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14 January 2008 -- BOLSCHEWIK No. 25 is now online. It contains the following articles:
21 December 2007 -- Letter to the CPGB's paper, Weekly Worker, on military vs. political support of the Iranian government against imperialism. 12 December 2007 -- "Rede über die russische Frage" von James P. Cannon (1939) und "Ein Brief an die Trotzkisten in aller Welt" der SWP von 1953, wurden dem deutschsprachigen Archiv hinzugefügt. 9 December 2007 -- 2004 pamphlet "Bolshevism vs CPGB-ism" Exchange
with ICL-PDC regarding united front for Mumia Abu-Jamal 13 November 2007 -- The London branch of the IBT will be holding a fringe public meeting at the Socialist Party's 'Socialism 2007' weekend entitled "Prison Officers: 'Courageous heroes' or bosses' screws" on Sunday, 18 November, 1:30pm. Room 2B, ULU, Malet St, London WC1. 12 November 2007 -- Which Side Are You On? Screws Out of the TUC! – Leaflet on the British prison officers’ strike. 10 November 2007 -- Drop the Charges Against NZ Activists! IBT at NZ demonstration against “terrorism” arrests, including brief speech made by comrade Adaire Hannah. 9 November 2007 -- Sieg dem GDL-Streik! Statement on the German train drivers’ strike. 30 October 2007 -- 90 Jahre Oktoberrevolution - Vortrag und Diskussion über die Bedeutung der Oktoberrevolution für die heutige Arbeiterbewegung. Vor 90 Jahren siegte die Oktoberrevolution, die einzige siegreiche Arbeiterrevolution in der Geschichte der Menschheit bis heute. Wir wollen der Frage nachgehen, welche Bedeutung dieses Ereignis für die heutige Arbeiterbewegung hat. Dazu dient uns die Analyse die Begebenheiten der Russischen Revolution und ihre Entwicklung in staatlicher Form. Es gilt, die Fragen nach der Organisierung der Arbeiterklasse für heutige Kämpfe zu stellen. In Zeiten zunehmender Krisen des Kapitalismus, mit ihren dramatischen Folgen für die Menschheit weltweit, rücken vergangene Kämpfe der Arbeiterbewegung als Anschauungsmaterial wieder stärker in den Mittelpunkt. Damals wie heute stellt sich dabei die Frage nach Reform oder Revolution. 28. November 2007, 19.30 Uhr. Allerweltshaus, Körnerstrasse 77-79, Köln-Ehrenfeld (U 3/4, Haltestelle "Körnerstr." - U 5, Haltestelle "Liebigstr.") 26 October 2007 -- The Toronto branch of the IBT will be holding a public meeting where Bryan D. Palmer, author of a new biography on James P. Cannon will speak on "The Russian Revolution & the North American Left." Saturday, 3 November, 7pm. Room 2-295, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 252 Bloor Street West (near St. George subway). 25 October 2007 -- Labor Conference to Stop the War. Locals 10 and 34 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in San Francisco sponsored an anti-war labor conference on Saturday 20 October that drew some 150 participants. Supporters of the Internationalist Group, League for the Revolutionary Party, Socialist Organizer, Socialist Viewpoint and the Spartacist League were among those in attendance. We reprint remarks by Bill Logan on behalf of the IBT to a workshop on “Class Struggle and the War.” We have also attached the original conference call, the conference agenda and an article on the event from the San Francisco Chronicle. 23 October 2007 -- Reply to an ICL Polemic--Our response to a polemic published in the 12 October issue of the Spartacist League's Workers Vanguard which criticized an error in our German paper (to which we had posted a correction in July) and attacked us for "Stalinophobia." 22 October 2007 -- JAMES P. CANNON--AMERICAN BOLSHEVIK. Remarks by Jason Wright on behalf of the IBT at the 12 October Tamiment Library talk by Bryan D. Palmer, author of the recently published Cannon biography. 20 September 2007 -- FROM WOBBLY TO BOLSHEVIK. Bryan D. Palmer, author of the recently published biography James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, will give a public talk at Tamiment Library in New York City (70 Washington Square South) on 12 October at 6:30 pm. The meeting is hosted by Tamiment and co-sponsored by five socialist organizations: Freedom Socialist Party, International Bolshevik Tendency, Prometheus Research Library [i.e., Spartacist League], Socialist Action and the Socialist Equality Party.
25 August 2007 -- Anti-SPP Demonstration: Canadian Grantites Discover ‘Mexican Imperialism’
IBT contingent on anti-SPP march in Ottawa, 19 August 02 August 2007 -- The French language section of the website has been updated with a translation of excerpts from "Solidarnosc: Acid Test for Trotskyists," first published in English by the Bolshevik Tendency in 1988. 06 July 2007 -- Czech translation of a September 2000 statement (originally in English) on the IMF/World Bank. 01 July 2007 -- The London branch of the IBT will be holding a fringe public meeting at the SWP's 'Marxism' weekend entitled "Poland, USSR, China: Stalinism and Counter-revolution" on Sunday 8 July, 2pm. Bloomsbury Suite, 2nd Floor, ULU, Malet St, London WC1 27 June 2007 -- Labor Action Committee (Bay Area) protest at MOBE proposal to restrict free speech at defense actions for Mumia Abu-Jamal. 16 June 2007 -- Our Mumia page has been updated with a link to a streaming video of "Mumia's Lawyer Speaks". This 80 min video by Movement Productions shows Eliot Grossman, one of Mumia's lawyers during the period, discussing the legal and political dimensions of the case at a public meeting in Toronto on 8 June 2002. 16 June 2007 -- The German language section of our web site has been updated with our statement on the G8 demonstrations - "Weg mit allen Verfahren! Solidarität mit allen Betroffen des Polizei-Terrors!" 09 June 2007 -- Our Mumia page has been updated with a link to an audio file of an interview with William Singletary, the witness to the killing of police officer Daniel Faulkner. Singletary's account confirms Mumia's absence at the time of the killing. 27 May 2007 -- PDC & ‘Petty Sectarianism’ - A New Spartacist ‘Principle’. Email exchange regarding the possibility of PDC endorsing 17 May demonstration for Mumia Abu-Jamal in Toronto. 22 May 2007 -- On Thursday 17 May our comrades participated, along with many others, in a series of demonstrations in defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal timed to coincide with US Federal Appeals court hearing regarding his sentence. Well over 500 people demonstrated in Philadelphia, where the hearing took place, while 250 rallied in the San Francisco Bay Area, 100 in London and 75 in Toronto. IBT comrades played a central role in organizing both the London and Toronto united-front demonstrations which featured speakers from a wide variety of political tendencies. These demonstrations, while modest in size, are significant in that they represent the first internationally coordinated efforts in defense of Mumia in several years. They point to the necessity for reviving the kind of effective mass protests held in August 1995 that saved him from the capitalist machinery of death which is the U.S. judicial system. Indymedia UK report of London demonstration 16 May 2007 -- The German section of the website has been updated with: Die neuen Realitäten des BSA: "Globalisierung" und der Abschied von den Gewerkschaften, first published in Bolschewik #9, March 1997. (An abridged and edited English translation of this article appeared as "Globalization & the Unions" in 1917 No. 20, 1998). The BSA are now renamed the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit and are David North's German co-thinkers. 15 May 2007 -- Notes on the SEP/GRPI Puzzle — Observations regarding recent reports that David North, leader of the ostensibly Trotskyist Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and its International Committee (IC), also acts as CEO of Grand River Printing and Imaging, one of Michigan's larger printing companies. 14 May 2007 -- Comrades of the International Bolshevik Tendency will be helping organize and participating in protests around the world calling for Mumia Abu-Jamal's freedom in conjunction with the May 17 hearing of oral arguments in the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (see the latest legal update).
13 May 2007 -- Campaign to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal: View video of Arnold Beverly confessing to killing Daniel Faulkner. 05 May 2007 -- LO and LCR: Left-wing Props of the Popular Front. 28 April 2007 -- The Toronto branch of the IBT will be holding a public meeting entitled "The Decline of U.S. Imperialism" on Saturday, 5 May, 7pm. Room 2-199, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 252 Bloor Street West (near St. George subway). 19 April 2007 -- Class Politics & the French
Elections—Break with the Bourgeoisie! No to Popular
Frontism! 28 March 2007 -- Remarks by an IBT supporter at an anti-war rally in Wellington, New Zealand, 20 March. 26 March 2007 -- Legal update regarding the upcoming oral argument in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia. 13 March 2007 -- IBT supporters marching with some 2,000 others in the annual International Women's Day demonstration in Toronto on Saturday, 10 March.  11 March 2007 -- Die deutsche Sektion der Internationalen Bolschewistischen Tendenz wird am Sonntag, dem 15. April 2007 um 15.00 Uhr eine Veranstaltung zu dem Thema: "Klassenkämpferische Opposition oder parlamentarische Anpassung? Welche Perspektive bietet die Fusion von WASG und L.PDS?" in der Körnerstraße 77 - 79 in Köln-Ehrenfeld abhalten. 25 February 2007 -- The new issue of our journal 1917 is now available online.
8 February 2007 -- A Dutch language section has been added to the site, with two documents: Voor het Trotskyisme! and Voor Klassenstrijd tegen het Bourgeois Offensief! 25 January 2007 -- United Fronts and the Fight to Free Mumia - An open letter to Workers Hammer 21 January 2007 -- The new issue of our German language journal Bolschewik is now available to read online 17 January 2007 -- The German language section has been updated with:
11 December 2006 -- Our pamphlet The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal is now available online to read 02 November 2006 -- The London branch of the IBT will be holding a 'Socialism 2006' fringe public meeting entitled "Why the Socialist Party is not socialist - A former member of the Socialist Party's National Youth Committee explains why he resigned" on Sunday 26 November, 3pm. Room 2A, ULU, Malet St, London WC1 22 October 2006 -- Our Marxist Archive section has been updated with the pamphlet Marxist Bulletin #4 -- Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party, containing documents from 1963-65 on the exclusion of Revolutionary Tendency supporters from the SWP. 14 October 2006 -- The London branch of the IBT will be holding a public meeting entitled "Middle East Minefield" on Thursday 26 October, 7pm. Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WC1 - Holborn tube. 04 October 2006 -- SL Sectarianism, the IBT & the LAC -- A reply to a recent letter in Workers Vanguard concerning the IBT, the Labor Action Committee and the fight to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. 18 September 2006 -- The Toronto branch of the IBT will be holding a public meeting entitled "Middle East Minefield" on Saturday 23 September, 7pm. Room 7-192, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 252 Bloor Street West - St. George subway. 11 September 2006 -- Rally In Oakland To FREE MUMIA! (link to 6MB Word file) 4 PM Friday September 15th 2006 Mumia Abu-Jamal Is Innocent! For Labor Action To Free Mumia! End the Racist Death Penalty! Rally initiated by the Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal (LAC), PO Box 16222, Oakland CA 94610. 510 763-2347 or LACFreeMumia@aol.com. 10 September 2006 -- Letter to Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists 01 September 2006 -- On Recent Spartacist League Polemics 26 August 2006 -- Statement by Robert R. Bryan, lead counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal, on July 23, 2006 has been added to the "Legal documents and press releases from Mumia's legal team" section of our site related to the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. 25 August 2006 -- Northite Revisionism on Chinese Revolution of 1949 01 August 2006 -- For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East! Down With Murderous Zionist Terror in Lebanon and Gaza! 31 July 2006 -- For reasons best known to themselves the leadership of the Spartacist League/U.S., in the 7 July issue of their newspaper, Workers Vanguard, published an article misleadingly entitled "The Truth About the 1984 Nedlloyd Kimberley Boycott." The article seems to be a belated attempt to alibi the SL's shameful sectarian role in this important labor action by San Francisco Bay Area longshoremen in solidarity with the oppressed black masses of South Africa in their struggle against apartheid. Twenty-one years ago, in May 1985, we published the following items on this struggle in Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt No. 4:
20 July 2006 -- On Criticism of Misleaders—letter to Workers Vanguard on questions arising from the December 2005 transit strike in New York 16 July 2006 -- The following letter was sent to the international Marxist tendency on 12 July: Comrades 11 July 2006 -- Letter to Workers Vanguard - For United-front Action to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal 10 July 2006 -- “Anti-Terror” Arrests - letter to the Varsity magazine by an IBT supporter. 08 July 2006 -- Falling out among confusionists - IBT statement on split in the League for the Fifth International 20 June 2006 -- WASG and PDS/Linkspartei - Opportunity or Obstacle for the German Working Class? - speaker from Germany at IBT public meeting, Sunday 9 July, 2pm (during SWP's Marxism), at Birkbeck College: Room 251, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E. Russell Square, Goodge St or Holborn tube stations. 06 June 2006 -- We reply to a correspondent on the position of Ted Grant and the Committee for a Marxist International on the 1991 Moscow Coup. 27 May 2006 -- The ‘Anti-CPE’ Movement in France: Mass Resistance & Reformist Treachery 23 May 2006 -- The German language section has been updated with:
15 May 2006 -- Our Marxist Archive section has been updated with the document Marxist Bulletin No. 7 - The Leninist Position on Youth-Party Relations, documents from the YSA & SWP, 1957-61. 09 May 2006 -- Photo from indymedia http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/05/1819416.php shows a placard carried by International Bolshevik Tendency comrades during the San Francisco march in defense of immigrant rights on May Day. Approximately 30,000 people marched and rallied that day in San Francisco.
08 May 2006 -- For an Indefinite General Strike Until the Employment Contracts Bill is Withdrawn!, a leaflet published by the Permanent Revolution Group, New Zealand Section of the International Bolshevik Tendency, 26 April 1991. 07 May 2006 -- Letter to The Socialist, concerning Peter Taaffe's reformist statement on BBC radio. 06 May 2006 -- We have added two articles expressing aspects of the IBT position on the Black Question in the USA:
04 May 2006 -- Our Marxist Archive section has been updated with the document West Coast Auto Local Rejects Preferential Seniority first published in Workers Vanguard, March 1974. 23 April 2006 -- Our Marxist Archive section has been updated with a series of documents by Dick Fraser putting the revolutionary integrationist perspective on the Black Question in America. 5 April 2006 -- Eyewitness report: French students and workers fight back - IBT London public meeting, Tuesday 11 April, 7.30pm, at The Lamb, 94 Lambs Conduit St, London WC1 - Holborn or Russell Square tube stations. 29 March 2006 -- Open letter to Workers Power: Revolutionary Principles vs. Cynical Manoeuvres, on the Campaign for a New Workers' Party. 26 March 2006 -- The Origins of the Spartacist Tendency sub-section of our Marxist Archive has been updated with the Marxist Bulletin #5 (Revised Edition). This Spartacist League pamphlet, first published in 1978, contains documents from 1955-1978 dealing with the question of what strategy will lead to black liberation in the USA. 23 March 2006 -- The Origins of the Spartacist Tendency sub-section of our Marxist Archive has been updated with the Marxist Bulletin #3 Part II. This Spartacist League pamphlet, first published in 1970, contains documents from 1963, culminating in the expulsion of the RT majority (Robertson-Mage-White grouping) from the SWP. 21 March 2006 -- The German language section of the website has been updated with:
03 March 2006 -- Anti-Muslim Cartoons, remarks by an IBT supporter at a public meeting of the Toronto International Socialist group on Islamophobia held on 1 March. 03 February 2006 -- Issue 23 of BOLSCHEWIK, our German language journal, is now available. 24 January 2006 -- A British supplement to 1917, focusing on the Socialist Party (CWI):
23 January 2006 -- The Marxist Archive section has been updated with the following articles by James P. Cannon:
18 January 2006 -- Class Politics & Election 2006, a statement on the Canadian election. 17 January 2006 -- The Marxist Archive section has been updated with the following Spartacist materials on revolutionary defense policy:
14 January 2006 -- The final set of articles from the new
issue of our journal 1917 are now available:
12 January 2006 -- The Origins of the Spartacist Tendency sub-section of our Marxist Archive has been updated with the Marxist Bulletin #3 Part IV. This Spartacist League pamphlet, first published in 1970, details the minutes of the Spartacist-ACFI (American Committee for the Fourth International) Unity Negotiating Sessions in June-October 1965. 11 January 2006 -- Three more articles from the new issue
of our journal 1917 are now available:
09 January 2006 -- Three articles from the new issue of
our journal 1917 are now available:
07 January 2006 -- Our edition of Trotsky's Transitional Program and our pamphlet The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal are now available for sale on www.amazon.co.uk. 12 December 2005 -- Update to the "Legal documents and press releases from Mumia's legal team" in the section of our site related to the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. 12 December 2005 -- The Marxist Archive section has been updated with the following documents:
19 November 2005 -- The London branch of the IBT will be holding a public meeting entitled "Reform vs. Revolution: The fight for a new workers' party" on Saturday 10 December, 2pm. Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1 - Holborn is nearest tube station. 26 September 2005 -- The Toronto branch of the IBT will be holding a public meeting entitled "Racism & Capitalist Irrationality: New Orleans: U.S. Imperialism in Decline" on Friday 30 September, 7pm. Room 7-192, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 252 Bloor Street West - St. George subway. 12 September 2005 -- 'Left' Labourite Illusions: Letter to Workers Power. 11 September 2005 -- Remarks by an IBT supporter at a public meeting on New Orleans disaster in Toronto on 9 September. 10 September 2005 -- The leaflet Keine Stimme für die neue Linkspartei! Hochzeit der Reformisten - Linke will mitfeiern has been updated with an additional section on the Gruppe Arbeitermacht's call for a vote to the Linkspartei. 10 September 2005 -- Spoil your ballot on 17 September - Election 2005: Rogernomics or Rogernomics? on the New Zealand elections. 30 August 2005 -- The Origins of the Spartacist Tendency sub-section of our Marxist Archive has been updated with the Marxist Bulletin #3 Part I. This Spartacist League pamphlet, first published in 1968, details the 1962 split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency. 27 August 2005 -- The leaflet Keine Stimme für die neue Linkspartei! Hochzeit der Reformisten - Linke will mitfeiern is now available in our German language section. 13 August 2005 -- Whatever Happened to the Spartacist League?. Pamphlet published by the International Bolshevik Tendency, April 2005. 18 July 2005 -- Statement on the London terrorist attacks. Remarks made at an IBT public meeting in London on 9 July. 16 July 2005 -- The Marxist Archive section has been updated with Marxist Bulletin No. 2 - "The Nature of the Socialist Workers Party—Revolutionary or Centrist". Discussion material of the Revolutionary Tendency within the SWP first published by Spartacist, September 1965. 15 July 2005 -- Letter to Workers Vanguard on LaVerne Sims and MOVE's attitude to her 14 July 2005 -- The Marxist Archive section has been updated with the following documents:
5 July 2005 -- The London branch of the IBT will be holding a Marxism Fringe public meeting entitled "Respect: Pro-religion, anti-abortion popular-frontism - For a revolutionary perspective!" on Saturday 9 July at 7:00pm in Room 633, Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street, London WC1 (Russell Square or Goodge St closest tubes). 18 June 2005 -- The Marxist Archive section has been updated with selected material on organising youth:
15 June 2005 -- The complete version of an IBT letter to Weekly Worker in reply to various criticisms raised by a couple of political opponents in previous issues of that publication. (WW printed an abridged version of the letter) 05 June 2005 -- Update to the "Legal documents and press releases from Mumia's legal team" in the section of our site related to the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. 26 May 2005 -- Imperialist Expansionism & the European 'Constitution'. 25 May 2005 -- IBT letter in Weekly Worker in reply to Mike Mcnair's article "Vote for class independence" responding to our article Stalinism versus Trotskyism 16 May 2005 -- Exchange with Phil Duncan on united fronts and fighting fascism. 15 May 2005 -- Report by an IBTer who participated in an anti-fascist action in Boston, Massachusetts on Sunday 8 May. 06 May 2005 -- Two historical articles concerning opposition to French nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific:
05 May 2005 -- The Marxist Archive section has been updated with the following documents:
04 May 2005 -- The Marxist Archive section has been updated with the following documents:
02 May 2005 -- The leaflet Keine Stimme für SPD, PDS, Grüne und WASG! - Für die politische und organisatorische Unabhängigkeit der Arbeiterklasse! is now available in our German language section. 30 April 2005 -- The People’s Front: The New Betrayal by James Burnham, published by Pioneer Publishers, New York, 1937 28 April 2005 -- IBT article on Popular Fronts printed in Weekly Worker 573 - Stalinism versus Trotskyism. 26 April 2005 -- What Choice for Workers? Labour, trade unions and reformist dead ends - British supplement to 1917 produced for the 5 May general election . 15 April 2005 -- Spartacist League pamphlet Lenin and the Vanguard Party - a series of articles by Joseph Seymour published in Workers Vanguard in 1977-78. 10 April 2005 -- Another two articles from the new
issue of our journal 1917 are now available:
06 April 2005 -- Two more articles from the new issue of our journal 1917 are now
available:
03 April 2005 -- Two more articles from the new issue of our journal 1917 are now
available:
31 March 2005 -- Issue 22 of Bolschewik, our German language journal, is now available. 30 March 2005 -- Two articles from the new issue of our
journal 1917 are now available:
14 March 2005 -- Remarks by an IBT supporter at a "peace" rally in Albany, New York on 9 March 19 December 2004 -- A selection of historical statements
and letters of the IBT.
12 December 2004 -- A selection of historical statements
and letters relating to IBT activity in Canada.
30 November 2004 -- Bulletin No. 3 of the External Tendency, published in May 1984, includes political differences with the iSt over the nature of the Soviet Union, Marxism and social patriotism, coverage of the decline in SL-supported trade-union work, as well as the ET application for membership in the iSt. 29 November 2004 -- The External Tendency’s Bulletin No. 2, initially appearing in January 1984, contains correspondence with leading members of the iSt, coverage of ET intervention in class struggles in Cleveland, Toronto and San Francisco, as well as material on the Second Conference of the External Tendency of the iSt. 25 November 2004 -- A selection of historical statements
and letters relating to the Spartacist League.
23 November 2004 -- Four articles from 1917 West,
a journal produced by the San Francisco Bay Area local of the IBT
15 November 2004 -- The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal - A 90-page pamphlet which brings together for the first time the evidence, main legal documents and chronology that conclusively prove the innocence of America's best-known political prisoner is now available to purchase. 26 October 2004 -- Fascists taught lesson in Wellington. 21 October 2004 -- The complete Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt No. 4 is now available. 13 October 2004 -- The Toronto branch of the IBT will be holding a public meeting entitled "Capitalism & Terrorism: Paranoia and Hypocrisy in the Age of Imperialism" on Saturday 23 October, 7pm. Room 7-192, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 252 Bloor Street West, St. George subway. 10 October 2004 -- The London branch of the IBT will be holding an ESF Fringe public meeting entitled "Does the Stop the War Coalition Fight Imperialism? The Marxist Response" on Saturday 16 October, 4:30pm to 6:30pm at the West Indian Cultural Centre, Clarendon Road, N8 (off Hornsey Park Rd, by junction with Turnpike Lane). 9 October 2004 -- The leaflet Weg mit Hartz IV - Für eine revolutionäre Orientierung im Kampf gegen den Sozialabbau is now available in our German language section. 22 September 2004 -- The Marxist Archive section has been updated with the following documents:
19 September 2004 -- Issue 21 of Bolschewik, our German language journal, is now available. 12 September 2004 -- Stalinists and Counterrevolution - Letter to the Internationalist Group on the Stalinists' role in the destruction of the Soviet bloc. 31 August 2004 -- Forward to a Revolutionary Workers’ Party—No to Lesser Evilism! - statement on the US elections. 8 August 2004 -- By Any Means Necessary... - a letter to Workers Vanguard on the difference in their analysis of Lebanon in 1983 and Iraq today. 4 August 2004 -- Correction to our report of a SL-IG-IBT bloc against rightist provocation in Boston. 28 July 2004 -- Report of a SL-IG-IBT bloc against rightist provocation in Boston. 22 July 2004 -- Two of the founding documents of the External Tendency of the iSt - Declaration of an external tendency of the iSt and Stop The Liquidation Of The Trade Union Work! are now available on the IBT website. 20 July 2004 -- 1917 no.10 and 1917 no. 11 are now available in html format as well as PDF. 19 July 2004 -- Quebec, Tibet and Falun Gong - a letter to Workers Vanguard responding to the Workers Vanguard, No. 827, 28 May article entitled Kneeling Before the Body of General Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham. 3 July 2004 -- For an openly anti-imperialist anti-war movement! - statement distributed in Britain. 30 June 2004 -- 1917 no. 7, 1917 no. 8 and 1917 no. 9 are now available in html format as well as PDF. 22 June 2004 -- 1917 no. 4, 1917 no. 5 and 1917 no. 6 are now available in html format as well as PDF. 22 June 2004 -- No Choice for Working People - a statement on the Canadian federal elections is now available on our website. 18 June 2004 -- 1917 no. 3 is now available on the IBT website in html format as well as PDF. 15 June 2004 -- 1917 no. 2 is now available on the IBT website in html format as well as PDF. 13 June 2004 -- 1917 no. 1 is now available on the IBT website in html format as well as PDF. 24 April 2004 -- The IBT pamphlet Polemics with the ICL: Kurdistan & the Struggle for National Liberation is now available on the IBT website. 18 April 2004 -- The new issue of 1917 [no. 26] is now available on the IBT website. 29 March 2004 -- The 1917 Society (U of T) is sponsoring a forum entitled "Iraq Blowback" at the University of Toronto on Saturday, April 3. The meeting begins at 7pm and will take place in room 7-192 in the OISE Building, 252 Bloor Street West, near the St. George subway station. 20 March 2004 -- On the CN Strike - A letter to the editor of Workers Vanguard on the recent strike by CN workers in Canada. 8 March 2004 -- Update on Ukrainian fraud. In late November 2003, the IEC of the CWI issued a statement on Ilya Budraitskis, a person known to be involved in the Ukrainian fraud. The IBT has responded to this statement in the article "No Innocent Explanation." 8 March 2004 -- Article on the recent decision of comrade Spector to leave the Verbond voor de Vierde Internationale (VVI—League for the Fourth International) and join the Interntional Bolshevik Tendency: "From the IG to Trotskyism." 25 January 2004 -- "RESPECT-able Reformism and Cross-class 'Unity' " - leaflet produced by IBT Britain in response to the formation of a new electoral coalition. 10 January 2004 -- Compare and Contrast - ICL vs. IBT on Stalinism & Soviet Defencism - a selection of quotes from publications of the IBT and the ICL highlighting differences between the two organizations on questions connected to Stalinism and the defense of the deformed and degenerated workers' states. 9 January 2004 -- Some extracts from a 1996 letter to the Internationalist Group (League for the Fourth International) are now available on this site in Portuguese. The full English text is available in Trotskyist Bulletin #6. 1 November 2003 -- Trotskyist Bulletin No. 4:Trotskyism vs. Pabloism - Nicaragua & the Permanent Revoution is now available in HTML format on the IBT web site. 28 October 2003 -- IBT letter to South Korean President Roh protesting the arrest of construction union activists. 9 October 2003 -- On our pages on the Ukrainian fraud, we have added links to IBT materials about Ukraine published, in English, Russian and Ukrainian, during the time we believed we had a Ukrainian section. 30 September 2003 -- Unanswered IBT Letter to the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) asking for information on the Ukrainian Scam, 9 September 2003. 29 September 2003 -- The Toronto branch of the IBT will be holding a public meeting entitled "Toward a Socialist Federation of the Middle East" on Saturday 4 October at 7pm on the eighth floor of the OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) building at 252 Bloor St. West. The closest subway stop is St. George. 24 September 2003 -- Se ha actualizado la sección en español en el sitio oficial de la IBT, con la traducción del Boletín Trotskista N°3, y extractos del Boletín Trotskista N° 5. El primero de ellos se relaciona con el debate que nuestra tendencia internacional sostuvo con la Workers Power, y en el cual se demarcó las diferencias entre trotskismo genuíno y centrismo. Con relación a la seguda traducción se refiere a las secciones quetrata exclusivamente el tema de la cuestión rusa y las diferencias que la Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional mantiene con la Liga Comunista Internacional. 12 September 2003 -- "The Emperor Has No Clothes" our reply to 29 August Workers Vanguard article "BT: A Walking Provocation." 5 September 2003 -- Important update to the cast list of the Ukrainian fraud. There is evidence that a leading member of the Russian CWI is involved, Ilya Budraitskis. Ilya has up to this point been identified by us as Ivan, the pseudonym he used while pretending to be an IBT member. 3 September 2003 -- We have added links to statements from other organizations to our pages of information on the Ukrainian fraud. 2 September 2003 -- The cast list of the Ukrainian fraud against the workers' movement has been updated with a new photo of Ivan (Igor or Dmitri). 29 August 2003 -- The cast list of the Ukrainian fraud against the workers' movement has been updated. 21 August 2003 -- ¡No a la estafa al movimiento obrero! Una investigación reciente se ha determinado que la Tendencia Bolchevique Internacional (TBI) es una de las numerosas organizaciones de izquierda burladas por una banda de artistas estafadores en Kiev, quienes fraudulentamente posaron como parte integrante de diversas tendencias políticas internacionales. Nuestra declaración en español. 21 August 2003 -- Notice to the workers' movement! A recent investigation has determined that the International Bolshevik Tendency is one of a number of left-wing organizations fooled by a gang of con artists in Kiev, who fraudulently posed as supporters of different international political tendencies. Our statement on this, as well as an exposure of the people involved, is now available. 13 August 2003 -- "The Truth Hurts" our reply to 1 August Workers Vanguard article "BT: Renegades for Hire". 10 August 2003 -- The German language section has been updated with:
17 July 2003 -- Workers Vanguard implicitly accepts our critique of Robertson’s ‘Vulgar Chauvinism’ made in our 12 June letter. 8 July 2003 -- The IBT will be holding a public meeting in London entitled "The Trotskyist Programme Today - The Struggle for Revolutionary Continuity". The meeting will take place in Room B111 on the 1st Floor of the Brunei Gallery at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Russell Square, London at 7 pm on Thursday 10th July. 24 June 2003 -- The Spanish section of the site has now been expanded to include issues 1 and 2 of Cuadernos Marxistas, a publication of the then-revolutionary Spartacist League/US in the 1970s, and translations of three articles from 1917 No. 25. 24 June 2003 -- The French section of the site has now been expanded to include issues 1 to 4 of the French language 1917. 21 June 2003 -- Trotskyist Bulletin No. 1: Only Trotskyism Can Defend the Gains of October is now available in HTML format on the IBT web site. 20 June 2003 -- Trotskyist Bulletin No. 5: IBT vs. ICL is now available in HTML format on the IBT web site. 15 June 2003 -- Letter to Workers Vanguard (paper of the Spartacist League) exposing two recent gross misrepresentations of our politics. 08 June 2003 -- Letter to the League for the Revolutionary Party challenging their claim that the IBT does not "defend the right of immigrants to enter the imperialist countries". 07 June 2003 -- The German language section has been updated with:
31 May 2003 -- Letter to Norm Sterling, Attorney General of Ontario, demanding the dropping of charges against three OCAP supporters for participation in the 15 June 2000 demonstration at Queens Park. 31 May 2003 -- Section of web site concerning the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal updated with the following documents:
19 May 2003 -- The IBT pamphletPlatformism & Bolshevism, a polemic against platformist anarchism, is now available on the IBT web site in the IBT Publications area. 16 May 2003 -- IBT interventions at debate between the League for the Revolutionary Party and the Spartacist League/US. 02 May 2003 -- New Spanish language section added to IBT web site. 07 April 2003 -- Letter to the Internationalist Group that was posted on a New York email discussion list on 6 March. 13 March 2003 -- Letter to the Weekly Worker (CPGB) on the questions of military blocs to defend Iraq and opposing class-collaboration in the anti-war movement. 10 March 2003 -- "Defend Iraq Against Imperialist Attack!" The IBT in Toronto will be holding a public meeting on Thursday, 13 March at 7 pm at OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto (near the St. George subway stop). 26 February 2003 -- 1917 No. 25 is now available (in html format). 24 February 2003-- In New Zealand, at a recent conference organised by the Anti Capitalist Alliance (ACA), the question of Palestine/Israel came up, leading to an exchange between comrades of the IBT and members of the ACA. An account of the conference distorting our position on this question was published subsequently, prompting the following response. 10 February 2003-- Statement on the Columbia ‘Disaster’. 7 February 2003-- An exchange between an Internationalist Group supporter and one of our comrades on the question of revolutionary press policy recently took place on a New York City leftist discussion list. 6 February 2003-- We respond to an "informal group of people in Toronto of varying perspectives (anarchist, communist and others)" who distributed a leaflet at a January anti-war march critical of the attempt by "'leftists'/Trotskyists" to differentiate between offering military and political support to Iraq against imperialist aggression. 22 December 2002-- English translation of a statement on the Korean presidential elections. The original Korean is also available. 16 November 2002-- British introduction to the IBT leaflet "Defend Iraq! Down with Bush's Terror War!". 9 November 2002-- German language leaflet, Verteidigt den Irak gegen die imperialistischen Angriffe!, of the IBT-Germany (Gruppe Spartakus) opposing the threatened war against Iraq and focussing on a Leninist critique of the specific role of German imperialism. 30 October 2002-- IBT leaflet, "Defend Iraq! Down with Bush's Terror War!", opposing the threatened war against Iraq, available as html (30k) or PDF (51k). 10 October 2002-- IBT (Ukraine) Election Statement distributed in the run-up to the Ukrainian elections on 31 March 2002 is now available on the web site in Russian and Ukrainian. 07 October 2002-- Leaflet distributed by IBT (Ukraine) during the actions of the ‘united opposition’ in September 2002. Available in Russian and Ukrainian. 04 October 2002-- The German language section has been expanded with some new sub-sections and issues 17 & 18 of Bolschewik, our German language journal. 03 October 2002-- Amicus brief in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal filed by the For Chicana/Chicano Studies Foundation (June 28, 2000) is now available. (PDF 267k) 23 September 2002-- Report on the intervention of an IBT comrade at a recent Internationalist Group public forum called to discuss the issue of the pending U.S. attack on Iraq. 18 September 2002-- Section of web site concerning the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal updated with the following documents:
02 August 2002-- New French language section added to IBT web site. 25 July 2002-- Spoil your ballot! - statement on the NZ general election. 30 June 2002-- ICL in New York and Paris: A Tale of Two Cities. 14 June 2002-- CWI, IBT, ICL, IS, USFI, Anarchists, Trade Unionists & Others Hold United Front Meeting for Mumia in Toronto. 09 June 2002-- Solidarnosc: Acid Test for Trotskyists first published in 1988 is now available on the web site. 01 May 2002-- TB No. 8: Afghanistan & The Left (html split into chapters) or complete document in Word format (zipped 132k) is now available. 12 April 2002-- LRCI Flip-flop on Ukrainian SPU 08 April 2002-- Letter to Workers Power discussing the LRCI's call for a constituent assembly in Argentina. 03 April 2002-- IBT (Ukraine) Election Statement. An English translation of a statement distributed in the run-up to the Ukrainian elections on 31 March 2002. 18 March 2002 -- Section of web site concerning the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal updated with the following documents:
18 March 2002 -- 1917 No. 24 is now available (in html format). 13 March 2002 -- The German language section now includes issues 12, 13 and 14 of Bolschewik our German language journal. 18 February 2002 -- Some news that didn’t fit 17 February 2002 -- ICL on Afghanistan: ‘Realist’
Wiseacres 17 February 2002 -- Section of web site concerning the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal updated with the following documents:
14 February 2002 --
ICL on Afghanistan: Healyites of the
Second Mobilization? 03 February 2002 -- New German language section added to IBT web site. 21 January 2002 -- New Ukrainian language section added to IBT web site. 15 January 2002 -- New Russian language section added to IBT web site. 14 December 2001 -- A letter from the IBT (Ukraine) to the Internationalist Group protesting a slanderous accusation in the current issue of The Internationalist. Available in English, Russian and Ukrainian 6 December 2001 -- New section on the web site concerning the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. 5 December 2001 -- "Where Is the ICL Going? An analysis 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. 30 November 2001 -- IBT statement - "WV’s Malicious Inventions–One Down, More to Go!" A response to 9 November Workers Vangaurd reply to our letter. 18 November 2001 -- Flyer distributed by IBT comrades at the founding meeting of the British "Stop the War Coalition" on 28 October 2001, arguing that it should stand for defence of Afghanistan. IBT 5 November leaflet detailing the LRCI's endorsement of the overtly pacifist, class-collaborationist politics which the coalition actually adopted. 22 October 2001 -- The video of Arnold R. Beverly's affidavit, where Beverly confesses to the murder of which Mumia Abu-Jamal has been convicted, is now available online via the KNTV News Channel 11's web site. Your computer must have Macromedia's Flash, Microsoft Window's Media Player or Real Network's RealPlayer installed to watch the video. 21 October 2001 -- The 12 October issue of Workers Vanguard, newspaper of the Spartacist League/U.S., contains an attack on the IBT entitled "The Bolshevik Tendency and the Pathology of Renegades--On the Pentagon Attack." We have posted this article and our reply, as well as background materials including Trotskyist Bulletin No. 2. 04 October 2001 -- Affidavit by George Michael Newman, a private investigator - a recent document relevant to Weinglass and William's handling of Mumia's case - dated 25 September. (Word file - 18k) 21 September 2001 -- Affidavit by Rachel Wolkenstein (Word file - 102k) dated 7 August that substantiates in detail from the inside how Weinglass and Williams sabotaged Mumia's defense during the period when Wolkenstein and Piper were on the defence team. 19 September 2001 -- IBT statement on the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. 21 August 2001 -- Mumia Abu-Jamal's lawyers amended writ of habeus corpus as presented to the court on 6 August in Zipped word format (409k - please note the unzipped Word file is 1.48mb 6 August 2001 -- Press release detailing the filing by Mumia Abu-Jamal's attorneys of a 130-page motion in federal court on Monday, July 30, 2001, asking Judge William H. Yohn, Jr. to reconsider his denial of their request to take the deposition (testimony under oath) of Arnold Beverly. The full text of the motion is also available Word (388k) or zipped (108k) 27 July 2001 -- Statement on Judge Yohn's rejection of new evidence in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. 28 June 2001-- Letter protesting the detention and brutal abuse of human rights advocates Abed Rahman al-Ahmar, Adnan al-Hajar and Hashem Abu Hassan. 27 June 2001-- Leaflet against sweatshops - distributed at May Day demonstration in London. 7 June 2001-- Leaflet on the British general election. 13 May 2001-- Open letter submitted by British IBT supporter Liz H. to the Weekly Worker, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, explaining why she had ceased to support their organisation. 9 May 2001-- The 1917 supplement on the Quebec City protest against the FTAA, Quebec and After, is now available (in html format). 26 March 2001-- Statement on the current protests in the Ukraine being distributed in Kiev by the Young Revolutionary Marxists (YRM--a group with which the IBT has fraternal relations). Available in English, Ukrainian and Russian Statement by the YRM, distributed in Kiev last week, comments on a recent "Open Letter" by six leftist members of the Komsomol (the youth wing of the Communist Party of Ukraine--CPU). This "Open Letter" has been circulated internationally by the League for a Revolutionary Communist International (LRCI). Available in English and Russian. 21 March 2001-- The article from 1917 issue no. 5 Jesse Jackson: Judas-Goat for the
Bourgeoisie is now available (in html format). 19 February 2001--1917
No. 23 is now available in html format on this web site. 16 January 2001--Article on the recent coup in Belgrade
translated from Bolschewik, January 2001, German journal of the
International Bolshevik Tendency. January 2001--At the beginning of the year 1901 the young Lev Davidovich Bronstein, who had not yet assumed the name of Trotsky, but was already in exile in Siberia, epitomized his revolutionary mood in an impassioned invocation to the twentieth century. Where there is life, there’s hope! - Excerpted from "The Age of Permanent Revolution: A Trotsky Anthology" by Isaac Deutscher 30 October 2000--IBT
statement on the U.S. presidential elections is now available on this
web site. 5 September 2000--1917
No. 22 is now available in html format on this web site. 8 August 2000-- The Marxist
Archive section of the web site has been updated with a large number of
documents dealing with the development of Pabloism and the response of
revolutionaries to that development. 22 July 2000-- New look IBT web site with additional
Marxist Archive section. 7 June 2000-- A report on the 12 May Bay Area Labor
Conference for Mumia. 5 June 2000-- A commentary on the recent Time
magazine article by Francis Fukuyama entitled "Will Socialism Come
Back?" 8 May 2000-- Three more previously unavailable 1917 #12 articles (Centrists & Soviet Counterrevolution, The Anti-Fascist Wunsiedel Campaign & Kurdistan & the National Question) are now published on the web site in html format. 2 May 2000-- The new issue (no. 11) of the Marxist Bulletin (journal of the British section of the International Bolshevik Tendency) is now available online at www.bolshevik.org/mb/issues.htm. This issue outlines the bolshevik position on the upcoming London elections. 12 April 2000--Three more previously unavailable 1917 #12 articles (Canada's Constitutional 'Crisis', For Working–Class Unity—Not National Unity: Spoil Your Ballot! and Polemics on the Soviet Coup: Robertsonites in Denial) are now published on the web site in html format. 10 April 2000--The current issue of the Marxist Bulletin (journal of the British section of the International Bolshevik Tendency) is now avaialble online at www.bolshevik.org/mb/issues.htm. 1 April 2000--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. We make it available here. 22 March 2000--Two of the previously unavailable 1917 #12 articles (Capitalism and Racism & John Brown Society Banquet) are now published on the web site in html format. 18 March 2000--Statement on the killing of Amadou Diallo and the subsequent acquittal of the cops tried for his murder. 28 February 2000--Leaflet on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal distributed at the San Fransico civil disobedience demonstration on 28 February 28 January 2000--Obituary for Arnie Mintz, a longtime leftist active in Canada and Britain. 3 January 2000--A report and commentary on the Spartacist League's political turn towards rationalizing its sectarianism and political isolation in connection with the recent WTO protests in Seattle and the anti-KKK protests in New York City. 15 December 1999--The IBT will be holding a public meeting in Toronto entitled "Prospects for World Revolution". Bill Logan, a former leading member of the international Spartacist tendency (today known as the International Communist League) will be speaking. The meeting will take place at the International Students' Centre at the University of Toronto, 33 St. George Street at 7:30 pm on Friday 17 December. 19 November 1999--Letter to the Spartacist League concerning the New York City anti-KKK demonstration on 23 October. 10 October 1999--The International Bolshevik Tendency has published a new edition of Trotsky's Transitional Program. 30 September 1999--There are two new Trotskyist Bulletins (TB) available from the International Bolshevik Tendency: TB No. 6 entitled Polemics with the Internationalist Group and TB No. 7 entitled Marxism and the Quebec National Question. Note that both files are in PDF format v3.0 and the files sizes are large (about 500k and 800k respectively). 30 September 1999--The IBT (NZ) has issued a statement on the sending of UN troops to East Timor. 30 September 1999--Mumia Abu-Jamal has issued a article about the recent labor actions carried out by the LAC entitled A Salute To Labor's Strength. 9 August 1999--1917 No. 21 is now available in PDF
format on this web site. 11 July 1999-- A statement by Mumia Abu-Jamal on the action by the ILWU on April 24. To: President Brian McWilliams Vice President Jim Spinosa
ILWU/San Francisco, CA 10 June 1999-- The current conflict in Kosovo saw a fundamental shift in the role of the KLA in its conflict with Serb military and police. This led the IBT to change its position towards the KLA. A collection of articles, largely from the British media, is available here to document this change in role for the KLA. 23 May 1999-- Two interviews with Mumia Abu-Jamal by the labor movement supporters of his case. With the London San Francisco Bay Area based Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia and by ILWU Local 10 longshoreman Jack Heyman for the union's newspaper The Dispatcher 23 May 1999-- Updated list of endorsers of the solidarity declaration protesting against the police raids on three left cultural associations in Duisburg 8 May 1999-- Addition to the IBT statement on the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the war in Kosovo. 22 April 1999-- IBT statement on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal and the international events on April 24/25 in support of Mumia's case 18 April 1999-- Reports from comrades of the International Bolshevik Tendency who are involved in the campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. - updated to include details of April 24/25 activities 9 April 1999-- Full transcript (200k) of the 13 February debate at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, between the Trotskyist League (Canadian section of the International Communist League--TL/ICL) and the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) 6 April 1999-- IBT statement on the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the war in Kosovo. 10 March 1999-- Reports from comrades of the International Bolshevik Tendency who are involved in the campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. 24 February 1999-- Free Abdullah Öcalan! - Translated from a supplement to Bolschewik, journal of Gruppe Spartakus, German section of the IBT 17 February 1999-- IBT statement on Ian Donovan's Attack on an SL/B Comrade. 6 February 1999--On Saturday, 13 February, our Canadian
comrades will be debating the comrades of the Trotskyist League (Canadian
section of James Robertson's International Communist League) on "The Quebec
National Question and the Fight for Socialism." This is the first time that the
ICL leadership has agreed to debate the International Bolshevik Tendency in our
16 year existence (despite numerous written polemics) and it promises to be a
lively event. 6 February 1999--Last October Tom Reid, a leading IBT activist in Toronto, was arrested and falsely charged with assaulting police in connection with a demonstration against the Tory privatization minister at the University of Toronto. Tom's defense committee, the "Committee to Defend Democratic Rights at UofT" (CDDR), has recently issued a brochure with materials reporting on Tom's case. Click here to read it. 19 December 1998-- Click here for the IBT statement on the bombing of Iraq by the USA and UK. 11 December 1998-- The list of endorsers of the solidarity declaration protesting against the police raids on three left cultural associations in Duisburg is now available 6 December 1998-- The British section of the IBT now has their own section on our web site - www.bolshevik.org/mb/. Copies of their journal, Marxist Bulletin, and details of the activities they are involved in are available on these pages. 28 October 1998--Please note the address for the New York BT has changed. Correspondence with the NYBT should be sent to: NYBT, Box 405, Cooper Station New York, NY, USA 10276 28 October 1998--In part of a wider pattern of state repression in Germany, there have recently been police raids on three left cultural associations in Duisburg. The International Bolshevik Tendency and its German section, the Gruppe Spartakus, have been circulating a solidarity declaration. Click here to read it. 27 July 1998--The 9 July edition of the Weekly Worker (paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain) contained a polemic against Trotskyism and a reply by IBT supporters. You can read the Weekly Worker article and the reply by clicking on the appropriate link. 27 July 1998--The IBT has published a statement on the recent dock workers strike in Australia. Click here to read the statement. 27 July 1998--Click here to read an IBT statement on a recent firefighters strike in New Zealand. 8 May 1998--A three-year member of the Fredericton branch of the Canadian International Socialists, Stephen J., has recently written an open letter to IS members explaining his recent expulsion. He explains the development his of differences with the IS leadership on a number of issues, and how this led to his expulsion. You can read his letter by clicking here. 8 May 1998--A controversy has emerged in the Canadian left over an incident at the 1998 International Women's Day Book Fair at Ryerson University, Toronto. There were two protests leading to the expulsion of two tables, one a Canadian Armed Forces recruiting table and, the other, a table representing the Islamic Republic of Iran. You can read the IBT statement on these events, by clicking here. 19 April 1998--The New Zealand IBT has produced a statement regarding the recent power outages in downtown Auckland. It can be viewed here. 23 March 1998--A statement by former NYBT members has been posted recently on the APST newsgroup, explaining their recent departure from the IBT. The IBT has written a response to this statement and can be viewed here. 2 March 1998--There are two new statements available from
the IBT. The first is a statement on the U.S. government's threat of military
aggression against Iraq. This statement is available in Acrobat and in html, click on the appropriate link. 25 January 1998--1917 #20 is now on-line. It can be accessed through the 'Issues Index' of the 'Read 1917' page. Also, there is a correction to #20. Most of the text of the letter from James P. Cannon to Myra Tanner Weiss reprinted on page 12 was in fact previously published in Cannon's book The First Ten Years of American Communism. 21 December 1997--6 December marked an international day of solidarity with political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Click here to read a report on this important day of action. Also, there was a labor solidarity action in Oakland, California, with the 500 unionized dock workers in Liverpool. To read a report on this event, click here. 11 October 1997--We've had a number of inquiries, since the launching of this web page, about the Adobe Acrobat format. There were important reasons for choosing this format: cross-platform compatibility, ease of reading, the possibility in the future of adding hyper links in documents for cross-referencing, and preventing tampering or alteration of the documents. This is why a number of organizations on the web currently post their documents in Adobe Acrobat format, and we believe the number of groups doing so will likely increase. We're also aware that there are some, due to technical restrictions (for example, a machine slower than a 486 or with a small amount of memory), unable to access our documents. We are posting two documents in ASCII format here in response to a special request: articles on the politics of the ICL, A Dismal Symmetry and WV De-Collectivized. 11 October 1997--The New York BT recently sent a letter of protest (click the preceding link) to organizers of a meeting against police violence. The organizers invited two U.S. Marshals to speak at the meeting. |
