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4 August 2010 -- Lenin e o Partido de Vanguarda, Portuguese translation of the pamphlet 'Lenin and the Vanguard Party'


3 August 2010 -- Spartacist, issues 1 to 30 (1964-1980), journal of the then-revolutionary international Spartacist tendency


7 July 2010 -- 'Nothing in Common With Marxism': Letter to the Canadian Young Communist League on their nationalist spin on recent imperialist threats against North Korea


4 July 2010 -- Piquete de massas bloqueia navio israelense!, a Portuguese translation of our statement on the Oakland mass picket of an Israeli ship


4 July 2010 -- Letter to Fightback (IMT) on the Black Bloc et al, following the G-20 summit in Toronto


27 June 2010 -- IBT public meeting, London: 'Labour — still a bourgeois workers party?'
'Marxism' fringe meeting, Saturday 3 July, 3.45pm, Room 2D, ULU, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY.


27 June 2010 -- G-20 Protest in Toronto

On Saturday, 26 June the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) participated in a mass demonstration initiated by the trade-union movement against the G-20 gathering in Toronto. During the demonstration, several hundred youths broke away from the main march in an apparent attempt to get through a police cordon surrounding the site of the summit. Over 500 protesters were reportedly arrested from late yesterday afternoon to the early hours of this morning. Drop the charges now!

The G-20 presides over a global order in which tens of thousands of children starve every day. During the last decade, the imperialist powers at the core of the G-20 (including Canada) have killed hundreds of thousands of people in dirty neocolonial wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Emerging from fancy “working dinners” where plans are fine-tuned for how best to offload the global capitalist crisis onto the backs of working people and the poor, the imperialist criminals and their spinmasters cynically denounce the “violence” of a few broken windows and torched cops cars. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Imperialism & Global Inequality: Capitalist Accumulation & Neo-Colonial Pillage: statement distributed at the Toronto G-20 demonstrations.


24 June 2010 -- The German language section of the website has been updated.


22 June 2010 -- Mass Picket Blocks Israeli Ship!


18 June 2010 -- Picket Israeli Zim Lines Ship in Oakland, California on 20 June!


17 June 2010 -- Misrepresentation of Trotsky's Transitional Programme: A letter to the Communist Party of Great Britain


13 June 2010 -- The German language section of the website has been updated.


6 June 2010 -- On the BP Oil Disaster


1 June 2010 -- Murderous Zionist Attack

On Monday, 31 May the International Bolshevik Tendency participated in an emergency demonstration of over 1,000 people in Toronto to condemn the murderous assault by the Israel Defense Forces on a civilian convoy attempting to deliver aid to the desperate masses of the besieged Gaza Strip. The masters of the Israeli apartheid state would not commit such outrages without the assurance that, at the end of the day, they can count on continued support from their imperialist godfathers—the United States, Britain, Canada et al. The international workers’ movement has a duty to defend the Palestinians and all those seeking to alleviate the misery inflicted by the depraved Zionist racists.

End the Siege of Gaza! Defend the Palestinians! Down With Zionist Terror!

For our analysis of the Israel/Palestine question, see “For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East!—Zionist Terror in Lebanon,” “On the ‘Israel Lobby’—Imperialism, Zionism & the Middle East” and “Defend the Palestinians!


28 May 2010 -- The German language section of the website has been updated.


20 May 2010 -- Sclerotic Spartacists Unravel: SL Repudiates ‘Capitulation to Imperialism’.

"The SL has certainly acknowledged making a big mistake. But what is missing is a serious attempt to explain how such a blatantly pro-imperialist position could have been adopted in the first place, and why it was not met with immediate, furious internal opposition. Nor is there any real account of how, after three months of defending a social-imperialist line, the ICL suddenly came to realize that 'From the beginning the only revolutionary internationalist position was to demand that all U.S./UN troops get out of Haiti!'”

For further background, see our 2005 pamphlet Whatever Happened to the Spartacist League?


28 April 2010 -- The full text of the IBT's edition of Trotsky's Transitional Program, with a comprehensive introduction and supplementary material on the implementation of the Transitional Program in the trade unions.


23 April 2010 -- The German language section of the website has been updated.


14 April 2010 -- Spoil Your Ballot! Break with Brown & the Labour traitors!


13 April 2010 -- 1917 #32 now available:

Capitalist Meltdown
'People's War' in the Himalayas
NPA: France's New Reformist Party
Workers Power, Chávez & the '5th International'
SL's 'Real World' Social Imperialism
Haitian Disaster: Neocolonial Nightmare
For Labor Action to Free Mumia!
On the Lindsey Oil Refinery Strike
IBT Supporter Leads Walkout
Bolsheviks, Ballots & the Class Line
EFCA, Bureaucrats & Democrats
IMT on Iran, Yesterday & Today

11 April 2010 -- 'People's War' in the Himalayas: Maoist 'New Democracy' or Permanent Revolution? From 1917 #32.


24 March 2010 -- The German language section of the website has been updated.


22 March 2010 -- ICL Backpeddles on Support for U.S. Troops in Haiti.


14 February 2010 -- The German language section of the website has been updated.


09 February 2010 -- Imperialist Troops Out of Haiti!


05 February 2010 -- Introduction to the IBT's 1998 edition of The Transitional Program by Leon Trotsky


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