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1917, journal of the International Bolshevik
Tendency
Trotskyist Bulletins
A series of pamphlets containing polemics with other organisations on the left.
No. 1: Only Trotskyism Can Defend the Gains of October (html 92K)
No. 2: Marxism vs. Social Patriotism (html split into chapters) or complete document in Word format (zipped 223k)—polemics with the Spartacist Tendency over their call to save US Marines in Lebanon in 1983
No. 3: In Defense of the Trotskyist Program (html 175k)—polemics with Workers Power
No. 4: Trotskyism vs. Pabloism - Nicaragua & the Permanent Revoution (html split into chapters)
No. 5: ICL vs. IBT (in html format 212k) – reprint of the ICL pamphlet, The IBT: What is it?, with a point by point reply
No. 6: Polemics with the Internationalist Group (pdf 787k)
No. 7: Marxism and the Quebec National Question (pdf 586k)
No. 8: Afghanistan and the Left (html split into chapters)
Publications of the External Tendency of the iSt
Declaration of an external tendency of the iSt (html 63k)
Stop The Liquidation Of The Trade Union Work! (html 45k)
Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt No. 2 (html 89k)
Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt No. 3 (html 159k)
Bulletin of the External Tendency of
the iSt No. 4 (html 229k)
— Road to
Jimstown (html 61k)
Material from the Permanent Revolution Group (New Zealand) 1986-90
Building the Revolutionary Party and United Front Tactics (html)
The Struggle Against Unemployment: Socialist Strategy vs Trade Union Bureaucracy (html 42k)
Popular Fronts vs Proletarian Revolution: Russia-Spain-Sri Lanka (html split into chapters)
Permanent Revolution: Yesterday & Today (html split into chapters)
For an Indefinite General Strike Until the Employment Contracts Bill is Withdrawn! (html 22k)
Other publications
Polemics with the ICL:
- Kurdistan & the Struggle for National Liberation (html split into chapters)
- Whatever Happened to the Spartacist League? (html)
- Compare and Contrast ICL vs. IBT on Stalinism & Soviet Defencism (html)
- On the Logan Show Trial (html)
New Edition of The Transitional
Program
Available in hardcopy—more details and how to order on the
linked page.
Read the introduction by
the IBT online.
The Case of Mumia
Abu-Jamal
The linked page has the pamphlet available to read online, and
also has instructions for ordering a hardcopy.
Marxism vs. ‘Militant’ Reformism - The CWI’s Kautskyan Caricature of Trotskyism (html)
Solidarnosc: Acid Test for Trotskyists (html)
Platformism & Bolshevism (html)
Kronstadt & Counterrevolution (PDF - 6.5 MB)
1917 British supplements:
- Vote SA/SLP/SSP! No Vote to Labour! (June 2001)
- What Choice for Workers? Labour, trade unions and reformist dead ends (May 2005)
- 'The most disgraceful defeat': PCS capitulation on pension scheme (January 2006)
- For a New, Revolutionary, Workers’ Party! Why we’re not signing the Socialist Party’s ‘Declaration’ (January 2006)
Marxist Bulletin
Journal
published by the British section of the IBT
The Bolshevik
Journal produced by the New Zealand
section of the IBT
- Marxism & the Russian Question (No 1, April 1993)
- Communist League: In Pursuit of Third World Stalinism (No 1, April 1993)
- Stop the Testing at Mururoa! (No 6, August 1995)
- "Peace" Bureaucrats Sabotage Anti-Tests United Front (No 7, October 1995)
1917 West
Journal produced by the San Francisco Bay Area
local of the IBT
- Cops, Crime & Capitalism (October 1992)
- The ‘X’ That Won’t Go Away (December 1992)
- Lessons of the
Hall/Owens Defense Committee
For Labor/Black Action to Fight Cop Terror! (May 1993) - Labor Must Defend Immigrants! (December 1993)
- Defend Affirmative Action! (October 1995)