Marxist Archive

Spartacist materials on race and the national question

Leninism & the National Question

The National Question in the Marxist Movement, 1848–1914 (1976)

Lenin vs. Luxemburg on the National Question (1977)

Australia

Black Defence in Danger: Revisionists tail black separatism, reformism (August 1975)

Answer to black oppression: Separatism or Workers’ Revolution? (November 1975)

Cyprus

Cyprus Fiasco Topples Greek Junta (2 August 1974)

Ireland

Theses on Ireland (9 September 1977)

Workers Must Crush Sectarian Terror: British Troops out of Northern Ireland (6 May 1977)

Israel/Palestine

The Birth of the Zionist State: A Marxist Analysis (1973–74)

Palestinian Nationalism … From ‘People’s War’ to the ‘Mini-State’ (December 1974)

‘Arab–Israeli Question’: Draft letter to comrade Samarakkody by Samuels (12 August 1974)

United States

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. 5

Black and Red: Class Struggle Road to Negro Freedom
The general line of this document was unanimously adopted by the Founding Conference of the Spartacist League, 4 September 1966.

What Strategy for Black Liberation? Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism (Marxist Bulletin No.5, revised edition)
Spartacist League pamphlet, containing documents from 1955–78

The Fight to Implement Busing: For Labor/Black Defence to Stop Racist Attacks and to Smash Fascist Threats
Spartacist Youth League pamphlet, 1975