International Bolshevik Tendency Literature

International Bolshevik Tendency Literature

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1917, journal of the International Bolshevik Tendency

The Transitional Program

The IBT's edition of Trotsky's Transitional Program, including a comprehensive introduction and supplementary material on the implementation of the Transitional Program in the trade unions. Also available as a book.

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)

Polemics with the International Communist League / Spartacist League

Other publications

Miscellaneous leaflets and statements

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 between 1997 and 2000, initially by a group of comrades inside the Socialist Labour Party

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)