications pseudo-marxistes concernant l’’impérialisme chinois’ Le confusionnisme ‘trotskiste’ Double pensée de la Fraction Trotskyste concernant l’impérialisme, l’Ukraine, la Chine et la multipolarité Bolshevik édition française N°1 (2024) Pour un État ouvrier binational en Palestine-Israël ! De la rivière à la mer : Briser la tyrannie sioniste ! 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/): Was ist das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht? Der multipolare Flügel der deutschen ArbeiteraristokratieFür einen bi-nationalen Arbeiterstaat in Palästina-Israel! Zerschlagt die zionistische Tyrannei!‚Unerschütterliche revolutionäre Loyalität‘ Zum Tod des ET-/BT-Gründers Howard KeylorTrotzki zur Taktik: „Lernt denken!“ Sollten Marxisten der NATO gegenüber gleichgültig sein?
- [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...
- [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/): 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 plus précise et plus honnête » (30 mai 2023) L’OTAN contre la Russie en Ukraine – Une épreuve de vérité...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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 #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 military vs political support Exchange on BT-SL debate with former Spartacist cadre Revolutionary Defeatism & the Ukrainian Working Class Marxism & Ukrainian conflict  Bolshevik #5 (2023) NATO v Russia in Ukraine Defend...
- [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
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- [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...
- [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...
- [Declaraciones y folletos](https://bolsheviktendency.org/declaraciones-y-folletos/): Presentación de la Tendencia Bolchevique en el debate sobre Ucrania con la Liga Espartaquista (1 diciembre 2023) ‘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 (19 marzo 2023) Sobre el apoyo militar y el apoyo político (4 marzo 2023) Sobre la ‘Asamblea Constituyente Revolucionaria’ (20 febrero 2023) Más vale tarde que nunca – La rectificación del Grupo Internacionalista sobre Rusia contra la OTAN… ‘debiera ser más precisa y más honesta’ (16 febrero 2023) ¡Solidaridad con Heiner Bücker! ¡Fuera los artículos...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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...
- [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....
- [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....
- [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...
- [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...
- [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! Recycled Browderism Letter: ISO’s Campaign for Nader    
- [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 Initiative: ‘The Better to Eat You With’ Imperialist War & Socialist Pretenders Following the Line of Least Resistance ‘Blunting the Edge of Revolutionary Criticism’ LRCI on Argentina Mumia’s Lawyer Speaks From Sacco and Vanzetti to Mumia Abu-Jamal
- [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 Workers Power Abandons Trotskyist Pretensions Leninism & Immigration Polemics with the LRP From the IG to Trotskyism Dutch ‘VVI’ Joins IBT All That Glitters… Young Militant Chooses IBT over ICL No Innocent Explanation CWI Leadership’s Role in Ukrainian Fraud Neutrality in the Face of Imperialism Why Socialists say ‘Defend Iraq’!  


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