# Bolshevik Tendency > For the rebirth of the Fourth International! ## Posts - [Kommunismus & Ökologie](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/kommunismus-okologie/): Nachstehend drucken wir die Übersetzung eines Textes einer IBT-Präsentation bei einer Podiumsdiskussion der Platypus Gruppe an der York Universität in Toronto zum Thema Kapital, Geschichte und Ökologie vom 15. - [Die griechische Krise verwalten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/die-griechische-krise-verwalten/): Bereits einen Tag nach der Wahl in Griechenland hat sich Syriza für die Bildung einer Volksfrontregierung eingesetzt – ausgerechnet mit den Rechtspopulisten der Unabhängigen Griechen, einer reaktionären und rassistischen Rechtsabspaltung der konservativen Nea Demokratia. - [Syriza: Reformismus in Aktion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/syriza-reformismus-in-aktion/): Ein Jahr nach den vorgezogenen Neu-Wahlen vom 25. Januar 2015 halten die Angriffe auf die griechische Arbeiterklasse an. - [marx21: Verwirrt im LINKEN-Sumpf](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/marx21-verwirrt-im-linken-sumpf/): Die Spaltung und Neuausrichtung der Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) mit dem Wegbrechen des Lucke/Henkel-Flügels, sowie die Beharrlichkeit, mit der die Rechten aus Pegida, Nazis und Rassisten ihre reaktionären Demonstrationen abhalten, hat zu einer Radikalisierung des politischen Milieus rechts der CDU geführt. - [Das Elend des Reformismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/das-elend-des-reformismus/): Die Proteste gegen das G7-Treffen auf Schloss Elmau im Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen im Juni 2015 haben ebenso wie der Massenprotest gegen die Freihandelsabkommen TTIP und CETA in Berlin im Oktober 2015 ein gewisses Potenzial für einen Kampf um eine Alternative zum Kapitalismus gezeigt. - [Proletarischer Internationalismus und der Kampf gegen die Festung Europa](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/proletarischer-internationalismus-und-der-kampf-gegen-die-festung-europa/): Die Welle rassistischer Gewalt gegen Flüchtlingsunterkünfte und die rechten Mobilisierungen gegen Flüchtlinge bedürfen einer revolutionären Antwort. - [Reaktionäre Offensive](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/reaktionare-offensive/): Die rassistischen Mobilisierungen von Hogesa (Hooligans gegen Salafisten), einem Bündnis aus rechten Fussballfans mit Neonazis und Rassisten, das Aufleben von Pegida (Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes), einem Bündnis aller derzeit verfügbaren reaktionären Kräfte in Deutschland, sowie die Demonstrationen und Anschläge gegen die Einsetzung eines Ministerpräsidenten aus der reformistischen Partei Die LINKE durch eine LINKE-SPD-Grünen-Regierung in Thüringen sind das Anzeichen einer reaktionären Offensive in Deutschland. - [Keinen Frieden mit den Mahn- und Wahnwachen!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/keinen-frieden-mit-den-mahn-und-wahnwachen/): Anfang Februar dieses Jahres tauchte in Deutschland eine neue politische Bewegung auf die mit Demonstrationen und Mahnwachen auf sich aufmerksam machte. - [Nieder mit dem rassistischen Polizeiterror](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/nieder-mit-dem-rassistischen-polizeiterror/): 1857 entschied der US Supreme Court, dass Menschen afrikanischer Herkunft „keine Rechte“ hatten, „die ein Weißer zu respektieren hätte“. - [Wer wir sind](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/wer-wir-sind/): Die Internationale Bolschewistische Tendenz (IBT) ist eine revolutionäre sozialistische Organisation, gegründet von ehemaligen Kadern der internationalen Spartacist Tendenz (heute Internationale Kommunistische Liga). - [Für den Trotzkismus!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/fur-den-trotzkismus/): Dieses Dokument ist eine Übersetzung aus 1917 Nr. 3, Frühling 1987. - [Die Ukraine: Eine revolutionäre internationalistische Perspektive](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/die-ukraine-eine-revolutionare-internationalistische-perspektive/): Dies ist die Übersetzung eines leicht editierten Redebeitrags eines IBT-Sprechers bei einer Veranstaltung der International Marxist Tendency (IMT) zur Situation in der Ukraine am 21. - [Einheit, Klasse, Programm](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/einheit-klasse-programm/): Editierte Version eines Beitrags von IBT-Unterstützerin Barbara Dorn während einer Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema „Ist die linke Einheit notwendig?“ bei der Europäischen Platypus-Konferenz, London, 19. - [TTIP: Ein Angriff auf die Arbeiterklasse](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/ttip-ein-angriff-auf-die-arbeiterklasse/): Seit Juli 2013 verhandeln die EU-Kommission und Regierungsvertreter der USA sowie Lobbyisten aller relevanten industriellen Sparten um ein Freihandelsabkommen zwischen den Wirtschaftsräumen der EU und der USA. - [Nahles ganz Schröder](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/nahles-ganz-schroder/): Am 28. Oktober 2014 stellte Bundesarbeitsministerin Andrea Nahles (SPD) einen „Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Regelung der Tarifeinheit (Tarifeinheitsgesetz)“ vor. - [Europas Krieg gegen Flüchtlinge](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/europas-krieg-gegen-fluchtlinge/): Europa zeigt in der Frage der ankommenden Flüchtlinge seine rassistische Visage in voller Pracht. - [Über Liebe und Ehe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/uber-liebe-und-ehe/): Wenn aber die Monogamie von allen bekannten Familienformen diejenige war, unter der allein sich die moderne Geschlechtsliebe entwickeln konnte, so heißt das nicht, daß sie sich ausschließlich oder nur vorwiegend in ihr, als Liebe der Ehegatten zueinander, entwickelte. - [Liebe und Ehe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/liebe-und-ehe/): Nach einer sechseinhalb Monate dauernden Passage durch das Parlament wurde die Ehe gleichgeschlechtlicher Paare in Neuseeland schließlich im April 2013 legalisiert. - [Trotzkismus versus Castroismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/trotzkismus-versus-castroismus/): Der folgende Text ist eine leicht überarbeitete Version der Ausführungen eines Unterstützers der IBT auf einem Kuba Solidaritätstreffen am 20. - [Immer schön realistisch](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/immer-schon-realistisch/): Der Revolutionär Sozialistische Bund (RSB) hat im Sommer 2013 eine Reihe von Forderungen aufgestellt, die er zusammengenommen als „Sofortprogramm gegen die Krise“ präsentierte („Unser Leben ist mehr wert als ihre Profite! - [Rechte Politik und Kapitulation der Partei DIE LINKE](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/rechte-politik-und-kapitulation-der-partei-die-linke/): Der Wahlsieg der CDU/CSU markiert einen Rechtsruck, der von einem aggressiveren Auftreten des deutschen Imperialismus nach innen und außen begleitet wird. - [Kapitalistische Krise & die EU](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/kapitalistische-krise-die-eu/): Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa – das Gespenst massiver und chaotischer sozialer Unruhen ausgelöst durch brutale Sparmaßnahmen, die verhängt wurden, um die fehlgeschlagenen Wetten von Bankiers und Finanzspekulanten zu decken. - [Gleiches Recht für Schwule und Lesben](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/gleiches-recht-fur-schwule-und-lesben/): Homosexuelle können in Deutschland zwar eine sogenannte Lebenspartnerschaft eingehen, doch bleiben ihnen viele Privilegien der Verheirateten verwehrt. - [Kapitalismus und Homophobie](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/kapitalismus-und-homophobie/): Revolutionäre müssen danach streben, die Schwulenfrage sowohl aus wissenschaftlichen wie programmatischen Gründen zu verstehen. - [Die Organisation fällt nicht weit vom Programm](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/die-organisation-fallt-nicht-weit-vom-programm/): Seit Oktober 2012 beteiligt sich die IBT als Beobachter an den Diskussionen innerhalb der Neuen Antikapitalistischen Organisation (NAO). - [Kritische Geschichte der Ligue Communiste](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/18/kritische-geschichte-der-ligue-communiste/): Dieser Artikel wurde kurz vor Pompidous Tod im April 1974 verfasst. - [Ursprünge des Pabloismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/18/ursprunge-des-pabloismus/): Die amerikanische Socialist Workers Party und die europäischen Pabloisten sind auf verschiedenen Wegen und in unterschiedlichem Rhythmus zum Revisionismus gelangt, um sich Anfang der sechziger Jahre in einer unstabilen Allianz, in einer prinzipienlosen „Wiedervereinigung“ zusammenzufinden, die jetzt, wo die amerikanische SWP den Übergang vom Pabloismus zum reinsten Reformismus vollzogen hat, im Zusammenbruch begriffen ist. - [TB #7: Marxism and the Quebec National Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/17/tb-7-marxism-and-the-quebec-national-question/) - [TB #6: Polemics with the Internationalist Group](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/17/tb-6-polemics-with-the-internationalist-group/) - [TB #5: ICL vs. IBT](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/17/tb-5-icl-vs-ibt/): The complete text of the ICL's pamphlet, "The International Bolshevik Tendency"What is it? with a point-by-point reply. - [Die Grenzen des linken Pabloismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/13/die-grenzen-des-linken-pabloismus/): Der Revolutionär Sozialistische Bund/IV. - [Kapitalistische Sparprogramme & griechische Arbeiterklasse](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/13/kapitalistische-sparprogramme-griechische-arbeiterklasse/): Der folgende Artikel eines britischen IBT-Unterstützers wurde am 26. - [Kapitalismus und Frauenunterdrückung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/kapitalismus-und-frauenunterdruckung/): "Die Sozialisten müssen vor allem wissen, daß auf der ökonomi­schen Abhängigkeit oder Unabhängigkeit die soziale Sklaverei oder Freiheit beruht." - [Frauen, wollt ihr wohl daheim bleiben!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/frauen-wollt-ihr-wohl-daheim-bleiben/): Im 21. Jahrhundert, also ganz aktuell hat sich die Regierung der Bundesrepublik eine erneute Kampagne ausgedacht, um die Frauen zurück an den Herd zu bekommen. - [Die Occupy Wall Street-Bewegung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/die-occupy-wall-street-bewegung/): Der Zuccotti Park in Manhattan liegt dem Gelände des ehemaligen World Trade Centers direkt gegenüber. - [Britische Riots](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/britische-riots/): Im Oktober 2011 lud die Duisburger Ortsgruppe der anarcho-syndikalistischen Freien ArbeiterInnen Union (FAU) ein Mitglied der Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz ein, um vor Ihrer Gruppe über die Aufstände zu sprechen, die im vorigen August in Britannien ausbrachen. - [Revolutionäres Feuer gegen kapitalistisches Elend!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/revolutionares-feuer-gegen-kapitalistisches-elend/): "Die Kautskyaner […] führen diese Erscheinungen eines „gesunden“, „friedlichen“, „auf friedlichem Verkehr“ beruhenden Kapitalismus an und stellen sie der finanziellen Ausplünderung, den Bankmonopolen, den Geschäften der Banken mit der Staats­macht, der kolonialen Unterdrückung etc. - [Lebendig begraben](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/lebendig-begraben/): Pünktlich zum 30. - [NATO-Bomben für die Revolution - Die Gruppe Arbeitermacht und ihre „tragische Illusion“](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/nato-bomben-fur-die-revolution-die-gruppe-arbeitermacht-und-ihre-tragische-illusion/): Als es schien, dass sich die Fackel des arabischen Frühlings auch in Libyen entflammen würde, bezog die Gruppe Arbeiter­macht (GAM) von der ersten Minute an Stellung für die Aufständischen, und sah sie als authentische Revolutionäre im Sinne der Menschen auf dem Tahrir-Platz in Ägypten oder der Massen in Tunesien, die schnell für das Ende des Regimes von Ben Ali sorgten. - [Nieder mit dem NATO-Krieg gegen Libyen!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/nieder-mit-dem-nato-krieg-gegen-libyen/): Im März beschloss die UNO eine militärische Einmischung in den libyschen Bürgerkrieg zwischen der Regierung von Muammar al-Gaddafi und der Opposition im Osten des Lan­des. - [Für einen klassenkämpferischen Antifaschismus!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/fur-einen-klassenkampferischen-antifaschismus/): Am 4. November wurde mit der Entdeckung von zwei toten Bankräubern, Uwe Mundlos und Uwe Böhnhardt, ein Fass ins Rollen gebracht, das tiefe Einblicke in den Zustand Deutsch­lands 66 Jahre nach der militärischen Niederlage des Faschismus gibt. - [Strategien der palästinensischen Befreiung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/strategien-der-palastinensischen-befreiung/): Am 23. September 2011 brachte Palästinenser­präsident Mahmud Abbas einen Antrag auf Staatsgründung vor die UNO. - [Internationale Bolschewistische Tendenz an den Revolutionär-Sozialistischen Bund - Brief vom 18. Februar 2010](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/internationale-bolschewistische-tendenz-an-den-revolutionar-sozialistischen-bund-brief-vom-18-februar-2010/): Liebe Genossinnen und Genossen des RSB, wir haben mit Interesse eure Kritik am Papier „Rolle und Aufgaben der Vierten Internationale“ gelesen, das auf der bevorstehenden Welt-Konferenz des Vereinigten Sekretariats der Vierten Internationale verabschiedet werden soll. - [Roma und Sinti — EU sucht Sündenböcke](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/roma-und-sinti-eu-sucht-sundenbocke/): Im August begann die französische Polizei mit Razzien und Auflösungen der Wohnstätten von Roma und Sinti. - [Zum BP Öl-Desaster](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/zum-bp-ol-desaster/): Folgende Erklärung wurde von einem Unterstützer der IBT auf einem Forum in Toronto am 5. - [Für die sofortige Freilassung von Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/fur-die-sofortige-freilassung-von-mumia-abu-jamal/): Am 9. November 2010 fand eine Kundgebung von ca. 20 Menschen vor dem Hamburg America Center statt. Das folgende Statement wurde verteilt: Am 19. - [Kapitalismus mit Grünem Punkt](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/kapitalismus-mit-grunem-punkt/): Der aktuelle Aufwärtstrend in Umfragen für BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN, die im Bundestag die kleinste Fraktion stellen, ist ein Indiz für die Verunsicherung des kleinbürgerlichen Lagers. - [Sparsamer Widerstand gegen Sparpaket](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/sparsamer-widerstand-gegen-sparpaket/): Die deutsche Bourgeoisie jubelt. Die Krise sei angeblich überwunden. - [Massen-Streikposten blockieren israelisches Schiff!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/massen-streikposten-blockieren-israelisches-schiff/): Am Sonntag, dem 20. - [Israels Angriff auf Pazifisten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/israels-angriff-auf-pazifisten/): Die seit 2007 andauernde Blockade des Gazastreifens durch Israel bedeutet für die Bevölkerung eine humanitäre Katastrophe. - [Verteidigt Nordkorea! Stürzt die Bürokratie — Für revolutionäre Wiedervereinigung!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/verteidigt-nordkorea-sturzt-die-burokratie-fur-revolutionare-wiedervereinigung/): Am 23. November feuerte Artillerie aus der Demokratischen Volksrepublik Korea (DVRK, umgangssprachlich Nordkorea) 130 Granaten auf Yeonpyeong, eine kleine Insel in umstrittenen Gewässern nahe der nordkoreanischen Küste, auf der sich ein südkoreanischer Militärstützpunkt befindet. - [Der politische Streik](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/der-politische-streik/): Der erste dokumentierte Streik ereignete sich vor mehr als 3000 Jahren. - [Leo Trotzki: Grundlage des bürokratischen Kommandos](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/leo-trotzki-grundlage-des-burokratischen-kommandos/): Grundlage des bürokratischen Kommandos ist die Armut der Gesellschaft an Verbrauchsgegenständen mit dem daraus entstehenden Kampf aller gegen alle. - [Karl Liebknecht: Militarismus und Antimilitarismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/karl-liebknecht-militarismus-und-antimilitarismus/): „Das klassenbewußte Proletariat steht daher jener internationalen Aufgabe der Armee wie der gesamten kapitalistischen Ausdehnungspolitik nicht nur kühl bis ans Herz hinan, sondern in ernster und zielbewußter Feindschaft gegenüber. - [Die DDR — „Sozialismus“ in einem halben Land](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/die-ddr-sozialismus-in-einem-halben-land/): Auch 20 Jahre nach der Konterrevolution in der DDR ist der Hass der deutschen Bourgeoisie auf den deformierten Arbeiterstaat DDR ungebrochen. - [GAM und SpAD zum Ende der DDR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/gam-und-spad-zum-ende-der-ddr/): Die Gruppe Arbeitermacht (GAM), deutsche Sektion der Liga für die Fünfte Internationale (LFI) war stets darum bemüht, sich als konstruktiv kritisch darzustellen. - [Klassenjustiz und Rassismus — Mumia Abu-Jamal ist unschuldig](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/klassenjustiz-und-rassismus-mumia-abu-jamal-ist-unschuldig/): Seit mehr als 28 Jahren sitzt Mumia Abu-Jamal unschuldig im Gefängnis. - [Zur Abstimmung über den Lissabon-Vertrag](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/zur-abstimmung-uber-den-lissabon-vertrag/): Den nachstehenden Brief schrieben wir am 29. September 2009 an die Socialist Party (SP) in Irland. - [Protektionismus - Gift für internationale Arbeitersolidarität](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/protektionismus-gift-fur-internationale-arbeitersolidaritat/): Seit Ausbruch der Krise haben Teile der internationalen Bourgeoisie, die noch vor kurzem den globalen Freihandel als vollkommen alternativlos ansahen, Gefallen an staatlichen Interventionen zum Aufkaufen ihrer maroden Betriebe oder faulen Kredite wieder entdeckt. - [Widerstand statt Kapitulation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/widerstand-statt-kapitulation/): Laut einer BBC-Studie in 27 Ländern sind nur 11% der Befragten mit der Funktion des existierenden Systems zufrieden. - [Wahlbetrug, Vergewaltigung und NATO-Terror: Imperialistische ‚Aufklärung‘ scheitert am Hindukusch](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/10/wahlbetrug-vergewaltigung-und-nato-terror-imperialistische-aufklarung-scheitert-am-hindukusch/): Die massiven Fälschungen bei den Wahlen und die militärischen Erfolge der Taliban und der anderen Gruppen, die Widerstand gegen die imperialistische Besatzung durch die NATO unter der Führung der USA leisten, haben Afghanistan wieder in den Mittelpunkt der Weltpolitik gebracht. - [Ursachen kapitalistischer Krisen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/08/ursachen-kapitalistischer-krisen/): Die gegenwärtige Krise des Kapitalismus hat aufs Neue die Frage nach den allgemeinen Gründen solcher Krisen aufgeworfen und, ob die jetzige hätte abgewendet werden können. - [Für einen revolutionären Antifaschismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/08/fur-einen-revolutionaren-antifaschismus/): Der Kampf gegen den Faschismus ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil im Selbstverständnis der revolutionären Organisation. - [Staatlichkeit & Anarchie in der Spanischen Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/08/staatlichkeit-anarchie-in-der-spanischen-revolution/): Der spanische Bürgerkrieg ist bis heute Projektionsfläche der Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Anarchisten und Marxisten, Zentristen und Stalinisten jeglicher Couleur und bildet außerhalb Deutschlands auch die Grundlage für die Auseinandersetzung zwischen verschiedenen Strömungen des Anarchismus. - [TB #3: Reply to WP by BT](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/07/tb-3-reply-to-wp-by-ibt/): 5 May 1988 Dear comrades: Thank you for your extensive critique of our programmatic statement "For Trotskyism." - [TB #3: Workers Power critique](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/07/tb-3-workers-power-critique/): Movement for a Revolutionary Communist International London, England April 2nd 1987 Dear Comrades, We have been waiting for the arrival of your newspaper to compare the final version of the fusion documents with those given to us by comrades D. - [TB #3: For Trotskyism!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/07/tb-3-for-trotskyism/): The following document was adopted by the fusion conference of the Bolshevik Tendency and the Left Trotskyist Tendency as a codification of the programmatic agreement reached by the two organizations. - [TB #3: In Defence of the Trotskyist Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/07/tb-3-in-defence-of-the-trotskyist-program/): For Trotskyism! - [TB #2: Exchange on Corporal Griffin](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/710/): Dear Comrades: It’s a funny thing about bad political positions–sometimes they just won’t go away. In this connection, we found your article on the case of U.S. - [TB #2: Black Marine: I Won’t Go!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-black-marine-i-wont-go/): On May 15, a military judge at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina threw the book at U.S. Marine corporal Alfred Griffin. - [TB #2: British Sailors and American Marines](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-british-sailors-and-american-marines/): March 14, 1984 Spartacist League/Britain Dear Comrades: As a member of a tendency which has recently submitted a reapplication to the iSt, I read with considerable interest A. - [TB #2: Marxism and Social-Patriotism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-marxism-and-social-patriotism/): February 7, 1984 Dear Comrades: “Marxism and Bloodthirstiness” (Workers Vanguard No. - [TB #2: Marxism and Bloodthirstiness](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-marxism-and-bloodthirstiness/): U.S. imperialism’s trip wires for World War III extend from one end of the globe to the other. - [TB #2: Reuben’s Tangled Web](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-reubens-tangled-web/): The key to understanding Reuben Samuels’ convoluted article “Imperialist War, the Armed Forces and Revolution” (Young Spartacus No. - [TB #2: Imperialist War, the Armed Forces and Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-imperialist-war-the-armed-forces-and-revolution/): We reprint below edited excerpts of a presentation given by comrade Reuben Samuels to the New York Spartacist League, November 6, on the U.S. - [TB #2: Front page of Workers Vanguard No. 341, 6 November 1983](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-front-page-of-workers-vanguard-no-341-6-november-1983/) - [TB #2: A Loss of Nerve and a Loss of Will](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb2-a-loss-of-nerve-and-a-loss-of-will/): We condemn the slogan “Marines Out of Lebanon, Now, Alive” as a cowardly, social-patriotic betrayal of the Trotskyist tradition of the iSt. - [TB #2: Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-preface/): This pamphlet documents the political struggle between the External Tendency of the international Spartacist tendency (ET) and the leadership of the Spartacist League/U.S. - [TB #2: Marxism vs. Social Patriotism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/05/tb-2-marxism-vs-social-patriotism/): (In October 1983, When the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut was blown away, the Spartacist League/U.S. immediately called for saving the survivors. - [Eine Liebe der besonderen Art](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/03/eine-liebe-der-besonderen-art/): Nachdem die Sozialistische Alternative (SAV) sich lange gesträubt hatte, im Osten in die Partei Die Linke einzutreten (siehe Bolschewik, Nr. - [Streik gegen den Krieg](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/02/streik-gegen-den-krieg/): Am 1. Mai 2008 legten 25.000 Hafenarbeiter der International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) [Internationale Hafen- und Lagerhaus-Gewerkschaft], die traditionell eine der militantesten Gewerkschaften in den Vereinigten Staaten ist, jeden Hafen von San Diego bis Seattle still, um gegen die Besetzung des Irak zu protestieren. - [U.S. Empire in Decline](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/01/u-s-empire-in-decline/): Barack Obama launched his run for the White House by proclaiming: “The American moment is not over, but it must be seized anew. - [Whither China?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/02/27/whither-china/): In 1939, James P. Cannon, the historic leader of American Trotskyism, remarked: “Who touches the Russian question, touches a revolution. - [Nr. 2 - Der August-Putsch - das Ende der Sowjetunion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/01/25/nr-2-der-august-putsch-das-ende-der-sowjetunion/): In den Wochen nach dem gescheiterten Putschversuch vom 19. bis 21. - [Nr. 1 - Die SpAD in der DDR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/01/25/die-spad-in-der-ddr/): Warum publizieren wir diese Broschüre über die Spartakist-Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SpAD), deutsche Sektion der Internationalen Kommunistischen Liga (IKL)? - [TB #1: Only Trotskyism Can Defend the Gains of October](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/01/18/no-1-only-trotskyism-can-defend-the-gains-of-october/): The material in this pamphlet is chiefly comprised of polemics between the External Tendency of the international Spartacist tendency (ET—a grouping of former members of the iSt) and the leadership of the Spartacist League/U.S. - [Middle East Upheaval](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/middle-east-upheaval/): The strategic defeats suffered by the U.S. - [Wikileaks, Sex & Imperialist Law](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/wikileaks-sex-imperialist-law/): The following remarks on the campaign against Julian Assange were made by Roxanne Baker of the International Bolshevik Tendency at a debate with the Alliance for Workers Liberty in London on 9 October 2012 hosted by the Anticapitalist Initiative. - [Why Marxists Voted ‘No’ on Prop 34](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/why-marxists-voted-no-on-prop-34/): On 6 November 2012, Californians voted down “Prop-osition 34” (aka the “SAFE California Initiative”) which would have converted all death sentences into life without the possibility of parole (LWOP). - [Veronica Jones & the Frame-up of Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/veronica-jones-the-frame-up-of-mumia-abu-jamal/): Veronica Jones was a key witness at the scene of the murder for which class-war prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was falsely convicted. - [Leninism: ‘Irreconcilable Ideological Demarcation’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/leninism-irreconcilable-ideological-demarcation/): Any serious consideration of the prospects of a socialist future must begin with an assessment of the only successful workers’ revolution, as well as the organization that led it—the Bolshevik Party of Lenin and Trotsky. - [Trotskyism vs Castroism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/trotskyism-vs-castroism/): The following remarks are a slightly edited version of those made by an IBT supporter at a Cuba Solidarity meeting co-sponsored by Socialist Action and the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), on 20 July 2012 in Hartford, Connecticut. - [Greece: A Crisis of Leadership](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/greece-a-crisis-of-leadership/): Greece remains the epicentre of Europe’s slow-motion economic and political implosion. - [Cliffites Vote for Muslim Brotherhood](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/cliffites-vote-for-muslim-brotherhood/): The following remarks were made by an IBT comrade at an International Socialists meeting in Toronto on 5 June 2012. - [Letter to the Internationalist Group on Quebec](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/letter-to-the-internationalist-group-on-quebec/): We were pleased to learn that you raised the issue of solidarity with the Quebec student strike during demonstrations at CUNY [City University of New York] on 10 and 18 May [2012]. - [For Workers’ Strikes to Smash Austerity!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/for-workers-strikes-to-smash-austerity/): The following IBT statement was distributed in both French and English in Montreal in May 2012. - [Quebec Students Fight Back](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/quebec-students-fight-back/): From February to August 2012, Quebec was rocked by a powerful strike involving hundreds of thousands of students, actively supported by unionized faculty members, many of whom defied court injunctions directing them to cross their students’ picket lines to resume teaching. - [Black Bloc Streetfighters & Liberal Pacifists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/black-bloc-streetfighters-liberal-pacifists/): On 6 February 2012, Chris Hedges, a journalist, self-described Christian and prominent weathervane of the softer side of American radicalism, opined that Black Bloc anarchists were “the cancer of the Occupy movement” (www.truthdig.com). - [Capitalist Crisis & the EU](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/capitalist-crisis-the-eu/): A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of massive and chaotic social upheaval triggered by brutal austerity measures imposed to cover bad bets made by bankers and financial speculators. - [IMT Glorifies Layton’s Legacy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/imt-glorifies-laytons-legacy/): The following letter was sent to Fightback, journal of the Canadian section of the International Marxist Tendency. - [‘Marxists Are Not Pacifists’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/marxists-are-not-pacifists/): The following remarks were made by an IBT spokesperson to an antiwar rally in Toronto on 15 October 2011. - [Free Mumia Now!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/free-mumia-now/): On 7 December 2011, the death sentence imposed on Mumia Abu-Jamal—wrongly convicted for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Falkner 30 years earlier—was finally lifted. - [IG on ‘Jailing Killer Cops’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/ig-on-jailing-killer-cops/): This statement was posted on www.bolshevik.org on 12 June 2011. - [On the ‘Revolutionary Constituent Assembly’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/on-the-revolutionary-constituent-assembly/): The following is a translation of a letter sent to the Courant Communiste Révolutionnaire (part of the French Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste’s Platform 4 and sympathizers of the Trotskyist Fraction-Fourth International) addressing perspectives for the Spanish 15M Movement (also known as the indignados), which provided something of a model for the subsequent “Occupy Wall Street” movement. - [Capitalist Crisis & Revolutionary Opportunity](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/capitalist-crisis-revolutionary-opportunity/): In April 2011, delegates from all sections of the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT), as well as non-delegate members and close sympathizers, met in Western Europe for the organization’s Sixth International Conference. - [For a General Strike to Smash Austerity!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/for-a-general-strike-to-smash-austerity/): David Cameron’s ruling Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition hopes to inoculate British capitalism from the economic contagion spreading across the Eurozone by imposing the same draconian austerity measures which have brought social tensions to a head in Europe’s southern tier, most notably Greece. - [Anger Boils Over in Britain](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/anger-boils-over-in-britain/): In October 2011 the Duisburg branch of the anarcho-syndicalist Freie ArbeiterInnen Union (FAU) invited a member of the International Bolshevik Tendency to speak to their group about the riots that erupted across Britain two months earlier. - [Mass Protest Against Police Attack](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/mass-protest-against-police-attack/): The attempt by Occupy Oakland to initiate a “general strike” on 2 November 2011 in response to the massive police attack on their encampment a week earlier struck a chord with tens of thousands of working people in the San Francisco Bay Area and across North America. - [Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/capitalism-cant-be-fixed/): The following statement was first published on 1 November 2011. - [Anti-Imperialism vs. Pro-Intervention ‘Solidarity’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/anti-imperialism-vs-pro-intervention-solidarity/): The following IBT statement was distributed in Ireland in December 2011. - [Defeat the Imperialists!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/defeat-the-imperialists/): The following statement was first published by the International Bolshevik Tendency on 1 April 2011. - [Libya & the Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/libya-the-left/): Upon hearing of Muammar Qaddafi’s execution, U.S. - [Pathologies of Capitalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/pathologies-of-capitalism/): The world economy is entering what George Magnus, a senior economic adviser to Switzerland’s UBS bank, has described as “a once-in-a-generation crisis of capitalism, the footprints of which can be found in widespread challenges to the political order” (Financial Times, 12 September 2011). - [Down With the G-20!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/down-with-the-g-20/): In June 2010, comrades of the International Bolshevik Tendency participated in mass demonstrations against the G-20 summit of imperialist gangsters and leaders of “developing” economies that met in Toronto, Canada. - [Mobilizing for Mumia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/mobilizing-for-mumia/): Mumia Abu-Jamal, the prize-winning journalist and former Black Panther, has been the target of a racist police/judicial vendetta which extends from the Fraternal Order of Police thugs all the way up to the U.S. - [Killer Cops & Democrats](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/killer-cops-democrats/): On 23 October 2010, dockers of Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), along with ILWU Local 34 (clerks) and port workers in the Service Employees International Union Local 1021, shut down all ports in the San Francisco Bay Area to protest the January 2009 police execution of Oscar Grant on the platform of the Fruitvale Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station and the kid-glove treatment of the cop responsible, Johannes Mehserle. - [Another ‘Blank Page’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/another-blank-page/): In “IG & Revolutionary Defeatism—‘A Blank Page’” (1917 No.28, 2006), we observed that when unable to explain an event that contradicts its political line, the Internationalist Group (IG) has a tendency to “pretend it did not happen—thus producing an example of what Mikhail Gorbachev used to disparage as a ‘blank page’.” The 23 October 2010 shutdown of all ports in the San Francisco Bay Area to protest the racist cop murder of Oscar Grant is another example of this strange phenomenon. - [Comrade Bill Savery](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/comrade-bill-savery/): The following statement by the IBT’s Ursula Jensen was read at Bill Savery’s memorial meeting, 11 September 2010 in Oakland, California. - [‘A Capitulation to U.S. Imperialism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/a-capitulation-to-u-s-imperialism/): In our previous issue we published a polemic against the Spartacist League/International Communist League’s (SL/ICL) endorsement of the U.S. - [Defend North Korea!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/defend-north-korea/): The following statement by the International Bolshevik Tendency was originally published in December 2010. - [‘Defiance of unjust laws’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/defiance-of-unjust-laws/): The British government’s attacks on social services, benefits and education are among the most severe across the imperialist countries and are clearly aimed at solving the capitalists’ problems at the expense of working people. - [Anti-Imperialism & the WSM](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/anti-imperialism-the-wsm/): During Dublin’s Anarchist Bookfair in November 2010, a claim made by a Workers Power supporter that the Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM—Ireland’s leading anarchist organization) had not called for British troops out of Northern Ireland was promptly challenged by WSM members, who referred the comrade to their position paper, “The Partition of Ireland” (October 2005). - [Capitalist Austerity & Ireland’s Election](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/capitalist-austerity-irelands-election/): The following statement by the International Bolshevik Tendency was distributed in Ireland in February. - [Que Faire?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/que-faire/): The following is a translation of the conclusion of “No to Class Collaboration—Down with the Attack on Pensions!,” an article originally published in 1917, édition française, No.5, September 2010. - [LTF & the General Strike](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/ltf-the-general-strike/): During the autumn 2010 mass protests against French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s attack on pensions, many of the more class-conscious workers favored the idea of escalating the struggle into a general strike to force the government to withdraw its “reform.” In such situations, the job of revolutionaries is to propose how the sabotage of the class-collaborationist union leaders can be overcome—in this case through strike committees elected in workplace general assemblies and linked by delegated coordinations interprofessionnelles at the local, regional and national levels. - [Class Struggle in France](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/class-struggle-in-france/): Capitalist austerity has provoked mass protests across Europe—in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Britain and elsewhere. - [Mass Revolt in Egypt](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/mass-revolt-in-egypt/): The fall of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, long-time dictator of Tunisia, set off shock waves across the Arab world and sparked a popular revolt in Egypt, the most populous and politically important country in the region. - [Strategies for Palestinian Liberation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/strategies-for-palestinian-liberation/): The Israeli ruling class and its international allies are increasingly apprehensive about the growing “delegitimation” of the Zionist state due to widespread revulsion at its bloody crimes. - [Israeli Apartheid & Palestinian Oppression](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/israeli-apartheid-palestinian-oppression/): Shulamit Aloni is a former leader of Israel’s liberal Meretz party who served as education minister in Yitzhak Rabin’s Labor-led government in the early 1990s. - [‘Revolutionary Process’ & Rose-Tinted Glasses](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/revolutionary-process-rose-tinted-glasses/): The following letter was sent to the International Marxist Tendency (IMT). - [EFCA, Bureaucrats & Democrats](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/efca-bureaucrats-democrats/): Reprinted below is a leaflet initially distributed by IBT supporters in the San Francisco Bay Area in Spring 2009. - [Bolsheviks, Ballots & the Class Line](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/bolsheviks-ballots-the-class-line/): We reprint below an exchange that took place last year in the letters pages of the Weekly Worker, newspaper of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). - [IBT Supporter Leads Walkout](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/ibt-supporter-leads-walkout/): On 4 August 2009, teachers and other staff members at Wellington High School in New Zealand’s capital walked off the job to protest the National government’s gutting of Adult and Community Education (ACE) night classes. - [Militant Tactics & Poisonous Nationalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/militant-tactics-poisonous-nationalism/): The following statement was distributed at the Socialist Workers Party’s July 2009 “Marxism” event in London. - [For Labor Action to Free Mumia!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/for-labor-action-to-free-mumia/): Reprinted below are excerpts from a statement published in February by the San Francisco Bay Area-based “Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal” on recent developments in the case. - [Haitian Disaster: Neocolonial Nightmare](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/haitian-disaster-neocolonial-nightmare/): The following statement was presented by an IBT supporter to a meeting of the Toronto Haiti Action Committee on 28 January. - [Imperialist Troops Out of Haiti!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/imperialist-troops-out-of-haiti/): In a stunning and almost inexplicable move, the Spartacist League/U.S., leading section of the International Communist League (ICL), has announced its opposition to calling for the removal of U.S. - [Doubletalk & Zigzags](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/doubletalk-zigzags/): Delegates to the November 2009 “International Encounter of Left Parties,” held in Caracas at the invitation of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, endorsed his proposal to hold a conference in April 2010 to discuss launching a “Fifth International.” Among those supporting this initiative were representatives of El Salvador’s Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), Evo Morales’ Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) of Bolivia, the Alianza País of Ecuador and various other leftist organizations from around the world. - [NPA: France’s New Reformist Party](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/npa-frances-new-reformist-party/): Reprinted below is a leaflet initially distributed by IBT supporters in London in November 2009. - [‘People’s War’ in the Himalayas](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/peoples-war-in-the-himalayas/): On 13 February 1996, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) [CPN(M)] launched a “people’s war” in one of the world’s most backward and impoverished countries. - [Capitalist Meltdown](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/capitalist-meltdown/): Global capitalism is currently in the grip of the most severe economic contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930s. - [The Struggle for Revolutionary Leadership](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/the-struggle-for-revolutionary-leadership/): The International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) held its fifth international conference in April 2008, with delegations representing all sections, as well as members at large, from a total of seven countries. - [On Jailing Killer Cops](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/on-jailing-killer-cops/): In the early hours of 1 January, Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old black man who had been out celebrating the New Year, was killed by a member of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police in Oakland, California. - [Anti-War Strike](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/anti-war-strike/): On 1 May 2008, 25,000 dockers of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), traditionally one of the most militant unions in the United States, shut down every port from San Diego to Seattle to protest the occupation of Iraq. - [Workers' Consciousness & Bosses' Laws](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/workers-consciousness-bosses-laws/): The following remarks were made by Howard Keylor, a long-time ILWU militant and International Bolshevik Tendency supporter, during the discussion period following Jack Heyman's presentation. - [Labor Action Against Racism & Apartheid](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/labor-action-against-racism-apartheid/): The following op-ed piece by Jack Heyman appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on 11 February, three days before ILWU Local 10 sponsored a “Racism, Repression and Rebellion” rally. - [Workers' Sanctions & the Fourth International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/workers-sanctions-the-fourth-international/): Some important groundwork for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union's May Day 2008 anti-war strike was laid seven months earlier at an October 2007 “Labor Conference to Stop the War,” held in the San Francisco dockers' union hall. - [Women's Rights in ‘Pro-Life’ Ireland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/womens-rights-in-pro-life-ireland/): The following statement by the International Bolshevik Tendency has been distributed at abortion rights events in Dublin and Cork. - [Smash the BNP!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/smash-the-bnp/): Fascism is gaining ground in Britain. - [Capitalism in Crisis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/capitalism-in-crisis/): The following is an edited version of a public lecture delivered by Murray E. G. Smith at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario on 12 November 2008. - [Imperialism & Global Inequality](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/imperialism-global-inequality/): In Imperialism and World Economy (1915), Nikolai Bukharin, one of Vladimir Lenin's closest collaborators, observed that the “internationalization of economic life” (today referred to as “globalization”), which derives from the search for cheaper raw materials, cheaper labor, larger markets and more profitable investment opportunities abroad, generates two contradictory tendencies. - [Le devoir révolutionnaire pur et simple](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/le-devoir-revolutionnaire-pur-et-simple/): Le texte suivant est un extrait d’une lettre d'un sympathisant de la Tendance bolchévique internationale en réponse à plusieurs questions posées quant à notre caractérisation de la Ligue communiste internationale (LCI) ainsi qu’à l’égard du putsch d’août 1991 en Union soviétique. - [Deux marques concurrentes de la contre-révolution?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/deux-marques-concurrentes-de-la-contre-revolution/): L’été dernier le camarade Marc D., un sympathisant de la Ligue communiste internationale (LCI) à Montréal a été gagné au programme de la Tendance bolchévique. - [La contre-révolution triomphe en URSS](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/la-contre-revolution-triomphe-en-urss/): La Tendance bolchévique internationale a publié la déclaration suivante en septembre 1991: Le coup d’État avorté de Moscou du 19 au 21 août 1991 était si mal conçu et si mal exécuté qu’il peut presque paraître ne pas avoir eu lieu. - [A Brief Sketch of the Militant Tendency’s History](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/a-brief-sketch-of-the-militant-tendencys-history/): The origins of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI, formerly known as the Militant Tendency) can be traced to a 1937 split in a small Trotskyist group known as Militant led by Denzil Dean Harber. - [Screws Out of the TUC!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/screws-out-of-the-tuc/): The following statement, dated 10 November 2007, was produced by the IBT’s London branch. - [For a New, Revolutionary, Workers’ Party!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/for-a-new-revolutionary-workers-party/): The Socialist Party’s ‘Campaign for a new workers’ party’ (www.cnwp.org.uk), launched at their ‘Socialism 2005’ weekend in November, has produced a ‘Declaration for a New Workers’ Party’ for all who support the creation of a new workers’ party to sign. - [‘The most disgraceful defeat’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/the-most-disgraceful-defeat/): ‘No revolutionist who weighs his words will contend that a victory would have been guaranteed by proceeding along this line. - [The Police - continued](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/appendix-a3-2/): The riots which erupted in Brixton, Toxteth and other cities in the summer of 1981 once again focused attention on the role of the police. - [The Police](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/appendix-a3/): Workers taking industrial action— particularly when organising picketing, a vital trade union right— have time and again come into conflict with the police. - [The State: A Marxist Programme and Transitional Demands](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/appendix-a2/): Mirrored from www.socialistparty.org.uk/pamphlets/state2006/1.htm on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:20:38 GMT (Edited to view outside CWI's frameset) On 29 March 2006, Michael Wainwright posted a statement on the Socialist Party Youth Forum, 'Re: Marxists and the State'. - [Marxists and the State](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/appendix-1a/): Over the last two and half years my involvement in the Socialist Party has given me a considerable degree of organisational proficiency – the ability to intervene within the labour movement as a whole – as well as a thirst for politically educating myself so as to successfully confront opportunism and all shades of reformism. - [Marxism vs. ‘Militant’ Reformism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/marxism-vs-militant-reformism-2/): For a New, Revolutionary, Workers’ Party! - [The CWI’s Kautskyan Caricature of Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/23/marxism-vs-militant-reformism/): ‘That the state is an organ of the rule of a definite class which cannot be reconciled with its antipode (the class opposite to it) is something the petty-bourgeois democrats will never be able to understand. - [Nr. 5 - Solidarność](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/22/solidarnosc/): Es ist klar, dass es keine Überlegung geben kann, eine neue Internationale durch Organisationen aufzubauen, die grundsätzlich verschiedene oder sogar entgegengesetzte prinzipielle Grundlagen haben. - [TB Nr. 4 - Plattformismus & Bolschewismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/22/plattformismus-bolschewismus/): "Die maßgeblichste Gruppe [von Anarchisten im Jahre 1917], in dem Sinne, dass sie als einzige den Anschein einer Doktrin, eine wertvolle Anzahl von Kämpfern und das weitverbreitete Journal Golos Truda (Stimme der Arbeit [Eig. - [Verteidigung des Leninismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/22/verteidigung-des-leninismus/): Die Frage, welcher Typ revolutionärer Organisation, wenn überhaupt, notwendig ist, war für Anarchisten schon immer heikel. - [Pour le trotskysme!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/22/pour-le-trotskysme/): Ce document (traduit en français de 1917, no. - [Nr. 3 - NEPAL „Volkskrieg“ im Himalaya](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/trotzkistisches-bulletin-nr-3-nepal-volkskrieg-im-himalaya-2/): I. Maoistische „Neue Demokratie“ oder Permanente Revolution? II. Nepalesischer Maoismus: Vom „Volkskrieg“ zum „Mehrparteiensystem“ III. - [TB Nr.3: Quellen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/tb-nr-3-quellen/): Für die Übersetzung der Quellen wurden möglichst deutschsprachige Veröffentlichungen herangezogen. - [TB Nr.3: III. Maoistische Metaphysik: Das „Neue Demokratie“-Rätsel](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/tb-nr-3-iii-maoistische-metaphysik-das-neue-demokratie-ratsel/): Die dramatischen Entwicklungen in Nepal haben international erhebliche Diskussionen zwischen Maoisten ausgelöst, vor allem innerhalb der Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM), die 1984 von 20 maoistischen Organisationen aus der ganzen Welt, einschließlich der KPN(M), gegründet wurde. - [TB Nr.3: II. Nepalesischer Maoismus: Vom „Volkskrieg“ zum „Mehrparteiensystem“](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/tb-nr-3-ii-nepalesischer-maoismus-vom-volkskrieg-zum-mehrparteiensystem/): Als Ursprung des Kommunismus in Nepal wird oft ein Streik im Jahr 1947 in der Biratnager Jute- und Tuchfabrik unter der Führung von Man Mohan Adhikari, einem Aktivisten der Kommunistischen Partei Indiens, ausgemacht. - [TB Nr.3: I. Maoistische „Neue Demokratie“ oder Permanente Revolution?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/trotzkistisches-bulletin-nr-3-nepal-volkskrieg-im-himalaya/): Am 13. Februar 1996 begann die Kommunistische Partei Nepals (Maoisten) [KPN(M)] einen „Volkskrieg“ in einem der rückständigsten und ärmsten Länder der Welt. - [Nach G20 – Verteidigt das Demonstrationsrecht!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/nach-g20-verteidigt-das-demonstrationsrecht/): Das G20-Treffen in Hamburg 2017 ist bereits Geschichte, doch über das, was dort geschehen ist, wird noch lange debattiert und vor Gerichten verhandelt werden. - [Vereinigte Ausbeuter an der Elbe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/vereinigte-ausbeuter-an-der-elbe/): Das Treffen der G20 in Hamburg findet in einer angespannten Weltlage statt, denn die bestehende Ordnung wird gerade aktiv umgestaltet. - [Hände weg von Nordkorea!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/hande-weg-von-nordkorea/): Die Internationale Bolschewistische Tendenz verurteilt Washingtons unverschämte Drohungen, das massive Atomwaffenarsenal gegen Nordkorea einzusetzen. - [Oury Jalloh](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/oury-jalloh/): Neueste Erkenntnisse ergeben, dass die Umstände des Todes von Oury Jalloh am 7. - [Die Politik der Verwässerung Gestern und Heute](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/die-politik-der-verwasserung-gestern-und-heute/): 2.Juni 2017 Genossinnen und Genossen, mit großem Interesse haben wir euer Dokument „Opposition formed in the Fourth International“ [„Opposition in der Vierten Internationale gegründet“] gelesen, welches auf der Webseite von Socialist Action, der US-amerkanischen Sektion der Vierten Internationale (VI) am 3. - [Staat und Partei](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/staat-und-partei/): Nachstehend veröffentlichen wir einen Auszug aus „Wir feiern den Roten Oktober: Die Russische Revolution in historischer Perspektive“, zuerst veröffentlicht in englischer Sprache am 23. - [Unabhängigkeit für Katalonien!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/unabhangigkeit-fur-katalonien/): Die Internationale Bolschewistische Tendenz verurteilt Madrids ungeheuerliche Gewaltanwendung, um Kataloniens Unabhängigkeitsreferendum vom 1. - [Rechtsruck, und jetzt?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/rechtsruck-und-jetzt/): Die Regierung Merkel/Seehofer/Gabriel verlor bei der Wahl 14%. - [Chaos im Nahen Osten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/chaos-im-nahen-osten/): Das Staatensystem, das im Nahen Osten nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg etabliert wurde, als Großbritannien und Frankreich die arabischen Gebiete des Osmanischen Reiches zerstückelten, steht kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch. - [Syrien-Position bestätigt](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/syrien-position-bestatigt/): Die jüngsten Entwicklungen im Syrien-Krieg bestätigen unsere Position, dass Revolutionäre in diesem katastrophalen Bürgerkrieg mit erheblicher Einmischung von außen, keine Seite haben. - [35 Jahre zu viel – Freiheit für Mumia jetzt!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/35-jahre-zu-viel-freiheit-fur-mumia-jetzt/): Demonstration für Mumia, Wellingon, 9. - [Widerstand gegen Rassismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/widerstand-gegen-rassismus/): Wie schaffen es die Linke und Arbeiterbewegung, trotz des fortdauernden Rechtsrucks von Staat und Kapital und der auf allen Ebenen erstarkten Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), den notwendigen Widerstand zu organisieren? - [Lügenpartei AfD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/21/lugenpartei-afd/): Weite Teile der Welt werden gerade von einem politischen und gesellschaftlichen Rechtsruck erschüttert. - [The "principled" coalition bogey](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/the-principled-coalition-bogey/): The following is an appraisal of prospects for T.A.I.C. in its current form. - [Speeches at TAIC Rally, February 2 1988](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/speeches-at-taic-rally-february-2-1988/): We reprint below transcripts of three of the speeches made at the February 2 demonstration against contra funding. - [OPPOSE U.S. CONTRA AID!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/oppose-u-s-contra-aid/): On February 3 and 4 the U.S. Congress will be voting on another massive infusion of funds to fuel the Contra campaign of terror in Nicaragua. - [Rejoinder to Andrew R., The United Secretariat: An Anti-Trotskyist Fraud](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/rejoinder-to-andrew-r-the-united-secretariat-an-anti-trotskyist-fraud/): The "Reply to Neil H." by comrade Andrew R. - [A Reply to Neil H.](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/a-reply-to-neil-h/): The recent public defection of Neil H. - [Addendum to Open Letter](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/addendum-to-open-letter/): In the course of subsequent discussions with the comrades of the Bolshevik Tendency (BT), as well as a careful study of the documents of both the International Secretariat [IS; predecessor of the United Secretariat (USec)] and the American Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the first period of the Cuban revolution, it became clear that my previous formulations were at best ambiguous on this question. - [Open Letter to Socialist Challenge/Gauche Socialiste](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/open-letter-to-socialist-challenge-gauche-socialiste/): I hereby resign my membership in Socialist Challenge/Gauche Socialiste [SC/GS]. - [National Reconciliation or Class War? The Choice for Nicaragua](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/national-reconciliation-or-class-war-the-choice-for-nicaragua/): "The Marxists are the class enemies of the bourgeoisie and of imperialist wars but they are the supporters of national liberationist and revolutionary wars, both offensive and defensive." - [Nicaragua, The Permanent Revolution and the Road to Workers Power](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/nicaragua-the-permanent-revolution-and-the-road-to-workers-power/): ...The theory of permanent revolution holds that there is no independent road of capitalist development available in the age of imperialism. - [The Arias Peace Plan & The ASA: A Victory (For Bourgeois Ideology) and A Danger to Marxism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/the-arias-peace-plan-the-asa-a-victory-for-bourgeois-ideology-and-a-danger-to-marxism/): "Reactionary epochs like ours not only disintegrate and weaken the working class and its vanguard, but also lower the general ideological level of the movement and throw political thinking back to stages long since passed through. - [Central America Treaty = Peace?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/central-america-treaty-peace/): by Harold Lavender In February the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly rejected new military aid to the contras. This was a setback of U.S. - [A Victory and Danger: Comment on the Central America Peace Plan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/a-victory-and-danger-comment-on-the-central-america-peace-plan/): by Barry Weisleder The defeat of President Ronald Reagan’s demand for $36.2 million in aid to the contra mercenaries by the U.S. - [The Arias Peace Plan Six Months Later](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/the-arias-peace-plan-six-months-later/): At the time of its signing, the Arias peace plan was hailed by many as a victory for peace in Central America. - [Introduction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/introduction-3/): The contents of this bulletin document the recent important political struggle in the Toronto branch of Socialist Challenge [SC—known until May 1988 as the Alliance for Socialist Action (ASA)] over the character and direction of the Nicaraguan revolution. - [Polemics with the ICL: Kurdistan & the Struggle for National Liberation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/polemics-with-the-icl-kurdistan-the-struggle-for-national-liberation/): Introduction 1. Kurdistan and the National Question Reprinted from 1917 No. - [iSt International Discussion Bulletin No. 10, Parts I & II, January 1979, excerpts](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/ist-international-discussion-bulletin-no-10-parts-i-ii-january-1979-excerpts/) - [Lenin on ‘Crudity’ and ‘Jest’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/lenin-on-crudity-and-jest/): Reprinted from V.I. Lenin Collected Works, Vol. - [Kurdish Workers in the Iraqi Revolution of 1958-59](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/kurdish-workers-in-the-iraqi-revolution-of-1958-59/): By Reuben Samuels, reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 370, 11 January 1985. - [Enough of opportunism, adventurism, Bundism—For a Trotskyist perspective in Turkey](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/enough-of-opportunism-adventurism-bundism-for-a-trotskyist-perspective-in-turkey/): WSL’s Pre-Conference Discussion Bulletin No. 12, February 1978. - [BT: A Walking Provocation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/bt-a-walking-provocation/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 808, 29 August 2003. - [The Emperor Has No Clothes](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/the-emperor-has-no-clothes/): IBT statement, 12 September 2003. - [The Truth Hurts](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/the-truth-hurts/): 8 August 2003 letter to Workers Vanguard. - [BT: Renegades for Hire](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/bt-renegades-for-hire/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 807, 1 August 2003. - [Editorial Statement](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/editorial-statement/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 807, 1 August 2003. - [WV Implicitly Accepts Our Critique of Robertson’s ‘Vulgar Chauvinism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/wv-implicitly-accepts-our-critique-of-robertsons-vulgar-chauvinism/): IBT leaflet, 4 July 2003. - [BT Doth Whine Too Much](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/30/bt-doth-whine-too-much/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 806, 4 July 2003. - [The Kurdish People and the U.S. Occupation of Iraq](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/28/the-kurdish-people-and-the-u-s-occupation-of-iraq/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard Nos. 804 and 805, 23 May and 6 June 2003. We have put André’s polemic against the IBT in bold face—ed. - [A Bogus Polemic](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/28/a-bogus-polemic/): 12 June 2003 letter to Workers Vanguard. - [Free Öcalan! Defend the PKK!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/28/free-ocalan-defend-the-pkk/): Reprinted from 1917 No. - [Kurdistan and the National Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/28/kurdistan-and-the-national-question/): Reprinted from 1917 No. 12, 1993, translated from Bolschewik No. - [Introduction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/28/introduction-2/): The Kurds are the largest nation on earth without their own state. - [Compare and Contrast](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/28/compare-and-contrast/): The following is a selection of quotes from publications of the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT—including the External Tendency of the iSt, the IBT's predecessor) and the International Communist League (ICL—including the international Spartacist tendency, the ICL's predecessor) highlighting differences between the two organizations on questions connected to Stalinism and the defense of the deformed and degenerated workers' states. - [Appendix One: Debate in the ICL Over Yeltsin's Coup](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/28/appendix-one-debate-in-the-icl-over-yeltsins-coup/): The following documents were circulated in an internal discussion in the Spartacist League/Britain in June and July 2003. - [Whatever Happened to the Spartacist League?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/whatever-happened-to-the-spartacist-league/): In the Spring 2004 issue of Spartacist (No. - [Sclerotic Spartacists Unravel](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/sclerotic-spartacists-unravel/): “In a statement following the Krushchev report [on the crimes of Stalin], Togliatti asked: ‘What made such grave errors possible? - [Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt No. 4](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/bulletin-of-the-external-tendency-of-the-ist-no-4/): Beware Lady Dobermans in Anti-Soviet Heat—Your Ass Could Be Bitten Next! —Workers Vanguard No. - [Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt 3](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/bulletin-of-the-external-tendency-of-the-ist-3/): "The ETs ought to inspire fanatical hatred in iSt members...." - [Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt 2](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/bulletin-of-the-external-tendency-of-the-ist-2/): Labor Donated January, 1984 The following mailgram was sent [11 November 1983] to the SL/US by the External Tendency of the iSt over the SL’s cowardly social-patriotic call for saving the lives of the US Marines. - [Break With The Robertson-Foster-Nelson Misleadership!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/break-with-the-robertson-foster-nelson-misleadership/): "…to demand from the trade union bureaucracy, which is hunting for Communists, that the latter be benevolently installed to work with the necessary comfort, threatening the bureaucrats, if they refuse, the Communists will ‘strike’, that is refuse to do revolutionary work—to demand that is manifest nonsense." - [Declaration of an external tendency of the iSt](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/declaration-of-an-external-tendency-of-the-ist/): Jim: “…either the party is as you said it is, filled with the fundamental contradiction of actually having a bureaucratic, abusive, personalist cult-leadership while proclaiming itself to be for socialist democracy. - [Solidarność: Acid Test for Trotskyists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/27/solidarnosc-acid-test-for-trotskyists/): I. Poland 1981: Key to Trotskyist Regroupment II. A Bit of Polish History III. Genesis of Solidarność IV. The 1981 Congress: Solidarność Crosses the Rubicon V. - [Appendix: Solidarność's Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/appendix-solidarnoscs-program/): The following is a slightly abridged edition of the program adopted by the first Solidarity national congress in October, 1981. - [Conversation With An Anarchist - Table of Contents](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/conversation-with-an-anarchist-2/): Appendix 1: H. G. - [Introduction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/introduction/): In October 2011 Josh D., an IBT supporter in Toronto, received an email from an anarchist comrade asking if we were aware of a January 2006 piece entitled, “Why an Anarchist Organization is Needed… But Not a ‘Vanguard Party’.” The article, by Wayne Price of the Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC, now known as Common Struggle), sought to defend “Platform anarchism” against the charge that it is little more than closet Leninism. - [In Defense of Leninism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/in-defense-of-leninism/): The question of what, if any, type of revolutionary organization is necessary has always been a thorny one for anarchists. - [Russia in the Shadows (H. G. Wells) - Appendix I](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/appendix-no-1/): PETERSBURG IN COLLAPSE In January 1914 I visited Petersburg and Moscow for a couple of weeks; in September 1920 I was asked to repeat this visit by Mr. - [Conversation With An Anarchist](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/conversation-with-an-anarchist/): 1917 No.29 (1917): The Platformists dismissed those who took individual autonomy to extremes with the observation that a serious revolutionary organization can only function on the basis of majority rule. - [Platformism & Bolshevism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/platformism-bolshevism/): Pamphlet published by the International Bolshevik Tendency in April 2002. A polemic against platformist anarchism. - [In Defense of (Seymour’s) Marxism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/in-defense-of-seymours-marxism/): The abrupt abandonment of the longstanding approach to the national question by the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL – formerly the international Spartacist tendency [iSt]) has major (many as yet unelaborated) programmatic implications. - [Under the Banner of Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/under-the-banner-of-trotskyism/): The International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) held its Eighth International Conference in 2017, with delegates and non-delegate members attending from Europe, Oceania, Asia and North America. - [‘Marxist’ Social Democrats](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/marxist-social-democrats/): Niki Ashton (second from right) with Fightback supporters (Fightback photo) The run-up to the October 2017 vote to replace Thomas Mulcair as leader of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) has been a pretty pedestrian affair, with uninspiring candidates (Charlie Angus, Niki Ashton, Guy Caron and Jagmeet Singh) all making it clear that they have no intention of trying to create any serious difficulties for Canada’s ruling class. - [Hands Off North Korea!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/hands-off-north-korea/): The International Bolshevik Tendency condemns Washington's outrageous threats to use its massive nuclear arsenal against North Korea. - [Election 2017: A Choice for Workers](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/election-2017-a-choice-for-workers/): For the first time in a generation, the Labour Party is offering British workers the appearance of a real choice at the ballot box on 8 June. - [Labour’s Bid to Run New Zealand Capitalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/labours-bid-to-run-new-zealand-capitalism/): There are token phrases that slip easily from the mouths of politicians; the usual odes to housing, education, health and employment – and all the reasons we can’t have them: “fiscal responsibility”, “working within our means”, “until we open the coffers”, “the last government’s overspending”, “the law says we can’t”. - [We Vote for Class Struggle!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/we-vote-for-class-struggle/): IBT statement on the September 2017 German federal elections, translated and lightly edited from the original article, first published in German on 12 September 2017. - [Liquidationism Yesterday and Today](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/liquidationism-yesterday-and-today/): 2 June 2017 Comrades, we read with interest your document “Opposition formed in the Fourth International,” published on 3 February 2017 on the website of Socialist Action, the American affiliate of the “Fourth International” (FI). - [Independence for Catalonia!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/independence-for-catalonia/): The International Bolshevik Tendency condemns Madrid’s egregious use of force to suppress Catalonia’s 1 October independence referendum, and we absolutely oppose all attempts by the Spanish state to impede the Catalan people from exercising their democratic right to form a separate state. - [No Platform for Fascists!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/26/no-platform-for-fascists/): A pernicious weed has broken through the cracks of the decaying American Empire. - [Trump: Ugly Face of Capitalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/trump-ugly-face-of-capitalism/): Millions of people in the United States and around the world have protested the policies of Donald Trump, who wasted no time signing a “Muslim ban,” attacking the Affordable Care Act, putting forward an anti-choice bigot for the Supreme Court and packing his cabinet with billionaire financiers, wing-nut militarists and assorted arch-reactionaries. - [‘Democracy’ in Decay](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/democracy-in-decay/): The following is an expanded version of a talk given by IBT supporter Jordan Briggs at a public meeting entitled “Democracy in Decay,” organized by the Brock Socialists, a student group at Brock University, St. - [Sanders: ‘Socialist’ Shill for Democrats](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/sanders-socialist-shill-for-democrats/): Edited version of a contribution by IBT supporter Christoph Lichtenberg to a panel discussion on “The Death of Social Democracy,” at the closing plenary of the Platypus International Convention in Chicago on 2 April 2016. - [Strike against the Privatisation Juggernaut!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/strike-against-the-privatisation-juggernaut/): Described by minister of education Hekia Parata as the “biggest update to education in New Zealand in nearly 30 years”, the recently introduced Education Amendment Bill aims to gradually undermine the country’s state education system. - [Thirty Years of Homosexual Law Reform](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/thirty-years-of-homosexual-law-reform/): Sex between consenting men over the age of sixteen was decriminalised in New Zealand by the Homosexual Law Reform Act, passed on 9 July 1986. - [Cops, Reformism & Black Liberation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/cops-reformism-black-liberation/): The following is an edited reconstruction, based on notes, of an intervention by an IBT supporter at a meeting on “Black Struggle & the Fight Against Capitalism” organized by Fightback, Canadian section of the International Marxist Tendency, in Toronto on 11 May 2016. - [Thirty-five Years too Long - Free Mumia Now!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/thirty-five-years-too-long-free-mumia-now/): To mark the 35th anniversary of the frame-up of American political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and to protest the criminal refusal by prison authorities to provide necessary medication, IBT comrades in Toronto, Canada, Wellington, New Zealand, and Oakland, California co-sponsored united-front demonstrations with a variety of organizations. - [Vote Corbyn, Break with Reformism!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/vote-corbyn-break-with-reformism/): Jeremy Corbyn has been under constant attack from Labour’s right wing, backed by the Tories and the mass media, ever since he won the party leadership election on 12 September 2015. - [The Devil or the Deep Blue Sea?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/the-devil-or-the-deep-blue-sea/): On 23 June 2016 British voters are asked to choose ‘Remain’ or ‘Leave’ in a referendum on membership of the European Union (EU). - [Imperialism, Tsarist Russia & WWI](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/http-bolshevik-org-1917-no39-ibt_1917_39_02_weakest_link-html/): “Colonial and semi-colonial countries are backward countries by their very essence. But backward countries are part of a world dominated by imperialism. - [Roots & Fruits of Imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/roots-fruits-of-imperialism/): The concept of “imperialism” plays a central role in Marxist analysis of contemporary international events, yet many ostensible revolutionaries have only a fuzzy notion of the origin, historical development and essential features of this phenomenon. - [Labourism Rebooted](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/labourism-rebooted/): Hundreds of thousands of people marched through London, Liverpool and Glasgow on 20 June in defiance of the recently elected Tory government, displaying an anger that has not been seen on the streets for many years. - [Spoil your ballot! No choice for workers in 2015!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/spoil-your-ballot-no-choice-for-workers-in-2015/): ‘Though you would never know it from the campaigns’ petty squabbling, the country is heading for profound and potentially irrevocable change’, declares the Economist (2 May 2015). - [Pandering to illusions in Sinn Féin](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/pandering-to-illusions-in-sinn-fein/): The fightback against capitalist attacks in the name of “austerity” (or “recovery”) has been at the forefront of the class struggle in Ireland over the past few years. - [Marxism & Bourgeois Elections](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/marxism-bourgeois-elections/): The following is a lightly edited version of a talk given by an IBT comrade on a Platypus-sponsored panel in Chicago in April 2015. - [What Kind of Political Party?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/what-kind-of-political-party/): A shortened version of an IBT contribution to a panel discussion on “What is Political Party for the Left?” held in Chicago in April 2015. - [An Attack on the Working Class](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/an-attack-on-the-working-class/): Translation of “TTIP: Ein Angriff auf die Arbeiterklasse,” first published in German in January 2015 Since July 2013, the EU Commission, U.S. - [Labor Action to Fight Racist Cop Terror!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/labor-action-to-fight-racist-cop-terror/): Oakland, 1 May 2015—Workers organized by International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 voted two weeks ago to shut down the Port of Oakland on 1 May in protest of the recent wave of racist police killings of black and brown people across America. - [United-Front Rally in New Zealand: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/united-front-rally-in-new-zealand-free-mumia-abu-jamal/): Responding to cruel and vindictive disregard for the serious health problems of Mumia Abu-Jamal by prison authorities, a small protest was held on Friday 8 May 2015 in Wellington, New Zealand, to demand his immediate release. - [Proletarian Internationalism and the Struggle against Fortress Europe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/proletarian-internationalism-and-the-struggle-against-fortress-europe/): Translation of "Proletarischer Internationalismus und der Kampf gegen die Festung Europa," first published in German in September 2015 The recent wave of racist violence against refugee shelters and the increase in right-wing anti-refugee mobilizations across Germany require a response by revolutionaries. - [Middle East Chaos](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/middle-east-chaos/): The state system established in the Middle East after World War I, when Britain and France carved up the Arab territories of the Ottoman Empire, appears close to collapse. - [Down with Zionist Terrorism! Defend the Palestinians!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/down-with-zionist-terrorism-defend-the-palestinians/): The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched “Operation Protective Edge” against the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on 8 July, placing the Palestinian population in Gaza under brutal military assault and occupation. - [UPP Banned in South Korea](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/upp-banned-in-south-korea/): On 19 December 2014, the Constitutional Court of South Korea ordered the disbanding of the Unified Progressive Party (UPP) on the grounds of alleged “support to North Korea,” expelling the party’s five deputies from parliament. - [Platypus and the Maoists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/platypus-and-the-maoists/): The following is an edited version of a talk by IBT supporter Jason Wright, participating in a panel discussion on “Revolutionary Thought and Politics” at the Left Forum in New York City organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society on 1 June 2014. - [Down with Racist Police Terror!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/down-with-racist-police-terror/): Leaflet dated 12 December 2014 In 1857, the U.S. - [Adrian Blakelock](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/adrian-blakelock/): In June 2014, Adrian Blakelock, a supporter of the International Bolshevik Tendency, died in London after complications from liver failure. - [Spartacists Repudiate Class-Struggle Caucuses](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/spartacists-repudiate-class-struggle-caucuses/): Bryan D. Palmer’s excellent book, Revolutionary Teamsters, on the Minneapolis general strikes of 1934, illuminates the struggle that remains to this day the high point of American Trotskyist trade-union work. - [Spartacist Confusionists & the Scottish Referendum](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/spartacist-confusionists-the-scottish-referendum/): In September’s referendum on Scottish independence, a clear majority of voters (55 percent) chose to remain within the “United Kingdom.” While upholding the right of all nations (e.g., Scotland) to self-determination, Leninists actively advocate separation only when national antagonisms pose a significant obstacle to joint working-class struggle. - [Scotland’s Independence Referendum](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/scotlands-independence-referendum/): On 18 September, residents of Scotland aged 16 and older will be asked a simple question: ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’ As the referendum on independence draws near, the considerable number of undecided voters are moving towards voting ‘Yes’, and the polls are too close to call. - [No payment! No meters! Abolish the water charges!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/no-payment-no-meters-abolish-the-water-charges/): Recent weeks have seen dramatic scenes of working people taking action to defend themselves against the imposition of the hated water charges. - [Managing the Greek Crisis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/managing-the-greek-crisis/): Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis and the imposition of severe austerity measures dictated by the Troika (International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Commission), life in Greece has become considerably harder for the mass of the population. - [Unity, Class, Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/unity-class-program/): Edited version of a contribution by IBT supporter Barbara Dorn to a panel discussion on “Is there a need for left unity?” at the Platypus European Conference, London, 19 July 2014. - [Confronting a World in Turmoil](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/confronting-a-world-in-turmoil/): The International Bolshevik Tendency held its Seventh International Conference in 2014 in the United States. - [Ukraine, Russia & the Struggle for Eurasia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/25/ukraine-russia-the-struggle-for-eurasia/): In September 2014, a television interviewer asked Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. - [Love & Marriage](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/love-marriage/): In April 2013, New Zealand finally legalized marriage for same-sex couples. - [The Struggle for Abortion Rights in Ireland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/the-struggle-for-abortion-rights-in-ireland/): The following statement was originally distributed in September 2013. - [Polish Proletariat: ‘Class in Itself’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/polish-proletariat-class-in-itself/): The following is an eyewitness report on a major trade-union demonstration that took place in Warsaw last September. - [Cliffites in Crisis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/cliffites-in-crisis/): The Socialist Workers Party (SWP), Britain’s largest left group, has been undergoing what its central figure, Alex Callinicos, recently described as an “acute internal crisis” which three national conferences held in the course of 2013 were unable to resolve. - [On the Killing of Private Rigby](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/on-the-killing-of-private-rigby/): The following originally appeared on 3 June 2013 on bolshevik.org. - [Marxism vs. Keynesianism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/marxism-vs-keynesianism/): The following is an edited version of a presentation at an IBT fringe meeting at the Socialist Party’s “Socialism 2013” event, London, 3 November 2013. - [Communism & Ecology](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/communism-ecology/): Reprinted below is the text of an IBT presentation to a panel discussion on capital, history and ecology held by the Platypus group at York University, Toronto, on 15 January. - [Déjà vu All Over Again](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/24/deja-vu-all-over-again/): Most of the international left has responded to the civil war in Syria in much the same fashion as they did to the conflict in Libya in 2011. - [Appendix No. 9: Affidavit of Rachel Wolkenstein](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/07/appendix-no-9-affidavit-of-rachel-wolkenstein/) - [Appendix No. 8: Affidavit of George Michael Newman](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/07/appendix-no-8-affidavit-of-george-michael-newman/): The foregoing is stated subject to the penalties of 18 Pa. C.S. - [Appendix No. 7: Declaration of Yvette Williams](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/07/appendix-no-7-declaration-of-yvette-williams/): I, YVETTE WILLIAMS, declare: If called as a witness in this case I would truthfully and accurately testify to the following from my own personal knowledge. - [Appendix No. 6: Affidavit of Terri Maurer-Carter](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/appendix-no-6-affidavit-of-terri-maurer-carter/): The foregoing is stated subject to the penalties of 18 Pa. C.S. - [Appendix No. 5: Affidavit of Donald Hersing](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/appendix-no-5-affidavit-of-donald-hersing/): 10 May 1999 DONALD HERSING, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 1. My name is Donald Hersing. - [Appendix No. 4: Declaration of Linn Washington](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/appendix-no-4-declaration-of-linn-washington/): 3 May 2001 I, LINN WASHINGTON, declare: 1. This is an account of events that transpired on the morning of December 9, 1981. - [Appendix No. 3: Declarations of William Cook](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/appendix-no-3-declarations-of-william-cook/): 15 May 1999 I, WILLIAM COOK, hereby aver under penalty of perjury the following: 1. I am the brother of Mumia Abu-Jamal. - [Appendix No. 2: Declaration of Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/appendix-no-2-declaration-of-mumia-abu-jamal/): ...I believe he left and I slept. I don’t remember the wagon moving for a while and when it did for sometime. - [Appendix No. 1: Affidavit of Arnold R. Beverly](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/appendix-no-1-affidavit-of-arnold-r-beverly/): I was present when police officer Daniel Faulkner was shot and killed in the early morning hours of December 9, 1981 near the corner of Locust and 13th Streets. - [6. Free Mumia Now!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/6-free-mumia-now/): The Beverly confession put Sabo’s courtroom improprieties in a new light. - [5. Betrayed by his ‘Defenders’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/5-betrayed-by-his-defenders/): Mumia has had to contend with more than biased appeals procedures, a corrupt police force and a racist judge. - [4. A Tilted Trial](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/4-a-tilted-trial/): Jackson’s defense of Mumia was unimpressive to say the least. - [3. The Prosecution’s Case](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/3-the-prosecutions-case/): There were three elements to the prosecution’s case: eyewitnesses, ballistics and a supposed confession. - [2. How the Frame-Up was Organized](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/2-how-the-frame-up-was-organized/): It is well established in academic literature on the application of the death penalty in the U.S. - [1. Background](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/1-background/): Mumia Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook on 24 April 1954 to Edith Cook, one of millions of blacks who left the South in the 1940s in search of work. - [Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/06/preface/): The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, America’s best-known political prisoner, starkly illuminates the brutal reality of racist capitalist justice in a country that advertises itself as the citadel of “freedom.” It is an extremely complicated case, and while the main elements are now known, pieces of the puzzle are still missing and ambiguities remain. - [La Proposition 34 : pourquoi les marxistes ont voté « non »](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/la-peine-de-mort-aux-etats-unis/): Le texte suivant est traduit d’un article qui a paru dans 1917, édition anglaise, n° 35, 2013. - [Bas les pattes devant Julian Assange !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/bas-les-pattes-devant-julian-assange/): Ce qui suit est la traduction d’un discours donné par Roxanne Baker de la TBI lors d’un débat avec l’Alliance for Workers’ Liberty sur l’affaire Julian Assange. - [Victimes de la répression capitaliste du néo-apartheid](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/victimes-de-la-repression-capitaliste-du-neo-apartheid/): La déclaration qui suit a été lue et distribuée par la TBI lors d’une manifestation d’urgence en solidarité avec les mineurs de Marikana, à Oakland (Californie) le 24 août 2012. - [La grève étudiante au Québec & la question nationale](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/la-greve-etudiante-au-quebec-la-question-nationale/): La lettre suivante a été envoyée à l’Internationalist Group le 8 juin 2012. - [Grèves ouvrières pour écraser l’austérité !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/greves-ouvrieres-pour-ecraser-lausterite/): Le tract suivant a été diffusé à Montréal par la TBI le premier mai 2012. - [Capitalisme et racisme](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/capitalisme-et-racisme/): Il est difficile pour la plupart des individus d’accepter que la haine et les antagonismes raciaux, phénomènes aujourd’hui omniprésents, n’aient pas toujours fait figure de traits permanents de la société humaine. - [Grèce : l’austérité capitaliste & la classe ouvrière](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/grece-lausterite-capitaliste-la-classe-ouvriere/): La Grèce reste l’épicentre de la lente implosion économique et politique de l’Europe. - [Troupes impérialistes hors d’Afghanistan immédiatement !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/troupes-imperialistes-hors-dafghanistan-immediatement/): Voici le texte d’un discours donné par un camarade de la TBI lors d’une manifestation anti-guerre à Toronto le 15 octobre 2011. - [Lettre à La « Riposte »](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/lettre-a-la-riposte/): La lettre suivante a été envoyée à Fightback [La Riposte], journal anglais de la section canadienne de la Tendence marxiste international le 26 août 2011. - [Sur l’assemblée constituante révolutionnaire](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/sur-lassemblee-constituante-revolutionnaire/): Nous avons lu avec intérêt le premier numéro de Révolution Permanente (juin 2011), journal du Courant Communiste Révolutionnaire (CCR) du NPA, ainsi que le huitième numéro de Stratégie Internationale (juin 2011), publié par des militants de la Fraction Trotskyste-Quatrième Internationale (FT-QI) au sein du CCR. - [La Libye et la gauche](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/la-libye-et-la-gauche/): En réaction à l’annonce de l’exécution de Mouammar Kadhafi, le président US Barack Obama, qui en 2009 participait à une séance photos à ses côtés, se félicitait : « travaillant en Libye avec des amis et des alliés, nous avons démontré ce que l’action collective peut accomplir au 21ème siècle ». - [Pathologies du capitalisme](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/pathologies-du-capitalisme/): L’économie mondiale entre dans ce que George Magnus, haut conseiller économique à la banque suisse UBS, décrit comme « une crise du capitalisme qui ne se présente qu’une seule fois par génération, et dont on voit les retombées dans les défis de grande portée à l’ordre politique » (Financial Times, 12 septembre 2011). - [Défense de la Corée du Nord !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/defense-de-la-coree-du-nord/): Le texte suivant est une traduction d’un article mis sur www.bolshevik.org le 15 décembre 2010. - [Les masses égyptiennes en révolte](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/les-masses-egyptiennes-en-revolte/): Le texte suivant est une traduction d’un article mis sur www.bolsheviktendency.org le 7 février, avant le départ de Moubarak. - [Pour la défaite des impérialistes !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/pour-la-defaite-des-imperialistes/): Le texte suivant est une traduction d’un article mis sur www.bolshevik.org le 1er avril. - [Où va la Chine ?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/ou-va-la-chine/): L’article ci-dessous a été traduit de 1917, édition de langue anglaise, nº 31, 2009. En 1939, James P. - [Défense des Palestiniens !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/defense-des-palestiniens/): Un des plus importants progrès apporté par la Révolution française était l’émancipation juive, un processus initié en 1791 lorsque l’Assemblée nationale, suite à un débat considérable, décréta que dorénavant les Juifs bénéficieraient d’une égalité légale complète avec leurs concitoyens. - [Un piquet de masse bloque un navire israélien!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/un-piquet-de-masse-bloque-un-navire-israelien/): Le texte suivant est une traduction d’un article mis sur www.bolshevik.org le 22 juin 2010. - [Spartacistes et social-impérialisme](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/spartacistes-et-social-imperialisme/): A la suite du séisme dévastateur qui a frappé Haïti en janvier, la Spartacist League/U.S. - [La continuité révolutionnaire et la scission dans la Quatrième Internationale](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/la-continuite-revolutionnaire-et-la-scission-dans-la-quatrieme-internationale/): La lettre suivante [qui est parue originellement dans 1917, édition anglaise, nº 8, été 1990], traitant de la scission historique du mouvement trotskyste au début des années 1950, a été adressée au Gruppe IV. - [Genèse du pablisme](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/genese-du-pablisme/): Le texte originel de cet article a été publié dans Spartacist, édition anglaise, n° 21, automne 1972. - [L’islam, la laïcité et la gauche](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/lislam-la-laicite-et-la-gauche/): Voici des traductions de deux articles sur la question de la laïcité et la liberté de religion. - [A bas les attaques contre les retraites !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/a-bas-les-attaques-contre-les-retraites/): La « réforme » des retraites de Nicolas Sarkozy n’est que la plus récente dans une série de tentatives de la bourgeoisie de restaurer la rentabilité capitaliste en ravageant les programmes de protection sociale et d’autres acquis que la classe ouvrière a obtenus par une lutte acharnée. - [NPA : Nouveau Parti réformiste](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/npa-nouveau-parti-reformiste/): Le texte suivant est une traduction des extraits d’un article de 1917, édition de langue anglaise, nº 32, 2010. - [Le pacifisme, supplétif de l’impérialisme](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/le-pacifisme-suppletif-de-limperialisme/): Un texte par Léon Trotsky non daté mais datant visiblement de la période du Gouvernement Provisoire russe (mi-1917). Source: Communist International, n° 5. - [La question russe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/la-question-russe/): Nous publions ci-dessous comme appendice à un article sur le débat Mandel-Seymour [publié dans 1917, no 3 édition française] une lettre envoyée à la rédaction de Workers Vanguard, publication de la Spartacist League/U.S., par un jeune militant, ex-membre de son organisation de jeunesse, qui a depuis adhéré à la Tendance bolchévique internationale. - [La guerre impérialiste et les prétendus socialistes](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/la-guerre-imperialiste-et-les-pretendus-socialistes/): « La lutte contre la guerre et sa source sociale, le capitalisme, présuppose un soutien direct, sans équivoque des peuples coloniaux opprimés dans leurs luttes et guerres contre l’impérialisme. - [Le capitalisme mondial et la lutte des classes](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/le-capitalisme-mondial-et-la-lutte-des-classes/): Ce texte, qui est une traduction d’un article paru en 1917, no 23, édition anglaise, s’occupe des questions clés pour les manifestations anti-mondialisation et le mouvement ouvrier internationale. - [Maastricht: quelle perspective pour le mouvement ouvrier?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/maastricht-quelle-perspective-pour-le-mouvement-ouvrier/): Ce texte est une traduction abrégée d’un article paru en 1917, no 13, édition de langue anglaise Depuis l’aube de l’âge de l’impérialisme à la fin du siècle dernier, le capitalisme sur une échelle mondiale a été confronté par une contradiction qu’il ne peut pas résoudre. - [« Vous ne pouvez pas défendre l’Union soviétique avec Yuri Andropov »](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/vous-ne-pouvez-pas-defendre-lunion-sovietique-avec-yuri-andropov/): Les trois lettres ci-dessous ont été publiées en anglais dans le Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt, no 1 Le 13 décembre 1982 Camarades de la Spartacist League: Félicitations pour votre victoire du 27 novembre. - [Une symétrie macabre](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/une-symetrie-macabre/): Réimprimé ci-dessous est le texte traduit d’un tract de langue anglaise distribué le 11 novembre 1994 lors du débat à New York entre Ernest Mandel du Secrétariat unifié de la Quatrième Internationale et Joseph Seymour de la Spartacist League des Etats-Unis. - [Pour la défaite des attaques d’Axworthy!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/pour-la-defaite-des-attaques-daxworthy/): Le texte ci-dessous est un tract distibué en anglais et français lors des manifestations contre les mesures d’Axworthy au Canada en janvier 1995. - [Haïti sous le feu des États-Unis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/haiti-sous-le-feu-des-etats-unis/): Le texte ci-dessous a été publié et distribué en anglais et français en septembre 1994 le 18 septembre 1994—Sous une vague de menaces, de rapportages d’« intérêt humain » et d’invocations de principe démocratique, le gouvernement des États-Unis a posé les fondements pour l’occupation d’Haïti. - [Marxisme ou nationalisme?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/marxisme-ou-nationalisme/): Réimprimé ci-dessous est un échange sur la question nationale au Québec et la réponse apportée par les marxistes révolutionnaires entre Marc D., un militant de la Tendance bolchévique internationale au Québec, et Damien Elliott, cadre dirigeant des Jeunesses communistes révolutionnaires-Gauche révolutionnaire (JCR-GR), la section française du Comité pour une Internationale Ouvrière. - [Le fascisme et la gauche allemande](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/le-fascisme-et-la-gauche-allemande/): BERLIN—Le fascisme allemand continue sa réapparition menaçante. - [Rassemblement Le Pen avorté à Montréal: Non au fascisme!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/rassemblement-le-pen-avorte-a-montreal-non-au-fascisme/): Le 22 septembre 1993, les camarades de la Tendance bolchévique internationale ont participé dans un rassemblement antifasciste important à Montréal. - [Volte-face spartaciste sur Rutskoi](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/volte-face-spartaciste-sur-rutskoi/): Traduit de 1917, no. - [La confusion centriste face à la contre-révolution en URSS](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/la-confusion-centriste-face-a-la-contre-revolution-en-urss/): Traduit de 1917, no 12, édition anglaise, 1993 La Tendance bolchévique internationale a vu le coup d’Etat soviétique avorté d’août 1991 comme le dernier acte désespéré du stalinisme. - [A nouveau sur la confusion centriste et la question russe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/a-nouveau-sur-la-confusion-centriste-et-la-question-russe/): Traduit de 1917, no 13, édition anglaise, 1994 Le numéro de mai 1993 du journal Trotskyist International, publié par la Ligue pour une Internationale communiste révolutionnaire (LICR) contient une polémique substantielle de Keith Harvey, dirigée en grande partie contre le « dogmatisme » de la Tendance bolchevique internationale (TBI) pour notre position d’appui militaire à l’appareil stalinien lors de sa confrontation avec les forces capitaliste-restaurationnistes dirigées par Boris Eltsine en août 1991. - [En bref](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/en-bref/): Il semble que nos critiques des sympathies malsaines des spartacistes à l’égard des régimes staliniens, le «portrait de Jaruzelski» au mur du quartier général à New York, la brigade Andropov, etc., avaient eu un certain retentissement en Europe. - [Le Rubicon soviétique et la gauche](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/le-rubicon-sovietique-et-la-gauche/): Traduit de 1917, no 11, édition anglaise, 1992 Dans les semaines qui ont suivi la tentative du putsch échoué du 19-21 août 1991, la Tendance bolchévique internationale était virtuellement seule parmi les groupes trotskystes autoproclamés à reconnaître que cet événement marquait la fin de l’État ouvrier soviétique. - [Introduction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/04/introduction-5/): Ce numéro de l’édition française de 1917 est consacré à un ensemble d’articles polémiques, traduits de derniers numéros de notre édition anglaise, regroupés autour du thème du défensisme révolutionnaire face à l’offensive contre-révolutionnaire en Union soviétique, son triomphe et ses conséquences. - [BT Cringes on Afghanistan Defense](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/bt-cringes-on-afghanistan-defense/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. - [TB# 8: Afghanistan & the Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/afghanistan-the-left/): Introduction 1.1 U.S. - [Trotskyist Revolutionary Internationalism vs. Robertson’s Bogus Brigade](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/trotskyist-revolutionary-internationalism-vs-robertsons-bogus-brigade/): Reprinted from 1917 No. - [Pamyat Rides in Moscow](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/pamyat-rides-in-moscow/): Reprinted from 1917 No. - [On ‘Hailing’ Brezhnev’s Afghan Policy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/on-hailing-brezhnevs-afghan-policy/): Reprinted from 1917 No. - [Letter to Frederico](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/letter-to-frederico/): The following letter was written by James Robertson to Frederico P., one of the iSt’s leading European cadres at the time. - [Report From Heroic Jalalabad: Front Line Afghanistan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/report-from-heroic-jalalabad-front-line-afghanistan/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard, No. - [Worldwide Effort for Jalalabad Tops $40,000](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/worldwide-effort-for-jalalabad-tops-40000/): The following is excerpted from an article in Workers Vanguard, No. - [Bolshevik Tendency letter to Trotskyist League of Canada](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/bolshevik-tendency-letter-to-trotskyist-league-of-canada/): We were pleased to note at your forum last night that, after almost five years, you have finally abandoned your policy of physically excluding our supporters from the informal discussions at the conclusion of your public meetings. - [Fake-Trotskyists Make Fake Offer](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/fake-trotskyists-make-fake-offer/): The rather bizarre letter from the Partisan Defense Committee (PDC) to Najibullah’s Washington ambassador offering to organize an international brigade to Kabul (Workers Vanguard 17 February) is notable for the utter unreality of the proposal. - [Letter to William](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/letter-to-william/): The following is James Robertson’s response to William C.’s objections. - [Letter to PDC](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/letter-to-pdc/): The following is a letter from William C., a leading member of the iSt’s French section at the time, in response to the Partisan Defense Committee’s proposed “International Brigade.” Note that William correctly anticipated that the PDC’s offer would be rejected. - [Letter to Paris](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/letter-to-paris/): The following is the letter with which James Robertson initiated the international Spartacist tendency’s projected “International Brigade” for Afghanistan in 1989. - [PDC: For Internationalist Military Support to Afghan Government!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/pdc-for-internationalist-military-support-to-afghan-government/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard, No. - [On the Slogan ‘Hail Red Army’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/on-the-slogan-hail-red-army/): Reprinted from 1917 No. - [Gorbachev’s Afghan Sellout](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/gorbachevs-afghan-sellout/): Reprinted from 1917 No. - [Bolshevik Tendency reply to Workers Vanguard No. 453](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/bolshevik-tendency-reply-to-workers-vanguard-no-453/): You evidently had difficulty in responding to the political criticisms raised in our letter of 8 April regarding your “Hail Red Army in Afghanistan!” slogan (“BT Protests Too Much,” Workers Vanguard No. - [BT Protests Too Much](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/bt-protests-too-much/): Workers Vanguard No. - [Bolshevik Tendency letter to the Trotskyist League, 4 February 1988](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/bolshevik-tendency-letter-to-the-trotskyist-league-4-february-1988/): On 2 February the recently reconstituted Toronto Anti-Intervention Coalition (TAIC), sponsored a demonstration to “Oppose U.S. - [Bolshevik Tendency reply to Workers Vanguard No. 449](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/bolshevik-tendency-reply-to-workers-vanguard-no-449/): In reading your latest anti-BT screed (Workers Vanguard No. 449, 25 March) we are reminded of James P. - [BT Says Don’t Hail Red Army in Afghanistan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/bt-says-dont-hail-red-army-in-afghanistan/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. - [The Fourth International and Afghanistan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/the-fourth-international-and-afghanistan/): By Salah Jaber, reprinted from International Viewpoint, 6 April 1987. Footnotes as per original text. - [United Secretariat Declaration on Afghanistan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/united-secretariat-declaration-on-afghanistan/): Reprinted from Intercontinental Press, 3 March 1980. - [Afghanistan: Russia defeated as.... US Abandons the Victims](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/afghanistan-russia-defeated-as-us-abandons-the-victims/): Reprinted from Socialist Worker (Britain), 11 February 1989. - [Afghanistan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/afghanistan/): The following article, by John Blake, was originally published in the British Socialist Worker, 19 January 1980. - [Hail the Red Army in Afghanistan!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/hail-the-red-army-in-afghanistan/): The following article, described as “adapted from Workers Vanguard,” was printed in the February-March 1980 issue of Spartacist Canada (no. - [Islam, Empire and Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/islam-empire-and-revolution/): Reprinted from 1917 No. - [ICL on Afghanistan: ‘Realist’ Wiseacres](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/icl-on-afghanistan-realist-wiseacres/): The following is a reconstruction, from notes, of an intervention by International Bolshevik Tendency [IBT] supporter Samuel T. - [ICL on Afghanistan: Healyites of the Second Mobilization?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/icl-on-afghanistan-healyites-of-the-second-mobilization/): The following is a reconstruction, from notes, of the intervention of International Bolshevik Tendency [IBT] supporter Samuel T. - [ICL: ‘Save Our Boys’ Socialists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/icl-save-our-boys-socialists/): The following statement was published by the IBT as an appendix to “Where is the ICL Going?” and reprinted in 1917 No. - [Where Is the ICL Going?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/where-is-the-icl-going/): The following statement by the International Bolshevik Tendency, published on 2 December 2001, was reprinted in 1917 No. - [Extract from “Doubletalk in the 2 1/2 Camp,” 1917, No. 10, 3rd quarter 1991](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/extract-from-doubletalk-in-the-2-1-2-camp-1917-no-10-3rd-quarter-1991/): In early 1980 Workers Power publicly renounced the third-campist “Neither Washington nor Moscow” position of Tony Cliff’s Socialist Workers Party (SWP), out of which it had emerged in the mid-1970s. - [Workers Power’s Two-stage ‘Trotskyism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/workers-powers-two-stage-trotskyism/): The front page headline of the October issue of Workers Power boldly proclaims: “Defend Afghanistan, Defeat Imperialism, Stop US/UK’s War”. - [Some News that Didn’t Fit](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/some-news-that-didnt-fit/): The following was posted on the IBT web site on 18 February 2002. - [Imperialism’s Bloody Trail](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/imperialisms-bloody-trail/): The following is an edited version of a talk given by Tom Riley at several campuses in the Toronto area in early November 2001. Reprinted from 1917 No. - [U.S. Imperialist Rule: An Endless Horror](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/u-s-imperialist-rule-an-endless-horror/): The destruction of the World Trade Center on 11 September is a horrific act which the International Bolshevik Tendency unequivocally condemns. - [Introduction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/introduction-4/): This bulletin addresses political questions posed by events in Afghanistan since the 1970s. - [Nicaragua & the Permanent Revoution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/nicaragua-the-permanent-revoution/): The Arias Peace Plan Six Months Later (by Robert Adam and Neil Henderson, originally appeared in Socialist Challenge [SC], Vol. - [BT Letter to Trotskyist League, 4 February 1987](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/pre-november-1987-taic-basis-of-unity/): Bolshevik Tendency Toronto 4 February 1988 Trotskyist League Toronto Comrades: On 2 February the recently reconstituted Toronto Anti-Intervention Coalition (TAIC), sponsored a demonstration to "Oppose U.S. - [Trotskyist League Forum - DEFEND, COMPLETE, EXTEND THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/trotskyist-league-forum-defend-complete-extend-the-nicaraguan-revolution/): Saturday 9 April 1988, 7:30 p.m. International Student Centre 33 St. George St. (n. - [TAIC Basis of Unity Prior to November 1987](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/taic-basis-of-unity-prior-to-november-1987/): TORONTO ANTI-INTERVENTION COALITION c/o 427 BLOOR ST. - [Resignation from the TAIC](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/03/31/resignation-from-the-taic/): Opposition to U.S. intervention in Central America/Caribbean. - [All That Glitters...](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/all-that-glitters/): Reprinted below is an application to the IBT, submitted in September 2003, from a youth in Toronto. - [From the IG to Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/from-the-ig-to-trotskyism/): “In contrast to the classless appeals to ‘citizens’ and civil disobedience, the Verbond voor de Vierde Internationale (VVI—League for the Fourth International) has been calling since last fall to mobilize workers action to stop the war cargos. - [Leninism & Immigration](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/leninism-immigration/): Reprinted below is a letter to the League for the Revolutionary Party (LRP) on the question of the Marxist position on immigration. - [Fifth Wheel Internationalists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/fifth-wheel-internationalists/): In May 2003 the League for a Revolutionary Communist International (LRCI) announced that it henceforth wished to be known as the “League for a Fifth International” (L5I). - [Blowback in Iraq](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/blowback-in-iraq/): The U.S. “liberation” of Iraq, trumpeted by the invaders as heralding a golden age of prosperity and democracy in the region, was seen for what it was by the overwhelming majority of the world: a brutal colonial rape. - [China: Towards the Brink](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/china-towards-the-brink/): Millions of workers, poor peasants and other victims of the growth of capitalist social relations in China have been mobilizing on a massive scale. - [Defend the Palestinians!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/defend-the-palestinians/): One of the important achievements of the French Revolution was Jewish emancipation—a process initiated in 1791 when the National Assembly, after considerable debate, decreed that henceforth Jews would have complete legal equality with other citizens. - [Capitalism & Terrorism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/capitalism-terrorism/): The following is an edited version of a talk given in Toronto by Josh Decker on 23 October 2004. - [Polemic with the ICL on Tibet and Falun Gong: On Combating Religion & Social Backwardness](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/polemic-with-the-icl-on-tibet-and-falun-gong-on-combating-religion-social-backwardness/): The 28 May 2004 issue of Workers Vanguard (WV—literary flagship of James Robertson’s International Communist League [ICL]) attacked our treatment of Tibet and national oppression in the Chinese deformed workers’ state in 1917 No. - [No Choice for Working People](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/no-choice-for-working-people/): The following statement, dated 18 June 2004, was distributed prior to the Canadian federal election. - [No to ‘Lesser Evilism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/no-to-lesser-evilism/): The following statement was distributed during the 2004 American election campaign. - [ICL & the Russian Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/icl-the-russian-question/): The following is excerpted from a forthcoming IBT pamphlet. In the Spring 2004 issue of Spartacist (No. - [‘Bolivarian’or Proletarian Revolution?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/bolivarianor-proletarian-revolution/): The following letter was sent to Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice 27 November 2004 Dear Comrades, In your recent article, “Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Venezuela” (Fire This Time [FTT] September/October [2004]), Hugo Chavez is described as a “revolutionary” leading “the battle for working class democracy and self-determination.” We think that you have considerably overdrawn the threat posed by the Venezuelan president and his “Bolivarian revolution” to the capitalist social order. - [Anti-Fascist Protest in Wellington](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/anti-fascist-protest-in-wellington/): On 23 October 2004, 40 fascists from the New Zealand National Front (NF) held a rally in Wellington. - [No to the Hijab Ban!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/no-to-the-hijab-ban/): When French schools reopened in September 2004 after summer vacation, a new law took effect prohibiting students from wearing the hijab (female Islamic headscarf). - [Iraq: Imperial Overreach](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/iraq-imperial-overreach/): In this passage from Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, contemplating his trail of murderous havoc, decides he is too deep in blood to go back, and that he can only extricate himself by plunging forward. - [Defend Civil Liberties in Britain!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/defend-civil-liberties-in-britain/): On the morning of Thursday, 7 July 2005, as Tony Blair and his cronies prepared for their G8 summit in Scotland, 52 innocent civilians were murdered and hundreds others injured in an appalling terrorist attack on London’s public transport system. - [Swimming Against the Stream](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/swimming-against-the-stream/): The fourth international conference of the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) was held in Western Europe in March 2005. - [What’s Bred in the Bone](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/whats-bred-in-the-bone/): An IBT statement distributed in advance of the 5 May 2005 general election in Britain contained the following polemic: Workers Power [British section of the League for the Fifth International], which had participated in the Socialist Alliance, drew the line at Respect, describing it as a "non-class populist" formation not worth voting for. - [Cliffites, Clerics & Class Collaboration](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/cliffites-clerics-class-collaboration/): In October 2003, a middle-of-the-road social democrat, George Galloway, was kicked out of the Labour Party for his forthright opposition to Tony Blair’s participation in the criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq. - [Socialists & Sharia Courts](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/socialists-sharia-courts/): In September 2005, the Liberal government of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, ended months of speculation by announcing that it would not extend the 1991 Arbitration Act (which gave Christian and Jewish clerics the right to make legally-binding rulings on civil disputes normally handled in family court) to include Islamic tribunals. - [Principles & Tactics](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/principles-tactics/): The following is an edited version of a document adopted at the Fourth International Conference of the IBT. - [From the Horse’s Mouth](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/from-the-horses-mouth/): The following remarks by the late, unlamented, Lee Atwater, the Karl Rove of the 1980s, explains the evolution of the use of racism in American politics. - [New Orleans: Racism & Capitalist Irrationality](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/new-orleans-racism-capitalist-irrationality/): The following is a slightly edited version of a talk given by Jason Wright in Toronto on 30 September 2005. - [Imperialist Expansionism & the EU](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/imperialist-expansionism-the-eu/): This statement was first published prior to the May 2005 French referendum that rejected the EU constitutional treaty. - [Iraq Unravels](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/iraq-unravels/): “It is my hope, therefore, that by means of an Arab government supported by a moderate military force we may be able to discharge our duties without imposing unjustifiable expense on the British Exchequer. - [Venezuela: State & Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/venezuela-state-revolution/): Latin America has the world’s widest income gap, with well over a hundred million people forced to eke out an existence on less than two dollars a day, according to the World Bank’s 2005 "World Development Indicators." - [Imperialism, Zionism & the Middle East](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/imperialism-zionism-the-middle-east/): In early 2006, as the U.S. - [Zionist Terror in Lebanon](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/zionist-terror-in-lebanon/): The following statement was published by the International Bolshevik Tendency on 30 July 2006. - [The ‘Anti-CPE’ Movement in France](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/the-anti-cpe-movement-in-france/): The following article was originally posted on www.bolshevik.org on 27 May 2006. - [On Criticism of Misleaders](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/on-criticism-of-misleaders/): The following letter was sent to Workers Vanguard, newspaper of the Spartacist League/U.S., with a postscript which does not appear below. - [The Class Nature of the Unions](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/the-class-nature-of-the-unions/): In the early 1990s, the leadership of the Detroit-based Socialist Equality Party (SEP—the leading section of the “International Committee of the Fourth International” [IC]) decided that capitalist “globalization” had transformed trade unions from working-class organizations into simple agencies of the bourgeoisie. - [The ‘New’ German Reformism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/the-new-german-reformism/): In June 2004, dissident members of Germany’s governing Social Democratic Party (SPD) and a handful of trade-union officials launched the Wahlalternative Arbeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit (WASG—Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice). - [Letter to NEFAC](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/letter-to-nefac/): The following letter was sent to the Montreal branch of the Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists. - [Endgame in Iraq](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/endgame-in-iraq/): A month before retiring as United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan observed: “The US is in a way trapped in Iraq, trapped in the sense that it cannot stay and it cannot leave” (BBC News, 21 November 2006). - [Of Presidents & Principles](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/of-presidents-principles/): “The chief pressure operating on our party, especially in this period of post-Soviet reaction, is Menshevik, i.e., social-democratic, opportunism, not ultra-left sectarianism. - [On ‘Revolutionary Regroupment’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/on-revolutionary-regroupment/): On 3 November 2007, the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) held a public meeting in Toronto to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution. - [Being Determines Consciousness](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/23/being-determines-consciousness/): In the spring of 2007, the Socialist Equality Party/Inter-national Committee (SEP/IC) was rocked by a public scandal when Scott Solomon, an embittered former adherent, revealed that David North is not only the leading figure of the SEP and IC, but is also CEO of Grand River Printing & Imaging (GRPI), a multi-million dollar business in Michigan. - [Screws Out of the TUC!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/22/screws-out-of-the-tuc-2/): The following statement, dated 10 November 2007, was produced by the IBT’s London branch. - ['The Main Question of Proletarian Class Strategy'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/22/the-main-question-of-proletarian-class-strategy/): The following quotations were originally printed in Spartacist No.27-28 (Winter 1979-1980) published by the then-revolutionary international Spartacist tendency. - [No to Popular Frontism!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/22/no-to-popular-frontism/): A month after Nicolas Sarkozy was elected president of France in May 2007, his party, the right-wing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), won a majority in the legislative elections. - [The Cannon Biography & Its Critics](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/22/the-cannon-biography-its-critics/): James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, Bryan D. - [James P. Cannon: American Bolshevik](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/22/james-p-cannon-american-bolshevik/): We print below, with permission, edited excerpts of Bryan D. Palmer’s presentation at the book launch for James P. - [Middle East Morass](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/22/middle-east-morass/): A growing section of America’s traditional foreign policy establishment is beginning to fear that the decline of U.S. imperialism may be irreversible. - [Venezuela & the Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/22/venezuela-the-left/): In January 2007, shortly after winning re-election, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez declared: “We’re moving toward a socialist republic of Venezuela” (Guardian [London], 10 January 2007). - [Die Novemberrevolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/19/die-novemberrevolution/): Als vor hundert Jahren am 9. - [Contents](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/19/contents-2/): Reply to Mikl et al. - [Contents](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/19/contents/): 'Is Russia imperialist?' - [The Road to Jimstown](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/19/the-road-to-jimstown/): Originally published May 1985 In November 1984, cadres of the Spartacist League/U.S. - [James M. Robertson: A Balance Sheet](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/19/james-m-robertson-a-balance-sheet/): The recent report of the death of Spartacist League (SL) founder James Robertson on 7 April has occasioned considerable discussion within the shrinking milieu of leftists interested in the fate of the group he led for more than fifty years. - [Klassenkampf im Hafen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/17/klassenkampf-im-hafen/): Die folgenden Ausführungen machte Henry Johnson im Namen der Bolschewistische Tendenz bei einem Treffen am 9. - [Motions on Russian Imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/motions-on-russian-imperialism/): “Is Russia imperialist?” by Riley. - [Dots for Joining](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/dots-for-joining/): —Bill, 23 March 2014, with interpolations by Tom, 28 March 2014 Tom's reply to Dave raises some issues about the way in which the argument we have been having has been conducted, expressing frustration about those who hold Russia to be imperialist failing to engage with his arguments and his facts, but somehow half-realising that we who hold that position are similarly frustrated by a sense that he and his side fail to engage with our arguments and our facts. - [Decker’s Response & Riley’s Rejoinder](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/deckers-response-rileys-rejoinder/): —Decker’s 9 April 2014 response to Riley, with Riley’s 11 April 2014 interpolations In his 8 April response to Barbara and me, Tom revisits several old arguments attempting to show how Russia is in the same league as Brazil (or is even a notch below it) within the global capitalist system. - [Reply to recent documents by cdes. Dorn (20 March) & Decker (27 March)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/reply-to-recent-documents-by-cdes-dorn-20-march-decker-27-march/): —Riley, 8 April 2014 In her 20 March ”Reply to Roxie on Russian Investment” Barbara took up Roxie’s earlier challenge that "if a parallel could be proven today – that Russia is pumping value out of neo colonies – I would be convinced to re-evaluate my position.” In my opinion this represented an important step forward in our discussion and brings us to the nub of the issue. - [Russia’s Emergence as an Imperialist Power](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/russias-emergence-as-an-imperialist-power/): Examining Recent Trends in Foreign Investment — Decker, 27 March 2014 Russia inherited much of its economic base from the Soviet Union, which by unplugging from global capitalism and employing centralized planning was able to create a modern industrial economy. - [Reply to Roxie on Russian Investment](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/reply-to-roxie-on-russian-investment/): "if a parallel could be proven today – that Russia is pumping value out of neo colonies – I would be convinced to re-evaluate my position. - [Why Russia is not imperialist](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/why-russia-is-not-imperialist/): —Breitman, 23 March 2014 It seems to me that the current discussion is at heart not simply one of different perceptions of what Russia is and how she can be best categorised, given the vast empirical data collected by all contributors. - [Russia, Ukraine, Syria](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/russia-ukraine-syria/): —Lichtenberg, 12 March 2014 Nobody disputes that Russia has some investments in Ukraine. - [On the Ukrainian Crisis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/on-the-ukrainian-crisis/): The following draft was circulated and discussed prior to the 2014 Conference, but neither voted on nor published. - [What is Russia doing in Syria?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/what-is-russia-doing-in-syria/): —Dorn, 25 February 2014 (with interpolated comments by Riley, 2 March 2014) The conflict in Syria allows us to look very concretely at the role Russia plays in the world and whether Marxists should describe it as imperialist. - [Twenty points on the imperialism discussion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/twenty-points-on-the-imperialism-discussion/): —Logan, 18 September 2013, with Riley’s 26 October 2013 interpolations 1. - [For a ‘Concrete Analysis of the Concrete Situation’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/for-a-concrete-analysis-of-the-concrete-situation/): "…the concrete analysis of the concrete situation is not an opposite of 'pure' theory, but – on the contrary – it is the culmination of genuine theory, its consummation – the point where it breaks into practice." - [Decker/Dorn Interpolated Comments on Riley’s ‘Is Russia Imperialist?’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/decker-dorn-interpolated-comments-on-rileys-is-russia-imperialist/): 19 June 2013 Dear comrades, We have not been convinced by Tom’s document to change our position on the imperialist character of Russia. - [‘Worried about the Russia Question’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/worried-about-the-russia-question/): From: Bill Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 7:43 AM Subject: The Russian Question Dear Tom Of course I'm quite worried about the Russian Question, particularly because I think we have to have a decision on it in time for the next issue of 1917, and I see no possibility of any compromise which does leave the door open for some sort of Kautskyan theory of ultra-imperialism. - [SAV: Toleranz für kapitalistische Regierungspolitik](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/sav-toleranz-fur-kapitalistische-regierungspolitik/): Ein fester Bestandteil der Taktik der Sozialistischen Alternative (SAV) in der Partei die Linke (PdL) ist es, sich gegen Regierungsbeteiligungen auf Länder- und Bundesebene stark zu machen. - [Die Reaktion formiert sich – Nicht nur in Chemnitz](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/die-reaktion-formiert-sich-nicht-nur-in-chemnitz/): Der Tod eines jungen Menschen am 26. August 2018 wird zum Auslöser rassistischer Pogrome in Chemnitz. - [Erklärung zur Wiederaufnahme einer unabhängigen Existenz als BT](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/16/erklarung-zur-wiederaufnahme-einer-unabhangigen-existenz-als-bt/): Nachfolgend ist eine leicht bearbeitete Version eines Dokuments, das enge Kontakte und Unterstützer informierte, um unsere Entscheidung zu erläutern, die Fusion von 1990 mit der Neuseeländischen Permanent Revolution Group (PRG) aufzulösen und unsere separate Existenz als Bolschewistische Tendenz wieder aufzunehmen. - [Urteil im NSU-Prozess](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/urteil-im-nsu-prozess/): "Wir tun alles, um die Morde aufzuklären und die Helfershelfer und Hintermänner aufzu¬decken und alle Täter ihrer gerechten Strafe zuzuführen." - [Marxismus, Feminismus und #MeToo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/marxismus-feminismus-und-metoo/): Das Folgende ist eine bearbeitete Version eines Vortrags der IBT-Unterstützerin Roxanne Baker vom 17. Februar 2018 an der Goldsmiths University in London. - [In Verteidigung (von Seymours) Marxismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/in-verteidigung-von-seymours-marxismus/): Die abrupte Preisgabe des seit längerem bestehenden Herangehens an die nationale Frage durch die Siebte Internationale Konferenz der Internationalen Kommunistischen Liga (IKL – früher die internationale Spartacist-Tendenz [iSt]) hat große (viele noch nicht ausgearbeitete) programmatische Konsequenzen. - [Reply to Mikl et al](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/reply-to-mikl-et-al/): — Decker, Dorn, Breitman, Lichtenberg, 21 June 2018 Dear comrades, It is with deep regret that we read your statement “Iran, nationalism and imperialism” (29 May 2018), which makes it very clear that you have developed some profound political differences with the tradition the IBT and its predecessor organizations were founded to preserve. - [Iran, nationalism and imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/iran-nationalism-and-imperialism/): —Mikl et al to IBT, 29 May 2018 Half way correct The debate on the questions of Iran, nationalism and imperialism started after the military coups in Egypt and Turkey, in 2013 and 2016 respectively. - [On Khomeini & Counterrevolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/on-khomeini-counterrevolution/): —Riley to Mikl et al, 28 June 2017 To trace the complicated course of the “Iranian Revolution” requires careful study of the actual events in the spirit of Lenin’s injunction to “make a concrete analysis of a concrete situation,” which he considered to be “the very gist, the living soul, of Marxism.” Wikipedia’s outline is fairly comprehensive, generally accurate as far as I know, and contains many of the essentials. - [Mikl et al on 1979 Iranian Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/mikl-et-al-on-1979-iranian-revolution/): —Mikl to Riley, 4 June 2017 Following is our tentative conclusion after the biweekly cooperative study in about 4 months before the conference. - [Lenin & Trotsky’s Dual Defeatism on the Balkan Wars](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/lenin-trotskys-dual-defeatism-on-the-balkan-wars/): —Riley letter to Mikl, 26 May 2017 Dear Comrade Mikl: When we discussed the position of dual defeatism in the 2016 coup against Erdogan (and the related issues of the Egyptian coup in 2013 and Iranian confrontation in 1979) you asked when, apart from inter-imperialist conflicts, Lenin and Trotsky ever took a dual-defeatist position—i.e., not taking one side or the other in a military conflict. - [Erdogan, Pilsudski & Khomeini](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/erdogan-pilsudski-khomeini/): —Riley’s presentation to the IBT conference, 11 April 2017 (with introduction as circulated in the IBT, 13 May 2017) Reprinted below are my remarks to the conference on the issue of the coups against Morsi and Erdogan. - [Turkey and the Tactic of the Military Bloc](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/turkey-and-the-tactic-of-the-military-bloc/): “…the outcome of the 15 July episode was not democracy defeating despotism, but the victory of the more gradualist despotism in the face of a more abrupt repression of all democratic forms.” “As opposed to the immediate ending of any semblance of democracy that the coup represented, Erdoğan’s is a long-drawn-out strategy of infusing extremely anti-democratic substance into seemingly formal democratic structures. - [On Erdogan’s Bonapartist Regime](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/on-erdogans-bonapartist-regime/): “The correct characterization of the coup is not one of democracy defeating dictatorship. Two despotic forces faced each other and the more gradualist one won. - [Revolutionary Continuity & Islamic Reaction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/revolutionary-continuity-islamic-reaction/): From Khomeini in the 1970s to the Muslim Brotherhood Today —Riley, 15 January 2017 One of the most important political legacies of the revolutionary Spartacist tendency was its steadfast refusal to go with the flow in the February 1979 political revolution that toppled Iran’s hated shah. - [#aufstehen: Wenn Linke Rechtspopulismus predigen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/15/aufstehen-wenn-linke-rechtspopulismus-predigen/): Die Gründung von #aufstehen lässt noch offen, welche Organisationsform angestrebt wird. - [Class, State and Party](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/14/class-state-and-party/): The following is an extract from “Celebrating Red October: The Russian Revolution in Historical Perspective,” first published 23 October 2017. - [From Trotskyism to Neo-Pabloism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/14/from-trotskyism-to-neo-pabloism-2/): The report of the recent Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL – formerly the international Spartacist tendency [iSt]), which appeared in Spartacist (No. - [In Defense of (Seymour’s) Marxism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/14/in-defense-of-seymours-marxism-2/): The abrupt abandonment of the longstanding approach to the national question by the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL – formerly the international Spartacist tendency [iSt]) has major (many as yet unelaborated) programmatic implications. - [Spenser Rapone and the Democratic Socialists of America](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/13/spenser-rapone-and-the-democratic-socialists-of-america/): Contribution by a supporter of the BT at the “Endless War No More” forum in Troy, New York, on 18 January 2019. The text has been lightly edited. - [Is Russia Imperialist?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/13/is-russia-imperialist/): Our 24 October 2018 statement, “Why Things Fell Apart,” outlined the debate within the International Bolshevik Tendency over whether contemporary Russia should be categorized as an imperialist power—an issue with profound programmatic consequences. - [Why Things Fell Apart](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/13/why-things-fell-apart/): The following is a slightly edited version of a document circulated to close contacts and supporters to explain our decision to dissolve the 1990 fusion with the New Zealand Permanent Revolution Group (PRG) and resume our separate existence as the Bolshevik Tendency. - [Marxism & Islamic Reaction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/12/marxism-islamic-reaction/): The contents of this bulletin originated in a July 2016 disagreement within the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) over what attitude to take to the attempted military coup against Turkey’s Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. - [Hands Off Julian Assange!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/12/hands-off-julian-assange-5-april-statement/): The latest news that Assange will be imminently expelled from the Equadorian Embassy in London should remind us that the political reality has not changed fundamentally since he sought asylum nearly 7 years ago. - [Defend Venezuela Against Imperialist Aggression!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/12/defend-venezuela-against-imperialist-aggression/): On 8 March, Tom Riley of the Bolshevik Tendency (BT) addressed a meeting organized by the Brock Socialists in St. - [Venezuela & ‘Russian Imperialism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/12/venezuela-russian-imperialism/): At an 8 March Brock Socialist meeting on Venezuela, Bolshevik Tendency (BT) supporter Tom Riley sketched out the material motivations behind the aggressive U.S. - [پیش به سوی تروتسکیسم](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/09/%d9%be%db%8c%d8%b4-%d8%a8%d9%87-%d8%b3%d9%88%db%8c-%d8%aa%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%aa%d8%b3%da%a9%db%8c%d8%b3%d9%85/): توضیح مترجم: متنی که می‌خوانید از اسناد بنیادین گروهی به نام "گرایش بلشویک بین‌المللی" است که برای اطلاع فارسی‌زبانان ترجمه شده است. - [Pelo Trotskismo!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/09/pelo-trotskismo/): Este documento é uma tradução da revista 1917, n° 3 (Março-Junho de 1987). - [O trockizm!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/09/o-trockizm/): Niniejszy dokument służył jako podstawa połączenia Bolshevik Tendency z Left Trotskyist Tendency w Ameryce Północnej w 1987 r. - [Voor het Trotskyisme!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/09/voor-het-trotskyisme/): Dit document uit 1987 werd oorspronkelijk aangenomen in Noord-Amerika als fundament voor de fusie tussen de Bolshewistische Tendens en de Linkse Trotskyistische Tendens. - [Por el Trotskismo!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/09/por-el-trotskismo/): Esta primera edición en español de 1917 contiene “¡Por el Trotskismo!”, principal declaración programática de la TBI y que fue publicada originalmente en 1986. - [The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/07/the-case-of-mumia-abu-jamal/) - [From Sacco and Vanzetti to Mumia Abu-Jamal (Appendix No. 12 of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/07/appendix-no-12-from-sacco-and-vanzetti-to-mumia-abu-jamal/): The following text is reprinted from 1917, No. - [Appendix No. 11: 112 Questions for Leonard Weinglass](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/07/appendix-no-11-112-questions-for-leonard-weinglass/): INTRODUCTION The numerous acts of sabotage directed against Appellant Jamal’s case by his own Chief Counsel, Leonard Weinglass, could not have been inadvertent or the results of negligence or incompetence on the part of this highly-experienced criminal defense attorney. - [Appendix No. 10: Declaration of Kenneth Pate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/07/appendix-no-10-declaration-of-kenneth-pate/): This declaration is made subject to the penalties provided for in 18 Pa. Cons. Stats. Sec. 4904 for unsworn false statements to authorities. - [MB#2-10](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-10/): By Shirley Stoute Tim correctly states in "Towards the Working Class" that our Statement of basic position "In Defense of a Revolutionary Perspective" was the collective work of the tendency as a whole and unanimously adopted by the tendency. - [MB#2-09](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-09/): By Laurence Ireland The recent statement of Comrade Wohlforth, "Towards the Working Class," offers a reply and, although unclearly, a counterposing line to that set forth in the document by Comrades Robertson and Ireland entitled, "The Centrism of the SWP and the Tasks of the Minority." - [MB#2-08](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-08/): by Shane Mage I. The crisis of the SWP is nothing but an American expression of the crisis of the international Trotskyist movement. - [MB#2-07](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-07/): By Geoffrey White The American Minority, originating and remaining a tendency within the SWP, is faced with the necessity of constantly defining and redefining its position with regard to that organization. - [MB#2-06](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-06/): By Tim Wohlforth Many of the problems our tendency faces today stem from the weaknesses which go back to the peculiar origins of our grouping. - [MB#2-05](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-05/): By Jim Robertson & Larry Ireland 1. The Decisive Importance of the Nature of the Party. - [MB#2-04](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-04/): By Lynne Harper 1) More than half of the revolutionary Marxist tendency remains involved in the youth organization where we function on both a national and a local basis. - [MB#2-03](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-03/): By Tim Wohlforth 1. The basic political and strategic outlook of our tendency is expressed in our statement, "In Defense of a Revolutionary Perspective." - [MB#2-02](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-02/): Oct. 24, 1961 Oakland Dear Ed, I just received a copy of Jim’s letter to you with his thoughts on perspectives. - [MB#2-01](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-01/): New York City Oct. 18, 1961 Oakland Calif. - [MB#2-Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb2-preface/): "It is necessary that every member of the Party should study calmly and with the greatest objectivity, first the substance of the differences of opinion, and then the development of the struggles within the Party. - [Marxist Bulletin No. 2](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/marxist-bulletin-no-2/): Discussion Material of the Revolutionary Tendency within the SWP Published by Spartacist - September 1965 Preface Letter to Ed by Jim Robertson, l8 October 1961 Letter to Ed by Tim Wohlforth, 24 October 1961 "Proposed Statement on Orientation" by Tim Wohlforth, 18 May 1962 "Orientation of the Party Minority in Youth Work (draft)" by Lynne Harper, 8 August 1962 "The Centrism of the SWP and the Tasks of the Minority" by Jim Robertson and Larry Ireland, 6 September 1962 "Towards the Working Class" by Tim Wohlforth, 2 October 1962; plus appended letter by Albert Philips "The Tendency and the Party" by Geoffrey White, 10 October 1962 "Theses on the Situation and Tasks of the Revolutionary Tendency in the American Trotskyist Movement" by Shane Mage, 10 October 1962 "What the Discussion Is Really About" by Laurence Ireland, 13 October 1962 "For a Fighting Perspective!" - [For Black Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/for-black-trotskyism/): by James Robertson and Shirley Stoute 3 July 1963 from SWP Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. 30, republished in Marxist Bulletin No. - [Toward the Rebirth Of The Fourth International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/toward-the-rebirth-of-the-fourth-international/): DRAFT RESOLUTION ON THE WORLD MOVEMENT submitted to the 1963 SWP Convention by the Revolutionary Tendency. - [In Defense of a Revolutionary Perspective](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/in-defense-of-a-revolutionary-perspective/): The following document was originally presented to the June 1962 plenary meeting of the Socialist Workers Party (U.S.) - [Ernest Mandel: A Centrist For All Seasons](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/ernest-mandel-a-centrist-for-all-seasons/): SL Confronts USec Leader on U.S. Tour Spartacist, No. - [Cannon Versus Pablo:](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/cannon-versus-pablo/): published in Workers Vanguard, No. - [Our Orientation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/our-orientation/): The following article was first published in the May 1954 issue of The Educator, an internal organ of the Socialist Union of America, headed by Bert Cochran. - [A Letter to Trotskyists Throughout the World](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/a-letter-to-trotskyists-throughout-the-world/): The following letter was first published in the 16 November 1953 issue of the Militant. - [Trade Unionists and Revolutionists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/trade-unionists-and-revolutionists/): [From James P. Cannon, Speeches to the Party, Pathfinder 1973, pp. - [Report to the May Plenum](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/02/report-to-the-may-plenum/): [From James P. Cannon, Speeches to the Party, Pathfinder 1973, pp. - [Internationalism and the SWP](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/31/internationalism-and-the-swp/): [From James P. Cannon, Speeches to the Party, Pathfinder 1973, pp. - [Declaration of the Delegates of the French Majority and Resolution on the Austrian Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/31/declaration-of-the-delegates-of-the-french-majority-and-resolution-on-the-austrian-question/): These documents appeared in the SWP's International Information Bulletin, December 1951. - [What Should Be Modified and What Should Be Maintained in the Theses of the Second World Congress of the Fourth International on the Question of Stalinism? (Ten Theses)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/31/what-should-be-modified-and-what-should-be-maintained-in-the-theses-of-the-second-world-congress-of-the-fourth-international-on-the-question-of-stalinism-ten-theses/): This document appeared in the SWP's International Information Bulletin, April 1951 FOREWORD -- The theses on general orientation adopted by the 9th Plenum of the IEC have defined the general perspectives of the revolution and of our movement in the years ahead. - [Where Are We Going?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/31/where-are-we-going/): This document appeared in the SWP's International Information Bulletin, March 1951 The Ninth Plenum of the IEC has opened the preparatory discussion for the Third World Congress of our International and has set its date for the year 1951. - [The Rocky Road to the Fourth International, 1933-38](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/15/the-rocky-road-to-the-fourth-international-1933-38/): [George Breitman (1916-1986) joined the American Trotskyist movement in 1935 and was elected to the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party/U.S. - [Trotsky’s Struggle for the Fourth International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/15/trotskys-struggle-for-the-fourth-international/): first published in Fourth International, August 1946. [John G. - [How the Fourth International Was Conceived](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/15/how-the-fourth-international-was-conceived/): This article was first published in the August 1944 issue of Fourth International. - [Marxism & the General Strike](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/marxism-the-general-strike/) - [Apologists for Islamic Reaction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/apologists-for-islamic-reaction/) - [From Cliff to Trotsky](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/from-cliff-to-trotsky/) - [SLP: a Postmortem](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/slp-a-postmortem/) - [Weathering the Storm](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/weathering-the-storm/) - [Hands Off Iraq!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/hands-off-iraq/) - [Free Ocalan! Defend the PKK!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/free-ocalan-defend-the-pkk-2/) - [Disagreeable Sectarians](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/disagreeable-sectarians/) - [Origin of ILWU's Political Action](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/origin-of-ilwus-political-action/) - [Labor: Fight to Free Mumia!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/labor-fight-to-free-mumia/) - [Balkan Quagmire](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/13/balkan-quagmire/) - [The Brexit Election](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/12/10/the-brexit-election/): The 12 December general election, triggered by parliamentary paralysis over “Brexit,” is taking place in the context of a deeply divided ruling class. - [CWI Implodes](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/11/23/cwi-implodes/): The profound internal crisis currently wracking the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) has produced a series of splits. - [On Russian cash flow in Caracas](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/11/14/on-russian-cash-flow-in-caracas/): In an earlier posting this year we challenged three ostensibly Trotskyist groups (Socialist Action/U.S., the British Red Flag grouping [formerly Workers Power] and our former associates in the International Bolshevik Tendency) to comment on Russia’s role in Venezuela. - ["Demokratie"-Provokateure & Hongkongs kapitalistische Dystopie](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/10/06/demokratie-provokateure-hongkongs-kapitalistische-dystopie/): Die Massenproteste, die Hongkong in den letzten Monaten erschüttert haben, wurden in den westlichen Medien als Volksaufstand gegen die Herrschaft der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas (KPCh) dargestellt. - [Genesis of Pabloism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/09/23/genesis-of-pabloism/): The following very important essay on the history of the Trotskyist movement after Trotsky appeared in Spartacist No. 21 (Fall 1972). - [‘Democracy’ Provocateurs & Hong Kong’s Capitalist Dystopia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/09/17/democracy-provocateurs-hong-kongs-capitalist-dystopia/): The mass protests that have shaken Hong Kong in recent months have been presented in the Western media as a popular revolt against the domination of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). - [Sklerotische Spartacisten entwirren sich](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/09/12/sklerotische-spartacisten-entwirren-sich/): „In einer Stellungnahme im Anschluss an den Bericht Chruschtschows [über die Verbrechen Stalins] fragte Togliatti: ‚Was machte derart gravierende Fehler möglich? - [On the IG’s 2016 Capitulation in Brazil:](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/08/28/on-the-igs-2016-capitulation-in-brazil/): At this year’s Lutte Ouvrière fête outside Paris, the Internationalist Group (IG) held a forum to address recent developments in Brazil—in particular the reactionary anti-working class politics of newly-elected President Jair Bolsonaro. - [100 Years Ago: Revolution in Germany](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/07/28/100-years-ago-revolution-in-germany-2/) - [Jim Who?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/07/14/3370/): There is something a bit odd going on with the Spartacist League (SL), a group I joined at the tender age of 22 and have since maintained an interest in. - [Workers Vanguard De-Collectivized](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/07/11/workers-vanguard-de-collectivized/): The Spartacist League is currently retailing an “internal“ bulletin on the recent purge of several members of their top leadership. - [Leninism & Nationalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/07/11/leninism-nationalism/) - [Lenin vs. Luxemburg on the National Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/07/11/lenin-vs-luxemburg-on-the-national-question/): A review of The National Question by Rosa Luxemburg (edited by Horace B. - [The National Question in the Marxist Movement, 1848–1914](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/07/11/the-national-question-in-the-marxist-movement-1848-1914/): By Joseph Seymour. - [Spartacist League embraces Pabloite Hydra](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/07/11/introduction-6/): In 2017, the once Trotskyist Spartacist League (SL) published a lengthy article entitled “The Struggle Against the Chauvinist Hydra,” (Spartacist, No. - [Die bevorstehende Klimakatastrophe & Wie man sie bekämpft](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/06/30/die-bevorstehende-klimakatastrophe-wie-man-sie-bekampft/): Das vom Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2018 veröffentlichte Update über das Pariser Abkommen von 2016 bestätigt, dass die Menschheit mit einer äußerst ernsten und sich rasch beschleunigenden Krise konfrontiert ist. - [100 Years Ago: Revolution in Germany](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/06/18/100-years-ago-revolution-in-germany/): Long Island University in Brooklyn - One University Plaza in Brooklyn, NY The Bolshevik Tendency are hosting Session 1 on Saturday June 29th, 10:00am - 12:00pm in Room H316 The German revolution of 1918-19 attempted to overthrow capitalism and establish a Socialist Republic. - [Liberaler Moralismus oder Klassenkampf?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/06/03/liberaler-moralismus-oder-klassenkampf/): 2018 war geprägt von breiten Mobilisierungen gegen den gesellschaftlichen Rechtsruck, gegen die Überarbeitung der Polizeiaufgabengesetze in vielen Bundesländern, gegen die AfD-Wahlkämpfe in Bayern und Hessen und gegen den Nazimob in Chemnitz. - [Free Mumia Abu-Jamal - Report on London meeting](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/06/free-mumia-abu-jamal-report-on-london-meeting/): Bolshevik Tendency supporters participated in a meeting on Friday 26 April in Brixton, South London, to celebrate Mumia Abu-Jamal, two days after his 65th birthday. - [Hände weg von Julian Assange!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/hande-weg-von-julian-assange/): Die jüngste Nachricht, dass Assange unmittelbar aus der ecuadorianischen Botschaft in London ausgewiesen wird, sollte uns daran erinnern, dass sich die politische Realität seit seinem Asylantrag vor fast sieben Jahren nicht grundlegend geändert hat. - [James M. Robertson: Eine Bilanz](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/james-m-robertson-eine-bilanz/): Der jüngste Bericht über den Tod des Gründers der Spartacist League (SL), James Robertson, am 7. - [Fun With Figures](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/fun-with-figures/): Inattentive readers of Workers Vanguard (WV), flagship of James Robertson's Spartacist League (SL), may have missed a remarkable bit of good news buried on page nine of the 10 March issue. - [Letter to the Spartacist League](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/letter-to-the-spartacist-league/): International Bolshevik Tendency Box 405, Cooper Station New York, NY 10276 13 November 1999 Spartacist League Box 1377, GPO New York, NY 10116 Comrades: We congratulate you for the Spartacist League's (SL) role in ensuring that the KKK provocation in New York City on 23 October was met by mass protest. - [Revolutionaries & Imperialist War](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/revolutionaries-imperialist-war/): The following article originally appeared in the January issue of Marxist Bulletin, journal of the British section of the IBT. - [Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/free-mumia-abu-jamal/): The struggle to save Mumia Abu-Jamal, America’s most famous political prisoner, is moving toward a climax. - [Seattle & the Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/seattle-the-left/): On the Monday before the World Trade Organization (WTO) conference opened in Seattle last November, a group of right-wing Republicans, Chamber of Commerce functionaries and bible-thumpers, advertising themselves as “Working Families for Free Trade,” staged a media event to “demonstrate that Christians and conservatives are pragmatic and understand the relationship between free trade and missions opportunities in foreign countries.” Participants in this pro-imperialist publicity stunt were treated sympathetically by the media and Seattle’s civic authorities. - [Justice for Amadou Diallo!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/justice-for-amadou-diallo/): In the Albany County courtroom on Friday, 22 February, the four cops tried for the murder of West African immigrant and Bronx resident, Amadou Diallo, were acquitted on all charges. - [The Green, the Orange & the "Peace Process"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/the-green-the-orange-the-peace-process/): The collapse of Northern Ireland’s “power-sharing” government in February, after only nine weeks in office, represented a major setback for the much-touted Irish “peace process.” It took years of maneuvers, ultimatums, horsetrading, deadlines and postponements before Catholic Republicans and Protestant Unionists finally signed a deal on Good Friday 1998, and it is too early to consign it to the terminal ward. - [NATO’s "Humanitarian" Terrorism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/natos-humanitarian-terrorism/): The following is an edited version of a talk given by Tom Riley at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario on 12 June 1999. - [Globalization & Its Discontents](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/globalization-its-discontents/): John F. Kennedy’s celebrated early 1960s observation that “a rising tide lifts all boats” has been amply refuted by the bull market of the past decade, which has chiefly benefited yacht owners. - [Bourgeois Parties: Unsafe At Any Speed](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/bourgeois-parties-unsafe-at-any-speed/): The following statement was distributed during the 2000 American election campaign. - [Zimbabwe: Cliffites’ Poisoned ‘Victory’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/zimbabwe-cliffites-poisoned-victory/): Events in Zimbabwe appear to be moving toward a head as pressure mounts on populist demagogue Robert Mugabe’s beleaguered Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) government. - [James P. Cannon on 1948 Wallace Campaign](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/james-p-cannon-on-1948-wallace-campaign/): In 1948, Henry A. Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s vice president from 1941 to 1945, ran for president on the Progressive Party slate. - [Imperialist World Order: Misery for Profit](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/imperialist-world-order-misery-for-profit/): The recent wave of international protest against the institutions of global capitalism is a manifestation of growing dissatisfaction among broad layers of the world’s population with the operation of the imperialist world order. - [LRCI’s Left Turn: ‘No Coherent Middle Ground’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/lrcis-left-turn-no-coherent-middle-ground/): “The state is an instrument of class struggle—it represents the power of fundamental social groups. - [Fiji: Permanent Revolution & the ‘Pacific Way’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/fiji-permanent-revolution-the-pacific-way/): On 19 May 2000, a handful of armed men seized Fiji’s parliament buildings and took the prime minister and senior personnel of the Labour-dominated government hostage. - [Recycled Browderism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/recycled-browderism/): 5 May 2001 To the Editor: In introducing James P. Cannon’s remarks on Henry Wallace’s 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign (1917 No. - [No Vote to Labour!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/no-vote-to-labour/): The following statement was distributed during Britain’s 2001 general election campaign. - [Open Letter: ‘To All Revolutionaries in the Komsomol’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/open-letter-to-all-revolutionaries-in-the-komsomol/): The following statement by the Young Revolutionary Marxists (YRM—now the Ukrainian section of the IBT) dated 18 March 2001, was issued in response to an “Open Letter” by six members of the Komsomol (the youth wing of the Communist Party of Ukraine—CPU) sympathetic to the League for a Revolutionary Communist International (LRCI). - [Centrism & Bolshevism in Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/centrism-bolshevism-in-ukraine/): In early 2001 Ukraine was gripped by an acute political crisis after a former member of the political police, Mykola Melnychenko, leaked tapes implicating President Leonid Kuchma in the grisly murder of Georgy Gongadze, a journalist who had been a thorn in the side of the regime. - [A Significant Step](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/a-significant-step/): A fusion with the Ukrainian Young Revolutionary Marxists (YRM) capped the Third International Conference of the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) in early October 2001. - [Where is the ICL Going?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/where-is-the-icl-going-2/): Over the past several weeks we have been asked what the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) makes of Workers Vanguard's recent flurry of (sometimes overlapping) polemics against ourselves and the Internationalist Group (IG) concerning the U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan. - [U.S. Imperialist Rule: An Endless Horror](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/05/u-s-imperialist-rule-an-endless-horror-2/): The following is an IBT statement issued on 18 September 2001 after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. - [‘All Shades of Political Thought’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/all-shades-of-political-thought/): In analyzing the political and social character of the Stalinist ruling caste in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, Leon Trotsky laid great emphasis on the political heterogeneity concealed behind the facade of “monolithic” unity. - [Russia: A Capitalist Dystopia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/russia-a-capitalist-dystopia/): The decade since Boris Yeltsin’s August 1991 victory over the remnants of the Stalinist bureaucracy in Moscow has been one of unrelieved misery and hopelessness for the vast majority of former Soviet citizens. - [FTAA Demonstration in Quebec: For Socialist Globalization!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/ftaa-demonstration-in-quebec-for-socialist-globalization/): The following is a May 2001 IBT leaflet issued after the 20-21 April demonstration in Quebec City against the FTAA. - [Imperialism’s Bloody Trail](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/imperialisms-bloody-trail-2/): “Afghanistan is just the beginning,” said George W. Bush in the wake of the brutal, high-tech annihilation of the Taliban regime by U.S. air power. - [Mumia's Lawyer Speaks](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/mumias-lawyer-speaks/): On Saturday 8 June 2002, over 200 people (including Rubin "Hurricane" Carter) attended a public talk at the University of Toronto (UofT) by Eliot Grossman, one of Mumia Abu-Jamal's lawyers. - [LRCI on Argentina: ‘Blunting the Edge of Revolutionary Criticism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/lrci-on-argentina-blunting-the-edge-of-revolutionary-criticism/): The following letter was sent to Workers Power on 30 March 2002: To the Editor: The international workers’ movement has a vital interest in the dramatic developments in Argentina. - [Imperialist War & Socialist Pretenders](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/imperialist-war-socialist-pretenders/): "The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. - [SPD’s Peace Initiative: ‘The Better to Eat You With’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/spds-peace-initiative-the-better-to-eat-you-with/): The following is an edited excerpt from an article on Germany’s national election that was originally published in Bolschewik No.18, September 2002 The subordination of the SPD (Social Democratic Party) to capital jeopardizes its popularity with its working-class electoral base. - [Blair's New Labour: A Party Fit for Imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/blairs-new-labour-a-party-fit-for-imperialism/): The following is the British introduction to the IBT’s 22 October 2002 statement on the imperialist campaign against Iraq: Tony Blair’s Labour government is the major imperialist supporter of the pending US-led attack on Iraq. - [Pacifism as the Servant of Imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/pacifism-as-the-servant-of-imperialism/): Excerpts of an article by Leon Trotsky originally published in Communist International, English Edition, No. - [Lessons from Working-Class History: State Repression & the Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/lessons-from-working-class-history-state-repression-the-left/): The aggressive neo-colonial wars being waged by the Bush administration are accompanied by a massive reorganization and expansion of the domestic security bureaucracy and heightened activity by America’s political police. - [Imperialists Run Amok](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/05/03/imperialists-run-amok/): The "New World Order" proclaimed by Bush the Elder after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has been marked by a string of brutal neo-colonial wars. - [‘A Blank Page’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/29/a-blank-page/): The Summer 2005 issue of the Internationalist, published by Jan Norden and his comrades in the Internationalist Group (IG—1996 refugees from James Robertson’s Spartacist League) contains an article entitled “Drive U.S. - [The Struggle for Abortion Rights in Ireland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/29/the-struggle-for-abortion-rights-in-ireland-2/): The following statement was originally distributed in September 2013. - [Marxism, Feminism and #MeToo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/29/marxism-feminism-and-metoo/): The following is an edited version of a talk given by BT supporter Roxanne Baker at Goldsmiths, University of London, 17 February 2018. - [The Impending Climate Catastrophe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/29/the-impending-climate-catastrophe/): The 2018 update on the 2016 Paris Agreement published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms that humanity is facing an extremely serious and rapidly accelerating crisis. - [Neutrality in the Face of Imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/neutrality-in-the-face-of-imperialism/): Reprinted below is a reply by the International Bolshevik Tendency to an 18 January 2003 leaflet from “an informal group of people in Toronto of varying perspectives (anarchist, communist and others).” 29 January 2003 Comrades: Your 18 January leaflet, “Against Capitalist War! - [No Innocent Explanation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2019/04/28/no-innocent-explanation/): In 1917 No. 24, we announced a “fusion” that took place at the Third International Conference of the IBT in 2001 with a group calling itself the “Young Revolutionary Marxists” (YRM) of Ukraine. - [MB3PII-07](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-07/): Farrell Dobbs, Secretary, SWP 29th May, 1963. - [MB3PII-06](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-06/): New York, N.Y. 27 May 1963 G. - [MB3PII-05](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-05/): 186a Clapham High Street LONDON, S.W.4. 22nd May, 1963. Farrell Dobbs, Secretary, S.W.P. - [MB3PII-04](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-04/): 14 May 1963 New York City Dear Comrade Wohlforth: The party leadership has not received IC Bulletin, No. 14 to which you refer in your letter of May 13. - [MB3PII-03](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-03/): Amendment by Shane Mage, James Robertson and Geoffrey White for the Minority to P.C. - [MB3PII-02](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-02/): Corrected DRAFT New York City 18 May 1963 Reorganised Minority Tendency Dear Comrades: (1) We were happy to receive your communication of May 9 raising ‘the question of the relations between the former constituents of the minority tendency during the pre-convention period.’ We view your letter as a step away from your earlier position, as presented by comrade Wohlforth in his circular letter of last Nov. - [MB3PII-01](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-01/): New York. N.Y. May 9, 1963 Dear Comrades, Some six months or so have passed since the split in the minority tendency. - [MB3PII-Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-preface/): The documents contained here are a continuation of our Marxist Bulletin No.3 on the Healy-Wohlforth group. - [Marxist Bulletin No.3 – Part II](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/marxist-bulletin-no-3-part-ii/) - [COVID-19: ein geopolitischer Wendepunkt](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/19/covid-19-ein-geopolitischer-wendepunkt/): Die Ausbreitung von COVID-19 hat eine globale soziale Krise ausgelöst, die tiefgreifende und dauerhafte Auswirkungen haben wird. - [CWI se desmorona](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/12/cwi-se-desmorona/): (Traducido de la versión en inglés - CWI Implodes - After 60 years of opportunist adaptation) La crisis interna y profunda que actualmente exaspera al Comité por una Internacional de Trabajadores (Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) por sus siglas en inglés) ha producido una serie de cismas. - [COVID-19: a Geo-Political Watershed](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/11/covid-19-a-geo-political-watershed/): The spread of COVID-19 has triggered a global social crisis that will have profound and lasting effects. - [MB3PI-15](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-15/): 28 December, 1962 Dear Comrade Robertson, In your letter of December 15, you refer to the experience of the British Trotskyist movement between 1943 and 1950, and you conclude: ‘We have always considered that experience a highly important one, and sought to learn from it. - [MB3PI-14](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-14/): New York 15 December 1962 Socialist Labour League Organizing Committee London Dear comrades, We have given prolonged and thoughtful consideration to your letter of Nov. - [MB3PI-13](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-13/): Statement by the International Committee of the Fourth International The U.S. - [MB3PI-12](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-12/): The Cuban revolution is now at its hour of greatest peril. - [MB3PI-11](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-11/): [San Francisco Bay Area] November 14th, 1962 Dear Comrade Healy, Since your letter to me of October 25th, Comrade [Philips] has returned with what he and you consider to be a solution to our internal difficulties. - [MB3PI-10](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-10/) - [MB3PI-09](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-09/): Nov. 14, 1962 San Francisco Dear Bertha, The enclosed statement was submitted last night to Farrell. - [MB3PI-08](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-08/): London 12th November, 1962 Dear Comrades, We have received a letter dated November 4 in the. names of L. Harper, L. Ireland, S. Mage, J. Robertson, S. - [MB3PI-07](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/4358/): New York, N.Y. 4 November 1962 Dear Comrade Healy, I write to you in shock and disbelief. - [MB3PI-06](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-06/): 4 November 1962 To the Revolutionary Tendency of the International Committee Comrades: Last night comrade Albert Philips submitted a document to the New York Section in your name. - [MB3PI-05](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-05/): [NOTE: Portions in parenthesis (-) were later omitted in the document as presented to the SWP National Committee] 1. - [MB3PI-04](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-04/): 4 November 1962 To all members of the SWP Minority, the Revolutionary Tendency: Last night the attached statement was read to the NYC section of the revolutionary tendency by comrade Albert Philips who had just returned from England. - [MB3PI-03](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-03/): 24th October, 1962 Dear Comrade Ireland, Thank you for your letter and enclosure of October 17. - [MB3PI-02](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/4340/): Wednesday 17 October 1962 Dear Comrade Healy, The discussion in the American tendency is continuing. - [MB3PI-01](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-01/): New York October 7, 1962 Geoff White Berkeley Dear Geoff: An enormous amount of urgent matters have accumulated since I returned from the Bay Area. - [MB3PI-Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb3pi-preface/): In a dispute within the revolutionary movement, no serious revolutionist would take sides without recourse to the documents wherein both parties argue their positions. - [Marxist Bulletin No.3 - Part I](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/marxist-bulletin-no-3-part-i/) - [MB4-32](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-32/): Socialist Workers Party 116 University Place New York 3, N.Y. AL 5-7460 James P. - [MB4-31](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-31/): 13 August 1965 National Committee Socialist Workers Party Dear Comrades, On 12 February 1964 we formally notified you of our intention to appeal the expulsion by the NC of five members of our tendency to the next party convention. - [MB4-30](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-30/): May 28, 1965 Spartacist Resident Editorial Board Box 1377, G.P.O. New York, N.Y. - [MB4-29](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-29/): Box 1377, G.P.O. New York, N.Y. - [MB4-28](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-28/): April l7, 1964 Dear Comrade Robertson, At its last meeting, the United Secretariat took up your letter soliciting our opinion about your group and its relations with the Socialist Workers party. - [MB4-27](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-27/): New York, N.Y. 23 February 1964 United Secretariat of the Fourth International c/o Pierre Frank Paris, France Dear Comrades, The National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party at its December 1963 plenum expelled five party members, supporters of the Revolutionary Tendency. - [MB4-26](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-26/): To All Branches Dear Comrades Robertsonite Attack on the Party We are attaching for your information copies of a letter from James Robertson and a statement submitted by the expelled leaders of the Robertson faction. - [MB4-25](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-25/): New York, N. Y. - [MB4-24](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-24/): Socialist Workers Party 116 University Place New York 3, N.Y. James P. - [MB4-23](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/03/mb4-23/): New York City January 2, 1964 Tim Wohlforth New York Dear comrade Wohlforth, Upon due consideration in the light of our recent expulsions, I have been led inescapably to the conclusion that it continues to be in the political interest of our tendency for your group to remain in the SWP. - [MB4-22](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/03/30/mb4-22/): National Committee Plenum 28 December 1963 Vote on motion by Presiding Committee: (for text see this Bulletin, Document 20) Regular NC Members: For 22 Against 1 Consultative vote of NC alternate and advisory members and National Office department heads: For 17 Against 0 Motion carried. - [Report on a public meeting to discuss “How can we build a real alternative to FG/FF"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/03/12/report-on-a-public-meeting-to-discuss-how-can-we-build-a-real-alternative-to-fg-ff/): The following report of a public meeting in Cork, Ireland was first published on the Revolutionary Programme blog by a Bolshevik Tendency supporter On Monday 2 March I attended this public meeting organised by the Socialist Party with speakers also from People Before Profit, Sinn Féin and the Green Party. - [Report on UNAC Conference](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/03/08/report-on-unac-conference/): Over the weekend of 21-23 February the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) held the fifth national conference since its foundation in 2010. - [Discussion on what the Irish election represents in class terms](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/03/07/discussion-on-what-the-irish-election-represents-in-class-terms/): This letter from a supporter of the Bolshevik Tendency was originally published in issue #1289 of the Weekly Worker journal (http://weeklyworker.co.uk) in a slightly edited form. - [Welcher Jim?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/03/01/welcher-jim/): Mit der Spartacist League (SL, deutsche Sektion: Spartakist-Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands), einer Gruppe, der ich im zarten Alter von 22 Jahren beigetreten bin und für die ich mich seitdem interessiere, geht etwas Seltsames vor. - [CWI implodiert](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/03/01/cwi-implodiert/): Die tiefgreifende interne Krise, die derzeit das Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) heimsucht, hat zu einer Reihe von Spaltungen geführt. - [Venezuela & 'Russischer Imperialismus'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/03/01/venezuela-russischer-imperialismus/): Auf einem Treffen der Brock-Sozialisten zu Venezuela am 8. - [Verteidigt Venezuela gegen die imperialistische Aggression!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/29/verteidigt-venezuela-gegen-die-imperialistische-aggression/): Am 8. März sprach Tom Riley von der Bolschewistischen Tendenz (BT) auf einer von den Brock Socialists in St. - [Wohnraum statt Profitgier](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/29/wohnraum-statt-profitgier/): Seit Jahren gibt es in allen großen deutschen Städten politischen Protest gegen steigende Mieten, Wohnungsnot, steigende Obdachlosigkeit und die Privatisierung des staatlichen Wohnungsbaus. - [The Chinese Question After the Sixth Congress](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/20/the-chinese-question-after-the-sixth-congress/): “There cannot even be any question,” said one of the Chinese delegates at the Congress, “of a consolidation of the power of the Guomindang” (Pravda, August 28, 1928). - [Correcting a serious misrepresentation…](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/18/correcting-a-serious-misrepresentation/): On 5 February we received a complaint that Tom Riley’s recent speech on events in the Middle East (which had been posted to our website a few days earlier) seriously misrepresented Socialist Action’s position on Russian involvement in Syria. - [Speed test page](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/15/speed-test-page/) - [MB4-21](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-21/): 28 December 1963 Our session last night comrades, gave me little room to be optimistic about today’s proceedings. - [MB4-20](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-20/): 28 December 1963 Comrades: The suspension from membership of Comrades Robertson, Mage, White, Harper and Ireland involves a major question of vital concern to the party: Shall the party demand unconditional loyalty from all its members; or will a disloyal faction be allowed to conduct internal war against the party, acting under cover of alleged “minority rights?” Criticisms of the suspensions, which have been advanced by some comrades, have raised an even more basic question concerning the character of the party itself: Shall we remain a Leninist-type party, founded on the concept of basic political homogeneity, guided by the principles of democratic centralism, and operating as a disciplined whole through the principle of majority rule; or shall the party degenerate into a loose all-inclusive formation of autonomous factions? - [MB4-19](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb-19/): 28 December 1963 Comrades of the National Committee, I appear before you this morning to demand that you abrogate the suspensions against the five minority members. - [MB4-18](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-18/): December 17, 1963 December 1963 Plenum National Committee Socialist Workers Party We came into the party during the McCarthy witch-hunt period. - [MB4-17](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-17/): Statement to the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party by the five suspended supporters of the Revolutionary Tendency (Lynne Harper, Laurence Ireland, Shane Mage, James Robertson, and Geoffrey White) 10 December 1963 I. - [MB4-16](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-16/): The suspension of Comrades Robertson, White, et al. - [MB4-15](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-15/): For NC and CC Information Seattle, Washington November 29, 1963 Political Committee Socialist Workers Party Dear Comrades: In regards to the suspension of the Robertson group: It is my opinion that this action was taken in haste and a somewhat arbitrary manner. - [MB4-14](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-14/): The New Haven Branch protests the suspension of the Robertson Group. There is no evidence that any trial of these comrades took place. - [MB4-13](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-13/): 21 November 1963 The Trotskyist movement was born in the struggle against the bureaucratic degeneration of the workers state and of the revolutionary party of the working class. - [MB4-12](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-12/): New York November 18, 1963 National Committee Socialist Workers Party Dear Comrades: I have received notification of my suspension from party membership, not for any alleged disloyal acts on my part but on the basis of a single sentence culled from a document I once submitted to the Minority tendency. - [MB4-11](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-11/): November 15, 1963 1. - [MB4-10](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-10/): Fullerton, California November 12, 1963 The National Committee Socialist Workers Party 116 University Place New York 3, New York Dear Comrades: I am profoundly disturbed by the action of the Political Committee suspending comrades Robertson, White et al, from membership in the Party. - [MB4-09](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-09/): New York 10 November, 1963 Political Committee Socialist Workers’ Party 116 University Place New York 3, N.Y. - [MB4-08](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-08/): 8 November 1963 Farrell Dobbs National Secretary Socialist Workers Party 116 University Place New York, N.Y. - [MB4-07](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-07/): I. Presentation Comrades, the purpose of my report tonight is to inform you of a disciplinary action taken by the Political Committee. - [MB4-06](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-06/): November 5, 1963 To the Political Committee of The Socialist Workers’ Party Dear Comrades: I have received official notification of the action taken against me and others by your meeting of November 1st. - [MB4-05](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-05/): Nov. 1 1963 MOTION: To reject the report of one elected member of the Control Commission and a ‘representative’ as unfair, factionally motivated, and a violation of the limited province of the Control Commission. - [MB4-04](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-04/): November 2, 1963 James Robertson 305 West 103rd St. Apt. - [MB4-03](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-03/): August 16, 1963 James Robertson New York City Dear Comrade Robertson: Enclosed is a copy of the Political Committee motion of August 2, 1963, requesting an investigation by the Control Commission of charges publicly made against you. - [MB4-02](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/12/mb4-02/): “Attached you will find a copy of Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. - [Revolutionary Marxism & Ireland’s 2020 election](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/05/revolutionary-marxism-irelands-2020-election/): Marxists recognise that capitalist parliaments represent organs of class rule that are designed to protect and advance the interests of those on top, rather than to function as vehicles for fundamental social change. - [The Struggle for the Middle East](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/02/03/the-struggle-for-the-middle-east/): The following is a lightly edited transcript of a 24 January speech by Tom Riley of the Bolshevik Tendency to a meeting of the Brock Socialists in St. - [`Michael Collins' & Irish Freedom](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/michael-collins-irish-freedom/) - [Marxism, Feminism & Women's Liberation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/marxism-feminism-womens-liberation/) - [Labor Party: Stillborn in the USA](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/labor-party-stillborn-in-the-usa/) - [Trotskyism & Tactics](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/trotskyism-tactics/) - [Resistance & Betrayal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/resistance-betrayal/) - [South Korea on the Brink](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/south-korea-on-the-brink/) - [American Labor Beseiged](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/american-labor-beseiged/) - [Class Politics & Labour Loyalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/class-politics-labour-loyalism/) - [Justin Ryniker](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/justin-ryniker/) - [Canada's No Choice Election](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/canadas-no-choice-election/) - [In Defense of Tactics](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/in-defense-of-tactics/) - [IG: Willful Blindness](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/ig-willful-blindness/) - ['Globalization' & the Unions](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/globalization-the-unions/) - [A Conversation with Myra](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/a-conversation-with-myra/) - [James P. Cannon on Anarchism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/james-p-cannon-on-anarchism/) - [A Life of Struggle](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/a-life-of-struggle/) - [The Revolutionary Betrayed](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/the-revolutionary-betrayed/) - [The Struggle for South Africa](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/12/the-struggle-for-south-africa/) - [MB4-01](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb4-01/): by Mage, Robertson and White for the Minority (plus cover letter and appendices) New York, N.Y. - [MB4-Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/mb4-preface/): Marxist Bulletin #4 documents the provocations, suspensions and finally expulsion by the Socialist Workers Party of its left wing minority, the Revolutionary Tendency (RT), the predecessor to the Spartacist League. - [Marxist Bulletin No.4](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/marxist-bulletin-no-4/) - [BLACK AND RED—Class Struggle Road to Negro Freedom](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/black-and-red-class-struggle-road-to-negro-freedom/): The struggle of the Negro people for freedom and equality has been the most dynamic struggle going on in the United States in the past ten years. - [Declaration of Principles of the Spartacist League](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/declaration-of-principles-of-the-spartacist-league/): The Spartacist League of the U.S. - [Third IC Conference: Defeat for World Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/third-ic-conference-defeat-for-world-trotskyism/): from Spartacist No. - [Reunification Smashed](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/reunification-smashed/): from Spartacist No. 6, June-July 1966 The unity between the American Committee for the Fourth International and Spartacist has been smashed. - [Marxist Bulletin No. 8](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/marxist-bulletin-no-8/): This Marxist Bulletin opens with a reprint of the document which marks the first expression of what was to become the revolutionary left-wing of the SWP. - [Spartacist Statement to International Conference](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/01/03/spartacist-statement-to-international-conference/): Remarks made during the discussion of Cliff Slaughter’s Political Report at the International Committee Conference by Comrade Robertson on 6 April 1966 on behalf of the Spartacist delegation (with minor editorial corrections.) - [Dale Reissner: 1942-1994](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/dale-reissner-1942-1994/) - [Spartacist League: The Early Years](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/spartacist-league-the-early-years/) - [Facing the New World Order](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/facing-the-new-world-order/) - [MLP's Long March to Oblivion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/mlps-long-march-to-oblivion/) - [Bonapartist Burlesque](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/bonapartist-burlesque/) - [China: the Gathering Storm](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/china-the-gathering-storm/) - [Capitalism & Homophobia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/capitalism-homophobia/) - [A Dismal Symmetry](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/a-dismal-symmetry/) - [Haiti Under U.S. Guns](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/haiti-under-u-s-guns/) - [Balkan Barbarism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/balkan-barbarism/) - [Korea: Workers Resurgent](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/korea-workers-resurgent/) - [Irish 'Peace Process'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/irish-peace-process/) - [Getting Russia Right](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/getting-russia-right/) - [Marxism vs. Quebec Nationalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/marxism-vs-quebec-nationalism/) - [Korea: the Forgotten War](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/korea-the-forgotten-war/) - [American Reaction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/american-reaction/) - [Protest French Nuclear Tests](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/protest-french-nuclear-tests/): The French government's renewed round of nuclear weapons testing on the South Pacific Mururoa atoll provoked large-scale protests across the region and around the world. - [Labourism & the British Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/labourism-the-british-left/) - [From the SL to Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/from-the-sl-to-trotskyism/) - [O, What a Tangled Web](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/o-what-a-tangled-web/) - [Defend Argentinean Leftists!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/defend-argentinean-leftists/) - [For United Front Defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/for-united-front-defense-of-mumia-abu-jamal/) - [For Working Class Unity Across National Lines!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/for-working-class-unity-across-national-lines/) - [Islam, Empire & Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/islam-empire-revolution/) - [‘Small, Determined and Well-Organized’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/small-determined-and-well-organized/): Charles A. Orr, an American who edited the POUM’s English language publication, Spanish Revolution, wrote an account of his experiences during the suppression of the POUM, entitled “Some facts on the Persecution of foreign revolutionaries in ‘Republican’ Spain.” To our knowledge this document was never published. - [Left Split from Labour](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/left-split-from-labour/) - [Mumia Defense in New Zealand](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/mumia-defense-in-new-zealand/) - [Workers Vanguard De-Collectivized](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/workers-vanguard-de-collectivized-2/) - [Spain: War & Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/spain-war-revolution/) - [Revolt Against Globalization](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/revolt-against-globalization/) - [COVID-19 online public meeting](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/31/covid-19-online-public-meeting/) - [Online public meeting - COVID-19: a Geo-Political Watershed](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/22/online-public-meeting-covid-19-a-geo-political-watershed/): The spread of COVID-19 has triggered a global social crisis that will have profound and lasting effects. - [‘Planet of the Humans’ – an uneven critique of capitalist eco-insanity](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/15/planet-of-the-humans-an-uneven-critique-of-capitalist-eco-insanity/): On the 50th anniversary of the first “Earth Day,” 22 April 2020, Jeff Gibbs and Ozzie Zehner released their new film “Planet of the Humans” on YouTube. - [Open Letter to the International Socialists: The Irish Upsurge And The Cliff Group (March 1971)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1971_mar07_oltois/) - [Against NPAC Pop Fronts: For Class Action Against The War (July 1971)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1971_jul_supp/) - [Pop Front Sealed In Blood! (July 1971)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1971_jul03_leaflet/) - [The SWP in the NPAC Conference: Blood and Nixon (May 1970)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1970_may_leaflet/) - [Postal Strike Aids All Workers: Answer Any Troops' Use by General Strike! (March 1970)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1970_mar23_leaflet/) - [New York City School Strike: Beware Liberal Union Busters! (November 1968)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1968_nov13_leaflet/) - [Johnson Goes, Imperialism Remains (May 1968)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1968_may_supp/) - [Don't Beg—Take It. It's Yours! (Late Spring 1968)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1968_spring_leaflet/) - [What Is The 'Workers League'? Wohlforths's Latest Incarnation (November 1967)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1967_nov03_leaflet/) - [Beyond October 21: From Protest to Power (October 1967)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1967_oct21_leaflet/) - [Newark Shows Need: Organize Black Power! (July 1967)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1967_jul15_leaflet/) - [Hands Off The Dominican Revolution (May 1965)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1965_may_spec_supp/) - [Spartacist Editor subpoenaed by 'Harlem Riot' Grand Jury (March 1965)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/4730/) - [What Gives In Vietnam? (Early 1965)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1965_leaflet_vietnam/) - [Critical Support for the Election Campaign of the Socialist Workers Party (October 1964)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist_1964_oct_elect_supp/) - [Spartacist (Autumn 1980) #30](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-30/) - [Spartacist (Summer 1980) #29](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-29/) - [Spartacist (Winter 1979-80) #27-28](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-27-28/) - [Spartacist (Winter 1979) #26](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-26/) - [Spartacist (Summer 1978) #25](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-25/) - [Spartacist (Autumn 1977) #24](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-24/) - [Spartacist (Spring 1977) #23](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-23/) - [Spartacist (Winter 1973-74) #22](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-22/) - [Spartacist (Fall 1972) #21](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-21/) - [Spartacist (April-May 1971) #20](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-20/) - [Spartacist (November-December 1970) #19](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-19/) - [Spartacist (August-September 1970) #17-18](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-17-18/) - [Spartacist (April-May 1970) #15-16](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-15-16/) - [Spartacist (November-December 1969) #14](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-14/) - [Spartacist (August-September 1969) #13](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-13/) - [Spartacist (September-October 1968) #12](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-12/) - [Spartacist (March-April 1968) #11](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-11/) - [Spartacist (May-June 1967) #10](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-10/) - [Spartacist (January-February 1967) #09](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-09/) - [Spartacist (November-December 1966) #08](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-08/) - [Spartacist (September-October 1966) #07](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-07/) - [Spartacist (June-July 1966) #06](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-06/) - [Spartacist (November-December 1965) #05](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-05/) - [Spartacist (May-June 1965) #04](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-04/) - [Spartacist (January-February 1965) #03](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-03/) - [Spartacist (July-August 1964) #02](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-02/) - [Spartacist (February-March 1964) #01](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist-01/) - [Spartacist](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/05/07/spartacist/): Spartacist (February-March 1964) No. - [mbiv-09](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-09/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. - [mbiv-08](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-08/): Reprinted from Spartacist West, Vol. 1, No. - [mbiv-07](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-07/): Reprinted from Spartacist West, Volume 1, No. - [mbiv-06](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-06/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. - [mbiv-05](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-05/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. - [mbiv-04](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-04/): Reprinted from Spartacist No. - [mbiv-03](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-03/): Draft Resolution on Civil Rights Submitted by D. Konstan, A. Nelson and S. Stoute Reprinted from YSA Discussion Bulletin Vol. 7, No. - [mbiv-02](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-02/): -Against the P.C. - [mbiv-01](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-01/): by R. S. Fraser Reprinted from SWP Discussion Bulletin A-30, August 1955 For a number of months both Comrade Breitman and myself have been working toward the opening of this discussion of the Negro question. - [mbiv-preface2](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-preface2/): We are pleased to reprint the present article in accordance with the Marxist Bulletin’s general policy of publishing educational or information material of interest to sections of the Marxist movement in the United States and internationally, to militants in the Negro and working class struggles, and to radical student youth. - [mbiv-preface1](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mbiv-preface1/): Any organization which claims a revolutionary perspective for the United States must confront the special oppression of black people--the forced segregation of blacks at the bottom of capitalist society and the poisonous racism which divides the working class and cripples its struggles. - [Marxist Bulletin No 5 Revised](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/marxist-bulletin-no-5-revised/): Key documents and articles 1955-1978 Spartacist Publishing Co. - [MB3PIV-08](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-08/): Spartacist: Robertson, Nelson, Stoute; (Harper, Secretary). - [MB3PIV-07](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-07/): Spartacist: Robertson, Nelson, Watts, Mage (late); (Harper, Secretary). - [MB3PIV-06](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-06/): Spartacist: Robertson, Turner, Nelson; (Harper, Secretary). - [MB3PIV-05](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-05/): Spartacist: Robertson, Stoute, Ne1son (alt); (Harper, Secretary). - [MB3PIV-04](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-04/): Spartacist: Robertson, Stoute, Nelson (alt); (Harper, Secretary). - [MB3PIV-03](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-03/): Spartacist: Robertson, Turner, Stoute; (Harper, Secretary). - [MB3PIV-02](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-02/): Spartacist: Robertson, Turner, Stoute, (Henry for point 2); Harper (Secretary). - [MB3PIV-01](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/mb3piv-01/): Spartacist: Robertson, Turner, Stoute; (Harper, Secretary). - [MB3PIV-Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/29/preface-2/): The 8 sessions of unity negotiations between Spartacist and the American Committee for the Fourth International (ACFI) took place from 18 June to 8 October 1965. - [MB3PII-10](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-10/): by Mage, Robertson and White for the Minority Tendency (reprinted from SWP Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. - [MB3PII-09](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-09/): A Statement on the Pre-Convention Discussion by the Reorganized Minority Tendency (reprinted from SWP Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. - [MB3PII-08](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/04/25/mb3pii-08/): 29th May, 1963. - [Trotskyists Fuse!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/trotskyists-fuse/): In a major step forward for revolutionaries in North America, the Bolshevik Tendency (BT) and the Left Trotskyist Tendency (LTT) fused at a joint national conference held in Oakland, California last November. - [Nicaragua: An Unfinished Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/nicaragua-an-unfinished-revolution/): The Nicaragua/Iran/hostage imbroglio that has engulfed the Reagan government in recent months has provided plenty of material for political columnists and cartoonists. - [Class Struggle on the Waterfront](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/class-struggle-on-the-waterfront/): On July 19 we interviewed Howard Keylor, a long-time trade-union militant on the waterfront in San Francisco. - [Hands off the Teamsters!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/hands-off-the-teamsters/): On 10 June the U.S. - [Militant Longshoreman Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/militant-longshoreman-program/) - [Free Moses Mayekiso!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/free-moses-mayekiso/): Over 40 protesters rallied at Union Square, San Francisco, on 24 August demanding: ‘‘Free Moses Mayekiso’’ and ‘‘Free All Anti-Apartheid Prisoners in South Africa.’’ The demonstration marked the opening day of the trial of Mayekiso, the General Secretary of the 130,000 member National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, and four other black trade-union leaders, who face the death penalty on charges of ‘‘high treason’’ against the brutal apartheid regime. - [For International Labor Solidarity](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/for-international-labor-solidarity/): During the week of July 4-12, Bolshevik Tendency (BT) supporter Howard Keylor was sponsored by the Cambridge Area Trades Union Council to tour Britain and speak about his experiences in the 1984 San Francisco longshore boycott of South African cargo. - [Solidarity: Anatomy of a Sellout](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/anatomy-of-a-sellout/): Review of Bryan D. - [Workers States and Markets](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/workers-states-and-markets/): In the 1920’s Evgeny Preobrazhensky, the Left Opposition’s leading economist, engaged in a polemic with Nikolai Bukharin, over the course of Soviet economic development. - [Moreno: Any Way the Wind Blows](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/any-way-the-wind-blows/): 25 May 1987 San Francisco To the editor: I enjoyed the excellent analysis of the impasse of the Nicaraguan revolution and the role of the organizations to the left of the Sandinistas (1917 No. - [If the Shoe Fits...](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/if-the-shoe-fits/): The January 1972 issue of Workers Vanguard made the following apt comment on corruption in the Black Panther Party: ‘‘Hero worship is one of the ways bourgeois ideology enters the revolutionary movement and destroys it. - [Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous/): Over the last several years Spartacist League lider maximo James Robertson has acquired a substantial material stake in his control of the finances of his group. - [New York BT Launched](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/new-york-bt-launched/): The establishment of a Bolshevik Tendency (BT) nucleus in New York City, traditionally the political center of the American left, marks another small but important step forward in our attempt to consolidate a viable Trotskyist organization in North America. - [Not Twins, but Antipodes](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/not-twins-but-antipodes/): In our previous issue we published a critical assessment of the contradictory leftward movement of the formerly Maoist Marxist-Leninist Party (‘‘MLP’s Stalinist Pyrite: The Myth of the Third Period,’’ 1917 No. - [Whither Gorbachev's USSR?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/whither-gorbachevs-ussr/): Fifty years after Stalin decreed the advent of ‘‘complete socialism’’ in the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev proposes to open the economy to the world market and replace centralized planning with market competition. - [LA: Days of Rage](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/la-days-of-rage/): Supplement to 1917, May 1992 With the “end of communism” America’s rulers dreamed of a “new world order” in which the oppressed would meekly submit to their oppressors. - [Jesse Jackson: Judas-Goat for the Bourgeoisie](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/jesse-jackson-judas-goat-for-the-bourgeoisie/): “When you keep the Democrats in power, you’re keeping the Dixiecrats in power.” --Malcolm X, 1964 Jesse Jackson’s 1988 campaign for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination stirred the hopes of millions of blacks and working people. - [Israel Out of the Occupied Territories!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/israel-out-of-the-occupied-territories/): For the past year the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza has been locked in a heroic and unequal struggle against Israeli occupation. - [Revolutionary Program vs. `Historical Process'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/revolutionary-program-vs-historical-process/): We print below a polemical exchange with Roy R., a supporter of the Fourth International Tendency (FIT) in New York. - [Moscow and Managua](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/moscow-and-managua/): The Pentagon and the CIA understand, even if many in the Nicaraguan “solidarity” milieu do not, that there is an intimate connection between the continued survival of the property relations established by the Bolshevik Revolution and the struggle against imperialist rule in Latin America. - [On the Slogan `Hail Red Army!'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/on-the-slogan-hail-red-army-2/): Since the formation of our political tendency, six years ago, our polemics with other leftists on Afghanistan have revolved around the fundamental question of which way to point the guns—at the imperialist-backed muhajadeen or at the Soviet army. - [Gorbachev's Afghan Sellout](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/gorbachevs-afghan-sellout-2/): On 15 May the USSR began a pullout of its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. - [Nicaraguan Revolution in Retreat](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/nicaraguan-revolution-in-retreat/): For nine years, since the 1979 insurrection which toppled the bloody Somoza dictatorship, Nicaragua has been a society in which economic and political/military power have been “decoupled.” After spearheading an insurrection which destroyed the capitalist state apparatus, the Sandinista Front (FSLN) kept control of the army and police, but left the economy in the hands of the Nicaraguan bourgeoisie. - [Permanent Revolution & Black Labor in South Africa](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/permanent-revolution-black-labor-in-south-africa/): The development of powerful trade unions rooted in South Africa’s black proletariat is one of the brightest chapters in the recent history of the international working class. - [‘Fire and Water'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/fire-and-water/): What attitude should revolutionaries take toward bourgeois ‘‘sanctions’’ against apartheid? - [Mayekiso Acquittal: A Victory for the Oppressed!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/mayekiso-acquittal-a-victory-for-the-oppressed/): On April 24 the international proletariat and the oppressed masses of South Africa won a victory when Moses Mayekiso, general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and his four co-defendants were acquitted by South African justice P. - [Pamyat Rides in Moscow](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/pamyat-rides-in-moscow-2/): Not so long ago, one of the favorite slogans of the Spartacist League (SL) was ‘‘The Klan Doesn’t Ride in Moscow!’’ It was intended to cut against anti-Sovietism among sectors of the American population hostile to the Ku Klux Klan—particularly blacks, but also radical youth and others. - [Fake-Trotskyists Make Fake Offer](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/fake-trotskyists-make-fake-offer-2/): Reprinted below is a letter from the Bolshevik Tendency to the Spartacist League regarding a proposal by the SL’s Partisan Defense Committee to organize a combat brigade for Afghanistan: 16 March 1989 Comrades: The rather bizarre letter from the Partisan Defense Committee (PDC) to Najibullah’s Washington ambassador offering to organize an international brigade to Kabul (Workers Vanguard 17 February) is notable for the utter unreality of the proposal. - [Tony Cliff’s Family Tree](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/tony-cliffs-family-tree/): The largest ‘‘state capitalist’’ group claiming some connection to Trotskyism is the British-based Socialist Workers Party (SWP/B) headed by Tony Cliff. - [On the Nature of the USSR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/on-the-nature-of-the-ussr/): The Bolshevik Tendency (BT) and the League for the Revolutionary Party (LRP) held a public debate on the Russian question on December 10 1988, in New York City. - [The Decline of the Printers Union](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/the-decline-of-the-printers-union/): The strike at the San Francisco Progress is just the latest in a long series of attacks on the living standards of American workers in the print trades. - [Militant Printer’s Class-Struggle Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/militant-printers-class-struggle-program/): Reprinted below is the program of Militant Printer which was published in the first issue of the newsletter, 15 July 1983: The program of ‘‘Militant Printer’’ is first and foremost for a break with the strikebreaking Democratic and Republican Parties. - [S.F. Progress Plundered](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/s-f-progress-plundered/): Frank Lorenzo’s much-publicized corporate union-busting at Eastern Airlines, which led to the recent strike of machinists and pilots, is representative of a host of smaller battles being waged against working people in virtually every industry across America. - [Perestroika: A Pandora's Box](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/perestroika-a-pandoras-box/): Ronald Reagan, flying into retirement on 20 January, boasted to reporters on board his plane that he could go down in history as the president who won the Cold War. - [Kristallisierte Konfusion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/07/kristallisierte-konfusion/): Dieser Text ist die deutsche Übersetzung des Texts, den wir am 28.August 2019 gepostet haben: Auf dem diesjährigen [2019] Pressefest der Lutte Ouvrière vor den Toren von Paris hielt die Internationalistische Gruppe (IG) ein Forum ab, um die jüngsten Entwicklungen in Brasilien zu erörtern - insbesondere die reaktionäre, arbeiterfeindliche Politik des neu gewählten Präsidenten Jair Bolsonaro. - [Marxism and the ecological crisis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/06/marxism-and-the-ecological-crisis/): On Tuesday 9 June (6pm British time) a Bolshevik Tendency supporter is presenting at an online meeting outlining how environmental concerns were integral to the political thinking of Marx and Engels and what that should mean for socialists today. - [COVID-19 and the law of value](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/covid-19-and-the-law-of-value/): In this interview by fellow Marxist Michael Roberts, Murray Smith explains the relevance of the law of value, the law of capitalist accumulation and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall and how they underpin the current deep recession of capitalism. - [Defend Sri Lankan Left!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/defend-sri-lankan-left/): Sri Lankan leftists are currently the victims of a vicious wave of political killings initiated by the Sinhala-chauvinist JVP (Peoples Liberation Front). - [Smash Anti-Abortion Reaction!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/smash-anti-abortion-reaction/): The right of American women to choose whether or not to have children is under siege. - [Women and the Russian Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/women-and-the-russian-revolution/): Lenin’s Bolshevik Party, which in October 1917 led the only successful proletarian revolution in history, understood that Soviet women would never achieve political and social equality unless they were allowed out of the stultifying isolation of the home and into the workplace. - [On ‘Hailing’ Brezhnev’s Afghan Policy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/on-hailing-brezhnevs-afghan-policy-2/): For well over a year, we have been involved in a continuing polemic with the Spartacists over the political adaptation to the Stalinist bureaucracy implicit in their slogan ‘‘Hail Red Army in Afghanistan!’’ We counterposed the slogan, ‘‘Military Victory to the Soviet Army!’’ The Spartacist League’s latest polemic on this question appears in Workers Vanguard, 21 July. - [Robertson's Bogus Brigade](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/robertsons-bogus-brigade/): In our previous issue, we commented on the Spartacist League’s (SL) cynical ‘‘offer’’ to dispatch a military expedition to assist Najibullah and his People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). - [Cynics Who Scorn Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/cynics-who-scorn-trotskyism/): In its 1974 founding document, the international Spartacist tendency (iSt) modestly observed that it had ‘‘little extraneous, symbolic drawing power.’’ Fifteen years later, as the group renames itself the ‘‘International Communist League’’ (ICL), it has less international ‘‘drawing power’’ than ever. - [How Low Can Mandel Go?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/how-low-can-mandel-go/): Ernest Mandel and his fake-Trotskyist ‘‘United Secretariat of the Fourth International’’ (USec) have over the past several decades played the role of cheerleaders for a variety of ‘‘mass movements,’’ ranging from the Cuban and Vietnamese Stalinists in the 1960s all the way to Khomeini’s theocratic ‘‘Islamic Revolution’’ in the late 1970s. - [From Stalinism to Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/from-stalinism-to-trotskyism/): The following is the first part of an interview with Geoff White, one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Tendency (RT) within the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the early 1960s. - [For Workers Political Revolution in China!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/for-workers-political-revolution-in-china/): The following statement was published by the Bolshevik Tendency in July 1989: The Bolshevik Tendency condemns the criminal June 4 massacre of protesters in Beijing by the leaders of the Communist Party of China (CCP). - [Polish Powderkeg](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/polish-powderkeg/): On August 19, the Polish Stalinist regime handed over governmental responsibility to its avowed enemies in Solidarnosc, inaugurating the first non-Stalinist government in the Soviet bloc since the beginning of the Cold War. - [Black Liberation & the Class Struggle](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/black-liberation-the-class-struggle/): Of the many ‘‘Big Lies’’ pushed by the Reagan/Bush administrations in the 1980s, perhaps the biggest is the proclamation of a ‘‘post-civil rights era’’ in which black people have supposedly been assimilated into the mainstream of American society. - [Truth or Consequences](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/truth-or-consequences/): The following is a letter to Workers Vanguard, newspaper of the Spartacist League/US, responding to an article slandering the Bolshevik Tendency. - [Revolutionary Continuity & the Split in the Fourth International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/revolutionary-continuity-the-split-in-the-fourth-international/): The following letter, which deals with the historic split of the Trotskyist movement in the early 1950s, was addressed to the German Gruppe IV. - [The Struggle for Trotskyism in the SWP](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/the-struggle-for-trotskyism-in-the-swp/): The following is the second part of an interview with Geoff White, an early leader of the Spartacist League (SL) and its predecessor, the Revolutionary Tendency (RT) of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). - [Critical Support to the SpAD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/critical-support-to-the-spad/): The following is a translation of a statement distributed in the DDR during the recent election campaign. - [A Glimpse Inside the ‘Monolith’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/a-glimpse-inside-the-monolith/): FEBRUARY 7—We received an invitation to go and talk to members of the PDS [Party of Democratic Socialism, formerly known as the Socialist Unity Party (SED), the ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (DDR)] in Finsterwalde, halfway between Berlin and Dresden. - [The Collapse of the DDR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/the-collapse-of-the-ddr/): MARCH 10—One of the most striking things about events in the DDR [German Democratic Republic] is the almost total absence of political class-conscious activity by workers as workers. - [Death Agony of Stalinism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/death-agony-of-stalinism/): The unravelling of the political order imposed upon Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union after the Second World War has profoundly altered the configuration of world politics. - [Desperately Seeking Snetkov](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/desperately-seeking-snetkov/): ‘‘Revolutionaries should not look either to the ‘soft’ Stalinists in Moscow or to the ‘hard’ Stalinists in Havana for action in this crisis. - [Defend Iraq!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/defend-iraq/): The illusion that the ‘‘end of the Cold War’’ would usher in an era of global peace and harmony has been abruptly shattered by the recent imperialist provocations against Iraq. - [Communist Tactics and the Anti-War Movement](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/communist-tactics-and-the-anti-war-movement/): The domestic political situation in the United States weighs heavily in the calculations of the imperialist chieftains as they prepare to unleash mass destruction on the people of Iraq. - [The 'French Turn'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/the-french-turn/): In 1938 Trotsky and his co-thinkers founded the Fourth International with the declaration that ‘‘The historical crisis of mankind is reduced to the crisis of the revolutionary leadership.’’ The crisis of leadership remains a profound problem in this period of retreat for the international working class. - [Greetings from the Bureaucratic Robertson Regime](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/greetings-from-the-bureaucratic-robertson-regime/): The fusion between the New Zealand Permanent Revolution Group and the North American Bolshevik Tendency (BT) was first announced publicly on 2 June 1990 at the Lutte Ouvriere fete outside Paris. - [Trotskyism and the New Labour Party](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/trotskyism-and-the-new-labour-party/): In late April 1990, the Permanent Revolution Group (PRG), New Zealand section of the International Bolshevik Tendency, completed a year-long entry into the New Labour Party (NLP). - [We Go Forward!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/we-go-forward/): The recent fusion of three Trotskyist organizations from North America, New Zealand and Germany to form the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) is a breakthrough in the necessary process of international revolutionary regroupment. - [Smash Apartheid! No to ‘Power Sharing!’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/smash-apartheid-no-to-power-sharing/): The current round of negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African government marks a new phase in the decades-long struggle against the hated system of apartheid, one of the vilest manifestations of capitalism on the planet. - [Soviet Stalinism In Extremis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/soviet-stalinism-in-extremis/): During his first five years as head of the Soviet regime, Mikhail Gorbachev’s ‘‘accomplishments’’ went beyond imperialism’s wildest dreams. - [The National Question in the USSR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/the-national-question-in-the-ussr/): The national question has been a central issue in Soviet politics since the time of Lenin. - [Doubletalk in the 2 1/2 Camp](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/doubletalk-in-the-2-1-2-camp/): The British centrists of Workers Power greeted the overturn of Ceausescu’s regime in Romania with the enthusiastic declaration that: ‘‘a spectre is haunting the world’s rulers. - [Robertsonites in Wonderland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/robertsonites-in-wonderland/): The tragic infatuation of the East European working class with the restoration of capitalism is a result of decades of Stalinist corruption, repression and gross economic mismanagement. - [Militant Printer’s 1990 Election Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/militant-printers-1990-election-program/): Break with the Strikebreaking Democratic and Republican Parties! - [Class Struggle Candidate in SF Printers Union](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/03/class-struggle-candidate-in-sf-printers-union/): Fred Ferguson, editor of Militant Printer, a union newsletter politically supported by the Bolshevik Tendency, ran as a candidate in the November 1990 elections of the San Francisco Bay Area Typographical Union (BATU). - [From Guardians to Executioners](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/from-guardians-to-executioners/): One unintended result of Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost has been a rash of books by and about people who had been on the inside during the Stalin/Khrushchev/ Brezhnev years. - [New World Disorder](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/new-world-disorder/): The cheap victory over Iraq won by the United States and its coalition of rivals, hirelings and vassals opens a new and dangerous period of heightened inter-imperialist rivalry. - [Comrade Nedy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/comrade-nedy/): Comrade Juanita ‘‘Nedy’’ Hillman, administrative counselor for San Francisco Bay Area Local 1100, Department Store Employees Union, and a Trotskyist since her youth, died on 1 February of complications from pneumonia. - [Defend the Cuban Revolution!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/defend-the-cuban-revolution/): The overthrow of the corrupt and brutal neo-colonial regime of Fulgencio Batista in January 1959, and the subsequent expropriation of the Cuban bourgeoisie, was a victory for working people everywhere. - [Nationalism & Counterrevolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/nationalism-counterrevolution/): The historical tragedy of the collapse of the Soviet Union has been paralleled in the Balkans with the bloody demise of the Yugoslav federation. - [DDR Junked](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/ddr-junked/): The following article is an edited report by a comrade of the Gruppe Spartakus (German section of the International Bolshevik Tendency) outlining the process of capitalist restoration in the former German Democratic Republic (DDR). - [Counterrevolution Triumphs in USSR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/counterrevolution-triumphs-in-ussr/): The International Bolshevik Tendency published the following statement in September 1991: The aborted Moscow coup of 19-21 August was so ill-conceived and executed that it almost didn’t happen. - [‘His Truth is Marching On’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/his-truth-is-marching-on/): On 16 October 1991 the John Brown Society held its first annual Awards Banquet at the historic Fraunces Tavern in New York City on the anniversary of John Brown’s attack on Harper’s Ferry. - [German Reunification Fuels Fascist Terror](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/german-reunification-fuels-fascist-terror/): The continuing fascist attacks on immigrants in Germany have been front page news around the world. - [Soviet Rubicon & the Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/soviet-rubicon-the-left/): In the weeks following the failed coup attempt of 19‐21 August, the International Bolshevik Tendency was virtually alone among self-proclaimed Trotskyists in recognizing that this event marked the end of the Soviet workers state. - [The Anti-Fascist Wunsiedel Campaign](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/the-anti-fascist-wunsiedel-campaign/): The following is an edited translation of an article which appeared in Bolschewik No. - [Kurdistan and the National Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/kurdistan-and-the-national-question-2/): This article is translated from Bolschewik (No. 2), journal of Gruppe Spartakus. - [ICL/LRCI: False Assertions and Foolish Consistencies](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/icl-lrci-false-assertions-and-foolish-consistencies/): The International Bolshevik Tendency saw the aborted Soviet coup of August 1991 as Stalinism's last desperate stand. - [Robertsonites in Denial](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/robertsonites-in-denial/): Last summer comrade Marc D., a Montreal sympathizer of the International Communist League, was won to the program of the Bolshevik Tendency. - [Spoil Your Ballot!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/spoil-your-ballot/): "Do you agree that the Constitution of Canada should be renewed on the basis of the agreement reached August 28, 1992?" - [Canada's Constitutional 'Crisis'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/canadas-constitutional-crisis/): The 26 October 1992 pan–Canadian referendum on constitutional reform provided the Bolshevik Tendency (BT) a chance to present its program to wider audiences in both Quebec and Ontario, in conjunction with several Quebec–based left groups. - [German Fascism on the Rise](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/german-fascism-on-the-rise/): The following is an edited version of an article from the December 1992 issue of Bolschewik, publication of the Gruppe Spartakus, German section of the International Bolshevik Tendency. - [John Brown Society Banquet](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/john-brown-society-banquet/): On 19 October 1992 the John Brown Society held its second annual awards banquet at Fraunces Tavern in New York City. - [Capitalism and Racism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/capitalism-and-racism/): It is hard for most people to accept that racial prejudice and antagonism, pervasive phenomena of modern life, have not been permanent features of human society. - [Pornography, Capitalism, & Censorship](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/pornography-capitalism-censorship/) - [New Zealand Socialist Students' Conference](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/new-zealand-socialist-students-conference/) - [Free Mordechai Vannunu!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/free-mordechai-vannunu/) - [CWG: Little League Mensheviks](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/cwg-little-league-mensheviks/) - [The Robertson School of Falsification](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/the-robertson-school-of-falsification/) - [Spartacist Flip-Flop on Rutskoi](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/spartacist-flip-flop-on-rutskoi/) - [Cuba, the LRCI and Marxist Theory](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/cuba-the-lrci-and-marxist-theory/) - [LRCI: From Yeltsin to Rutskoi](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/lrci-from-yeltsin-to-rutskoi/) - [IBT on Moscow Coup](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/ibt-on-moscow-coup/) - [No Platform for Fascists!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/no-platform-for-fascists-2/) - [European Disunity](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/european-disunity/) - [Fascism and the German Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/02/fascism-and-the-german-left/) - [The Negro Struggle and the Proletarian Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/18/the-negro-struggle-and-the-proletarian-revolution/): November 1953 Delivered at the SWP Friday Night Forum, Los Angeles. Published in SWP Discussion Bulletin Number A-19, August 1954. - [On Trump, Fascism and the Invasion of the Capitol](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/14/on-trump-fascism-and-the-invasion-of-the-capitol/): The events on January 6 at the Capitol, like the entire phenomenon of “Trump Nation,” was an expression of the profound crisis of American capitalist society. - [The Stalin School of Falsification Revisited](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/the-stalin-school-of-falsification-revisited/): These articles were originally serialized in Workers Vanguard, in 1973, starting in the 22 June issue [No.23] and concluding in the 10 October issue [No. - [The Port Kembla pig-iron boycott of 1938](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/the-port-kembla-pig-iron-boycott-of-1938/): Published in Australasian Spartacist no 57, September 1978 The past decade has seen a proliferation of campaigns for economic boycotts of various sorts. - [The Rebirth of British Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/the-rebirth-of-british-trotskyism/): LONDON—When 24 supporters of the Trotskyist Faction (TF) walked out of the Workers Socialist League (WSL) at the WSL’s 18-19 February second annual conference they left declaring their opposition to the central leadership’s "Pabloite attachment to the Labour Party, their capitulationist attitude to nationalism, and in particular Irish nationalism, their all-pervading economism and minimalism and their parochialism" ("Statement of the Trotskyist Faction," WV No. - [In Defense of Democratic Centralism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/in-defense-of-democratic-centralism/): The speech below was given to a conference of the West German Spartacus (Bolschewiki-Leninisten) in February 1973. - [Bibliography](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/bibliography/): Baron, Samuel H., Plekhanov, Father of Russian Marxism (Stanford, 1963) Cliff, Tony, Lenin, Volume 1: Building the Party (London, 1975) Dan, Theodore, The Origins of Bolshevism (New York, 1970) G., Barbara, Democratic Centralism (Chicago, 1972) Gankin, Olga Hess and Fisher, H.H., eds., The Bolsheviks and the World War (Stanford, 1940) Getzler, Israel, Martov: Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat (London, 1967) Geyer, Dietrich, "Die russische Parteispaltung im Urteil der deutschen sozialdemokratie 1903-1905," International Review of Social History, 1958 Haimson, Leopold H., The Russian Marxists and the Origins of Bolshevism (Cambridge, 1955) Kautsky, Karl, The Road to Power (New York, 1909) Keep, J.L.H., The Rise of Social Democracy in Russia (London,1963) Lenin, V. - [Toward the Communist International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/toward-the-communist-international/): The event which transformed Lenin from a Russian revolutionary social democrat into the founding leader of the world communist movement can be precisely dated—4 August 1914. - [The Final Split with the Mensheviks](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/the-final-split-with-the-mensheviks/): Following Stolypin’s coup of June 1907, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDRP) was illegalized and its Duma representatives arrested. - [The Struggle Against the Boycotters](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/the-struggle-against-the-boycotters/): The Fifth Congress of the RSDRP, held in London in May 1907, was almost evenly divided between the Bolsheviks with 89 delegate votes and the Mensheviks with 88. - [Party, Faction & "Freedom of Criticism"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/party-faction-freedom-of-criticism/): The emergence of differences with the Mensheviks over the role of bourgeois liberalism in the revolution weakened, but did not eliminate, the forces of conciliationism in the Bolshevik camp. - [The 1905 Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/the-1905-revolution/): During 1904, Russian defeats in the war with Japan provoked a surge of liberal bourgeois opposition to the tsarist autocracy. - [Bolshevism vs. Menshevism: The 1903 Split](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/bolshevism-vs-menshevism-the-1903-split/): The Second Congress of the RSDRP, held in Brussels and then London in July-August 1903, was to be the culmination of the Iskraist project to create a centralized party based on a comprehensive program. - [Kautskyism and the Origins of Russian Social Democracy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/kautskyism-and-the-origins-of-russian-social-democracy/): Recently the British International Marxist Group (IMG) and the International Socialists (now Socialist Workers Party—SWP/IS), two of the largest groups of the British "far left," have taken to revising the history of the Bolsheviks. - [Lenin and the Vanguard Party](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/lenin-and-the-vanguard-party/): Lenin and the Vanguard Party was a series of articles by Joseph Seymour published in Workers Vanguard in 1977-78. - [Toward the Rebirth of the Fourth International!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/toward-the-rebirth-of-the-fourth-international-2/): "The Socialist Workers Party proclaims its fraternal solidarity with the Fourth International but is prevented by reactionary legislation from affiliating to it. - [Spartacusbund Expels Left Opposition: Trotskyist Faction Fuses with TLD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/spartacusbund-expels-left-opposition-trotskyist-faction-fuses-with-tld/): Reprinted below is the founding document of the Trotskyist Fraction (TF) of the German Spartacusbund. - [Leninism and Workers Control](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/leninism-and-workers-control/): The following article is based on a talk by Joseph Seymour at a West Coast Spartacus Youth League educational in mid-March 1977 There is probably no question in contemporary left-wing politics where greater confusion, both substantive and terminological, reigns than over "workers control." - [The Fight to Implement Busing: For Labor/Black Defence to Stop Racist Attacks and to Smash Fascist Threats](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/the-fight-to-implement-busing-for-labor-black-defence-to-stop-racist-attacks-and-to-smash-fascist-threats/) - [On the United Front Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/on-the-united-front-question/): Published in the Spartacist League Internal Discussion Bulletin number 23, 1974, reprinted in On the United Front, Spartacus Youth League pamphlet, 1976, and Spartacist Publishing Company 1996. - [Letter to the OCRFI and the OCI](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/letter-to-the-ocrfi-and-the-oci/): Organizing Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International; and Organisation Communiste Internationaliste Dear Comrades, At the Third National Conference of the Spartacist League/U.S. - [On The Labor Party Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/on-the-labor-party-question/): [Transcript from a tape recording of a 5 November 1972 speech at an internal meeting, published in the Spartacist League (US), Internal Discussion Bulletin # 23, August 1974, "edited only to make coherent sentences".] - [West Coast Auto Local Rejects Preferential Seniority](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/west-coast-auto-local-rejects-preferential-seniority/): FREMONT, Calif., February 25 - The worst layoffs to hit the auto industry since the depression of the 1930's (more than 100,000 United Auto Workers members currently on indefinite layoff), coupled with the unwillingness of the Woodcock bureaucracy to fight this attack on UAW members' livelihoods, has led to a flurry of reformist schemes on how to deal with unemployment in several locals across the country. - [Proletarian Military Policy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/proletarian-military-policy/): The sharpening inter-imperialist antagonisms upsurge in imperialist rivalry and "surprising" new alignments pose for the third time in this century the specter of a world war, this time with thermonuclear weaponry. - [Kronstadt & Counterrevolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/05/kronstadt-counterrevolution/): The subject of this pamphlet is the Bolshevik suppression of the revolt of the Kronstadt naval garrison in March 1921. - [The Necessity of Revolutionary Leadership](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/12/22/the-necessity-of-revolutionary-leadership/): ‘‘The whole history of the struggle between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks is dotted with this little word ‘process.’ Lenin always formulated tasks and proposed corresponding methods. - [‘A Working-Class Hero’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/12/22/a-working-class-hero/): The following remarks were made by Henry Johnson on behalf of the Bolshevik Tendency at a meeting held on 9 December 2018 in the ILWU Local 10 hall in San Francisco, to honor our comrade Howard Keylor, a founding member of the Bolshevik Tendency. - [Hands off Julian Assange!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/12/22/hands-off-julian-assange/): After nearly 10 nightmarish years, Julian Assange was brutally dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to Belmarsh Prison in April 2019, and is currently awaiting trial to determine whether he will be extradited to the United States where he faces the possibility of a sentence of up to 175 years for daring to expose some of the crimes of imperialism. - [Howard Keylor's 95th birthday](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/12/15/howard-keylors-95th-birthday/): One of the founding members of the Bolshevik Tendency (BT), and longtime waterfront militant, Howard Keylor, celebrated his 95th birthday on Sunday 6th December 2020. - [Socialist Party on China](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/12/01/socialist-party-on-china/): Comrades of the Bolshevik Tendency participated in two sessions that touched on the question of China at the Socialist Party of England and Wales’ (SP) online Socialism 2020 weekend on 21 and 22 November. - [Audio recording of "Is China Capitalist?" online public forum](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/11/23/audio-recording-of-is-china-capitalist-online-public-forum/) - [Once more on the IG & ‘Jailing Killer Cops’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/11/16/once-more-on-the-ig-jailing-killer-cops/): Cameron Woodford, who acts as a moderator for the Trotskyoid "Leftist Trainspotters" page, recently took umbrage when a Bolshevik Tendency supporter responded to a Facebook query about differences between various Trotskyist tendencies by posting a snippet of our 3 July 2020 article dealing with the upheaval in the U.S. - [Trotsky’s Three Questions](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/11/16/trotskys-three-questions/): Leon Trotsky’s last major political struggle was against a revisionist faction in the Socialist Workers Party (SWP—the American flagship section of the then recently founded Fourth International) which proclaimed that the Soviet workers’ state had been destroyed and a new exploiting class had arisen. - [Register for online public meeting (22 November) - Is China capitalist?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/11/07/register-for-online-public-meeting-22-november-is-china-capitalist/): Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_30oovXm4Q9moTX-n7G7uhw Start time is 09:00 North American Pacific Time, 12:00 North American Eastern Time, 17:00 Britain & Ireland, 18:00 Central Europe After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. - [The Myth of Capitalist China](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/11/06/the-myth-of-capitalist-china/): The triumph of counterrevolution in the Soviet Union in 1991, heralded by bourgeois ideologues as representing the “end of history,” was widely seen as signifying that capitalism would be a permanent feature of the human condition. - [The Development of the Spartacist League](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/the-development-of-the-spartacist-league/): The New Zealand Spartacist League broke in March from a state of complete disorganisation, but until recently largely confined its activity to serious internal discussion. - [For Class Action Against the War: Against NPAC Pop Fronts](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/for-class-action-against-the-war-against-npac-pop-fronts/): The "Spring Offensive" is over, but the Vietnam war drags on. - [Chilean Popular Front](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/chilean-popular-front/): The electoral victory of Dr. Salvador Allende’s Popular Front coalition in Chile poses in sharpest form the issue of revolution or counter-revolution. - [Syndicalism and Leninism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/syndicalism-and-leninism/): One surprising effect of the French May-June 1968 events has been a resurgence of anarcho-syndicalism within the U.S. left. - [Terrorism and Communism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/terrorism-and-communism/) - [To the Brink and Back: French Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/to-the-brink-and-back-french-revolution/): The immediate origins of the French struggles can be traced to student activity at Nanterre and the Sorbonne, but these student rebellions had revolutionary significance only insofar as they were the spark which set off a conflagration within the working class. - [Theses on Guerrilla Warfare](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/theses-on-guerrilla-warfare/): The strategy of guerrilla warfare has been raised to the level of a "principle" by the Castroites. - [For a Labor-Socialist Ticket in 1968](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/for-a-labor-socialist-ticket-in-1968/): The 1968 elections come at a time of enormous discontent over the Vietnam war, deeply-felt and violent outbursts of disillusionment among the Negro masses, and an upsurge in labor militancy and rash of hard-fought strikes. - [Trotskyism versus Maoism: Why the USSR is not Capitalist](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/trotskyism-versus-maoism-why-the-ussr-is-not-capitalist/) - [Lenin vs. Luxemburg on the National Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/lenin-vs-luxemburg-on-the-national-question-2/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard, No.150, 25 March 1977 The absence of sustained proletarian revolutionary struggles in the advanced capitalist countries and the continued hegemony in them of the reformist parties have led to widespread support for petty-bourgeois nationalism within the left. - [The National Question in the Marxist Movement, 1848–1914](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/10/02/the-national-question-in-the-marxist-movement-1848-1914-2/): By Joseph Seymour. - [Youth, Class and Party](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/09/25/youth-class-and-party/): "Youth" in itself is neither revolutionary nor a class. - [For a Revolutionary Socialist Youth Movement!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/09/25/for-a-revolutionary-socialist-youth-movement/): The need for a revolutionary socialist youth organization, open to all political tendencies seeking revolutionary change, was clearly demonstrated by the spontaneous upsurge of students and workers over the Cambodia-Kent State crisis. - [Founding Conference of the 4th International: "Resolution on Youth"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/09/25/founding-conference-of-the-4th-international-resolution-on-youth/): Trotsky was always keenly aware of what he called the problem of generations. - [The Spartacus Youth League and the Student Upsurge of the 1930’s](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/09/25/the-spartacus-youth-league-and-the-student-upsurge-of-the-1930s/): The Lessons from History series has in the past included articles on the early years of the Communist Youth International and the development of a "Resolution on the Youth" at the founding Conference of the Fourth International. - [Youth-Party Relations in the Communist Youth International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/09/25/youth-party-relations-in-the-communist-youth-international/): The question of youth-party relations is an important aspect of Leninist organizational traditions. - [Marxist Bulletin No. 7](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/09/25/marxist-bulletin-no-7/): The present collection of documents deals with the vital issue of the relationship between a revolutionary party and its youth organization. - [Solidarität mit dem Roten Aufbau Hamburg!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/09/25/solidaritat-mit-dem-roten-aufbau-hamburg/): Am 31. August 2020 organisierte der Staat einen Großangriff auf die Strukturen des Roten Aufbaus Hamburg. Man durchsuchte 28 Objekte bei 22 Beschuldigten. - ["Green New Deal: Eco-socialist solution or capitalist swindle?" online public meeting](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/08/31/green-new-deal-eco-socialist-solution-or-capitalist-swindle-online-public-meeting/): An audio recording of the Bolshevik Tendency public meeting "Green New Deal: Eco-socialist solution or capitalist swindle?" - [Online public meeting (29 August)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/08/03/online-public-meeting-29-august-to-discuss-the-green-new-deal/): Register for the Zoom webinar - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kidprpJERlaSus6oz7bV6A Start time is 09:00 North American Pacific Daylight Time, 12:00 North American Eastern Daylight Time, 17:00 British Summer Time, 18:00 Central European Summer Time The Green New Deal (GND) in its various incarnations is presented by much of the environmental movement as the solution to avoiding a catastrophic ecological collapse, as well as humanity’s best chance of navigating through the ecological destruction that has already occurred. - [Racism, Trade Unions & the U.S. Working Class](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/17/racism-trade-unions-the-u-s-working-class/): In our article on the social upheaval in America triggered by the brutal murder of George Floyd, we observed that there were hints that a few groups on the American far-left were possibly reconsidering some aspects of their positions on the police and the state. - [For Class-Struggle Defense](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/for-class-struggle-defense/): by Toni Reade Discussion Bulletin, No. - [On the Partisan Defense Committee](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/on-the-partisan-defense-committee/): By Reuben Samuels from Spartacist League/U.S. Discussion Bulletin No. 27, June 1977 The Partisan Defense Committee was launched over two years ago. - [Class-Struggle Defense Saves Mario Muñoz](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/class-struggle-defense-saves-mario-munoz/): [from Workers Vanguard, No. - [PDC Forum Hails Victory of Muñoz Campaign](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/pdc-forum-hails-victory-of-munoz-campaign/): [from Workers Vanguard, No. - [Muñoz Delegation Meets with UN Refugees Commissioner](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/munoz-delegation-meets-with-un-refugees-commissioner/): [from Workers Vanguard, No. - [What Defense Policy for Revolutionaries?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/what-defense-policy-for-revolutionaries/): Revolutionary Communist Youth Newsletter No. 17, May-June 1973 The decline of U.S. - [Coalitionism in Spain & Sri Lanka](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/coalitionism-in-spain-sri-lanka/): A talk given by Bill Logan at the Permanent Revolution Group Winter School, Wellington, New Zealand, 19-20 August 1989 We talked this morning about the Bolsheviks’ struggle against Kerensky’s popular front of 1917, the coalition government with the Russian Kadet party. - [Letter to James Robertson by Edmund Samarakkody](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/letter-to-james-robertson-by-edmund-samarakkody/): Mount Lavinia [Ceyon] 9th February 1974 Comrade James Robertson Spartacist League United States Dear Comrade, This is regarding your letter of 27th October and the accompanying drafts (marked rejected). - [Letter to Edmund Samarakkody by James Robertson](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/letter-to-edmund-samarakkody-by-james-robertson/): New York 27 October 1973 Ceylon Dear Comrade Samarakkody, We received your long article, "Struggle for Trotskyism in Ceylon," earlier this week and have been studying it most attentively. - [The Struggle for Trotskyism in Ceylon](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/13/the-struggle-for-trotskyism-in-ceylon/): by Edmund Samarakkody Spartacist No. - [American Upheaval online public meeting](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/12/american-upheaval-online-public-meeting/) - [American Upheaval](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/03/american-upheaval/): The speed and scope of developments following the hideous racist murder in which Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, protected by three cronies, casually choked George Floyd to death, sent a shockwave across America that reverberated around the world and compressed years of political developments into days. - [Witchcraft and Statecraft](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/01/witchcraft-and-statecraft/) - [Early Communist Work Among Women: Part 2](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/01/early-communist-work-among-women-part-2/) - [Early Communist Work Among Women: Part 1](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/01/early-communist-work-among-women-part-1/) - [Shiela Rowbotham: Hiding from History](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/01/shiela-rowbotham-hiding-from-history/) - [Dalla Costa / James and the Subversion of Marxism: A Critique](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/07/01/dalla-costa-james-and-the-subversion-of-marxism-a-critique/) - [American Upheaval: Race, Reform and Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/29/american-upheaval-race-reform-and-revolution/): Online public forum - register for the Zoom webinar - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5TsyAaOvTbuJtB1L3uSo_g The speed and scope of developments following the hideous racist murder of George Floyd sent a shockwave across America that reverberated around the world and compressed years of political developments into days. - [„Planet of the Humans“ - eine unausgewogene Kritik des kapitalistischen Öko-Wahnsinns](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/25/planet-of-the-humans-eine-unausgewogene-kritik-des-kapitalistischen-oko-wahnsinns/): Am 50. Jahrestag des ersten "Tages der Erde“ , dem 22. - [Video of BT supporter speaking on Marxism and the ecological crisis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/18/video-of-bt-supporter-speaking-on-marxism-and-the-ecological-crisis/) - [TestPDF](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/testpdf/) - [What Choice for Workers?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/what-choice-for-workers/): British Supplement to 1917, April 2005 Tony Blair goes to the electorate on 5 May at the head of a party, created by the organisations of the British working class over a century ago, that today presents itself as little more than a tool of the bosses. - [The ‘Parallel’ Economy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/the-parallel-economy/): (The following remarks were made to a Bolshevik Tendency gathering last summer by a comrade who had recently returned from a trip to Nicaragua.) - [Nicaragua at the Crossroads](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/nicaragua-at-the-crossroads/): ‘‘When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward—or go back.’’ —V.I. - [‘Powerful Testimony’... to the Police](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/powerful-testimony-to-the-police/): Last summer in the aftermath of the brutal incineration of eleven black people in a MOVE commune in Philadelphia, the Spartacist League (SL) sponsored a forum in New York featuring two relatives of the victims. - [The Robertson School of Party Building](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/the-robertson-school-of-party-building/): The dust is just beginning to settle after the biggest (and dirtiest) explosion in recent memory among the international pretenders to Trotskyism: the spectacular rupture of the British Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP). - [South African Menshevism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/south-african-menshevism/): In every capitalist society on the planet the Moscow-loyal Communist parties parrot the same line: ‘‘now is not the time for socialism, first we need unity with the progressive capitalists.’’ South Africa is no exception. - [Pretorias Praetorians](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/pretorias-praetorians/): Notably absent from the coverage of the continuing upheavals in South Africa by the international ‘‘revolutionary’’ press is any serious consideration of exactly how the apartheid state apparatus, overwhelmingly drawn from the ranks of the privileged white minority, can be destroyed. - [The Necessity of Revolutionary Organization](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/the-necessity-of-revolutionary-organization/): ‘‘The whole history of the struggle between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks is dotted with this little word ‘process.’ Lenin always formulated tasks and proposed corresponding methods. - [Smash Apartheid! Workers to Power!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/smash-apartheid-workers-to-power/): South Africa’s bloody apartheid regime is staggering from a year and a half of massive upheavals by a disenfranchised black majority determined to end the white monopoly on economic and political power. - [A Letter to the SL](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/a-letter-to-the-sl/): The following is a letter from a working-class militant who had been a supporter of the Spartacist League for over a dozen years. - [Not ‘People Power', but Workers Power!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/not-people-power-but-workers-power/): ‘‘We love you, sir,’’ gushed George Bush after Ferdinand Marcos ‘‘won’’ the rigged Philippines presidential election of 1981 with a modest 88 percent of the vote. - [No Disaster for the Working Class](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/no-disaster-for-the-working-class/): The spontaneous abortion of space shuttle Challenger on January 28 was followed by an outpouring of government-prompted, electronically-orchestrated grief. - [BAFSAM’s Impotent Tactics](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/bafsams-impotent-tactics/): Reprinted below is the text of Militant Longshoreman No. - [Feminism & ‘Moral Panics’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/feminism-moral-panics/): The AIDS hysteria cannot be seen in isolation from the more general right-wing ideological offensive. - [The Politics of AIDS](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/the-politics-of-aids/): AIDS is the most terrifying public health calamity in the U.S. since the spread of paralytic polio in the early fifties. - [Bull’s Eye!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/bulls-eye/): It is always gratifying to receive confirmation that a polemic has drawn blood. - [Smash Apartheid!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/12/smash-apartheid/): The spirit of the 11-day 1984 San Francisco longshore boycott against South African cargo (in solidarity with the struggles of black workers and youth in Botha's racist hell-hole) was continued on Monday, March 10, when twenty-five longshoremen refused to cross a militant picket line set up at Pier 80 in San Francisco. - [The Myth of the ‘Third Period’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/the-myth-of-the-third-period/): In the summer before the 1984 election that swept Ronald Reagan into the White House for his second term, Michael Harrington and Irving Howe, two prominent American social democrats, commented in the New York Times Magazine that ‘‘by now practically everyone on the Left agrees that the Democratic Party, with all its faults, must be our main political arena.’’ They exaggerated—but only slightly. - [Keylor Upholds Class-Struggle Program in ILWU](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/keylor-upholds-class-struggle-program-in-ilwu/): For the first time in over a dozen years, the Spartacist League (SL) will have no supporters on the Executive Board of San Francisco Local 10 of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU). - [Defend Workers Democracy!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/defend-workers-democracy/): Workers democracy—the commitment to full and free discussion within the labor movement and the resolution of differences through rational argument and political debate—is for Marxists a question of principle. - [For Trotskyism!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/for-trotskyism/): The following document was adopted by the fusion conference of the Bolshevik Tendency and the Left Trotskyist Tendency as a codification of the programmatic agreement reached by the two organizations. - [Theses on Solidarnosc](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/theses-on-solidarnosc/): The following theses were adopted by the fusion conference of the Bolshevik Tendency and the Left Trotskyist Tendency. - [Against the Stream](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2020/06/11/against-the-stream/): The following has been excerpted from factional documents produced by the Left Trotskyist Tendency during its political struggle inside the International Workers Party from April to June 1986. - [The People’s Front: The New Betrayal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/the-peoples-front-the-new-betrayal/): by James Burnham, Pioneer Publishers, New York, 1937. - [What is a "Mass Paper"?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/what-is-a-mass-paper/): By Leon Trotsky, 30 November 1935, published in The Crisis of the French Section (1935-36) To the Members of the Bolshevik-Leninist Group: I have just learned that my letter to the Political Bureau on the new "mass paper" ["Turn to the Masses!"] was read to the general meeting. - [Introduction to The Fight For Socialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/introduction-to-the-fight-for-socialism/): Introduction to The Fight For Socialism: The Principles and Program of the Workers Party, by Spartacist. - [The Theory of State Capitalism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/the-theory-of-state-capitalism/): The following document, by Ken Tarbuck, was originally published in the Winter 1969-70 issue of Marxist Studies, Vol. 2, No. - [What is Revolutionary Leadership?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/what-is-revolutionary-leadership/): The following article, written by Cliff Slaughter, was originally published nearly forty years ago in Labour Review, theoretical organ of the British Socialist Labour League (SLL). - [Brilliant Tactics … But Where Do They Lead?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/brilliant-tactics-but-where-do-they-lead/): The leaflet below was first published on 29 August 1981 during a period of sharp social struggle in New Zealand around sporting ties to apartheid-ruled South Africa. - [Die Notwendigkeit einer revolutionären Führung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/06/27/die-notwendigkeit-einer-revolutionaren-fuhrung/): ''Die ganze Geschichte des Kampfs zwischen Bolschewismus und Menschewismus ist mit dem kleinen Wort „Prozess“ gesprenkelt. - [Eko-Sosyalizm & "Yeşil Yeni Mutabakat" Hayalleri](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/06/22/eko-sosyalizm-yesil-yeni-mutabakat-hayalleri/): Bir insan nefes almayı bırakmaya ne kadar 'ikna' edilebilirse, kapitalizm de büyümeyi sınırlamaya o kadar 'ikna' edilebilir. - [Socialist Action: Time to Own Up](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/06/16/socialist-action-time-to-own-up/): On 18 February 2020 we retracted an assertion that Socialist Action (SA) “opposed” Russian involvement in Syria. - [On "the Pathology of Renegades"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/06/06/on-the-pathology-of-renegades/): (First published 21 October 2001) The 12 October issue of Workers Vanguard (WV), newspaper of the Spartacist League (SL), devotes half a page to a denunciation of, among other things, the "bloodthirstiness" of the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT). - [Spartacist Principles Betrayed](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/06/06/spartacist-principles-betrayed/): The social-pacifist position taken by Workers Vanguard in relation to the United States presence in Lebanon (WV number 341, 4 November 1983) marks the international Spartacist tendency's qualitative break from the programme of revolution. - [WV-The Bolshevik Tendency and the Pathology of Renegades](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/06/06/wv-the-bolshevik-tendency-and-the-pathology-of-renegades/): [from Workers Vanguard, No. - [Exchange with a former Spartacist](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/06/01/exchange-with-a-former-spartacist/): I've checked periodically over the years and have tended to agree with your co-thinkers, and my instinct is to agree with those of you who reject the claim that Russia is imperialist. - [Militant Longshoreman No.22 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-22-1987/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.21 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-21-1987/) - [Militaqnt Longshoreman No.20 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militaqnt-longshoreman-no-20-1987/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.19 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-19-1987/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.18 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-18-1987/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.17 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-17-1987/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.16 (1986)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-16-1986/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.15 (1986)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-15-1986/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.14 (1986)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-14-1986/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.13 (1985)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-13-1985/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.12 (1984)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-12-1984/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.11 (1984)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-11-1984/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.10 (1984)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-10-1984/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.9 (1984)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-9-1984/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.8 (1984)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-8-1984/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.7 (1984)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-7-1984/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.6 (1983)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-6-1983/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.5 (1983)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-5-1983/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.4 (1983)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-4-1983/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.3 (1982)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-3-1982/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.2 (1982)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-2-1982/) - [Militant Longshoreman No.1 (1981)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/21/militant-longshoreman-no-1-1981/) - [Eine konflikteiche Pipeline](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/18/eine-konflikteiche-pipeline/): Der Konflikt zwischen den USA und Deutschland um die Fertigstellung der Gaspipeline Nord Stream 2 ist von enormer Bedeutung und ein Zeichen der wirtschaftlichen und politischen Umbrüche, die eine Änderung der imperialistischen Weltordnung mit sich bringen können. - [Defend the Palestinians! Down with Zionist Terror!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/05/18/defend-the-palestinians-down-with-zionist-terror/): On 15 May, the BT joined hundreds of thousands of demonstrators around the world in protesting the murderous Zionist assault on Gaza and the West Bank. - [Open letter to the IMT on the class character of the police](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/04/08/open-letter-to-the-imt-on-the-class-character-of-the-police/): “The reality is that the police as an institution of capitalist society play a role and serve interests that demand it to be the way it is–racist and sexist to its very core. - [London "Kill the Bill" protest](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/04/05/london-kill-the-bill-protest/): The Bolshevik Tendency joined thousands of others at the "Kill the Bill" demonstration in London on Saturday 3rd April, part of a national day of action across the UK against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which the British government wants to push through. - [Audio recording of "Eco-Socialism & ‘Green New Deal’ Pipe Dreams" online forum](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/03/29/audio-recording-of-eco-socialism-green-new-deal-pipe-dreams-online-forum/) - [Support the Alabama Amazon Workers!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/03/27/support-the-alabama-amazon-workers/): 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are fighting for unionization. - [Eco-Socialism & ‘Green New Deal’ Pipe Dreams](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/03/17/eco-socialism-green-new-deal-pipe-dreams/): “Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. - [Online public meeting (28 March) - A critical analysis of the response to the GND by eco-socialists such as John Bellamy Foster](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/03/14/online-public-meeting-28-march-a-critical-analysis-of-the-response-to-the-gnd-by-eco-socialists-such-as-john-bellamy-foster/): A discussion on the ability of Green New Deal proposals to deal with the ecological crisis facing humanity. - [Statement by Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/03/13/labor-action-committee-to-free-mumia-abu-jamal-statement/): The following is an important update on the very serious threat posed to Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has contracted COVID-19. - [On the Current Situation of the Revolutionary Left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/02/28/on-the-current-situation-of-the-revolutionary-left/): The following are excerpts from a 23 January letter sent by a former Spartacist League cadre to Tom Riley of the Bolshevik Tendency: I must admit…my worries about what is happening to the revolutionary (including the self-defined revolutionary) left in this period… kind of like a candle that is going out after having burned down to its base. - [Trump, Faschismus und die Erstürmung des Kapitols](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/02/24/trump-faschismus-und-die-ersturmung-des-kapitols/): Die Ereignisse am 6. - [Aclaración teórica](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/aclaracion-teorica/): Las experiencias de las luchas de Argelia y Cuba, cada una desde su punto de vista, son muy importantes por la luz que arrojan sobre la decisiva distinción entre el logro de la independencia nacional sobre una base burguesa y las revoluciones de tipo chino, que llevan a una ruptura real con el capitalismo, aún limitadas dentro de los confines de una capa dirigente burocrática. - [Apuntes sobre la discusión acerca de Cuba dentro de la Tendencia Revolucionaria](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/apuntes-sobre-la-discusion-acerca-de-cuba-dentro-de-la-tendencia-revolucionaria/): (1) El florecimiento desde 1943 de toda una serie de estados anticapitalistas en varias de las zonas más atrasadas del mundo ha clavado al movimiento trotskista en la cruz de varios dilemas. - [La Revolución Cubana](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/la-revolucion-cubana/): "El documento siguiente, presentado en 1961 a la Young Socialist Alliance por nuestra tendencia, ha sido confirmado desde entonces de una manera notable. - [Cuba y los estados obreros deformados](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/cuba-y-los-estados-obreros-deformados/): Desde el momento en que empezamos a discutir sobre Cuba en el Partido, la mayoría ha intentado forzarnos a llegar a una posición inmediata sobre la naturaleza del estado cubano. - [Nota de introducción](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/nota-de-introduccion/): El documento que a continuación sigue fue escrito en julio de 1961 por Tim Wohlforth que se separó en 1962 de la tendencia que más tarde se transformó en el grupo espartaquista. - [La Revolución Cubana y la teoría marxista](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/la-revolucion-cubana-y-la-teoria-marxista/): La Revolución Cubana, tal y como se ha desarrollado en los últimos 19 meses, plantea algunos problemas teóricos difíciles para los marxistas. - [Prefacio y Addendum al prefacio](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/prefacio-y-addendum-al-prefacio/): Este Cuaderno Marxista comienza con una reimpresión del documento que marca la primera expresión de lo que más tarde constituiría el ala izquierda revolucionaria del SWP [Socialist Workers Party de EE.UU.]. - [Declaración para organizar una tendencia trotskista internacional](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/declaracion-para-organizar-una-tendencia-trotskista-internacional/): "E1 Socialist Workers Party proclama su fraternal solidaridad con la Cuarta Internacional, pero es prevenido por causa de legislación reaccionaria de afiliarse a ella. - [Conferencia internacional interina](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/conferencia-internacional-interina/): Una Conferencia interina consagrada a las perspectivas y al trabajo europeo de los marxistas revolucionarios tuvo lugar en Alemania en este mes de enero [1974]. - [Genesis pablismo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/genesis-pablismo/): El Socialist Workers Party (SWP) norteamericano y los pablistas europeos han andado a velocidades diferentes y siguiendo diferentes caminos hacia el revisionismo, hasta converger, en los primeros años del década 60, en difícil alianza-una "reunificación" sin principios políticos-que se ha deshecho ahora al completar el SWP la transición del centrismo pablista a un reformismo descarado. - [Declaración de principios de la Spartacist League](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/declaracion-de-principios-de-la-spartacist-league/): La Spartacist League de los EE.UU. - [Informe de Spartacist a la Conferencia de Londres (1966) del Comité Internacional](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/informe-de-spartacist-a-la-conferencia-de-londres-1966-del-comite-internacional/): [Observaciones hechas durante la discusión del informe político de Cliff Slaughter a la Conferencia del Comité Internacional por el- camarada Robertson, el 6 de abril de 1966, en nombre de la delegación de Spartacist (con correcciones de menor importancia).] - [Hacia el renacimientode la Cuarta Internacional](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/26/hacia-el-renacimientode-la-cuarta-internacional/): (Proyecto do resolución sobre el movimiento mundial, sometido a la Convención del SWP [Socialist Workers Party-Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores de los EE.UU.] - [B. T. #3: Respuesta a Workers Power de Bolshevik Tendency](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/b-t-3-la-contestacion-del-ibt/): 5 de mayo de 1988 Estimados camaradas: Les agradecemos su extensa critica de nuestra declaración programática “Por el Trotskismo”. - [B. T. #3: La carta del MICR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/b-t-3-la-carta-del-micr/): Movimiento para una Internacional Revolucionaria Comunista Londres, Inglaterra 2 de abril de 1987 Estimados camaradas, Hemos estado esperando la llegada de vuestro periódico para comparar la versión final de los documentos de la fusión con los que nos dieron los camaradas D. - [B. T. #3: Por el Trotskismo!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/b-t-3-por-el-trotskismo/): (El siguiente documento fue adaptado en 1986 por la conferencia de fusión de la Tendencia Bolchevique y la Tendencia Trotskista de Izquierda, como una codificación del acuerdo programático, al cual llegaron ambas organizaciones.) - [Boletín Trotskista #3: En Defensa Del Programa Trotskista](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/boletin-trotskista-3-en-defensa-del-programa-trotskista/): Este folleto contiene tres documentos. El primero es "¡Por el trotskismo!", la declaración programática de la Tendencia Bolchevique (BT). - ["Ustedes no pueden defender a la Unión Soviética con Yuri Andropovs"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/ustedes-no-pueden-defender-a-la-union-sovietica-con-yuri-andropovs/): Felicitaciones por su victoria del 27 de noviembre. - [El "Malfuncionamento más importante" del Challenger no es un desastre para la clase obrera](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/el-malfuncionamento-mas-importante-del-challenger-no-es-un-desastre-para-la-clase-obrera/): Texto traducido del ingles, y que fuera publicado orginariamente en "1917" N°2, verano de 1986. - [La Contrarrevolución triunfa en la U.R.S.S.](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/la-contrarrevolucion-triunfa-en-la-u-r-s-s/): (La Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional publicaba la siguiente declaración en septiembre de 1991) El fracasado golpe de Estado del 19 al 21 de agosto en Moscú fue tan mal planeado y ejecutado que prácticamente no tuvo lugar. - [Compare y Contraste](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/compare-y-contraste/): A continuación mostramos una selección de citas de las publicaciones de la Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional (TBI, incluyendo la Tendencia Externa de la Tendencia Espartacista Internacional, predecesora de la TBI) y de la Liga Comunista Internacional (LCI, incluyendo la Tendencia Espartacista Internacional, predecesora de la LCI) subrayando las diferencias entre las dos organizaciones en cuanto a sus posiciones respecto al estalinismo y a la defensa de los estados obreros deformados y degenerados. - [La presente son extractos del BOLETIN TROTSKISTA Nº 5](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/la-presente-son-extractos-del-boletin-trotskista-no-5/): La presente son extractos del BOLETIN TROTSKISTA Nº 5, "LCI VS. - [La guerra de las Malvinas/Falkland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/la-guerra-de-las-malvinas-falkland/): Vuestro apoyo al "anti-imperialismo" hipócrita de Khomeini encuentra su análogo en el apoyo a la aventura de Galtieri en el Atlántico Sur en 1982. - [La LRCI EN LA ARGENTINA](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/la-lrci-en-la-argentina/): Al Editor: El movimiento obrero internacional tiene vital interés en el dramático desarrollo de los sucesos en la Argentina. - [Venezuela: Estado y Revolución](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/venezuela-estado-y-revolucion/): Traduccion de 1917 No. - [PACIFISMO COMO SIRVIENTE DEL IMPERIALISMO](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/pacifismo-como-sirviente-del-imperialismo/): Extractos de un artículo de la Internacional Comunista, Edición en Ingles.N°5 Nueva Serie, transcrito del Archivo de Internet de Trotsky de JJ Plant. - [LA LOCURA IMPERIALISTA](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/la-locura-imperialista/): El "Nuevo Orden Mundial" proclamado por el mayor de los Bush después de la caída del Muro de Berlín en 1998, fue marcado por un coro de brutales guerras neo-coloniales. - [Capitalismo y Homofobia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/capitalismo-y-homofobiacapitalismo-y-homofobia/): Traduccion de 1917 No. - [El Marxismo, el Feminismo y la Liberación de la Mujer](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/el-marxismo-el-feminismo-y-la-liberacion-de-la-mujer/): Traduccion de 1917 No. - [Unidad, clase, programa](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/unidad-clase-programa/): Versión editada de la contribución de Barbara Dorn, de la Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional, a una mesa redonda sobre “¿Es necesaria la unidad de la izquierda?”, en la Conferencia Europea Platypus, celebrada en Londres el 19 de Julio de 2014. - [Ucrania: un enfoque revolucionario e internacionalista](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/ucrania-un-enfoque-revolucionario-e-internacionalista/): Este texto es una versión ligeramente modificada de la intervención de un portavoz de la Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional en un encuentro público en Toronto, patrocinado por la Tendencia Marxista Internacional sobre la situación en Ucrania. - [Agitación en Oriente Medio](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/agitacion-en-oriente-medio/): Traduccion de 1917 nº 36, 2014 Las derrotas estratégicas sufridas por el ejército de los EE.UU. - [Un Microcosmo de todas las Deformaciones del Sistema Juridico Gringo: El Caso de Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/un-microcosmo-de-todas-las-deformaciones-del-sistema-juridico-gringo-el-caso-de-mumia-abu-jamal/) - [¡Independencia para Cataluña!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/25/independencia-para-cataluna/): La Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional condena el flagrante uso de la fuerza del gobierno de Madrid para reprimir el referéndum de independencia de Cataluña del 1 de octubre, y nos oponemos firmemente a todos los intentos del Estado español de impedir que el pueblo catalán ejerza su derecho democrático a formar un Estado separado. - [Em Defesa do Centralismo Democrático](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/em-defesa-do-centralismo-democratico/): O discurso abaixo foi feito numa conferência do Grupo Spartacus da Alemanha Ocidental (Bolchevique-Leninista) em fevereiro de 1973. - [LVP-Bibliografia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/lvp-bibliografia/): Ao longo do texto foram traduzidos do original em inglês, russo e alemão, tanto os títulos das fontes quanto os trechos citados como forma de facilitar a compreensão para o leitor de língua portuguesa. - [Em Direção à Internacional Comunista](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/em-direcao-a-internacional-comunista/): O evento que transformou Lenin de um socialdemocrata revolucionário russo no líder fundador do movimento comunista mundial pode ser precisamente datado – 4 de agosto de 1914. - [O Racha Final com os Mencheviques](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/o-racha-final-com-os-mencheviques/): Seguindo o golpe de Stolypin em junho de 1907, o Partido Operário Social Democrata Russo (POSDR) foi posto na ilegalidade e seus representantes na Duma presos. - [A Luta Contra os Boicotadores](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/a-luta-contra-os-boicotadores/): O quinto congresso do POSDR, ocorrido em Londres em maio de 1907 foi quase igualmente dividido entre os Bolcheviques com 89 delegados os Mencheviques com 88. - [Partido, Tendência e “Liberdade de criticar”](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/partido-tendencia-e-liberdade-de-criticar/): A explosão das diferenças com os Mencheviques sobre o papel do liberalismo burguês na revolução enfraqueceu, mas não eliminou, as forças dos conciliadores no campo bolchevique. - [A Revolução de 1905](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/a-revolucao-de-1905/): Durante 1904, a derrota russa na guerra com o Japão provoca um ascenso da oposição liberal burguesa contra a autocracia czarista. - [Bolchevismo vs. Menchevismo: o Racha de 1903](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/bolchevismo-vs-menchevismo-o-racha-de-1903/): O segundo congresso do POSDR, realizado em Bruxelas e posteriormente em Londres em Julho e Agosto de 1903, deveria ser a culminância do projeto do grupo do Iskra para criar um partido centralizado baseado num programa compreensível. - [Kautskismo e as Origens da Socialdemocracia Russa](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/kautskismo-e-as-origens-da-socialdemocracia-russa/): Recentemente o Grupo Marxista Internacional britânico (GMI) e os Socialistas Internacionais (hoje Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores – SWP/IST), dois dos maiores grupos da “extrema esquerda” britânica, decidiram revisar a história dos Bolcheviques. - [Teses sobre o Solidariedade](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/teses-sobre-o-solidariedade/): As seguintes teses foram adotadas pela conferência de fusão entre a Tendência Bolchevique e a Tendência Leninista-Trotskista (1986). - [A Contra-Revolução Triunfa na URSS](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/a-contra-revolucao-triunfa-na-urss/): A Tendência Bolchevique Internacional publicou a seguinte declaração em setembro de 1991 O golpe abortado em Moscou de 19-21 agosto foi tão mal concebido e executado que quase não aconteceu. - [Uma carta para o Grupo Internacionalista (E.U.A.) e para a Liga Quarta-Internacionalista do Brasil](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/uma-carta-para-o-grupo-internacionalista-e-u-a-e-para-a-liga-quarta-internacionalista-do-brasil/): Uma tradução em português das partes políticas mais importantes de uma carta para o Grupo Internacionalista (E.U.A.) - [Piquete de massas bloqueia navio israelense!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/24/piquete-de-massas-bloqueia-navio-israelense/): Na segunda, 20 de junho 2010, um piquete de massas totalizando 700-800 trabalhadores e ativistas conseguiu impedir com sucesso que o navio israelense Zim Shenzhen, da empresa Zim Lines, descarregasse suas mercadorias por um período de 24 horas no Porto de Oakland, no estado da Califórnia (Estados Unidos). - [Down With Corporate Censorship: Reinstate SEP/SWP (UK) Facebook Sites Immediately!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/23/down-with-corporate-censorship-reinstate-sep-swp-uk-facebook-sites-immediately/): The Bolshevik Tendency protests the gross violations of free speech carried out by Facebook when it blocked various pages of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and the Socialist Workers Party (UK) on Friday 22 January. - [On “Color Caste”](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/18/on-color-caste/): 15 January 1984 Published in the Spartacist League/U.S. Internal Information and Discussion Bulletin whole No. 43, March 1984. - [On Federal Troops in Little Rock](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/18/on-federal-troops-in-little-rock/): 10 October 1975 Attached to SWP Political Committee Minutes Number 18, 5 November 1957. Republished in In Memoriam Richard S. - [Summary Remarks on Negro Discussion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/18/summary-remarks-on-negro-discussion/): June 1957 Published in SWP Discussion Bulletin Volume 18, Number 14, October 1957. Republished in In Memoriam Richard S. - [Resolution on the Negro Struggle](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/18/resolution-on-the-negro-struggle/): 25 May 1957 Published in the SWP Discussion Bulletin Volume 18, Number 11, September 1957. Republished in In Memoriam Richard S. - [Contribution to the Discussion on the Slogan “Send Federal Troops to Mississippi”](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/18/contribution-to-the-discussion-on-the-slogan-send-federal-troops-to-mississippi/): 10 March 1956 Published in SWP Discussion Bulletin, Volume 18, Number 13, October 1957. Republished in In Memoriam Richard S. - [For the Materialist Conception of the Negro Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/01/18/for-the-materialist-conception-of-the-negro-question/): January 3 1955 Reprinted from SWP Discussion Bulletin A-30, August 1955 1. - [Stoppt die Verfolgungen!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/stoppt-die-verfolgungen/): Die IBT solidarisiert sich mit allen verfolgten Linken und Arbeitern, die aufgrund politischer Aktivitäten in Konflikt mit dem bürgerlichen Staat gekommen sind. - [Gruppe Arbeitermacht zurück in der WASG](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/gruppe-arbeitermacht-zuruck-in-der-wasg/): Die Gruppe Arbeitermacht hangelt sich derzeit von einem Tiefpunkt zum nächsten. - [KEINE STIMME FÜR DIE NEUE LINKSPARTEI!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/keine-stimme-fur-die-neue-linkspartei/): Die vorgezogenen Bundestagswahlen haben eine neue Wende genommen. - [Keine Stimme für SPD, PDS, Grüne und WASG!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/keine-stimme-fur-spd-pds-grune-und-wasg/): Unter der Führung von linkeren Funktionären aus der SPD und der mittleren Gewerkschaftsführung formierte sich über das ganze Jahr 2004 hinweg die Wahlalternative Arbeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit (WASG). - [Klassenkampf statt Linkspartei](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/klassenkampf-statt-linkspartei/): Das Kapital war zunächst gar nicht erfreut über den Wahlausgang der vorgezogenen Bundestagswahlen. - [Imperialismus & Afghanistan: Drei Fragen, drei Antworten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/imperialismus-afghanistan-drei-fragen-drei-antworten/): Es ist schon bemerkenswert, wie sich diejenigen, die sich 1979 über den Einmarsch der sowjetischen Armee in Afghanistan entsetzten, heute für das Schicksal der afghanischen Frauen interessieren. - [Der Krieg nach innen und die deutsche „Antikriegsbewegung“](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/der-krieg-nach-innen-und-die-deutsche-antikriegsbewegung/): Der Krieg ist Bestandteil einer unvermeidlichen Entwicklung im Kapitalismus. - [Rivalitäten unter Räubern — eine Analyse in zwei Teilen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/rivalitaten-unter-raubern-eine-analyse-in-zwei-teilen/): Wir leben in einer Welt, in der das Streben nach Profit zu einer schier unglaublichen Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich geführt hat: Die drei Reichsten Familien dieser Welt, allesamt US-Amerikaner, besitzen mehr als 48 Staaten dieser Erde zusammen. - [Verteidigt Afghanistan! Verteidigt demokratische Rechte!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/verteidigt-afghanistan-verteidigt-demokratische-rechte/): Zunächst einmal ist es unablässig, folgende Feststellung zu treffen: Das Attentat auf die Zwillingstürme des World Trade Center und andere Symbole des US-Imperialismus hat nichts aber auch gar nichts Fortschrittliches an sich. - [China: In Richtung Abgrund](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/china-in-richtung-abgrund/): Millionen von ArbeiterInnen, armen LandarbeiterInnen und anderen Opfern des Wachstums von kapitalistischen sozialen Verhältnissen in China haben enorm mobilisiert. - [Weg mit Hartz IV](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/weg-mit-hartz-iv/): Dieser Artikel ist eine erweiterte und aktualisierte Version eines Flugblattes vom 26. September 2004. - [Liebesgrüße aus Absurdistan - Polemiken mit der SpAD/IKL](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/liebesgruse-aus-absurdistan-polemiken-mit-der-spad-ikl/): In der Ausgabe Herbst 2003 des SPARTAKIST spuckt die Spartakist-Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SpAD) in einem hysterischen Anfall Gift und Galle gegen die Internationale Bolschewistische Tendenz. - [Eine Antwort an die SpAD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/eine-antwort-an-die-spad/): In ihrem Artikel "BT/GLT: Anti-Spartakisten fusionieren" schreibt die SpAD, "für diese zentristischen Betrüger ist das höchste Prinzip: 'Die Spartakisten hassen!'" (SPARTAKIST Nr. - [Pro-Stalinismus versus Trotzkismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/pro-stalinismus-versus-trotzkismus/): Mit Verdrehungen und rhetorischem Nebel versucht die SpAD, deutsche Sektion der IKL, in ihren Tiraden gegen die IBT von dem klaren und einfachen Kern unserer Differenzen über die DDR-Intervention der SpAD abzulenken (vgl. - [Multinationale Arbeiterrevolution wird Kurdistan befreien!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/multinationale-arbeiterrevolution-wird-kurdistan-befreien/): Ausgangspunkt des aktuellen polemischen Schlagabtauschs zwischen der Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz (IBT) und der Internationalen Kommunistischen Liga (IKL) war eine Entstellung unserer Kurdistanposition. - [Kurdistan - Bindeglied der Revolution im Nahen Osten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/kurdistan-bindeglied-der-revolution-im-nahen-osten/): Die Aufteilung der Welt unter die imperialistischen Mächte bedeutet für viele Völker Massaker, Vertreibung und Unterdrückung bis auf den heutigen Tag. - [Leninismus und Lostrennung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/leninismus-und-lostrennung/): Die IBT vertritt das Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Nationen als einen Teil ihres revolutionären Programms. - [Kollektivschuld und Klassenkampf](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/kollektivschuld-und-klassenkampf/): "Trotz der allseitigen Beteuerungen, daß es Kollektivschuld nicht gebe, trotz nuancierter Wortneuschöpfungen wie 'Kollektivverantwortung' oder 'Kollektivscham': Im Kern bleibt der Vorwurf: die Deutschen sind das 'Tätervolk'". - [Antisemitismus auf dem Vormarsch](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/antisemitismus-auf-dem-vormarsch/): Der CDU-Bundestagsabgeordnete Hohmann hatte in seinem Wahlkreis Neuhof vor ca. - [Stoppt Schröders Sozialraub durch revolutionären Klassenkampf](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/stoppt-schroders-sozialraub-durch-revolutionaren-klassenkampf/): Die vergangene Periode war durch den Irak-Krieg, die damit verbundene, offen ausgetragene imperialistische Konkurrenz und die innere Mobilmachung für die Ambitionen des deutschen Imperialismus gekennzeichnet. - [Auf dem Weg des geringsten Widerstandes: Imperialistischer Krieg und Pseudo-Sozialisten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/auf-dem-weg-des-geringsten-widerstandes-imperialistischer-krieg-und-pseudo-sozialisten/): Im Folgenden drucken wir die Übersetzung einer Polemik aus der Nummer 25 unseres englischsprachigen, internationalen Organs 1917 (2003) ab. - [Sozialistische "Alternative" Voran: Wer von der Revolution nicht reden will, sollte vom Frieden schweigen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/sozialistische-alternative-voran-wer-von-der-revolution-nicht-reden-will-sollte-vom-frieden-schweigen/): Mit Jugend gegen Krieg versucht die SAV-Führung, das Wasser der Anti-Kriegsbewegung auf die eigenen Mühlen zu lenken. - [Kommunismus, Antiimperialismus & Krieg](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/kommunismus-antiimperialismus-krieg/): Das Wesen kommunistischer Politik erschöpft sich nicht in einzelnen Aspekten wie Anti-Rassismus oder Anti-Imperialismus. - [SPD / Grüne rüsten für Raubzüge nach innen und außen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/spd-grune-rusten-fur-raubzuge-nach-innen-und-ausen/): Im Mittelpunkt 'deutscher Politik' steht die Aufgabe, Deutschland fit zu machen für die wirtschaftliche, politische und militärische Konkurrenz um die Aufteilung der Welt unter den größten Mächten. - [Klassenkrieg statt Heiligem Krieg: Islam, Imperium & Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/klassenkrieg-statt-heiligem-krieg-islam-imperium-revolution/): Neuerdings ist der Islamismus auch (wieder) ein Thema in der deutschen Linken - wie u.a. - [Trotzkisten fusionieren](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/trotzkisten-fusionieren/): Im Mai 2002 haben sich Gruppe Spartakus (Deutsche Sektion der Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz) und die Gruppe Leo Trotzki zur Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz Deutschland zusammengeschlossen. - [Keine Illusion in die deutsche Bourgeoisie! SPD/Grüne rüsten für neue Kriege!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/keine-illusion-in-die-deutsche-bourgeoisie-spd-grune-rusten-fur-neue-kriege/): Die bundesdeutsche Friedensbewegung zeichnet sich seit jeher durch eine antiamerikanische Schlagseite aus. - [Verteidigt den Irak gegen die imperialistischen Angriffe!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/verteidigt-den-irak-gegen-die-imperialistischen-angriffe/): Der Irak ist seit 1991 Opfer einer fortwährenden imperialistischen Aggression. - [Deutsche Linke: Im Schlepptau des 'Friedenskanzlers'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/deutsche-linke-im-schlepptau-des-friedenskanzlers/): Eine antideutsche bzw. - [Workers Power's Two-stage "Trotskyism"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/workers-powers-two-stage-trotskyism-2/): The front page headline of the October issue of Workers Power boldly proclaims: "Defend Afghanistan, Defeat Imperialism, Stop US/UK's War'. - [Nieder mit Bushs Terrorkrieg! Verteidigt den Irak!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/nieder-mit-bushs-terrorkrieg-verteidigt-den-irak/): George W. Bushs Erklärung vor der UN-Hauptversammlung vom 12. - [PDS: Alternativer Stratege für den deutschen Imperialismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/pds-alternativer-stratege-fur-den-deutschen-imperialismus/): Während die deutsche Bourgeoisie über die richtige Taktik für die zukünftige Ausrichtung des deutschen Imperialismus diskutiert, bewirbt sich die PDS als alternativer Vorkämpfer für die weltweiten Raubzüge des deutschen Kapitals. - [Angepasste PDS wählen, um Linke und Arbeiterklasse zu "stärken"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/angepasste-pds-wahlen-um-linke-und-arbeiterklasse-zu-starken/): Die Sozialistische Alternative Voran (SAV) hat einen Wahlaufruf publiziert, in dem die SAV in Städten, wo sie auch über Ortsgruppen verfügt, zur Abgabe der Erststimme für ihre Kandidaten aufruft. - [Von "Kohl muss weg!" zu "Stoppt Stoiber!"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/von-kohl-muss-weg-zu-stoppt-stoiber/): Linksruck (LR) hat vor vier Jahren zur Wahl der SPD aufgerufen. - [Kritische Wahlunterstützung als revolutionäre Taktik](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/kritische-wahlunterstutzung-als-revolutionare-taktik/): Die meisten vorgeblich revolutionären Organisationen, die bei der letzten Bundestagswahl noch die Trommel für SPD und PDS gerührt haben, sind nach vier Jahren Regierung Schröder leiser geworden. - [Revolutionäre Arbeitermobilisierung gegen imperialistische Mobilmachung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/revolutionare-arbeitermobilisierung-gegen-imperialistische-mobilmachung/): Die Bundestagswahlen finden statt vor dem Hintergrund von Krieg und Krise. - [Terrorismus und Imperialismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/terrorismus-und-imperialismus/): Dieser Artikel erschien zuerst in REDFIST - FÜR DEN KOMMUNISMUS Nr. 1 als Beilage zu Bolschewik Nr. - [Imperialisten Hände weg!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/imperialisten-hande-weg/): Das erste Opfer des Krieges ist bekanntlich die Wahrheit. - [Hände weg von Afghanistan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/hande-weg-von-afghanistan/): Der folgende Text ist eine überarbeitete Version eines Vortrags, gehalten von Tom Riley an verschiedenen Universitäten in Kanada, Anfang November. - [Berichtigung zum Artikel: "'Marxistische Kritik' im imperialistischen Kriegslager" (in BOLSCHEWIK Nr. 17)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/berichtigung-zum-artikel-marxistische-kritik-im-imperialistischen-kriegslager-in-bolschewik-nr-17/): In diesem Artikel polemisierten wir gegen die pro-imperialistische Kriegstreiberei der "Marxistischen Kritik". - ["Marxistische Kritik" im imperialistischen Kriegslager](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/marxistische-kritik-im-imperialistischen-kriegslager/): Die E-Mail vom 1.10.01 der MAK an die Gruppe Spartakus: Hallo Genossen und GenossInnen, eure Stellungnahmen zum Terroranschlag auf das WTC und die Folgen habe ich erhalten. - [Spartacist League: Manchmal ist weniger drin als man glaubt](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/spartacist-league-manchmal-ist-weniger-drin-als-man-glaubt/): Die Spartacist League/USA (SL) posiert genauso gern wie ihre deutsche Schwesterorganisation Spartakist Arbeiterpartei Deutschland (SpAD) als die Härtesten der Harten. - [Allah, Afghanistan & Antiimperialismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/allah-afghanistan-antiimperialismus/): Samuel P. Huntingtons Theorie vom "Zusammenstoss der Zivilisationen" (engl. - [Kampf der Klassen- und Rassenjustiz!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/kampf-der-klassen-und-rassenjustiz/): Mumia Abu Jamal, ehemaliger Black Panther und engagierter afro-amerikanischer Journalist, wurde in einem abgekarteten Gerichtsverfahren, in dessen Verlauf selbst bürgerlich-demokratische Rechtsstandards verletzt wurden, zu Unrecht wegen Polizistenmordes verurteilt. - [LRKIs Linkswende: "Keine schlüssige Zwischenposition"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/lrkis-linkswende-keine-schlussige-zwischenposition/): Die November 2000 Ausgabe von Workers Power gibt eine dramatische Wende über die Bedeutung und Wichtigkeit der Rückkehr zum Kapitalismus in Osteuropa und der ehemaligen UdSSR nach dem Zusammenbruch des Stalinismus in den Jahren 1989-1991 bekannt. - [PDS - Pro-imperialistische Deutsche Sozialchauvinisten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/pds-pro-imperialistische-deutsche-sozialchauvinisten/): Es ist ein Irrtum der Antideutschen zu glauben, Deutschland blase zur Treibjagd gegen Israel. - [Permanente Revolution und Palästina](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/permanente-revolution-und-palastina/): Der Besuch des rechtsgerichteten Likud-Politikers Ariel Sharon - des Verantwortlichen für die Massaker in den palästinensischen Flüchtlingslagern von Qibya (1953) und Sabrah und Schatila (1982) und für die Vertreibung von 160.000 Bewohnern Ost-Jerusalems nach dem Sechs-Tage-Krieg - vor der Al-Aqsa-Moschee war eine kalkulierte Provokation. - [Putsch in Belgrad: Kein Gewinn für serbische Arbeiter](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/putsch-in-belgrad-kein-gewinn-fur-serbische-arbeiter/): Im Folgenden dokumentieren wir die Position der Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz, in der die Gruppe Spartakus organisiert ist, zu den Präsidentschaftswahlen in Jugoslawien und zum Sturz Milosevic. - [Reformismus, Antifaschistischer Kampf & Revolutionäre Bündnispolitik](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/reformismus-antifaschistischer-kampf-revolutionare-bundnispolitik/): Bürgerliche Arbeiterparteien und reformistische Gewerkschaftsführungen tragen Mitverantwortung am Wachstum der Faschisten. - [Jubel-Linke im "antifaschistischen" Staatszirkus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/jubel-linke-im-antifaschistischen-staatszirkus/): "Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder ruft zum 'Aufstand der Anständigen' auf. Wir begrüßen seinen Aufruf." - [Revolutionärer Antifaschismus kontra "antifaschistisches" Staatstheater](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/revolutionarer-antifaschismus-kontra-antifaschistisches-staatstheater/): Der Ausgangspunkt der plötzlichen staatlich inszenierten Aufregung über faschistische Gewalt war ein Bombenanschlag am 27. Juli 2000 in Düsseldorf. - [Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Haider](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/dr-jekyll-und-mr-haider/): Ende Januar 2000 wurde in Wien die schwarz-blaue Koalitionsregierung von ÖVP und FPÖ gebildet. - [Spartakist Arbeiterpartei Deutschland: Vergessen, was gestern war…?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/spartakist-arbeiterpartei-deutschland-vergessen-was-gestern-war/): "Haiders FPÖ ist eine reine Wahlmaschine und entspricht nicht dem, was Marxisten unter Faschismus verstehen. - [Britische Demokraten gegen österreichische "Faschisten"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/britische-demokraten-gegen-osterreichische-faschisten/): Im folgenden drucken wir den Beitrag eines Genossen der Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz aus Britannien ab. - [Mit Linksruck gegen Rechts?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/mit-linksruck-gegen-rechts/): "Das erste Ziel der Faschisten ist, jede Art von Arbeiterorganisationen zu zerschlagen.", "Eine paramilitärische Bewegung aus uniformiertem Pöbel ist deshalb das Herz der faschistischen Machtergreifung." - [Verhindert den Nazi-Aufmarsch am 6. Mai in Essen!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/verhindert-den-nazi-aufmarsch-am-6-mai-in-essen/): Am 6. Mai will der Kreisverband Essen der NPD mit einer landesweiten Mobilisierung demonstrieren. Sollte den Nazis am 1. - [Winfried Wolf, die alte Tante SPD und der Krieg](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/winfried-wolf-die-alte-tante-spd-und-der-krieg/): Auf einer Veranstaltung zu seinem Buch "Bombengeschäfte" in Duisburg rechtfertigte Winfried Wolf (PDS, MdB) seine Politik, auf eine sozialpazifistische Anti-Kriegsbewegung, statt auf die revolutionäre Mobilisierung der Arbeiterbewegung gegen die Kriegstreiber, zu setzen. - [Die Linke zwischen den Kriegen - 2. Teil](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/die-linke-zwischen-den-kriegen-2-teil/): KOMMUNISTISCHE ORGANISATION für die VIERTE INTERNATIONALE (KOVI-BRD) An die Gruppe Spartakus Betr.: 'Die Linke im Krieg -Eine Abrechnung' in: BOLSCHEWIK Nr.13, Januar 2000 Liebe GenossInnen! - [Brief an die Spartacist League: Anti-KKK-Demo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/brief-an-die-spartacist-league-anti-kkk-demo/): Im folgenden dokumentieren wir die Übersetzung des Briefes eines amerikanischen Genossen an die Spartacist League (SL), die zentrale Sektion der Internationalen Kommunistischen Liga (IKL), die in Deutschland durch die Spartakist Arbeiterpartei (SpAD) vertreten ist. - [Enteignet die Enteigner!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/enteignet-die-enteigner/): Verschiedene Ereignisse der vergangenen Jahre verdeutlichten die Stimmung des wachsenden populären Widerstands unter Jugendlichen gegen die kapitalistische Weltordnung. - [ArbeiterInnen aller Nationalitäten vereinigt Euch!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/arbeiterinnen-aller-nationalitaten-vereinigt-euch/): Der Kapitalismus hat durch Weltmarkt und Migration eine internationale, vermischte Arbeiterklasse erzeugt. - [Freiheit für Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/freiheit-fur-mumia-abu-jamal/): Mumia Abu-Jamal, ehemaliges Mitglied der Black Panther und radikaler Journalist, ist seit 17 Jahren in der Todeszelle. - [Der Bundeswehr/NATO-Krieg gegen Serbien und die PDS](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/der-bundeswehr-nato-krieg-gegen-serbien-und-die-pds/): Leserbrief: Die zur Schau getragene Position der PDS gegen die Bundeswehr/NATO-Aggression gegen Serbien war für viele Linke Anlass sich im Sinne von Aktionseinheiten an Demonstrationen der PDS zu diesem Thema zu beteiligen. - [PDS auf Kriegspfad](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/pds-auf-kriegspfad/): Die PDS profilierte sich während der NATO-Angriffe in den Augen Tausender ArbeiterInnen und Linker als Anti-Kriegspartei. - [Imperialistischer Krieg und sozialistische Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/imperialistischer-krieg-und-sozialistische-revolution/): Im Zeitalter des imperialistischen Raubstaates reicht ein Minimalprogramm 'konkreter' Reformen nicht aus, um einen revolutionären Arbeiterwiderstand gegen den Imperialismus zu begründen. - [Marxismus und Imperialismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/marxismus-und-imperialismus/): Der Imperialismus entstand gegen Ende des vorigen Jahrhunderts aus der freien Konkurrenz, der Bildung bürgerlicher Nationalstaaten und ihrer "freibeuterischen" Kolonialpolitik. - [Sozialpazifismus: Friedensbewegung statt Klassenkampf](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/sozialpazifismus-friedensbewegung-statt-klassenkampf/): Der Sozialpazifismus beschränkt sich auf Friedenslosungen. Er kann in allen Farben der Angst und Betroffenheit wegen des Krieges schillern. - [Multinationale Demonstration zur Verteidigung Jugoslawiens gegen NATO-Angriffe](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/multinationale-demonstration-zur-verteidigung-jugoslawiens-gegen-nato-angriffe/): Eine Aktionseinheit aus der Sozialistischen Aktion, Blockbuster - Jugend gegen Rassismus, der Roten Aktion Duisburg, dem jugoslawischen Kulturverein Jedinstvo e.V. - [Die Linke im Krieg](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/die-linke-im-krieg/): Sowohl proletarische als auch kleinbürgerliche Linke - wer während der NATO-Angriffe auf Jugoslawien nicht im Sog von Sozialdemokratie, Grünen und Gewerkschaftsbürokratie Sozialpatriotismus bekundete, rang sich bis auf eine kleine Minderheit bestenfalls zu sozialpazifistischen Positionen durch. - [Versagen vor dem Hauptfeind](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/versagen-vor-dem-hauptfeind/): Die deutsche Linke bot auch in Anbetracht des Krieges, wie seit Jahren bei jedem größeren Klassenkampfereignis üblich, ein erbärmliches Bild. - [US/NATO-Niederlage in Afghanistan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/us-nato-niederlage-in-afghanistan/): Die willkommene Niederlage des US/NATO-Imperialismus durch die afghanischen Taliban kommt zu einem Zeitpunkt, an dem sich der 20. - [US-imperialistische Herrschaft: Horror ohne Ende](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/us-imperialistische-herrschaft-horror-ohne-ende/): Die Zerstörung des World Trade Center am 11. September war eine schreckliche Tat, welche die Internationale Bolschewistische Tendenz eindeutig verurteilt. - [Keine Wahl bei den Wahlen! Brecht mit der Partei die Linke!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/03/keine-wahl-bei-den-wahlen-brecht-mit-der-partei-die-linke/): Die Bundestagswahl steht ganz im Zeichen des Abganges der Kanzlerin Angela Merkel nach 16 Jahren als Regierungschefin. - [US/NATO defeat in Afghanistan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/26/us-nato-defeat-in-afghanistan/): The welcome defeat of US/NATO imperialism by the Afghan Taliban comes as the 20th anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on "9-11" 2001 approaches. - [Eine Partei greift nach der Macht](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/14/eine-partei-greift-nach-der-macht/): Die Partei Bündnis 90/Die Grünen ist in den letzten Jahren von einer wichtigen Stütze des Systems zu einem ernstzunehmenden Herausforderer um die politische Führung der bürgerlichen Klasse geworden. - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix E (iii)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-e-iii/): Excerpted from “ICL vs. IBT,” Trotskyist Bulletin No. - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix E (ii)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-e-ii/): Excerpted from “We Go Forward!”, 1917 No. - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix E (i)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-e-i/): The genesis of the fall of Logan is contained in the post-resignation statement of Schaefer in which he is reported to have suggested that if he and Y. - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix D (ii)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-d-ii/): It’s necessary to write a note on the aspects of L and Y’s swan song (17-23 August 1976) which touch on me. - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix D (i)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-d-i/): When Y. [Rad] was in New York over two years ago, he stayed at [Steve] Green’s place in Chicago for a week. - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix C (iii)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-c-iii/): In retrospect this was the worst case in which I had responsibility. Keith O. - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix C (ii)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-c-ii/): Sydney 28 March 1975 Dear John . - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix C (i)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-c-i/): Keith: I support the slate proposed by the outgoing CC. - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix B (ii)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-b-ii/): Notes to introduce a discussion in the Permanent Revolution Group, 4 December 1989 by Bill Logan 1974 was the hardest year in the SL/ANZ, and it is a useful historical point of reference, more or less irrespective of the John E. - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix B (i)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-bi/): “For us the party must be a combat organization which leads a determined struggle for power. - [On the Logan Show Trial - Appendix A](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial-appendix-a/): Melbourne 6 March 1973 SLUS, New York. Dear Jim, I’m writing this shortly after speaking to you on the phone. - [On the Logan Show Trial](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/10/on-the-logan-show-trial/): (Originally published February 2008) The International Communist League (ICL—formerly the international Spartacist tendency [iSt]) has recently published a 199-page, densely-typeset “dossier” consisting of “Documentary Evidence and Testimony in the August 1979 Trial and Expulsion of Bill Logan from the international Spartacist tendency for Crimes Against Communist Morality and Elementary Human Decency.” In the 1970s Bill Logan and his partner Adaire Hannah led the Spartacist groups in Australia and Britain. - [Aufstand in den USA](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/07/aufstand-in-den-usa/): „Wie bald die englischen Arbeiter von ihrer scheinbaren Bourgeoisansteckung sich befreien, muß man abwarten. - [Crystallised confusion - Socialist Alternative on the State and the Police](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/08/03/crystallised-confusion-socialist-alternative-on-the-state-and-the-police/): At a demonstration in London on Saturday 26 June, our British comrades purchased the June 2021 issue of Socialist Alternative (No. - [Larry Lawrence - a Remembrance](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/30/larry-lawrence-a-remembrance/): Larry Lawrence delivering the closing remarks at a graveside ceremony during the annual John Brown Lives! - [UK/NATO: stay out of Russia’s territorial waters!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/10/uk-nato-stay-out-of-russias-territorial-waters/): BT at ‘People’s Assembly’ demonstration in London, 26 June On 22 June the British destroyer HMS Defender carried out a deliberate provocation when it sailed into Russian territorial waters off the Crimean peninsula. - [The Real Meaning of the People’s Front](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/the-real-meaning-of-the-peoples-front/): Every important political act at the present time can be understood only in the light of the approach of the new imperialist war. - [The People’s Front in the United States](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/the-peoples-front-in-the-united-states/): The People’s Front has not, of course, advanced as far in the United States as in France or Spain. - [The People’s Front in Spain](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/the-peoples-front-in-spain/): The crisis in Spain is neither new nor unexpected. - [The People’s Front in France](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/the-peoples-front-in-france/): On February 6, 1934, gangs of fascists, reactionaries and royalists--for the most part young students and irresponsible sons of noblemen--rioted in Paris, across the river from the Chamber of Deputies. - [Can the People’s Front Stop Fascism?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/can-the-peoples-front-stop-fascism/): We have already seen, in general, the answer to this question. The answer requires further amplification. The People’s Front cannot stop fascism. - [Can the People’s Front Win the Middle Classes?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/can-the-peoples-front-win-the-middle-classes/): One of the chief arguments made in favor of the People’s Front is that through it there can be brought about an alliance between the working class and the middle classes against the onslaught of extreme reaction, of fascism. - [History and the People’s Front](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/history-and-the-peoples-front/): We have seen that the People’s Front is in content equivalent to class collaboration and coalition government. - [Analysis of the Theory of the People’s Front](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/analysis-of-the-theory-of-the-peoples-front/): It would be a great mistake to imagine that the People’s Front is a new policy. - [Origin and Theory of the People’s Front](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/07/01/origin-and-theory-of-the-peoples-front/): The slogans of the People’s Front were first advanced by the Communist International and its sections. - [Solidarität mit Heiner Bücker! Weg mit den Zensur-§ 130 und 140!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/01/30/solidaritat-mit-heiner-bucker-weg-mit-den-zensur-%c2%a7-130-und-%c2%a7-140/): Am 22. Juli 2022 hielt VVN-BDA- und Die Linke-Mitglied Heiner Brücker eine Rede am sowjetischen Ehrendenkmal in Treptow, in der er faktisch präzise die Verbrechen des ukrainischen Bandera-Faschismus in den 1930er und ‘40er Jahren und das Leiden der Sowjetbevölkerung aufgrund der Nazi-deutschen Invasion beschrieb. - [The Myth of "Orthodox" Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/01/17/the-myth-of-orthodox-trotskyism/) - [La Fracción Trotskista sobre Ucrania: la vacilación del centrismo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/01/17/la-fraccion-trotskista-sobre-ucrania-la-vacilacion-del-centrismo/): A diferencia de la mayor parte de la autodenominada izquierda trotskista, la Fracción Trotskista (FT) no ha caracterizado a Rusia como imperialista. - [James P. Cannon: America’s Pioneer Trotskyist](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/31/james-p-cannon-americas-pioneer-trotskyist/): (This is an expanded version of Murray E.G. - [Mumia's response to notice of intent to dismiss PCRA petition - 26 October 2022](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/27/mumias-response-to-notice-of-intent-to-dismiss-pcra-petition-26-october-2022/) - [UN Amicus Brief for Mumia Abu Jamal - 6 December 2022](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/27/un-amicus-brief-for-mumia-abu-jamal-6-december-2022/) - [China en África](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/23/china-en-africa/): La frecuente presentación de China como una siniestra amenaza para la "seguridad nacional" en los medios de comunicación populares del "mundo Libre" es un índice de la creciente ansiedad ante el creciente peso económico y político de la mayor economía colectivizada del mundo. - [Amicus brief filed by Attorney Mike Yamamoto on 27 August 2002](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/12/amicus-brief-filed-by-attorney-mike-yamamoto-on-27-august-2002/) - [NATO gegen Russland in der Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/09/nato-gegen-russland-in-der-ukraine/): Beim nachfolgenden Text handelt es sich um eine Übersetzung der englischen Erklärung "NATO v Russia in Ukraine - A Litmus Test for Trotskyists", die am 10. - [Audio recording of online forum "Russia’s campaign to de-NATOize Ukraine"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/06/audio-recording-of-online-forum-russias-campaign-to-de-natoize-ukraine/) - [Fake "Socialist" Boyd Barrett supports European imperialism against Russia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/06/fake-socialist-boyd-barrett-supports-european-imperialism-against-russia/): Thursday 1 December saw a special session of both houses of the Irish Parliament to hear a presentation by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. - [Path to Mumia’s Freedom](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/12/05/path-to-mumias-freedom/): A new legal action filed by Mumia Abu-Jamal in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas on August 7, 2016 provides a path in the courts to overturn Mumia’s conviction and win his freedom. - [La OTAN contra Rusia en Ucrania](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/28/la-otan-contra-rusia-en-ucrania/): La incursión rusa en Ucrania ha acelerado el declive del imperialismo estadounidense, ha debilitado gravemente a sus "socios" europeos y a la OTAN en su conjunto, al tiempo que ha reducido su influencia en América Latina y el "Indo-Pacífico". - ['Bullseye': ex-SL cadre reacts to BT statement on IG correction re: Russia v NATO](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/28/bullseye-ex-sl-cadre-reacts-to-bt-statement-on-ig-correction-re-russia-v-nato/): A long-time former cadre of the Spartacist League sent us the following observation on “Better late than never”—the commentary on the Internationalist Group’s change of position regarding Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine we posted on 25 November. - [Better late than never](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/25/better-late-than-never/): “Frankly acknowledging a mistake, ascertaining the reasons for it, analysing the conditions that have led up to it, and thrashing out the means of its rectification—that is the hallmark of a serious party….” —V.I. - [Upcoming online forum - Russia's campaign to de-NATOize Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/18/upcoming-online-forum-russias-campaign-to-de-natoize-ukraine/): The proxy war of US/NATO against Russia taking place in Ukraine enters its 10th month with no end in sight. - [Nicaragua, la Revolución Permanente y el camino hacia el poder obrero](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/16/nicaragua-la-revolucion-permanente-y-el-camino-hacia-el-poder-obrero/): ...La teoría de la revolución permanente sostiene que no hay un camino independiente de desarrollo capitalista posible en la era del imperialismo. - [Will Lehman’s UAW presidential campaign: a poison pill](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/07/will-lehmans-uaw-presidential-campaign-a-poison-pill/): In mid-November the ballots of 900,000 workers and pensioners of the United Autoworkers (UAW) will be tallied to elect a new president. - [Arbeiter- und Immigrantenmobilisierung zur Verhinderung von Naziaufmärschen!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/06/arbeiter-und-immigrantenmobilisierung-zur-verhinderung-von-naziaufmarschen/): Die Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) mobilisiert für den 1. - [Modernisierter Rassismus und rassistische Modernisierung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/06/modernisierter-rassismus-und-rassistische-modernisierung/): Selbst die Reform des rassistischen deutschen Staatsbürgerschaftsrechts, geriet in den "rot"-grünen Händen zur reaktionären Posse. - [Revolution oder Krieg - Sozialismus oder Barbarei](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/06/revolution-oder-krieg-sozialismus-oder-barbarei/): Kaum war Anfang der 90er Jahre das sowjetische "Reich des Bösen" (Ronald Reagan) durch die kapitalistische Konterrevolution vernichtet worden, da verkündete George Bush eine Neue Weltordnung des Friedens. - [Nachwuchsausbildung für das politische Management des imperialistischen Deutschland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/06/nachwuchsausbildung-fur-das-politische-management-des-imperialistischen-deutschland/): Unterordnung unter kapitalistische Interessen statt Vertretung von Arbeiterinteressen: SPD und PDS werden mit ihrer Politik "die Eigenständigkeit Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns vertreten" (Koalititionsvertrag, Punkt 8), es "stehen die Interessen des Landes und seiner Bürger im Vordergrund" - hinter diesen scheinbar klassenneutralen Formulierungen stehen letztlich immer die Interessen der Bourgeoisie. - [Kalter Kaffee: Keynesianismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/06/kalter-kaffee-keynesianismus/): Der Keynesianismus ist ein nationalstaatliches Konzept kapitalistischer Wirtschaftsförderung, sein objektiver Zweck daher die ökonomische und politische Stabilisierung des Systems kapitalistischer Ausbeutung. - [SPD/Grüne verschärfen bürgerliche Offensive](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/06/spd-grune-verscharfen-burgerliche-offensive/): Mit der letzten Bundestagswahl ging die Regierungsverantwortung für den deutschen Imperialismus an die Koalition aus SPD und Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen über. - [Update on the case of Mumia Abu Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/06/update-on-the-case-of-mumia-abu-jamal/): Prize-winning journalist and ex-Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal was framed up and sentenced to death for the murder of a white police officer in Philadelphia in 1981. - [El "Malfuncionamento más importante" del Challenger no es un desastre para la clase obrera](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/11/03/el-malfuncionamento-mas-importante-del-challenger-no-es-un-desastre-para-la-clase-obrera-2/): Texto traducido del ingles, y que fuera publicado orginariamente en "1917" N°2, verano de 1986. - [El mito de la China capitalista](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/10/25/el-mito-de-la-china-capitalista/): El triunfo de la contrarrevolución en la Unión Soviética en 1991, anunciado por los ideólogos burgueses como el "fin de la historia", fue ampliamente considerado como un signo de que el capitalismo sería una característica permanente de la condición humana. - [China in Africa](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/10/15/china-in-africa/): The frequent portrayal of China as a sinister threat to “national security” in the “Free World” popular media is an index of rising anxiety at the growing economic and political weight of the world’s largest collectivised economy. - [CWI se desmorona](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/10/10/cwi-se-desmorona-2/): (Traducido de la versión en lengua inglesa CWI Implodes – After 60 years of opportunist adaptation) La crisis interna y profunda que actualmente corroe al Comité por una Internacional de Trabajadores (Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) por sus siglas en inglés) ha producido una serie de cismas. - [NATO v Russia in Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/10/10/nato-v-russia-in-ukraine/): The Russian incursion into Ukraine has accelerated the decline of US imperialism, severely weakened its European “partners” and NATO as a whole, while shrinking its influence in Latin America and the “Indo-Pacific”. - [Offener Brief an die Genossinnen und Genossen der Kommunistischen Organisation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/09/25/an-die-genossen-und-genossinnen-der-kommunistischen-organisation/): Der folgende Brief ist eine leicht editierte Version einer E-Mail, die wir am 10. Juni 2022 an die Kommunistische Organisation schickten. - [Rusia reacciona ante la invasión imperialista](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/09/12/rusia-reacciona-ante-la-invasion-imperialista/): La reciente intervención militar rusa en Ucrania es un ejemplo de lo que puede ocurrir cuando se recibe "una oferta que no se puede rechazar" y se decide rechazarla de todos modos. - [Presentation at online panel discussion on Ukraine war](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/09/11/presentation-at-online-panel-discussion-on-ukraine-war/): The following presentation was made by a BT supporter on Saturday 10 September at the online panel discussion "Marxists Speak Out: 200 Days of War. - [NATO/USA gegen Russland in der Ukraine - eine trotzkistische Analyse](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/08/19/nato-usa-gegen-russland-in-der-ukraine-eine-trotzkistische-analyse/): Im Folgenden veröffentlichen wir eine bearbeitete Fassung einer Rede, die auf dem Pressefest von der französischen Gruppe Lutte Ouvrière am 27. - [A comment on Ukraine to former SL members](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/08/16/a-comment-on-ukraine-to-former-sl-members/): The following comment was posted by Tom Riley of the BT to a recent online discussion among a group predominantly composed of former Spartacist League supporters: It is disappointing, but not entirely surprising, that [C.], beginning from a faulty premise regarding “Russian imperialism,” has reached a seriously mistaken conclusion about the current war in Ukraine. - [Audio recording of BT presentation at Emergency International Anti-War Conference](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/07/22/audio-recording-of-bt-presentation-at-emergency-international-anti-war-conference/) - [On RedMed’s 'International Anti-Imperialist and Anti-War Declaration'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/07/22/on-redmeds-international-anti-imperialist-and-anti-war-declaration/): On 25-26 June the BT participated in an “Emergency International Anti-War Conference” initiated by the Christian Rakovski Balkan Socialist Centre and RedMed. - [Exchange with a former member of the Spartacus Youth League](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/07/19/exchange-with-a-former-member-of-spartacus-youth-league/): The following is a recent exchange between a former member of the Spartacus Youth League (SYL--the youth group of the Spartacist League/U.S. - [Correction on Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/07/12/correction-on-ukraine/): 'Whilst in Western Ukraine there are Hungarian, Romanian and Polish national minorities, about 20 percent of Ukraine’s population are Russian speakers, mostly located in an arc running from Northeast Ukraine along the Black Sea coast to Odessa.' - [Defend Abortion Rights Through Mass Action!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/07/10/defend-abortion-rights-through-mass-action/): The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the 1973 Roe v. - [Remarks at a conference on the Russia/Ukraine war](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/07/08/remarks-at-a-conference-on-the-russia-ukraine-war/): The following remarks were delivered by a BT supporter on Sunday 26th June at a conference on the Russia/Ukraine war held by the Christian Rakovsky International Socialist Center. - [NATO/US vs Russia in Ukraine—A Trotskyist Analysis](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/06/19/nato-us-vs-russia-in-ukraine-a-trotskyist-analysis/): Below is an edited version of a speech delivered at Lutte Ouvrière’s Fête, 27 May 2022 The current conflict in Ukraine seems in all likelihood to eventually be viewed as a major historical turning point. - [Shifting Positions on Ukraine Conflict](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/06/07/shifting-positions-on-ukraine-conflict/): We have had considerable correspondence from people interested in our observations regarding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. - [Öko-Sozialismus & „Green New Deal“-Wunschträume](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/06/05/oko-sozialismus-green-new-deal-wunschtraume/): „Der Kapitalismus kann ebenso wenig zur Begrenzung des Wachstums ‚überredet‘ werden, wie ein Mensch dazu 'überredet' werden kann, mit dem Atmen aufzuhören. - [May Day 2022](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/05/04/may-day-2022/): Russia has the right to defend itself against imperialist encroachment! - [Exposição da Tendência Bolchevique no painel: Os marxistas falam sobre o conflito entre a Rússia e o Imperialismo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/04/05/exposicao-da-tendencia-bolchevique-no-painel-os-marxistas-falam-sobre-o-conflito-entre-a-russia-e-o-imperialismo/): As apresentações de todos os participantes do painel traduzidas para português estão disponíveis no sítio web - http://www.folhadotrabalhador.org/search/label/_Declaração O vídeo da reunião completa (em inglês) está disponível em https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo5hsobzg7c Gostaria de iniciar minhas observações descrevendo brevemente como a tendência bolchevique entende a situação atual. - [A correction to ‘Jimstown as we knew it’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/04/03/a-correction-to-jimstown-as-we-knew-it/): A former Spartacist League member who lived in New York City in the 1960s sent the following correction to “Jimstown as we knew it,” a piece by Tom Riley which we posted on 1 February: Jim didn't live in Spanish Harlem in the 60s/70. - [A ‘technical problem’ motivating Russian opposition to NATO on its border](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/04/03/a-technical-problem-motivating-russian-opposition-to-nato-on-its-border/): The following text has been inserted as a footnote to our 27 February article on the current Russian incursion into Ukraine: Russia Reacts to Imperialist Encroachment * In a 3 March discussion featuring John Mearsheimer and Ray McGovern posted on YouTube, Theodore (Ted) Postol pointed out a “technical problem which is of major importance” that helps explain Russian concern about NATO’s presence on its borders. - [Arnold Beverly Confession](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/04/01/arnold-beverly-confession/): CONNOR BLAINE, Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Greene, Defendants. - [William Dale Singletary, Witness of Mumia's Innocence](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/03/31/william-dale-singletary-witness-of-mumias-innocence/): William Dale Singletary died on December 31, 2011 at the age of sixty-one. - [November 5 2001 Press Release by Mumia Abu Jamal's attorneys](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/03/31/november-5-2001-press-release-by-mumia-abu-jamals-attorneys/): MUMIA ABU-JAMAL'S ATTORNEYS, COMPARING HIS CASE TO THAT OF SACCO AND VANZETTI CASE IN THE 1920's, URGE FEDERAL JUDGE YOHN TO ENSURE THAT HISTORY DOES NOT REPEAT ITSELF ... - [Video of "Marxists speak out on the conflict between Russia and imperialism"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/03/27/video-of-marxists-speak-out-on-the-conflict-between-russia-and-imperialism/) - [Marxists speak out on the conflict between Russia and imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/03/24/marxists-speak-out-on-the-conflict-between-russia-and-imperialism/): The Bolshevik Tendency will be participating in a 26 March panel discussion entitled “Marxists speak out on the conflict between Russia and imperialism.” This event was initiated by classconscious.org based in Australia and Liga Comunista of Brazil. - [Bolshevik Tendency supporter speaks at "Crisis in Ukraine! The Left and the Current Crisis"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/03/15/bolshevik-tendency-supporter-speaks-at-crisis-in-ukraine-the-left-and-the-current-crisis/): This event, which took place on 10 March 2022, was organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society of New York City. - [Russland reagiert auf imperialistisches Vorrücken](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/03/09/russland-reagiert-auf-imperialistisches-vorrucken/): Die jüngste russische Militärintervention in der Ukraine ist ein Beispiel dafür, was passieren kann, wenn man „ein Angebot erhält, das man nicht ablehnen kann“ und beschließt, es trotzdem abzulehnen. - [IG joins centrist muddleheads on Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/03/01/ig-joins-centrist-muddleheads-on-ukraine/): “The League for the Fourth International calls to defend self-rule in the breakaway regions of southern and eastern Ukraine and to defeat the war drive against Russia and China. - [Audio recording of "NATO/US v Russia in Ukraine – a Trotskyist Analysis"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/02/28/audio-recording-of-nato-us-v-russia-in-ukraine-a-trotskyist-analysis/) - [Russia reacts to imperialist encroachment](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/02/27/russia-reacts-to-imperialist-encroachment/): The recent Russian military intervention in Ukraine is an example of what can happen when you get “an offer you can't refuse" and decide to refuse it anyway. - [Trotskyist Fraction on Ukraine – Centrist Waffling](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/02/25/trotskyist-fraction-on-ukraine-centrist-waffling/): Unlike most of the self-declared Trotskyist left, the Trotskyist Fraction (TF) has not characterised Russia as imperialist. - [Online public meeting (27 February)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/02/19/online-public-meeting-27-february/): The recent propaganda claims by the US and its NATO allies about an impending Russian invasion of Ukraine is widely recognized as having the potential to set off a chain of events that could have disastrous consequences for humanity. - [Once More on IBT & ‘Russian Imperialism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/02/14/once-more-on-ibt-russian-imperialism/): Reprinted below are comments from Facebook on our 6 February posting regarding a 30 January Zoom meeting the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) held on current tensions between Ukraine and Russia. - [IBT identifies subsidies for neo-colonies as proof of ‘Russian imperialism’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/02/06/ibt-identifies-subsidies-for-neo-colonies-as-proof-of-russian-imperialism/): For our part, we are happy to cling to the old-fashioned Leninist view that imperialism, at its core, involves advanced capitalist countries extracting value from more backward, colonial and semi-colonial dependent ones, not subsidizing them. - [Jimstown as we knew it](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/02/01/jimstown-as-we-knew-it/): Last August a debate over the history of the moribund Spartacist tendency took place on the website of former Bolshevik Tendency (BT) member Fischerzed. - [Statement dissolving PRG/BT fusion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/01/30/statement-dissolving-prg-bt-fusion/): Comrades: Thirty-six years ago, three of us (Jensen, Nason and Riley, plus comrade Harlan, who is with us politically but no longer able to actively participate) published the “Declaration of an external tendency of the iSt” and attempted to launch a struggle to reverse the “process of degeneration” which threatened to destroy what we considered to be the only Trotskyist organization in the world. - [CDLM: WSL’s “Short Cut” to Nowhere](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/01/30/cdlm-wsls-short-cut-to-nowhere/): The recall conference of the "Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement" (CDLM) promises to be pretty much a rerun of the October 24 founding conference — when Workers Socialist League (WSL) members and contacts, as well as a few of the WSL's political opponents, gathered for a dreary day of apolitical reports on shop floor economism and horror stories about the lack of democracy in the Labour Party (LP). - [Der Mythos vom kapitalistischen China](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/01/09/der-mythos-vom-kapitalistischen-china/): Der nachfolgende Artikel ist eine Übersetzung des Artikels The Myth of Capitalist China, der am 6. November 2020 auf dieser Website erschien. - [In China stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm (Teil 2)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/01/09/in-china-stehen-die-zeichen-auf-sturm-teil-2/) - [In China stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/01/09/in-china-stehen-die-zeichen-auf-sturm/) - [Audio recording of "What was the Chinese Revolution and where is it going?" panel discussion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2022/01/01/audio-recording-of-what-was-the-chinese-revolution-and-where-is-it-going-panel-discussion/): Audio recording of the online panel discussion hosted by the Platypus Society (platypus1917.org/) - "What was the Chinese Revolution and where is it going?" - [Twilight Capitalism - A Book Review](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/12/10/twilight-capitalism-a-book-review/): Twilight capitalism: Karl Marx and the decay of the profit system is the best book on Marxist political economy in 2021. - [COP26 - how much more blah, blah, blah?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/11/28/cop26-how-much-more-blah-blah-blah/): This video, on Dave Borlace’s Youtube channel, ‘Just Have a Think’, provides a very good deconstruction of the “blah, blah, blah” reality of the resolutions coming out of COP26 (the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference). - [Kyle Rittenhouse Goes Free—Fascists Celebrate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/11/27/killer-rittenhouse-goes-free-fascists-celebrate/): The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenage rightist vigilante who killed two people and seriously wounded a third at a 25 August 2020 anti-racist protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, exemplifies the deeply ingrained biases of the American capitalist “Justice” system. - [Correcting an Error on the CCP and COVID-19](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/11/18/correcting-an-error-on-the-ccp-and-covid-19/): We recently received a note from a former Spartacist cadre with whom we have not had contact for years which, among other things, pointed out a mistaken formulation in “The Myth of Capitalist China.” The article, published in November 2020, focuses on the class character of the Chinese deformed workers’ state, but includes a mistaken formulation that suggests the Chinese Communist Party has no responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic. - [Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt 1](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/10/24/bulletin-of-the-external-tendency-of-the-ist-1/) - [Contribution to a discussion on the implosion of the Spartacist tendency](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/10/14/contribution-to-a-discussion-on-the-implosion-of-the-spartacist-tendency/): In January 2021 a former Bolshevik Tendency (BT) member, who now identifies with the “council communist” tradition, posted a short piece on his website commenting on the implosion of the Spartacist tendency following the demise of founder/leader James Robertson in 2019. - [Audio recording of "What is 'Socialism with Chinese characteristics'?" online forum](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/10/05/audio-recording-of-what-is-socialism-with-chinese-characteristics-online-forum/): An audio recording of the Bolshevik Tendency public meeting "What is 'Socialism with Chinese characteristics'?" - [From the NEP to forced collectivisation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/10/03/from-the-nep-to-forced-collectivisation/): After four years of civil war following three years of devastating world war, by 1921 the Russian proletariat, never more than a few million strong, had almost ceased to exist. - [Marx or Deng?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/10/03/marx-or-deng/): At a time when most of the world’s ostensibly Trotskyist tendencies have mistakenly declared the Chinese deformed workers’ state to be “capitalist,” in China’s Great Road, John Ross makes the case that the essential core of the social transformation achieved by the revolution of 1949 remains intact. - [Marxist Bulletin No.3 – Part IV](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/10/02/marxist-bulletin-no-3-part-iv/) - [Online public meeting (3 October)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/20/online-public-meeting-3-october/): The Chinese Communist Party has proven to be surprisingly effective in managing the Chinese economy and controlling its large capitalist sector. - [On Brazil 2016 and Egypt 2013](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/20/on-brazil-2016-and-egypt-2013/): In recent months we have corresponded with a group of comrades with whom there exist several issues on which we have, as yet, failed to reach agreement. - [UK/NATO: Raus aus den russischen Hoheitsgewässern!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/10/uk-nato-raus-aus-den-russischen-hoheitsgewassern/): Am 22. Juni führte der britische Zerstörer HMS Defender eine bewusste Provokation durch, als er in die russischen Hoheitsgewässer vor der Halbinsel Krim einfuhr. - [Endspiel im Irak](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/endspiel-im-irak/): Einen Monat vor Ende seiner Amtszeit als Generalsekretär der Vereinten Nationen bemerkte Kofi Annan: "Die Vereinigten Staaten befinden sich im Irak in einer Art Falle, einer Falle in dem Sinne, dass sie nicht bleiben und nicht abziehen können" (BBC Nachrichten, 21. - [Das politische Gruselkabinett der selbsternannten "Partei der Russischen Revolution" "Partei der Russischen Revolution"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/das-politische-gruselkabinett-der-selbsternannten-partei-der-russischen-revolution-partei-der-russischen-revolution/): Im Spartakist Nr. - [Rede über die russische Frage](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/rede-uber-die-russische-frage/): Gehalten auf dem Mitgliedertreffen der Socialist Workers Party, 15. Oktober 1939 (Veröffentlicht in James P. - [Opportunismus oder Opposition?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/opportunismus-oder-opposition/): Die Stärke des Kapitalismus liegt nicht in ihm selbst und seinen eigenen Institutionen; er überlebt nur wegen seiner Stützpunkte in den Organisationen der Arbeiter. - [Sieg dem GDL-Streik!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/sieg-dem-gdl-streik/): Der Tarifkonflikt der Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokführer (GDL) hat sich längst zu einem Klassenkampf entwickelt, der die sozialen und politischen Interessen der gesamten multinationalen Arbeiterklasse in den Mittelpunkt gerückt hat. - [Sofortige Freiheit für Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/sofortige-freiheit-fur-mumia-abu-jamal/): Der afroamerikanische Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal sitzt seit nunmehr 25 Jahren unschuldig in der Todeszelle. - [Für den Aufbau einer revolutionären Arbeiterpartei!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/fur-den-aufbau-einer-revolutionaren-arbeiterpartei/): 2006 gründete sich das Netzwerk der Linken Opposition (NLO) in der Wahlalternative Arbeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit (WASG). - ["Defensive Armee" - Eine missverständliche Formulierung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/defensive-armee-eine-missverstandliche-formulierung/): Wir haben in der Nr. 24 unserer Zeitung BOLSCHEWIK eine missverständliche Formulierung benutzt. - [Für eine sozialistische Föderation des Nahen Ostens!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/fur-eine-sozialistische-foderation-des-nahen-ostens/): Vor drei Wochen pulsierte der Seehafen von Beirut am Mittelmeer mit kommerzieller Aktivität. - [Deutscher Imperialismus weiter auf dem Vormarsch](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/deutscher-imperialismus-weiter-auf-dem-vormarsch/): Mit der Entsendung von deutschen Soldaten in den Libanon, und dem Kongo, der Ausweitung des Einsatzes in Afghanistan, sowie der Bestätigung weiterer Einsätze in Afrika und auf dem Balkan, ist der deutsche Imperialismus weiter auf dem Vormarsch. - [Der Staat rüstet auf - auch nach innen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/der-staat-rustet-auf-auch-nach-innen/): In Lenins Schrift "Der Imperialismus als höchste Stufe des Kapitalismus" werden mehrere Seiten des Imperialismus aufgezeigt. - [Deutscher Imperialismus im Kongo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/deutscher-imperialismus-im-kongo/): Im Schatten der Eskalation im Nahen Osten wurde der deutsche Imperialismus an einer weiteren Front aktiv. - [Was ist Bonapartismus?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/was-ist-bonapartismus/): Unter Bonapartismus wird in der marxistischen Diskussion traditionell (in Bezug auf die Schrift "Die achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte" von Karl Marx) eine autoritäre Herrschaftsform verstanden, in der die Bourgeoisie auf die unmittelbare politische Herrschaft und politische Repräsentation verzichtet. - [Venezuela: Staat und Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/venezuela-staat-und-revolution/): Lateinamerika weist weltweit die größten Einkommensunterschiede auf, mit weit über hundert Millionen Menschen, die gezwungen sind, von weniger als zwei Dollar am Tag zu existieren, laut "World Development Indicators" (Weltentwicklungsindikatoren) der Weltbank 2005. - [Die Zerstörung von New Orleans](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/die-zerstorung-von-new-orleans/): Dies ist die Stellungnahme der IBT zum Desaster in New Orleans auf einer öffentlichen Veranstaltung zum gleichen Thema am 9. - [Imperialistische Ost-Erweiterung & die europäische Verfassung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/imperialistische-ost-erweiterung-die-europaische-verfassung/): Im Folgenden dokumentieren wir die Erklärung der Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz vom 26. - [A Marxist Programme for the Socialist Labour Party](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/a-marxist-programme-for-the-socialist-labour-party/): 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. - [Nein zur EU-Verfassung!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2021/09/05/nein-zur-eu-verfassung/): Im Mai 2005 wurden in Europa in verschiedenen Ländern Referenden über die Annahme der EU-Verfassung durchgeführt. - [Spartacist Nr. 4 August 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-4-august-1976/) - [Spartacist Nr. 3 März 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-3-marz-1975/) - [Spartacist Nr. 2 Herbst 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-2-herbst-1974/) - [Spartacist Nr. 1 Frühling 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-1-fruhling-1974/) - [Beilagen-Kreis im Radius der SPD - Rede über die russische Frage](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/beilagen-kreis-im-radius-der-spd-rede-uber-die-russische-frage/): Gehalten auf dem Mitgliedertreffen der Socialist Workers Party, 15. Oktober 1939 (Veröffentlicht in James P. - [Beilagen-Kreis im Radius der SPD - Vorwort zu James P. Cannon](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/beilagen-kreis-im-radius-der-spd-vorwort-zu-james-p-cannon/): Wir veröffentlichen im folgenden die „Rede über die russische Frage“ von James P. Cannon. - [Beilagen-Kreis im Radius der SPD - Denn sie wissen, was sie nicht tun](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/beilagen-kreis-im-radius-der-spd-denn-sie-wissen-was-sie-nicht-tun/): „Marxisten beginnen immer mit dem Programm. Sie scharen ihre Anhänger um dieses Programm und erziehen sie im Verlauf des Kampfes in dessen Sinn. - [Beilagen-Kreis im Radius der SPD - Der Hauptfeind steht im eigenen Land](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/beilagen-kreis-der-spd-der-hauptfeind-steht-im-eigenen-land/): Die militärische Verteidigung der deformierten Arbeiterstaaten ist die eine Seite revolutionärer Politik; den deutschen Imperialismus, repräsentiert in der jeweiligen Regierung, als zentralen Klassengegner zu bekämpfen, die andere. - [Тріумф контрреволюції в СРСР](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/triumph-counterrev-ussr-ukra/): Інтернаціональна Більшовицька Тенденція опублікувала у своєму бюлетені в жовтні 1991 року: Провал московського виступу 19-21 серпня призвів до небачених раніш важких і хворобливих наслідків. - [Гноблення жінок – не в наших генах](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/women-oppression-ukra/): перекладено з 1917 No. - [Ріст німецького фашизму](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/rise-german-fash-ukra/): перекладено з 1917 No. - [Радянський Рубікон та лівий рух](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/soviet-rubicon-ukra/): перекладено з 1917 No. - [З приводу гасла “Хай живе Червона Армія!”](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/hail-red-army-ukra/): перекладено з 1917 No. - [Beilagenkreis im Radius der SPD - Zum Klassencharakter der Sowjetunion](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/beilagenkreis-im-radius-der-spd-zum-klassencharakter-der-sowjetunion/): Alle Vereinigungswilligen akzeptieren das Etikett „revolutionäre Sozialisten“. Stellt man jedoch die ABC-Frage: Was ist denn nun eigentlich Sozialismus? - [Beilagen-Kreis im Radius der SPD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/beilagen-kreis-im-radius-der-spd-2/) - [Триумф контрреволюции в СССР](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/counterrev-ussr-rus/): Интернациональная Большевистская Тенденция опубликовала в своем бюллетене в октябре 1991 года: Провал московского выступления 19-21 августа привел к невиданным ранее тяжелым и болезненным последствиям. - [Угнетение женщин – не в наших генах](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/women-oppression-rus/): Угнетение женщин, наиболее универсальная и глубоко укоренившаяся форма буржуазного гнета, является характеристикой капиталистического строя, в отличие от расовой дискриминации, возникшей задолго до капитализма. - [Bürgerkrieg in Jugoslawien - Nationalismus und Konterrevolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/burgerkrieg-in-jugoslawien-nationalismus-und-konterrevolution/) - [Die ehemalige UdSSR nach dem Putschversuch](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/die-ehemalige-udssr-nach-dem-putschversuch/) - [Nazi-Terror und Rassismus in der BRD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/nazi-terror-und-rassismus-in-der-brd/) - [Рост немецкого фашизма](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/rise-german-fash-rus/): переведено из 1917 No. - [Советский Рубикон и левое движение](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/soviet-rubicon-rus/): переведено из 1917 No. - [По поводу лозунга «Да здравствует Красная Армия!»](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/hail-red-army-rus/): переведено из 1917 No. - [Beilagen-Kreis im Radius der SPD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/beilagen-kreis-im-radius-der-spd/): Die in die Jahre gekommene linke Szene der BRD ist seit einiger Zeit Zeuge eines widersprüchlichen Neuformierungsprozesses im Spektrum der Organisationen jenseits der bürgerlichen Arbeiterparteien SPD und DKP. - [Bindeglied der Revolution im Nahen Osten](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/bindeglied-der-revolution-im-nahen-osten/): Die Aufteilung der Welt unter die imperialistischen Mächte bedeutet für viele Völker Massaker, Vertreibung und Unterdrückung bis auf den heutigen Tag. - [Für Arbeiteraktionen zur Verteidigung der DDR](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/fur-arbeiteraktionen-zur-verteidigung-der-ddr/): De Maiziere spricht von der schwersten Krise seit Bestehen der DDR. - [Bankrott des Stalinismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/bankrott-des-stalinismus/): Unter dem Druck der imperialistischen Offensive und Massenmobilisierungen im Innern zerbricht die stalinistische Herrschaft, Stück für Stück, von Belgrad über Berlin bis Moskau. - [Schlußmit der Wende](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/schlusmit-der-wende/) - [Bundeswehr als UNO-Friedensstifter?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/bundeswehr-als-uno-friedensstifter/) - [Nachtrag zur anti-faschistischen Wunsiedel-Kampagne und zur Politik der SAG (August1992)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/nachtrag-zur-anti-faschistischen-wunsiedel-kampagne-und-zur-politik-der-sag-august1992/) - [Faschisten im Aufschwung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/faschisten-im-aufschwung/) - [Kapitalismus und Rassismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/kapitalismus-und-rassismus/) - [Deutsche Waffen sollen es schaffen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/deutsche-waffen-sollen-es-schaffen/) - [Marxismus contra Bewegungsfetischismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/marxismus-contra-bewegungsfetischismus/) - [Wie vorwärts?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/wie-vorwarts/) - [Stoppt die Offensive von Unternehmern, Regierung und SPD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/stoppt-die-offensive-von-unternehmern-regierung-und-spd/) - [Weg mit dem PKK-Verbot](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/weg-mit-dem-pkk-verbot/) - [Scharping ganz Kohl - SPD auf Regierungslinie](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/scharping-ganz-kohl-spd-auf-regierungslinie/) - [Nieder mit Jelzin](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/nieder-mit-jelzin/) - [Das Kartenhaus Maastricht fällt zusammen](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/das-kartenhaus-maastricht-fallt-zusammen/) - [Erster Etappensieg des deutschen Imperialismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/erster-etappensieg-des-deutschen-imperialismus/) - [Leserbrief an VORAN](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/leserbrief-an-voran/) - [Für einen revolutionären Antifaschismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/05/fur-einen-revolutionaren-antifaschismus-2/) - [Bürgerliche Offensive, Frauen und Sozialismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/burgerliche-offensive-frauen-und-sozialismus/) - [Keine Abschiebung der KurdInnen!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/keine-abschiebung-der-kurdinnen/) - [Thesen zum Faschismus und wie man ihn bekämpft](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/thesen-zum-faschismus-und-wie-man-ihn-bekampft/) - [Auch mit CDU/CSU-Stadträten gegen Nazis?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/auch-mit-cdu-csu-stadtraten-gegen-nazis/) - [Ein Schritt VORAN = Zwei Schritte zurück](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/ein-schritt-voran-zwei-schritte-zuruck/) - [Die Berliner Linke und der 20. April - Eine Zwischenbilanz](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/die-berliner-linke-und-der-20-april-eine-zwischenbilanz/) - [Keinen Fußbreit den Faschisten!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/keinen-fusbreit-den-faschisten/) - [Die Ziele der Gruppe Spartakus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/die-ziele-der-gruppe-spartakus-5/) - ["Leninismus gegen Stalinismus"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/leninismus-gegen-stalinismus/) - [Austritt aus der sozialdemokratische Hilfstruppe JRE](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/austritt-aus-der-sozialdemokratische-hilfstruppe-jre/) - [Die Qual mit der Wahl - Alle Jahre wieder](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/die-qual-mit-der-wahl-alle-jahre-wieder/) - [Keine Wahl bei den Wahlen - Stimmt ungültig!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/keine-wahl-bei-den-wahlen-simmt-ungultig/) - [Die Ziele der Gruppe Spartakus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/die-ziele-der-gruppe-spartakus-4/) - [Barbarei auf dem Balkan](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/barbarei-auf-dem-balkan/) - [Die SpAD und ihre IV. Reich-Psychose](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/die-spad-und-ihre-iv-reich-psychose/) - [Lenin oder Romy Schneider?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/lenin-oder-romy-schneider/) - [Schulte & Co in Aktion - gegen die Arbeiterklasse](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/schulte-co-in-aktion-gegen-die-arbeiterklasse/) - [BRD auf dem Vormarsch](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/brd-auf-dem-vormarsch/) - [Der irische "Friedensprozess"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/der-irische-friedensprozess/) - [Zum Aktionseinheitsverständnis der IKL/SpAD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/zum-aktionseinheitsverstandnis-der-ikl-spad/) - [Rettet Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/rettet-mumia-abu-jamal/) - [Droht den Flächentarifverträgen das Aus?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/droht-den-flachentariffvertragen-das-aus/) - [Ja, Kruzefix!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/ja-kruzefix/) - [Sozialer Kahlschlag, Nationalismus und Repression](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/sozialer-kahlschlag-nationalismus-und-repression/) - [Die AKP kapituliert: Schafft ein, zwei, viele Frankreichs!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/die-akp-kapituliert-schafft-ein-zwei-viele-frankreichs/) - [Die Ziele der Gruppe Spartakus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/die-ziele-der-gruppe-spartakus-3/) - [Viele Wege führen in die Sackgasse ...auch das "Aktionsprogramm" der GAM](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/viele-wege-fuhren-in-die-sackgasse-auch-das-aktionsprogramm-der-gam/) - [Co-Management für das Kapital](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/co-management-fur-das-kapital/) - ["Globalisierung" und der Abschied von den Gewerkschaften](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/globalisierung-und-der-abschied-von-den-gewerkschaften/): Zahlreiche Errungenschaften, die sich die Lohnabhängigen in den letzten achtzig Jahren erkämpft haben, stehen heute unter Beschuß und die Gewerkschaftsbonzen schießen mit. - [Vom Lucky-Streik zum Klassenkampf](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/vom-lucky-streik-zum-klassenkampf/) - [Rassismus im linken Schafspelz](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/rassismus-im-linken-schafspelz/) - [Die Ziele der Gruppe Spartakus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/die-ziele-der-gruppe-spartakus-2/) - [Linke und Arbeiterbewegung: Zerschlagt das Nazipack!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/linke-und-arbeiterbewegung-zerschlagt-das-nazipack/) - [Niederlage am 1. Mai](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/niederlage-am-1-mai/) - [Weg mit den Verboten von DHKP-C und THKP-C!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/weg-mit-den-verboten-von-dhkp-c-und-thkp-c/) - [Für eine bildungspolitische Gegenoffensive!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/fur-eine-bildungspolitische-gegenoffensive/) - [Revolutionary Trotskyist Bulletin No 3](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/revolutionary-trotskyist-bulletin-no-3/) - [Wahlkampf, Antikommunismus und Antisemitismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/wahlkampf-antikommunismus-und-antisemitismus/) - [Die Ziele der Gruppe Spartakus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/die-ziele-der-gruppe-spartakus/) - [Revolutionary Trotskyist Bulletin No 2](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/revolutionary-trotskyist-bulletin-no-2/) - [Die bürgerliche Offensive geht weiter](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/die-burgerliche-offensive-geht-weiter/) - [Revolutionary Trotskyist Bulletin No 1 Pt ii](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/revolutionary-trotskyist-bulletin-no-1-pt-ii/) - [Revolutionary Trotskyist Bulletin No 1 Pt i](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/revolutionary-trotskyist-bulletin-no-1-pt-i/) - [Sobre el apoyo militar y el apoyo político](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/04/sobre-el-apoyo-militar-y-el-apoyo-politico/): Recientemente recibimos una pregunta de un lector respecto a "la diferencia entre apoyo militar y político" en relación con el actual conflicto en Ucrania (en donde estamos a favor de una victoria militar rusa sobre EE.UU./OTAN y representante ucraniano). - [On military vs political support](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/22/on-military-vs-political-support/): We recently received an inquiry from a reader asking about “the difference between military and political support” in connection with the current conflict in Ukraine (where we favour a Russian military victory over US/NATO and its Ukrainian proxy ). - [Upcoming Madrid protest against the war in Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/22/upcoming-madrid-protest-against-the-war-in-ukraine/): The Bolshevik Tendency calls on all revolutionary Marxist sympathizers and working-class militants to attend the Madrid protest called for Friday, February 24 opposing the US/NATO proxy war against Russia. - [Protest demands freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/21/protest-demands-freedom-for-mumia-abu-jamal/): BT supporters were part of a crowd of 300 that marched behind the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) banner on Thursday 16 February demanding freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal. - [Sobre la ‘Asamblea Constituyente Revolucionaria’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/20/sobre-la-asamblea-constituyente-revolucionaria/): L0 siguiente es una traducción de una carta enviada a Courant Communiste Révolutionnaire (parte de la Plataforma 4 del Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste francés y simpatizantes de la Fracción Trotskista-Cuarta Internacional) en la que se abordan las perspectivas del Movimiento 15M español (también conocido como el movimiento de los indignados), que proporcionaría más tarde una especie de modelo el posterior movimiento "Occupy Wall Street". - [Más vale tarde que nunca](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/16/mas-vale-tarde-que-nunca/): "Reconocer con franqueza un error, determinando las razones del mismo, analizando las condiciones que han conducido a él y buscar los medios para rectificarlo: ése es el sello distintivo de un partido serio…". - [19 February ‘Rage Against the War Machine’ Protest in D.C.](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/12/19-february-rage-against-the-war-machine-protest-in-d-c/): On 19 February a “Rage Against the War Machine” (RAWM) demonstration is being co-sponsored by the left-liberal “People’s Party” comprised of disgruntled former supporters of Bernie Sanders and the bourgeois conservative “Libertarian Party” in Washington, D.C. - [BT supporters attended protests against the racist police murder of Tyre Nichols](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/11/bt-supporters-attended-protests-against-the-racist-police-murder-of-tyre-nichols/): BT supporters attended protests against the racist police murder of Tyre Nichols in Hartford, CT, on Saturday 28th January 2023 and Worcester, MA, on Monday 30th January. - [On Trotskyist history & revolutionary continuity](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/10/on-trotskyist-history-revolutionary-continuity/): The following is an edited and abbreviated version of an exchange between a former leading Spartacist cadre and Tom Riley of the Bolshevik Tendency. - [Event - International Action to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/10/event-international-action-to-free-mumia-abu-jamal/): This is the hour to fight for Mumia’s freedom. On Thursday, Feb. - [1971 Communist Tendency document on Historical Roots of Degeneration of the 4th International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/05/1971-communist-tendency-document-on-historical-roots-of-degeneration-of-the-4th-international/) - [¡Solidaridad con Heiner Bücker! ¡Fuera los artículos de censura 130 y 140!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/02/solidaridad-con-heiner-bucker-fuera-los-articulos-de-censura-130-y-140/): El 22 de julio de 2022, Heiner Bücker, miembro del VVN-BDA y de Die Linke, pronunció un discurso en el Memorial Soviético de Treptow, en el que describió con con datos los crímenes del fascismo ucraniano de Bandera en los años 30 y 40 y el sufrimiento de la población soviética debido a la invasión nazi alemana. - [Solidarity with Heiner Bücker! Down with censorship clauses 130 and 140!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/02/02/solidarity-with-heiner-bucker-down-with-censorship-clauses-130-and-140/): On 22 July 2022, VVN-BDA and Die Linke member Heiner Bücker gave a speech at the Soviet War Memorial in Treptow Park, in which he described with factual precision the crimes of Ukrainian Bandera fascism in the 1930s and ‘40s and the suffering of the Soviet population due to the Nazi German invasion. - [British Labour Party Adopts ‘Socialist’ Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/01/30/british-labour-party-adopts-socialist-program/): The following excerpt from an article in the 23 November 1973 issue of Workers Vanguard contains a critique of the Labourite politics of the Revolutionary Communist League (RCL), aka the “Chartists,” with which Martin Cook was affiliated. - [Toronto protest - "End NATO's Proxy War in Ukraine"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/11/20/toronto-protest-end-natos-proxy-war-in-ukraine/) - [Hidden audio of debate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/11/15/hidden-audio-of-debate/) - [BT presentation at Ukraine debate with SL](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/11/12/bt-presentation-at-ukraine-debate-with-sl/): As people probably know, we in the Bolshevik Tendency want to see a Russian military victory in Ukraine whereas the Spartacist League takes a position of defeatism on both sides. - [Initial report on Ukrainian war debate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/11/11/initial-report-on-ukrainian-war-debate/): On 11 November the Bolshevik Tendency debated the Spartacist League in London on our differences regarding the current conflict in Ukraine. - [Defend the Palestinians - Oppose Zionist Terror Attack on Gaza](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/10/21/defend-the-palestinians-oppose-zionist-terror-attack-on-gaza/): Bolshevik Tendency comrades attended protests against the Israeli state's attack on the Palestinian population of Gaza. - [Ukraine War Debate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/10/13/ukraine-war/) - [End NATO’s Proxy War in Ukraine! Disband NATO! Canada Out of NATO!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/10/08/end-natos-proxy-war-in-ukraine-disband-nato-and-canada-out-of-nato/): Bolshevik Tendency speakers' remarks to protest against NATO’s Proxy War in Ukraine - Toronto on 1 October The BT is pleased to be in the Toronto Coalition Against NATO, a united front based on three slogans: End NATO’s Proxy War in Ukraine! - [Palästinensische Befreiung & bi-nationaler Arbeiterstaat](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/10/02/palastinensische-befreiung-bi-nationaler-arbeiterstaat/): In einem Artikel vom 13. September 2023 mit dem Titel „Weder Verrat, noch Utopismus! - [Toronto Anti-War Protest - 1 October 2023 - 1pm](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/09/30/toronto-anti-war-protest-1-october-2023-1pm/): End NATO's Proxy War in Ukraine! - [Lenin über den Imperialismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/09/24/lenin-uber-den-imperialismus/): Im August 1914, bei Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs, war Wladimir Lenin fassungslos über die Welle des Sozialpatriotismus, die die Zweite Internationale, einschließlich ihrer deutschen Vorzeigesektion, der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands (SPD), überrollte. - [Sur l'attitude des révolutionnaires à l'égard de la police](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/09/08/sur-lattitude-des-revolutionnaires-a-legard-de-la-police/): Lettre ouverte à la rédaction de Révolution (Envoyé le 29 juillet 2023) (Comme nous ne disposons que d'une capacité linguistique très limitée en français, nous avons dû recourir à une traduction automatique de ce texte - nous avons joint l'original en anglais). - [Alerting the Socialist Party to an omission on their website](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/08/21/alerting-the-socialist-party-to-an-omission-on-their-website/): The following letter was sent to the Socialist Party alerting them to an omission in the archive of their paper (The Socialist). - [Хто ми](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/21/%d1%85%d1%82%d0%be-%d0%bc%d0%b8/): Дивитися відкрито у вічі дійсності; не шукати лінії найменшого опору; називати речі своїми іменами; говорити масам правду, якою б гіркою вона не була; не боятися перешкод; бути вірним у малому, як і великому; спиратися на логіку класової боротьби; дерзати, коли настає час дії, – такими є правила Четвертого Інтернаціоналу. - [Solidarność: Prueba de fuego para los trotskistas](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/18/solidarnosc-prueba-de-fuego-para-los-trotskistas/): "No puede pensarse, está claro, en la construcción de una nueva Internacional por organizaciones que tienen bases de principios profundamente diferentes e incluso opuestas." - [Audio du forum sur l'initiative chinoise "la ceinture et la route"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/15/audio-du-forum-sur-linitiative-chinoise-la-ceinture-et-la-route/): Audio du forum de la Tendance bolchevique (en français) sur l'initiative chinoise Belt and Road qui s'est déroulé à la Fête de Lutte Ouvrière le 27 mai 2023. - [Breve esbozo de la historia de la Tendencia Militante](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/14/breve-esbozo-de-la-historia-de-la-tendencia-militante/): Los orígenes del Comité por una Internacional de los Trabajadores (CWI - Commitee for a Workers’ International, antes conocido como la Tendencia Militante) se remontan a una escisión en 1937 en un pequeño grupo trotskista conocido como Militant dirigido por Denzil Dean Harber. - [¡Fuera carceleros del TUC!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/14/fuera-carceleros-del-tuc/): La siguiente declaración, fechada el 10 de noviembre de 2007, ha sido elaborada por la sección londinense de la Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional. - [¡Por un Nuevo Partido Obrero Revolucionario!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/14/por-un-nuevo-partido-obrero-revolucionario/): La "Campaña por un nuevo partido obrero" del Socialist Party (www.cnwp.org.uk), lanzada en su fin de semana "Socialism 2005" en noviembre, ha elaborado una "Declaración por un nuevo partido obrero" para su firma por todos los que apoyan la creación de ese nuevo partido obrero. - [La derrota más vergonzosa](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/14/la-derrota-mas-vergonzosa/): “Ningún revolucionario que sopese sus palabras sostendrá que ninguna victoria habría estado garantizada de seguir esta línea. - [Un exemple de manuel](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/12/un-exemple-de-manuel/): [Traduction automatique] - Trotskyist Bulletin No. - [A la recherche désespérée de Snetkov](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/12/a-la-recherche-desesperee-de-snetkov/): [Traduction automatique] - "Desperately Seeking Snetkov", 1917 No. - [Plier le bâton trop loin](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/12/plier-le-baton-trop-loin/): Document 2b.6 [Traduction automatique] - "'On the Slogan 'Hail the Red Army'", 1917 No. - [Déclaration d'une tendance externe de l'iSt](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/12/declaration-dune-tendance-externe-de-list/): Jim : "...soit le parti est comme vous l'avez dit, rempli de la contradiction fondamentale d'avoir une direction bureaucratique, abusive et personnaliste tout en proclamant qu'il est pour la démocratie socialiste. - [Soutien essentiel au SpAD](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/11/soutien-essentiel-au-spad/): [Traduction automatique] - "Critical support to the SpAD", 1917 No. - [Les cyniques qui méprisent le trotskisme](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/11/les-cyniques-qui-meprisent-le-trotskisme/): [Traduction automatique] - "Cynics who scorn Trotskyism", 1917 No. - [Qu'est-il advenu de la Spartacist League ?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/11/quest-il-advenu-de-la-spartacist-league/): [Traduction automatique] - Whatever Happened to the Spartacist League Dans le numéro de printemps 2004 de Spartacist (n° 58), la Ligue communiste internationale (LCI) caractérise ses récents résultats politiques comme des "élans opportunistes", un "moralisme sectaire" et une "approche de plus en plus abstraite et stérile de la politique", concluant que "l'incapacité à faire face au monde créé par la chute de l'URSS et le recul de la conscience qui en résulte sont à la base de la crise actuelle de la LCI" : "L'incapacité à faire face au monde créé par la chute de l'URSS et la régression de la conscience qui en découle sont à la base de la crise actuelle de la LCI. - [Les faux trotskystes font une fausse offre](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/11/les-faux-trotskystes-font-une-fausse-offre/): [Traduction automatique] - "Fake Trotskyists make fake offer", 1917 No. - [La brigade bidon de Robertson](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/11/la-brigade-bidon-de-robertson/): [Traduction automatique] - "Robertson's bogus brigade", 1917 No. - [Pas de catastrophe pour la classe ouvrière](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/11/pas-de-catastrophe-pour-la-classe-ouvriere/): [Traduction automatique] - "No disaster for the working class", 1917 No. - [Une perte de nerfs et une perte de volonté](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/11/une-perte-de-nerfs-et-une-perte-de-volonte/): [Traduction automatique] - Trotskyist Bulletin No. - [La Policía](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/08/la-policia/): Los trabajadores que llevan a cabo acciones sindicales -especialmente cuando organizan piquetes, un derecho sindical vital- han entrado una y otra vez en conflicto con la policía. - [El Estado: El programa marxista y las reivindicaciones transitorias](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/08/el-estado-el-programa-marxista-y-las-reivindicaciones-transitorias/): Reflejado de www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/108183/23-04-2006/marxism-and-the-state-an-exchange/ lunes, 14 abril 2008 12:20:38 GMT (Editado para verlo fuera del ‘frame’ de la ICM) Lynn Walsh El 29 de marzo de 2006, Michael Wainwright publicó una declaración en el Foro de las Juventudes del Socialist Party, "Re: Marxist and the State'. - [Los marxistas y el Estado](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/08/los-marxistas-y-el-estado/): Michael Wainwright Durante los últimos dos años y medio, mi participación en el Partido Socialista me ha proporcionado un considerable grado de competencia organizativa, la capacidad de intervenir en el movimiento obrero en su conjunto, así como el afán por educarme políticamente para enfrentarme con éxito al oportunismo y a todos los matices del reformismo. - [La caricatura kautskiana del trotskismo por parte del Committee for a Workers’ International – (CWI-CIT)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/08/la-caricatura-kautskiana-del-trotskismo-por-parte-del-committee-for-a-workers-international-cwi-cit/): ‘Que el Estado es un órgano de gobierno de una determinada clase que no puede reconciliarse con su antípoda (la clase opuesta a ella) es algo que los demócratas pequeñoburgueses nunca podrán entender. - [Solidarnosc : Épreuve de vérité pour les trotskystes (version abrégée)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/07/solidarnosc-epreuve-de-verite-pour-les-trotskystes/): D’après notre expérience, les porte-parole « trotskystes » de Solidarnosc ne sont pas guidés par un seul argument cohérent. - [Compare et contraste](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/07/compare-et-contraste/): Ce qui suit est un assortiment de citations tirées de publications de la Tendance bolchévique internationale (TBI — y compris la Tendance externe de la TSI, prédécesseur de la TBI) et de la Ligue communiste internationale (LCI — y compris la Tendance spartaciste internationale, prédécesseur de la LCI) qui mettent l’accent sur les divergences entre les deux organisations sur des questions touchant le stalinisme et la défense des États ouvriers déformés et dégénéré. - [За троцкизм!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/05/%d0%b7%d0%b0-%d1%82%d1%80%d0%be%d1%86%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%b7%d0%bc/): Следующий документ был принят объединенной конференцией Большевистской тенденции и Левой Троцкистской тенденции в 1987 году как кодификация программного соглашения, достигнутого обеими организациями. - [Marxismo y el reformismo de ‘Militant’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/07/03/marxismo-y-el-reformismo-de-militant/): ¡Por un nuevo partido obrero revolucionario! - [Kronstadt & Counterrevolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/06/27/kronstadt-counterrevolution-2/) - [« En plein dans le mille » : un ancien cadre de la SL réagit à la déclaration de la TB sur la correction du GI concernant la Russie contre l'OTAN](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/05/30/en-plein-dans-le-mille-un-ancien-cadre-de-la-sl-reagit-a-la-declaration-de-la-tb-sur-la-correction-du-gi-concernant-la-russie-contre-lotan/): Un ancien cadre de longue date de la Spartacist League nous a envoyé l'observation suivante sur « Mieux vaut tard que jamais » - le commentaire sur le changement de position du groupe internationaliste concernant l'intervention militaire de la Russie en Ukraine que nous avons publié le 25 novembre. - [Mieux vaut tard que jamais](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/05/30/mieux-vaut-tard-que-jamais/): « Reconnaître ouvertement son erreur, en découvrir les causes, analyser la situation qui l'a fait naître, examiner attentivement les moyens de corriger cette erreur, voilà la marque d'un parti sérieux… » —V.I. - [Nieder mit den Angriffen auf die Kommunistische Organisation! Gegen jegliche Gewalt innerhalb der Linken und Arbeiterbewegung!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/05/23/nieder-mit-den-angriffen-auf-die-kommunistische-organisation-gegen-jegliche-gewalt-innerhalb-der-linken-und-arbeiterbewegung/): Am 1. Mai kam es auf der Revolutionären 1.Mai-Demonstration in Frankfurt nach ersten Attacken auf Genossen der Kommunistischen Organisation (KO) durch Anarchisten und Antideutsche, die durch die Unterstützung der Ukraine motiviert sind, zu weiteren Angriffen durch Genossen des Kommunistischen Aufbaus (KA) und Young Struggle. - [L'OTAN contre la Russie en Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/05/17/lotan-contre-la-russie-en-ukraine/): L'incursion russe en Ukraine a accéléré le déclin de l'impérialisme américain, gravement affaibli ses « partenaires » européens et l'OTAN dans son ensemble, tout en réduisant son influence en Amérique latine et dans l’ « Indo-Pacifique ». - [Telling the truth to the masses: On Russia v NATO in Ukraine](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/05/14/telling-the-truth-to-the-masses-on-russia-v-nato-in-ukraine/): On 25-26 June the BT participated in an “Emergency International Anti-War Conference” initiated by the Christian Rakovski Balkan Socialist Centre and RedMed. - [Drop the charges against APSP supporters!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/04/24/drop-the-charges-against-apsp-supporters/): The four militants indicted on these outrageous, anti-democratic charges (Omali Yeshitela, Penny Joanne Hess, Jesse Nevel and Augustus C. Romain Jr.) - [Mumia's birthday celebrated in London](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/04/24/mumias-birthday-celebrated-in-london/): BT supporters participated in a demonstration in London on Saturday 22nd April to celebrate the birthday of Mumia Abu-Jamal and call for his freedom. - [Audio of BT online forum "China's Belt and Road Initiative & Imperialist Blowback](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/04/04/audio-of-bt-online-forum-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-imperialist-blowback/) - [Audio recording of presentation at BT Forum “Class Struggle on the Waterfront – Lessons from the ILWU”](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/30/audio-recording-of-presentation-at-bt-forum-class-struggle-on-the-waterfront-lessons-from-the-ilwu/): This presentation was given on 25 March 2023 at the Building Worker Power conference, held at the University of Massachusetts. - [Online forum - China's Belt and Road Initiative & Imperialist Blowback](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/25/online-forum-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-imperialist-blowback/): The Belt and Road Initiative has made the Peoples' Republic one of the top five investors on most continents. - [BT Forum "Class Struggle on the Waterfront - Lessons from the ILWU"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/20/bt-forum-class-struggle-on-the-waterfront-lessons-from-the-ilwu/): On May 1, 2008 25,000 dockers belonging to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) shut down every port from San Diego to Seattle to protest the occupation of Iraq. - [Besser verspätet als nie](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/20/besser-verspatet-als-nie/): „Einen Fehler offen zuzugeben, seine Ursachen aufdecken, die Umstände, die ihn hervorgerufen haben, analysieren, die Mittel zur Behebung des Fehlers sorgfältig prüfen - das ist das Merkmal einer ernsten Partei ....“ - W. - [Кто мы](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/20/%d0%ba%d1%82%d0%be-%d0%bc%d1%8b/): Смотреть открыто в глаза действительности; не искать линии наименьшего сопротивления; называть вещи своими именами; говорить массам правду, как бы горька она ни была; не бояться препятствий; быть верным в малом, как и в большом; опираться на логику классовой борьбы; дерзать, когда наступает час действия, — таковы правила Четвертого Интернационала. - [‘En el blanco': un antiguo cuadro de la Liga Espartaquista comenta la declaración de Tendencia Bolchevique sobre la rectificación del Grupo Internacionalista respecto a Rusia y la OTAN](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/19/en-el-blanco-un-antiguo-cuadro-de-la-liga-espartaquista-comenta-la-declaracion-de-tendencia-bolchevique-sobre-la-rectificacion-del-grupo-internacionalista-respecto-a-rusia-y-la-otan/): Un antiguo cuadro de la Liga Espartaquista nos envió la siguiente observación sobre "Más vale tarde que nunca", comentario sobre el cambio de posición del Grupo Internacionalista respecto a la intervención militar rusa en Ucrania, que publicamos el 25 de noviembre de 2022. - [The Issue Is Mumia Abu-Jamal:Innocent and Framed (By Rachel Wolkenstein 2014)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/18/the-issue-is-mumia-abu-jamalinnocent-and-framed-by-rachel-wolkenstein-2014/) - [Zu politischer gegenüber militärischer Unterstützung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/13/zu-politischer-gegenuber-militarischer-unterstutzung/): Kürzlich erhielten wir eine Anfrage einer Leserin, die sich nach dem „Unterschied zwischen militärischer und politischer Unterstützung“ im Zusammenhang mit dem aktuellen Konflikt in der Ukraine erkundigte (wo wir für einen militärischen Sieg Russlands über die USA/NATO und ihre ukrainischen Stellvertreter sind). - [FREE MUMIA! Event at ILWU Local 10, San Francisco - Saturday 11 March](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/11/free-mumia-event-at-ilwu-local-10-san-francisco-saturday-11-march/) - [Lenin und die Avantgardepartei](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/08/lenin-und-die-avantgardepartei/): Vor kurzem haben zwei Gruppen, die zu den größten der britischen „extremen Linken“ zählen, die International Marxist Group (IMG) und die International Socialists (nunmehr die Socialist Workers Party: SWP/IS), sich darangemacht, die Geschichte der Bolschewiki umzuschreiben. - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 30 - April 1980](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-30-april-1980/): Inhalt: Keine Entspannungsillusionen! Sieg der Roten Armee in Afghanistan! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 29 - Februar 1980](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-29-februar-1980/): Inhalt: Moslemfanatiker/Maoisten verüben Mordanschlag auf Trotzkisten, Keine Entlassungen bei AEG! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 24. Mai 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-24-mai-1979/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 1.Mai 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-1-mai-1979/): Iran: Arbeiterrevolution gegen islamische Reaktion! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 22. März 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-22-marz-1979/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 4. Januar 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-4-januar-1979/): Brecht mit dem Pabloismus! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 28 - Dezember 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-28-dezember-1979/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 27 - November 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-27/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 26 - September 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-26-september-1979/): Inhalt: Verteidigt die iranische Linke! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 25 - Juni 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-25-juni-1979/): Inhalt: Für die Vereinigten Sozialistischen Staaten von Europa! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 24 - Februar 1979](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-24-februar-1979/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 23 - Oktober 1978](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-23-oktober-1978/): Inhalt: Nieder mit dem Schah! Nieder mit den Mullahs! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 22 - Juli 1978](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-22-juli-1978/): Inhalt: Nieder mit dem imperialistischen Mordarsenal! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 21 - April 1978](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-21-april-1978/): Inhalt: Für die revolutionäre Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands! - [Kommunistische Korrepondenz Nr. 20 - November 1977](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrepondenz-nr-20-november-1977/): Inhalt Westdeutsche Linke kapituliert vor der Hexenjagd, Spartacist League/U.S. - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 19 - Juli 1977](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/07/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-19-juli-1977/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 18 - Mai 1977](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-18-mai-1977/): Inhalt: Spanien: Pulverfaß Europas, Keine Träne für Buback, Leninistische Fusion TF-TLD, Arbeiterbewegung und Kernenergie, Anti-AKW-„Bewegung“: Zurück zur Natur, Für eine vereinigte klassenkämpferische GEW im DGB! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 17 - Februar 1977](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-17-februar-1977/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 1. Mai 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-1-mai-1976/): Kampf dem Opportunismus und Sektierertum! Vorwärts mit der TLD! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 16 - Dezember 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespopndenz-nr-16-dezember-1976/): Inhalt: Für die politische Revolution zum Sturz aller Flügel der Bürokratie! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 15 - September 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-15-september-1976/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 14 - Juni 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-14-juni-1976/): Inhalt: Rettet das Leben von Manuel Muñoz! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 13 - April 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-13-april-1976/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 12 - Januar/Februar 1976](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-12-januar-februar-1976/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 22. November 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-22-november-1975/): Zur Verteidigung des Trotzkismus und der Arbeiterdemokratie Trotzkismus: Der Marxismus unserer Epoche! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 30. Oktober 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-30-oktober-1975/): Kampf der Jugendarbeitslosigkeit! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra-Blatt - 8. Mai 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-blatt-8-mai-1975/): Maoisten vom Krebs des Chauvinismus ergriffen Gegen den Sozialchauvinismus Stalins und Mao Tse-Tungs! Für den proletarischen Innternationalismus Lenins! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 11 - November 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-11-november-1975/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 10 - September 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-10-september-1975/): Inhalt: Portugal: Kein weiteres Chile mehr! - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 9 - Juni 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-9-juni-1975/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 8 - April 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-8-april-1975/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 7 - Februar 1975](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-7-februar-1975/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Extra - 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-extra-1974/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 6 - Dezember 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-6-dezember-1974/): Inhalt: SPD, „linke“ Wahlpolitik und Kommunismus, Internationalismus in den US-Gewerkschaften, Befreit die MIR-Genossen, 25 Jahre VR China, Solidaritätskampagne mit der R.A.F. - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 5 - November 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-5-november-1974/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 4 - Juli 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-4-juli-1974/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 3 - Juni 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-3-juni-1974/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 2 - April 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-2-april-1974/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 1 - Februar 1974](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-1-februar-1974/): Inhalt: Aktuelle Kriterien des Bolschewismus in Deutschland, Chauvinisten im Trotzkipelz, Ein Vater der (Kon)Fusion, Leitartikel aus Workers Vanguard Nr. - [Spartacist Nr. 9 Frühjahr 1981](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-9-fruhjahr-1981/): Inhalt: Ein Arbeiterpolen, ja! - [Spartacist Nr. 7-8 Sommer 1980](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-7-8-sommer-1980/) - [Spartacist Nr. 6 Juni 1978](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-6-juni-1978/) - [Spartacist Nr. 5 Mai 1977](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/03/06/spartacist-nr-5-mai-1977/) - [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/): 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. - [Where Are We Going?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/14/where-are-we-going-2/): 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. - [A letter to Arthur Scargill](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/14/a-letter-to-arthur-scargill/): [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." - [No Vote to Labour!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/14/no-vote-to-labour-3/): 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. - [Letter to the NEC regarding Tony Goss](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/14/letter-to-the-nec-regarding-tony-goss/): I am writing to report a serious incident which took place before the London election rally on Tuesday 25 February. - [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. - [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/): 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. - [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. - [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/): - Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between EGT, LLC & ILWU Local 21. - [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. - [A United Front in Tweets](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/01/a-united-front-in-tweets-2/): 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. - [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. - [Le confusionnisme ‘trotskiste’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/06/17/le-confusionnisme-trotskiste/): 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. - [La Chine en Afrique](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/06/17/la-chine-en-afrique/): Ces articles ont d'abord été rédigés en anglais, puis traduits en français à l'aide d'un outil de traduction automatique, avec une légère révision. - [‘Trotskyist’ Confusionism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/06/14/trotskyist-confusionism/): Unlike many pseudo-Trotskyist tendencies, the post-Morenoites of the Trotskyist Fraction (TF) have grown in recent years, particularly in France. - [China in Afrika](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/06/02/china-in-afrika/): Dieser Text ist eine leicht abgeänderte Übersetzung des Artikels „China in Africa“, der am 15. Oktober 2022 auf bolsheviktendency.org erschien. - [Toronto Mayday march](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/05/06/toronto-mayday-march/): BT marched alongside comrades from half a dozen other organizations in the annual Mayday march held on 3 May. - [Mumia Legal Update - March 2025](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/04/22/mumia-legal-update-march-2025/) - [The Mumia Freedom Tour](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/04/22/the-mumia-freedom-tour/): From April 21-25, 2025, the Mumia Freedom Tour will be visiting the Bay Area to educate people about the path to Mumia’s freedom. - [Remembering Comrade Chris](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/04/21/rememberingcomradechris/): The following is an edited and expanded version of a note sent by Tom Riley to a group of comrades, mostly former Spartacists from the Bay Area, on 15 April, a day after Chris Kinder (“Knox,” “Korwin”) died. - [Free Levent Dölek, free the prisoners of despotism in Türkiye!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/04/07/free-levent-dolek-free-the-prisoners-of-despotism-in-turkiye/): The protests that have rocked Turkey for the last week have been met by a wave of house raids and arrests by the despotic regimes. - [CORRECTION—SL Comrades attended Howard Keylor Memorial](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/02/20/correction-sl-comrades-attended-howard-keylor-memorial/): In the introduction to our 30 January report on the Spartacist League’s retraction of Workers Vanguard’s 1986 slander of our comrade Howard Keylor as a “union narc,” we mistakenly reported that “The SL did not attend” the 25 January memorial to honor his memory. - [Katerstimmung nach „demokratischer“ Kriegsorgie](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/02/13/katerstimmung-nach-demokratischer-kriegsorgie/): Die Bundestagswahl im Februar 2025 steht im Zeichen der wirtschaftlichen Krise des deutschen Imperialismus. - [A surprising deviation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/02/10/a-surprising-deviation/): On 25 January nearly 100 people attended a memorial for Howard Keylor in the headquarters of San Francisco’s Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). - [Honoring comrade Howard](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/02/06/honoring-comrade-howard/): These slightly edited remarks were delivered by Tom Riley on behalf of the Bolshevik Tendency at a memorial meeting for Howard Keylor in the Henry Schmidt room in the union hall of Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in San Francisco on 25 January 2025. - [Mutiger Gewerkschafter gegen Apartheid](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/02/06/mutiger-gewerkschafter-gegen-apartheid/): Der folgende Text wurde am 3. Februar 2025 in der Zeitung die junge Welt veröffentlicht. - [Honor Howard - Special Edition of Bolshevik](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/01/30/honor-howard-special-edition-of-bolshevik/) - [Video of memorial meeting for Howard Keylor](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/01/30/video-of-memorial-meeting-for-howard-keylor/): Memorial meeting held for Howard Keylor at the ILWU Local 10 hall in San Francisco on Saturday 25 January 2025. - [Spartacist League Retracts Slander](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/01/30/spartacist-league-retracts-slander/): We have corrected our original 30 January report which stated that "The SL did not attend the memorial." - [„Unerschütterliche revolutionäre Loyalität“](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/01/27/unerschutterliche-revolutionare-loyalitat/): Howard (rechts) bespricht Taktiken mit der Schlepper-Besatzung während des erfolgreichen „illegalen“ Streiks zur Beseitigung von Streikbrechern auf den Levin Terminals, Juni 1983 Am 5. - [Trotzki zur Taktik: „Lernt denken“](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/01/27/trotzki-zur-taktik-lernt-denken/): Ein Genosse kritisierte uns dafür, dass wir vor einem Jahr an einer Einheitsfront in Toronto teilgenommen hatten, die als Teil ihrer Einheitsgrundlage die Forderung „Kanada raus aus der NATO“ enthielt, zusammen mit den Aufrufen „Beendet den Stellvertreterkrieg der NATO in der Ukraine“ und „Löst die NATO auf“. - [Memorial Meeting in San Francisco for Howard Keylor, our beloved comrade](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/01/23/memorial-meeting-in-san-francisco-for-howard-keylor-our-beloved-comrade/): Saturday, January 25, 2025, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. - [For working-class independence!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/11/24/for-working-class-independence/): “Marxists recognise that capitalist parliaments represent organs of class rule that are designed to protect and advance the interests of those on top, rather than to function as vehicles for fundamental social change. - [The Birth of the Zionist State](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/11/23/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. - [Workers Must Crush Sectarian Terror](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/11/21/workers-must-crush-sectarian-terror/): A talk by David Strachan of the London Spartacist Group delivered in New York on 14 March 1977. This edited text was published in Workers Vanguard No. - [Theses on Ireland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/11/21/theses-on-ireland/): From Spartacist No. 24, 1978, reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. - [A letter to ‘Revolution Festival 2024’ attendees](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/11/16/a-letter-to-revolution-festival-2024-attendees/): In October 2019, Socialist Revolution, newspaper of the International Marxist Tendency’s American section, published a wide-ranging critique of “ultraleft sectarianism” which, among other things, addressed the Marxist view of cops and screws. - [‘Unshakeable revolutionary loyalty’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/30/unshakeable-revolutionary-loyalty/): Howard (right) discussing tactics with tugboat crew during successful ‘illegal’ strike to remove scabs from Levin Terminals, June 1983 On 5 October 2024, just two months short of his 99th birthday, our comrade Howard Keylor died. - [Howard Keylor - Condolences from The Liverpool Dockworkers/Initiative Factory](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/30/howard-keylor-condolences-from-the-liverpool-dockworkers-initiative-factory/) - [Howard Keylor - Solidarity message From NUMSA](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/30/howard-keylor-solidarity-message-from-numsa/) - [A United Front in Tweets](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/20/a-united-front-in-tweets/): 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. - [End the Siege of Gaza!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/20/end-the-siege-of-gaza/): 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. - [PORT SHUT DOWN FOR OSCAR GRANT!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/20/port-shut-down-for-oscar-grant/): The Bay Area based Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal has issued the following statement on an upcoming labor action by San Francisco dockers to protest the outrageously indulgent treatment of a notorious killer cop by the capitalist courts An Innocent Black Man Shot in the Back by Police and... - [The ‘Force of Will’ in the 1984 Longshore Boycott](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/20/the-force-of-will-in-the-1984-longshore-boycott/): In November and December 1984, the International Warehouse and Longshore Union (ILWU) in the port of San Francisco carried out a historic 11-day strike against cargo from apartheid South Africa. - [Program and Action in the 1984 Longshore Boycott](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/20/program-and-action-in-the-1984-longshore-boycott/): In November and December 1984, the International Warehouse and Longshore Union (ILWU) in the port of San Francisco carried out a historic 11-day strike against cargo from apartheid South Africa. - [Class Struggle on the Waterfront](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/20/class-struggle-on-the-waterfront-2/): For eleven days in November-December 1984, the Nedlloyd Kimberley, full of cargo from South Africa, sat and rusted in San Francisco harbor as 300 longshoremen refused to touch the apartheid freight on board. - [Memories of the 1984 Longshore Boycott](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/20/memories-of-the-1984-longshore-boycott/): In November and December 1984, the International Warehouse and Longshore Union (ILWU) in the port of San Francisco carried out a historic 11-day strike against cargo from apartheid South Africa. - [Trotsky on tactics: ‘Learn to think’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/10/19/trotsky-on-tactics-learn-to-think/): A comrade criticised us for participating in a united front in Toronto a year ago which included the demand “Canada Out of NATO” as part of its basis of unity along with calls to “End NATO’s Proxy War in Ukraine” and “Disband NATO.” Our critic, who shares our opposition to NATO’s perfidious role in the devastation of Ukraine, takes the view that calling for a particular imperialist state to leave the US-led military alliance is tantamount to advocating participation in a different but qualitatively similar lash-up. - [It is hard to square a circle](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/09/21/it-is-hard-to-square-a-circle/): The “glasnost” policy recently introduced by the new leadership of the Spartacist League has created ripples among those who identify with the Revolutionary Tendency/Spartacist League of the 1960s and 70s led by James Robertson. - [Response to ICL retraction of historic slanders](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/08/15/response-to-icl-retraction-of-historic-slanders/): On 12 August we sent the following letter to the International Communist League in response to their recent retraction of slanders levelled against us several decades ago. - [Revolution and Truth](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/08/11/revolution-and-truth/) - [Leaflet distributed at IG/SL debate in New York (Saturday 13 January 2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/08/09/leaflet-distributed-at-ig-sl-debate-in-new-york-saturday-13-january-2024-2/): During our November 2023 debate with the Spartacist League in London we noted a new openness to addressing past positions. - [No Vote to Labour!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/06/26/no-vote-to-labour-2/): Down with Starmer—no to austerity, genocide and war! - [RESPECT-able Reformism and Cross-class ‘Unity’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/06/09/respect-able-reformism-and-cross-class-unity/): RESPECT – The Unity Coalition, launched at a ‘convention of the left’ on 25 January 2004, is a new electoral alliance planning to contest the European and Greater London Assembly elections in June. - [Leninismus gegen Stalinismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/05/24/leninismus-gegen-stalinismus-2/) - [Was ist das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW)?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/05/23/was-ist-das-bundnis-sahra-wagenknecht-bsw/): Der lange Weg von der Formierung eines Wagenknecht-Lagers in der Partei Die Linke (PDL) hin zur endgültigen Abspaltung und Gründung einer eigenen Partei ist beendet. - [Débat IG/SL : l'occasion de faire quelques mises au point](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/05/23/debat-ig-sl-loccasion-de-faire-quelques-mises-au-point/): Lors de notre débat de novembre 2023 avec la Spartacist League [SL] à Londres, nous avons constaté une nouvelle disponibilité de la SL pour aborder les positions passées. - [Pour un État ouvrier binational en Palestine-Israël !](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/05/23/pour-un-etat-ouvrier-binatio-nal-en-palestine-israel/): La campagne de terreur généralisée en cours à Gaza est la réponse pathologique de la classe dirigeante sioniste détraquée d'Israël face à l'évasion remarquablement réussie du ghetto du 7 octobre 2023 menée par le Hamas, la principale organisation de résistance islamiste dans les territoires palestiniens occupés. - [An injury to one is an injury to all—Drop the charges against Michael Pröbsting](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/05/01/an-injury-to-one-is-an-injury-to-all-drop-the-charges-against-michael-probsting/): Bolshevik Tendency supporter, Roxanne Baker, spoke at the protest on Monday 29 April outside the Austrian Embassy in London, organised by the Partisan Defence Committee, in support of activist Michael Pröbsting, who is facing very serious charges for publishing pro-Palestine material: Good evening comrades, sisters and brothers, My name is Roxanne and I’m a supporter of the Bolshevik Tendency. - [О военной поддержке против политической](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/04/25/%d0%be-%d0%b2%d0%be%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b9-%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%b4%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b6%d0%ba%d0%b5-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%be%d1%82%d0%b8%d0%b2-%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b8%d1%87%d0%b5%d1%81/): Недавно мы получили запрос от читателя, который спрашивал о «разнице между военной и политической поддержкой» в связи с текущим конфликтом на Украине (где мы выступаем за военную победу России над США/НАТО и их украинскими прокси). - [Für einen bi-nationalen Arbeiterstaat in Palästina-Israel!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/04/17/fur-einen-bi-nationalen-arbeiterstaat-in-palastina-israel/): Der nachfolgende Text ist eine Übersetzung des gleichnamigen englischsprachigen Artikels For a bi-national workers' state in Palestine-Israel, der am 30. - ['The Arab-Jewish War in Palestine'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/03/30/the-arab-jewish-war-in-palestine/): The following editorial appeared in the 31 May 1948 issue of the Militant, published by the Socialist Workers Party (US) led by James P. Cannon. - [Why a ‘bi-national workers’ state’?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/03/30/why-a-bi-national-workers-state/): In a 1988 polemic against the British Workers Power group we addressed our differences over Vladimir Lenin’s approach to the “national question.” In particular we discussed how the interpenetration of the two peoples living on the territory of Palestine-Israel makes it impossible to equitably resolve their competing claims via either a two-state or one-state solution within a capitalist framework: “Self-Determination” and Interpenetrated Peoples Most of the national questions posed in Lenin’s time have been resolved–the former colonies of the imperialist powers have generally achieved nominal political independence, without, of course, being emancipated from the imperialist world market. - [A few questions for Irish Socialist Party comrades](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/03/24/a-few-questions-for-irish-socialist-party-comrades/): Reprinted below is a leaflet written by a supporter of the Bolshevik Tendency living in Cork, Ireland who was struck by the starkly contrasting attitudes of the Irish Socialist Party (SP) and their American comrades in Socialist Alternative, over the 7 October 2023 breakout from Gaza led by Hamas. - [For a bi-national workers’ state in Palestine-Israel!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/03/06/for-a-bi-national-workers-state-in-palestine-israel/): The campaign of wholesale terror underway in Gaza is the pathological response of Israel’s deranged Zionist ruling class to the remarkably successful 7 October 2023 ghetto breakout led by Hamas, the leading Islamist resistance organisation in the Palestinian occupied territories. - [Lenin on Imperialism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/02/21/lenin-on-imperialism/): In August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, Vladimir Lenin was stunned by the wave of social-patriotism that swept the Second International, including its German flagship, the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD). - [Former Spartacist cadre comments on BT statement re: IG-SL debate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/31/former-spartacist-cadre-comments-on-bt-statement-re-ig-sl-debate/): A long-time former Spartacist League cadre made the following observation on our 28 January commentary “On the recent IG-SL debate.” Very powerful. - [On the recent IG-SL debate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/28/on-the-recent-ig-sl-debate/): The 13 January two-part public debate in New York City between the International Communist League/Spartacist League (ICL/SL) and the Internationalist Group (IG) offered few surprises, but it dramatically showcased the SL’s rapid movement away from the Trotskyist program it championed during the 1960s and 70s. - [A letter to an IG contact](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/25/a-letter-to-an-ig-contact/): 19 January 2024 Hi [comrade], All parties agree that Logan was guilty of running an abusive regime in Australia. - [Marx oder Deng?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/24/marx-oder-deng/): Der nachfolgende Artikel ist eine leicht überarbeitete Übersetzung des Texts Marx or Deng?, der am 3. Oktober 2021 auf bolsheviktendency.org erschien. - [Von der NÖP zur Zwangskollektivierung](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/21/von-der-nop-zur-zwangskollektivierung/): Nach vier Jahren Bürgerkrieg und drei Jahren eines verheerenden Weltkriegs hatte das russische Proletariat, das nie mehr als ein paar Millionen Menschen zählte, 1921 fast aufgehört zu existieren. - [BT contribution to the second session of the IG/SL debate (13 January 2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/18/bt-contribution-to-the-second-session-of-the-ig-sl-debate-13-january-2024/): Hello, I am Christoph from the Bolshevik Tendency. - [BT contribution to the first session of the IG/SL debate (13 January 2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/18/bt-contribution-to-the-first-session-of-the-ig-sl-debate-13-january-2024/): “The Spartacist League was not just one left grouping among many—it was the crystallization of the left-wing opposition to the political destruction by Pabloite revisionism of the revolutionary Socialist Workers Party (SWP)—a party built by James P. - [Spartacist degeneration up close & personal: the 1980 Toronto purge](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/18/spartacist-degeneration-up-close-personal-the-1980-toronto-purge/): After returning to Canada [after participating in founding of the Spartacist League/Britain], [Cathy] Nason became Toronto organizer and I took over Spartacist Canada. - [Flugblatt, das bei der IG/SL-Debatte in New York verteilt wurde (Samstag, 13. Januar 2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/18/flugblatt-das-bei-der-ig-sl-debatte-in-new-york-verteilt-wurde-samstag-13-januar-2024/) - [Leaflet distributed at IG/SL debate in New York (Saturday 13 January 2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/18/leaflet-distributed-at-ig-sl-debate-in-new-york-saturday-13-january-2024/) - [Defeatism and the Ukrainian working class](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2024/01/01/defeatism-and-the-ukrainian-working-class/): I did just watch [the BT-SL debate]—you did a fine job, and I much appreciated your wrap-up, with its encomium of the early SL (which is when I joined…. - [Defend Gaza--Down with Murderous Zionist Aggression](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/12/11/defend-gaza-down-with-murderous-zionist-aggression/) - [Präsentation der BT bei der Ukraine-Debatte mit der SL](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/12/09/prasentation-der-bt-bei-der-ukraine-debatte-mit-der-sl/): Wie ihr wahrscheinlich wisst, wollen wir von der Bolschewistischen Tendenz einen russischen militärischen Sieg in der Ukraine, während die Spartacist League auf beiden Seiten eine defätistische Position vertritt. - [Presentación de la Tendencia Bolchevique en el debate sobre Ucrania con la Liga Espartaquista](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/12/01/intervencion-de-la-tendencia-bolchevique-en-el-debate-sobre-ucrania-con-la-liga-espartaquista/): Como seguramente se sabe, en la Tendencia Bolchevique queremos ver la victoria militar rusa en Ucrania, mientras que la Liga Espartaquista adopta una posición derrotista en ambos bandos. - [An exchange on BT-SL debate with a former Spartacist cadre](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/11/27/an-exchange-on-bt-sl-debate-with-a-former-spartacist-cadre/): Former Spartacist cadre: Thanks for this, Tom. There was a problem with the link you sent me, so I tried the one that [J] sent out later and it worked well. - [BT comments prepared for Toronto anti-NATO protest](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2023/11/23/bt-comments-at-toronto-anti-nato-protest/): The following remarks were prepared for a Toronto Coalition Against NATO rally on 22 November in front of the convention of the Ontario Federation of Labour: The Bolshevik Tendency is here today as part of the Toronto Coalition Against NATO, a united front focussed on opposition to NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine. - [Fin de la OTAN](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/10/04/fin-de-la-otan/): El siguiente texto es la traducción al castellano de la charla de Tendencia Bolchevique el 26 de mayo de 2026 en la Fête de Lutte Ouvrière, en las afueras de París. - [Draft script for Bianca at CJPME’s 21 January NDP debate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/23/draft-script-for-bianca-at-cjpmes-21-january-ndp-debate/): Rob Ashton is not participating tonight—supposedly because he has little to contribute on the fate of Gaza and West Asia, two key issues in contemporary global politics. - [Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed—Onward to a Socialist Future!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/21/capitalism-cant-be-fixed-onward-to-a-socialist-future/): <9 December 2025 version> https://yvesforndpleader.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Capitalism-Cant-Be-Fixed%E2%80%94Onward-to-a-Socialist-Future_Dec9_2025_final.pdf Canada is at a crossroads. - [Ecosocialism: planned, sustainable development](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/21/ecosocialism-planned-sustainable-development/): The central message of the Yves Engler campaign for NDP leadership is that we need to start thinking outside the capitalist box if we are to make progress toward reorganizing society on a socialist basis. - [Eco-Socialism or Extinction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/21/eco-socialism-or-extinction/): The deterioration of the global biosphere is approaching a catastrophic crisis. - [Protestors denounce Canadian prime minister Mark Carney's "Canada Investment Summit"](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/21/protestors-denounce-canadian-prime-minister-mark-carneys-canada-investment-summit/): The BT joined more than 2000 protesters in Toronto on 14 September to denounce Canadian prime minister Mark Carney's "Canada Investment Summit" where financial oligarchs (both domestic and foreign) discussed government plans to attract $1 trillion in private capital by shredding regulations on working conditions, environmental protection and the rights of Indigenous peoples. - [Carta a los asistentes al ‘Revolution Festival 2024’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/21/carta-a-los-asistentes-al-revolution-festival-2024/): En octubre de 2019 Socialist Revolution, periódico de la sección estadounidense de la International Marxist Tendency, publicó una amplia crítica del “sectarismo ultraizquierdista” que entre otras cosas abordaba la visión marxista de los policías y los funcionarios de prisiones. - [Freiheit für Bogdan Syrotiuk!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/21/freiheit-fur-bogdan-syrotiuk/): Der nachfolgende Brief ist eine Übersetzung des englischen Originals, das wir am 26. August auf bolsheviktendency.org veröffentlichten. - [Trotsky sobre las tácticas: ‘Aprender a pensar’](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/09/14/trotsky-sobre-las-tacticas-aprender-a-pensar/): Un camarada nos criticó por participar en un frente unido en Toronto hace un año que incluía la demanda “Canadá fuera de la OTAN” como parte de su base de unidad junto con llamamientos a “Poner fin a la guerra por intermediarios de la OTAN en Ucrania” y “Disolución OTAN.” Nuestro crítico, que comparte nuestra oposición al pérfido papel de la OTAN en la devastación de Ucrania, opina que pedir que un determinado Estado imperialista abandone la alianza militar liderada por Estados Unidos equivale a abogar por la participación en un enfrentamiento diferente pero cualitativamente similar. - [¡Libertad para Bogdan Syrotiuk!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/31/libertad-para-bogdan-syrotiuk/): Al Juzgado de Distrito de la ciudad de Pervomaisk y al Tribunal de Apelación de Nikolaev: 24 de agosto de 2026 ¡Liberad a Bogdan Syrotiuk! - [Sobre nuestro rechazo a una oferta de la ICL](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/31/sobre-nuestro-rechazo-a-una-oferta-de-la-icl/): En febrero de 2025 la Liga Comunista Internacional (ICL) escribió a Tendencia Bolchevique preguntándonos si queríamos unirnos a su organización como facción minoritaria. - [Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/26/free-bogdan-syrotiuk/): To the Pervomaisk City District Court and the Nikolaev Court of Appeal: 24 August, 2026 Free Bogdan Syrotiuk! - [Manifestaciones en defensa de los activistas franceses pro-Palestina](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/18/manifestaciones-en-defensa-de-los-activistas-franceses-pro-palestina/): Los camaradas de Tendencia Bolchevique asistieron el martes 17 de junio [2025] a las manifestaciones de Londres y Nueva York en defensa de los compañeros franceses perseguidos por sus posturas a favor de Palestina. - [¿Por qué un «Estado obrero binacional»?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/18/por-que-un-estado-obrero-binacional/): En una polémica de 1988 con la organización británica Workers Power abordamos nuestras diferencias sobre el enfoque de Vladimir Lenin respecto a la “cuestión nacional”. - ['La Guerra árabe-judía en Palestina'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/08/la-guerra-arabe-judia-en-palestina/): El siguiente editorial apareció en la edición del 31 de mayo de 1948 de Militant, publicado por el Socialist Workers Party (EE.UU.) dirigido por James P. - [Lenin sobre el imperialismo](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/08/lenin-sobre-el-imperialismo/): Cuando estalla la Primera Guerra Mundial en agosto de 1914 Vladimir Lenin quedó atónito ante la ola de socialpatriotismo que se extendió por la Segunda Internacional, incluida su abanderado alemán, el Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD). - [¡Por un Estado obrero binacional en Palestina-Israel!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/08/08/por-un-estado-obrero-binacional-en-palestina-israel/): La campaña de terror generalizado que se está llevando a cabo en Gaza es la respuesta patológica de la desquiciada clase dominante sionista de Israel a la huida del gueto del 7 de octubre de 2023, que tuvo un éxito notable, liderada por Hamás, la principal organización de resistencia islamista en los territorios palestinos ocupados. - [Confusionismo 'trotskista'](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/07/21/confusionismo-trotskista/): A diferencia de muchas tendencias pseudo-trotskistas, los post-morenistas de la Fracción Trotskista (FT) han crecido en los últimos años, particularmente en Francia. - [¡Por la victoria militar de Irán!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/07/21/por-la-victoria-militar-de-iran/): El ataque militar contra Irán por parte de Estados Unidos y su socio sionista tiene como objetivo un «cambio de régimen», es decir, el derrocamiento de la República Islámica en favor de un gobierno títere proimperialista. - [Für den militärischen Sieg des Iran!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/07/20/fur-den-militarischen-sieg-des-iran/): Dieser Text ist eine Übersetzung aus dem Englischen, den wir am 14. März auf bolsheviktendency.org veröffentlichten. - [The End of NATO](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/07/16/the-end-of-nato/): The EEK [The Workers Revolutionary Party, Greece] and the DIP [Revolutionary Workers' Party, Turkey] hosted the event with participants ranging from Argentina, Cuba and Venezuela to India, Romania and Russia. - [La fin de l'OTAN : les retombées de l'Ukraine et de l'Iran](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/07/08/la-fin-de-lotan-les-retombees-de-lukraine-et-de-liran/): Voici le texte en anglais d'un discours prononcé le 26 mai par la TB lors de la Fête de Lutte Ouvrière, près de Paris. - [Interview at Upstate Anarchist Bookfair 2026](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/06/30/interview-at-upstate-anarchist-bookfair-2026/): An interview of Bolshevik Tendency comrades attending the Upstate Anarchist Bookfair in Binghampton, New York on the weekend of 2nd & 3rd May 2026. - [The Primacy of Politics](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/06/27/the-primacy-of-politics/): 14 July 2024 Comrades: As you will undoubtedly agree, the present historical moment offers significant opportunities for the growth of a revolutionary Marxist current within the international workers’ movement. - [LaVerne Sims and MOVE's attitude to her](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/06/27/laverne-sims-and-moves-attitude-to-her/): Toronto 10 June 2005 To the Editor: The 13 May issue of Workers Vanguard (WV No. - [End of NATO: Blowback from Ukraine and Iran](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/06/05/end-of-nato-blowback-from-ukraine-and-iran/): The following is the English-language text of a 26 May BT talk at Lutte Ouvrière's Fête outside Paris. - [Lénine sur l'impérialisme](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/05/08/lenine-sur-limperialisme/): En août 1914, au déclenchement de la Première Guerre mondiale, Vladimir Lénine fut stupéfait par la vague de social-patriotisme qui envahit la Deuxième Internationale, y compris le fleuron allemand, le Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD). - [Release Yousof Azizi immediately!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/04/28/release-yousof-azizi-immediately/): On 14 April 2026 Yousof Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at the University of Virginia and a valid visa holder was arrested by ICE agents. - [Your Party "Left" appeal to their executioner](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/04/14/your-party-left-appeal-to-their-executioner/): A member of the Democrat Socialists of Your Party (DSYP) asked the Bolshevik Tendency to sign this statement: Your Party - No to Bans! No to Expulsions!. - [Your Party: a stillbirth](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/03/31/your-party-a-stillbirth/): The 3 July 2025 announcement by former Labour left MP Zarah Sultana that she and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn were going to launch a new party was greeted with a surge of popular enthusiasm. - [Military Victory to Iran!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2026/03/15/military-victory-to-iran/): The military assault on Iran by the United States and its Zionist junior partner is aimed at a “regime change” over-throw of the Islamic Republic in favor of a pro-imperialist puppet government. - [„Trotzkistischer“ Konfusionismus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/11/09/trotzkistischer-konfusionismus/): 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. - [Communists and elections](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/communists-and-elections/): [Published in Marxist Bulletin - Issue 11, May 2000] An adaptation of ‘Alle Jahre wieder – die Qual mit der Wahl’ from Bolschewik, no. - [Mayoral and GLA elections: London calling](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/mayoral-and-gla-elections-london-calling/): 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. - [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/): 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. - [Cliffites on Kosovo: Born-again Kautskyites](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/cliffites-on-kosovo-born-again-kautskyites/): 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’. - [Build a mass campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/build-a-mass-campaign-to-free-mumia-abu-jamal/): After 17 years on death row in Philadelphia USA, black journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal remains under threat of political execution. - [After Kosovo War, imperialism and the left](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/after-kosovo-war-imperialism-and-the-left/): 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. - [Defend civil liberties](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/defend-civil-liberties/): 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. - [Political Origins of Labor Actions for Mumia](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/political-origins-of-labor-actions-for-mumia/): [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. - [For Class-Struggle Defense of Mumia!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/for-class-struggle-defense-of-mumia/): [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. - [Capitalist Justice = No Justice](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/capitalist-justice-no-justice/): 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. - [Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/free-mumia-abu-jamal-2/): [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. - [Bolshevism and Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/bolshevism-and-trotskyism/): [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’. - [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. - [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. - [State racism and repression continue](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/state-racism-and-repression-continue/): [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. - [Defend Iraq Against Imperialist Attack!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/defend-iraq-against-imperialist-attack/): [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. - [Railworkers Fight Effects of Government and Bosses’ Privatisation](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/railworkers-fight-effects-of-government-and-bosses-privatisation/): 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. - [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. - [Is the Socialist Alliance a step forward?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/is-the-socialist-alliance-a-step-forward/): [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? - [US: Hands Off Iraq!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/us-hands-off-iraq/): 23 February--We have just learned that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has announced an agreement with Saddam Hussein. - [No Vote to Labour!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/no-vote-to-labour-4/): [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. - [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. - [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 Socialist Labour Party: From Opportunity to Obstacle](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/the-socialist-labour-party-from-opportunity-to-obstacle/): The following article, reprinted from What Next? - [A Better Bourgeois Britain?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/a-better-bourgeois-britain/): [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. - [Black Liberation and the SLP Black Section](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/black-liberation-and-the-slp-black-section/): [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. - [Opportunity Squandered](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/opportunity-squandered/): [First published in Marxist Bulletin - Issue 6, February 1998] The Socialist Labour Party has been a contradictory and diverse formation ever since its beginnings. - [Stalinism: Rising from the grave?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/stalinism-rising-from-the-grave/): Stalinism as a historical phenomenon was the form reaction took after the 1917 October revolution. - [Socialist News and China](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/socialist-news-and-china/): 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’. - [What Price Compromise?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/what-price-compromise/): 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. - [Should we be publishing this bulletin?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/should-we-be-publishing-this-bulletin/): 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’. - [Socialist Labour & the trades union movement](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/socialist-labour-the-trades-union-movement/): The founders of the SLP in May l996 understood that things in the workers’ movement in Britain were changing. - [Labour Movement on its Knees](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/labour-movement-on-its-knees/): British politics in 1997 is marked by the virtual absence of the working class as a distinct political force. - [Political Clarity and the NEC Elections](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/political-clarity-and-the-nec-elections/): 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. - [National Executive Committee Election Statement](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/national-executive-committee-election-statement/): The above candidates are part of the collective that produces the Socialist Labour Party Marxist Bulletin, a political journal for Socialist Labour Party members. - [The Membership Speaks](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/27/the-membership-speaks/): Party Congress is the highest point in the democratic life of the party. - [Letter to the Editor, Socialist News](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/letter-to-the-editor-socialist-news/): In issue 7 of Socialist News you printed an article entitled ‘Cuba Lives, 1997!’ written by myself. - [Open Letter to SLP Marxist Bulletin](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/open-letter-to-slp-marxist-bulletin/): 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’. - [Clarity Through Debate](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/clarity-through-debate/): 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. - [Defend the Cuban Revolution!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/14709/): 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. - [Sex, Censorship and Women’s Rights](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/sex-censorship-and-womens-rights/): 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. - [New Scotland, New Wales](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/new-scotland-new-wales/): Tony Blair’s devolution referenda gave him the result he wanted. - [London Regional Committee Election Statement](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/london-regional-committee-election-statement/): We are part of the collective that produces the Socialist Labour Party Marxist Bulletin, a political journal for Socialist Labour members, which argues for the programme printed overleaf. - [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/): 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. - [Don’t support this anti-SLP lash up!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/dont-support-this-anti-slp-lash-up/): 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. - [Statements on Democracy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/statements-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. - [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/): The questions of fighting racism and stopping the fascists organising are key for any socialist. - [British Troops out of Ireland, Now!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/26/british-troops-out-of-ireland-now/): 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. - [Howard Keylor & the tragedy of the Militant Caucus](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/11/howard-keylor-the-tragedy-of-the-militant-caucus/): “Everything depends upon the interrelation between the party and the class. - [Nieder mit dem deutschen Militarismus!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/10/03/nieder-mit-dem-deutschen-militarismus/): Der deutsche Imperialismus rüstet sich für neue Kriege. - [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. - [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. - [Of and Within the SLP](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/27/of-and-within-the-slp/): – 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. - [For working class independence!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/27/for-working-class-independence-2/): 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. - [Party Debates on Ireland](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/27/party-debates-on-ireland/): At the first congress of our party the draft policy paper on Ireland received an important amendment. - [Defend branches and individuals against expulsion without appeal!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/27/defend-branches-and-individuals-against-expulsion-without-appeal/): The Vauxhall CSLP was unceremoniously shut down by the NEC before the election on unsubstantiated grounds of contravening the party constitution. - [Labour, the SLP and the Election](https://bolsheviktendency.org/2025/07/27/labour-the-slp-and-the-election/): Tony Blair’s massive election victory on May 1st was described by the Guardian (3rd May) as a ‘revolution’. - [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/) ## Pages - [1917 #26 (2004)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-26/): Defend the Palestinians! Not Jew Against Arab, But Class Against Class! - [1917 #27 (2005)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-27-2005/): Iraq: Imperial Overreach U.S./UK Troops Out Now! No to the Hijab Ban! - [1917 #28 (2006)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-28-2006/): Venezuela: State & Revolution For a Socialist Federation of Latin America! - [Stellungnahmen/Flugblätter](https://bolsheviktendency.org/stellungnahmen-flugblatter/): Freiheit für Bogdan Syrotiuk! - [1917 #29 (2007)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-29-2007/): Endgame in Iraq Imperialists Out of the Middle East! - [1917 #30 (2008)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-30-2008/): Middle East Morass Drive Out the Imperialists! - [Wer wir sind](https://bolsheviktendency.org/wer-wir-sind/): Der Wirklichkeit ins Auge sehen; nicht den Weg des geringsten Widerstandes suchen; die Dinge beim richtigen Namen nennen; den Massen die Wahrheit sagen, so bitter sie auch sein mag; Hindernisse nicht fürchten; streng sein in den kleinen Dingen wie in den großen; das Pro­gramm auf die Logik des Klassen­kampfes stützen, wagemutig sein, wenn die Stunde der Aktion kommt; das sind die Regeln der IV. - [Bolschewik Nr. 36 (2019)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-36-2019/): #aufstehen: Wenn Linke Rechtspopulismus predigen Die Reaktion formiert sich – Nicht nur in Chemnitz Rassismus, Vertuschung, Verharmlosung Urteil im NSU-Prozess SAV: Toleranz für kapitalistische Regierungspolitik Marxismus, Feminismus und #MeToo Aufdeckung des „theoretischen Rahmens“ der neo-pabloistischen Wende der IKL In Verteidigung (von Seymours) Marxismus Howard Keylor zum 93. - [Statements/Leaflets](https://bolsheviktendency.org/statements/): Free Bogdan Syrotiuk! - [Documents of Struggle](https://bolsheviktendency.org/documents-of-struggle/) - [1917 #40 (2018)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-40-2018/): No Platform for Fascists! - [1917 #39 (2017)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-39-2017/): The Devil or the Deep Blue Sea? Neither the EU nor Nationalist Poison – Spoil Your Ballot! - [1917 #38 (2016)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-38-2016/): Proletarian Internationalism & the Struggle against Fortress Europe Defend refugees against terror and deportation! Smash racist and fascist mobilizations! - [1917 #37 (2015)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-37-2015/): No payment! No meters! Abolish the water charges! - [1917 #36 (2014)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-36-2014/) - [1917 #35 (2013)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-35-2013/): Capitalist Crisis & the EU For the Socialist United States of Europe! - [1917 #34 (2012)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-34-2012/): Defeat the Imperialists! - [1917 #33 (2011)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-33-2011/): Israel Apartheid & Palestinian Oppression For Joint Arab-Jewish Class Struggle to Smash Zionism! - [Pamphlets](https://bolsheviktendency.org/pamphlets/) - [Trotzkistische Bulletins](https://bolsheviktendency.org/trotzkistisches-bulletins/): Opportunismus in revolutionärer Verkleidung Zur Geschichte der Internationalen Kommunistischen Liga Drei Tage im August Maoistische „Neue Demokratie“ oder Permanente Revolution? - [For Trotskyism!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/for-trotskyism/): The following document was adopted by the fusion conference of the Bolshevik Tendency and the Left Trotskyist Tendency in 1987 as a codification of the programmatic agreement reached by the two organizations. - [Trotskyist Bulletins](https://bolsheviktendency.org/trotskyist-bulletins/): The material in this pamphlet is chiefly comprised of polemics between the External Tendency of the international Spartacist tendency (ET—a grouping of former members of the iSt) and the leadership of the Spartacist League/U.S. - [Bolschewik Nr. 35 (2018)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-35-2018/): Rechtsruck, und jetzt? Nieder mit Madrids staatlicher Repression! Unabhängigkeit für Katalonien! - [Bolschewik Nr. 34 (2017)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-34-2017/): Die Rolle der AfD und die Aufgaben der Linken Lügenpartei AfD Widerstand gegen Rassismus 35 Jahre zu viel – Freiheit für Mumia jetzt! - [Pour le trotskysme!](https://bolsheviktendency.org/pour-le-trotskysme/): Ce document (traduit en français de 1917, no. - [Bolschewik Nr. 33 (2016)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-33-2016/): Europas Krieg gegen Flüchtlinge Verteidigt die Flüchtlinge gegen Terror und Abschiebungen! Zerschlagt die rassistischen und faschistischen Mobilisierungen! - [Bolschewik Nr. 32 (2015)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-32-2015/): SPD greift Gewerkschaftsrechte an Nahles ganz Schröder TTIP: Ein Angriff auf die Arbeiterklasse Einheit, Klasse, Programm Die Ukraine: Eine revolutionäre internationalistische Perspektive Wer wir sind Von Ferguson bis New York – Steckt die Polizeimörder ins Gefängnis! - [Bolschewik Nr. 31 (2014)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-31-2014/): Für die Sozialistischen Vereinigten Staaten von Europa! - [1917, édition française, n° 8 (2013)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-8-2013/): Pour la révolution socialiste ! - [1917, édition française, n° 7 (2012)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-7-2012/): Crise économique et guerres néocoloniales Pathologies du capitalisme OTAN, rebelles et apologistes « révolutionnaires » La Libye et la gauche Lettre au Courant Communiste Révolutionnaire Sur l’assemblée constituante révolutionnaire Sur Jack Layton & le NPD Lettre à La « Riposte » Discours de la TBI dans une manifestation anti-guerre à Toronto Troupes impérialistes hors d’Afghanistan immédiatement ! - [1917, édition française, n° 6 2011](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-6-2011/): Pas Juif contre Arabe, mais classe contre classe ! Défense des Palestiniens ! Révolution politique ou contrerévolution Où va la Chine ? - [1917, édition française, n° 5 2010](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-5-2010/): Les pablistes français renoncent au trotskysme NPA : Nouveau Parti réformiste Non à la collaboration des classes ! A bas les attaques contre les retraites ! - [1917, édition française, n° 4 2003](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-4-2003/) - [1917, édition française, n° 3 1995](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-3-1995/): Un échange sur la question nationale au Québec Marxisme ou nationalisme? A bas le duvaliérisme – Romprons avec Aristide ! - [1917, édition française, n° 2 1994](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-2-1994/): Introduction Le Rubicon soviétique et la gauche — En Bref: Réponse au Bolchévik Workers Power abandonne Eltsine en faveur de Rutskoi: A nouveau sur la confusion centriste et la question russe La confusion centriste face à la contre-révolution en URSS Volte-face spartaciste sur Rutskoi Rassemblement Le Pen avorté à Montréal: non au fascisme! - [1917, édition française, n° 1 1993](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/1917-edition-francaise-n-1-1993/): Pour le trotskysme! Défendez les travailleurs soviétiques contre les attaques d’Eltsine! - [1917, édition française index](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-edition-francaise/): Pour la révolution socialiste ! - [Bolschewik Nr. 30 (2013)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-30-2013-2/) - [Bolschewik Nr. 29 (2012)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-29-2012/): Zur Kampagne „Boykott, Desinvestition und Sanktionen“ Strategien der palästinensischen Befreiung Kein Vertrauen in den bürgerlichen Staat! - [Bolshewik Nr. 28 (2011)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolshewik-nr-28-2011/): Der politische Streik Verteidigt Nordkorea! Stürzt die Bürokratie — Für revolutionäre Wiedervereinigung! - [Bolshewik Nr. 27 (2010)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolshewik-nr-27-2010/) - [Bolshewik Nr. 26 (2009)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolshewik-nr-26-2009/) - [Bolschewik Index](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/): Nieder mit dem deutschen Militarismus! - [1917 #32 (2010)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-32-2010/): 'People's War' in the Himalayas Maoist ‘New Democracy’ or Permanent Revolution? - [1917 Index](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/): No Platform for Fascists! - [1917 #31 (2009)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-31/): Women's Rights in ‘Pro-Life’ Ireland Free Abortion on Demand! - [Part V: Revolutionary Continuity and Transitional Demands](https://bolsheviktendency.org/part-v-revolutionary-continuity-and-transitional-demands/): In 1939, Marceau Pivert, a prominent French socialist, disparaged the Fourth International for fetishizing the “dogmas” of the Communist International of Lenin’s time. - [Part IV: Spartacist Trade Union Work in the 1970s: Selected Readings](https://bolsheviktendency.org/part-iv-spartacist-trade-union-work-in-the-1970s-selected-readings/): Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. - [Part III: Organizing the Unemployed in the Great Depression](https://bolsheviktendency.org/part-iii-organizing-the-unemployed-in-the-great-depression/): By Len Meyers and Chris Knox. Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. - [Part II: Revolutionary Work in the American Labor Movement: 1920s–1950s](https://bolsheviktendency.org/part-ii-revolutionary-work-in-the-american-labor-movement-1920s-1950s/): By Chris Knox. Reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. - [Part I: The Transitional Program](https://bolsheviktendency.org/part-i-the-transitional-program/): The world political situation as a whole is chiefly characterized by a historical crisis of the leadership of the proletariat. - [Introduction](https://bolsheviktendency.org/introduction/): Leon Trotsky, co-leader of the October Revolution and founder of the Red Army, wrote the Transitional Program in March and April 1938 while living in exile in Mexico. - [Preface](https://bolsheviktendency.org/preface/): This edition of Trotsky's Transitional Program was published by the International Bolshevik Tendency in 1998 to mark the 60th anniversary of the program. - [Home Page](https://bolsheviktendency.org/): Fin de la OTAN (4 octubre 2026) Protestors denounce Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s “Canada Investment Summit” (21 September 2026) Carta a los asistentes al ‘Revolution Festival 2024’ (21 septiembre 2026) Freiheit für Bogdan Syrotiuk! - [Was ist neu?](https://bolsheviktendency.org/was-ist-neu/) - [Contact Us](https://bolsheviktendency.org/contact-us/) - [Who We Are](https://bolsheviktendency.org/who-we-are/): To face reality squarely; not to seek the line of least resistance; to call things by their right names; to speak the truth to the masses, no matter how bitter it may be; not to fear obstacles; to be true in little things as in big ones; to base one's program on the logic of the class struggle; to be bold when the hour for action arrives—these are the rules of the Fourth International. - [What's New](https://bolsheviktendency.org/whats-new/) - [Bolshevik #8 (2026)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/bolshevik-8-2026/): Military Victory to Iran! - [bolschewik-nr-43-januar-2025](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-43-januar-2025/): Was ist das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht? Der multipolare Flügel der deutschen Arbeiteraristokratie Für einen bi-nationalen Arbeiterstaat in Palästina-Israel! - [Issues of the Marxist Bulletin](https://bolsheviktendency.org/issues-of-the-marxist-bulletin/): No Vote to Labour! - [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 ! - [Bolshevik édition française N°2](https://bolsheviktendency.org/index-de-ledition-francaise-bolshevik/bolshevik-edition-francaise-n2/) - [Index de l'édition française bolshevik](https://bolsheviktendency.org/index-de-ledition-francaise-bolshevik/): Pour un État ouvrier binational en Palestine-Israël ! De la rivière à la mer : Briser la tyrannie sioniste ! - [Bolschewik Nr. 44 (Januar 2026)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-44-januar-2026/): Nieder mit dem deutschen Militarismus! „Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch‘ ich Gewalt“ „Trotzkistischer“ Konfusionismus Zerschlagt die zionistische Tyrannei! - [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). - [Bolshevik #7 (2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/bolshevik-7-2024/): No Vote to Labour! Down with Starmer—no to austerity, genocide and war! - [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! - [Bolschewik Nr. 42 (Januar 2024)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-42-januar-2024/): Kritische Betrachtungen zu „China’s Great Road“ von John Ross Marx oder Deng? - [Les déclarations](https://bolsheviktendency.org/les-declarations/) - [Bolshevik #5 (2023)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/bolshevik-5-2023/): Defend Abortion Rights Through Mass Action! - [Lenin & die Avantgardepartei](https://bolsheviktendency.org/lenin-die-avantgardepartei/) - [Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. 1 - 30 (1974 - 1980)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/kommunistische-korrespondenz-nr-1-30-1974-1980/): Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. - [Marxistisches Archiv](https://bolsheviktendency.org/marxistisches-archiv/): Spartacist Nr. 1 - 9 (1974 - 1981) Kommunistische Korrespondenz Nr. - [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. - [Українська](https://bolsheviktendency.org/ukrainian/): 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. - [Bolschewik Nr. 1 (Mai 1992)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-1-mai-1992/) - [Русский](https://bolsheviktendency.org/russian-statements/): О военной поддержке против политической (25 апреля 2024) За троцкизм! - [Gruppe IV. Internationale Bulletins & Dokumente](https://bolsheviktendency.org/gruppe-vierte-internationale-tb-bulletins/): Bulletin Nr. 1 (Januar 1990): Kampf der kapitalistischen Konterrevolution – Für proletarische politische Revolution Bankrott des Stalinismus Bulletin Nr. - [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? - [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? - [Bolschewik Nr. 4 (Dezember 1993)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-4-dezember-1993/) - [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. - [Bolschewik Nr. 6 (September 1994)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/10819-2/): Keine Wahl bei den Wahlen – Stimmt ungültig! - [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? - [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! - [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! - [Bolschewik Nr. 10 (April 1998)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-10-april-1998/): Linke und Arbeiterbewegung: Zerschlagt das Nazipack! - [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! - [Bolschewik Nr. 41 (Januar 2023)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-41-januar-2023/) - [Bolschewik Nr. 40 (September 2022)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-40-2022/) - [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/) - [Bolshevik #3 (2021)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/bolshevik-3-2021/): Eco-Socialism & ‘Green New Deal’ Pipe Dreams For Humanity to Live, Capitalism Must Die! - [Bolshevik Index](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/): Military Victory to Iran! - [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! - [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? - [Bolshevik #2 (2021)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/bolshevik-2-winter-2021/): Racism, TUs & the U.S. - [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/) - [Bolschewik Nr. 15 (Januar 2001)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-15-januar-2001/) - [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? - [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. - [Bolschewik Nr. 18 (September 2002)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-18-september-2002/): Keine Stimme für SPD und PDS! - [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? - [Bolschewik Nr. 20 (Mai 2003)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-20-mai-2003/) - [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! - [Bolschewik Nr. 22 (Januar 2005)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-22-januar-2005/) - [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! - [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? - [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! - [Bolschewik Nr. 39 (September 2021)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-39-september-2021/): Keine Wahl bei den Wahlen! Brecht mit der Partei die Linke! - [Video](https://bolsheviktendency.org/video/) - [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). - [Bolschewik Nr.38 (Mai 2021)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolschewik-index/bolschewik-nr-38-2021/) - [Archivos Marxistas](https://bolsheviktendency.org/archivos-marxistas/): Cuadernos marxistas fue una publicación de la entoces revolucionaria Liga espartaquista/EEUU en los ´70. - [Declaraciones y folletos](https://bolsheviktendency.org/declaraciones-y-folletos/): Fin de la OTAN (4 octubre 2026) Carta a los asistentes al ‘Revolution Festival 2024’ (21 septiembre 2026) Trotsky sobre las tácticas: ‘Aprender a pensar’ (14 septiembre 2026) ¡Libertad para Bogdan Syrotiuk! - [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. - [Outras declarações](https://bolsheviktendency.org/outras-declaracoes/): Piquete de massas bloqueia navio israelense! Trabalhadores Palestinos Saúdam Ação em Oakland, Califórna (20 de junho de 2010). - [Bolshevik #1 (2020)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/bolshevik-index/bolshevik-1-spring-2020/): Defend Venezuela Against Imperialist Aggression! Bolivarians Resist U.S. - [1917 #1 (1986)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-1-1986/): Smash Apartheid! Workers to Power! - [1917 #2 (1986)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-2-1986/): Smash Apartheid! For International Labor Solidarity! - [1917 #3 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-3-1987/): Nicaragua: An Unfinished Revolution Smash the Contras! Workers to Power! Trotskyists Fuse! - [1917 #4 (1987)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-4-1987/): Whither Gorbachev's USSR? - [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!' - [1917 #6 (1989)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-6-1989/): Perestroika: A Pandora's Box World Revolution—Not ‘Market Socialism’ S.F. - [1917 #7 (1990)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-7-1990/): Polish Powderkeg Stalinists/Solidarnosc/IMF Attack Workers For Workers Political Revolution in China! - [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? - [1917 #9 (1991)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-9-1991/): Smash Apartheid! No to `Power Sharing!' We Go Forward! - [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. - [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! - [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! - [1917 #13 (1994)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-13-1994/): European Disunity (PDF) Maastricht House of Cards Collapses No Platform for Fascists! - [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! - [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. - [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! - [1917 #18 (1996)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-18-1996/) - [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? - [1917 #19 (1997)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-19-1997/): American Labor Beseiged (PDF) Oust the Bureaucrats----Unchain the Unions! - [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. - [1917 #21 (1999)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-21-1999/): Balkan Quagmire (PDF) Defend Yugoslavia Against NATO’s Attack! - [Miscellaneous archive material](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/miscellaneous-archive/): Brilliant Tactics … But Where Do They Lead? - [Dick Fraser on the Black Question in America: The revolutionary integrationist perspective](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/dick-fraser/): Published in SWP Discussion Bulletin Number A-19, August 1954. - [Other materials from the revolutionary period of the Spartacists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/other-spartacists-material/): First published in Workers Vanguard No. 156, 6 May 1977 and Spartacist No. - [Spartacist material on the Youth Question](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/spartacist-on-youth-question/): Marxist Bulletin No. - [Spartacist materials on revolutionary defense policy](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/spartacist-on-rdp/): What Defense Policy for Revolutionaries? - [Trotskyism in Ceylon: Edmund Samarakkody and the Spartacists](https://bolsheviktendency.org/trotskyism-in-ceylon/): By Edmund Samarakkody (published in Spartacist No. - [Selected articles from Women & Revolution](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/wr-articles/) - [Origins of the Spartacist Tendency](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/originsst/): This document was originally presented to the June 1962 plenary meeting of the Socialist Workers Party (U.S.) - [Pabloist Revisionism and the Destruction of the Fourth International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/pabloist-revisionism/): This very important essay on the history of the Trotskyist movement after Trotsky appeared in Spartacist No. 21 (Fall 1972). - [Origins of the Fourth International](https://bolsheviktendency.org/origins/): This article was written by Jean van Heijenoort and first published in the August 1944 issue of Fourth International. - [Archive of Marxist material - particularly the history of Trotskyism](https://bolsheviktendency.org/english_archive/) - [1917 #22 (2000)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-22-2000/): Globalization & Its Discontents Proletarian Internationalism—Not Protectionism! - [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. - [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! - [1917 #25 (2003)](https://bolsheviktendency.org/1917-index/1917-25-2003/): Imperialists Run Amok U.S./UN Out of the Middle East! ## Optional - [Agent (MCP protocol)](websites-agents.hostinger.com/bolsheviktendency.org/mcp) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)