1. Israel and Imperialism: from 2015

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    05/11/2018 by Ian

    The following article was written and published by me in May 2015, in the Communist Explorations journal and on the …
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  2. China is not an imperialist state

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    30/10/2018 by socialistfight

    By Gerry Downing Introduction Our comrade Dov Winter recently produced two articles, Why China is an imperialist Country, published in …
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  3. IBT split; Spartoid contempt for the working class and oppressed nations

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    30/10/2018 by socialistfight

    By Gerry Downing Robertsonian Stalinophilia; sectarian third period on British Labour and concomitant imperialist apologia After a decade on internal …
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  4. Bolsonaro: A neo-Nazi in the presidency

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    30/10/2018 by socialistfight

    Organize the resistance and self-defence of the workers and oppressed, blacks, women and LGBT! Brazil, October 29, 2018 The “New …
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  5. Reply to Alan Gibson: Rejecting the Working Class

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    29/10/2018 by socialistfight

    By Gerry Downing  – reply in upper case. The whole Spart Family, including the IBT/BT did not oppose the Nakba, …
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  6. What is a workers’ state, how does it come into being and how does it cease?

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    28/10/2018 by socialistfight

    Mistakes of Trotskyists post-WWII By Gerry Downing The Paris Commune of 1871 – the first attempt of the working class …
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  7. Discussion on 21st century imperialism: Are Russia and China ‘imperialist’?

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    27/10/2018 by socialistfight

      This is Roger Annis’s defence of the theses that neither Russia nor China are imperialist, with which we substantially …
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  8. From the Archives: Spartacism vs. Trotskyism on the Popular Front

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    25/10/2018 by Ian

    In the context of the recent split in the International Bolshevik Tendency, here is an article written in 1998, and …
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  9. On the Military Aspects of Chinese Imperialism

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    21/10/2018 by socialistfight

    Discussion article by Dov Winter The series of photos shows the Chinese warship performing what Washington called an “unsafe” maneuver …
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  10. Corbyn, Antisemitism and Justice for Palestine – North London meeting

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    21/10/2018 by socialistfight

    By Comrade T   At the Zionist picket of the NEC meeting of 4 September. Jonathan Hoffman, far right Zionist, …
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  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.01 Winter 2009, China: deformed workers’ state or rising world imperialist power? Reply to the International Bolshevik Tendency and the Spart “Family” 0
  • In Defence of Trotskyism No.01 (Français) Hiver 2009 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.02 Summer 2011, Today in the wake of the 2008 new ideologues and renegades join the old swamp of opportunism; Karl Kautsky finds a new champion in Lars T Lih. Max Shachtman and Raya Dunayevskaya, previously only defended by Sean Matgamna, find new adherents. 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.03 Winter 2011, Class Consciousness and the Revolutionary Party Polemic against the US League for the Revolutionary Party, Workers Power and the now – defunct Workers International League 0
  • In Defence of Trotskyism No.03 (Español) Invierno 2011 0
  • In Defence of Trotskyism No.03 (Français) Hiver 2011 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.04 Spring 2013, Methodology: The United Front and the Anti-Imperialist United Front are tactics that apply at all times except when the direct uprising takes place for the seizure of power and the masses are flocking to the revolutionary banner. 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.05 Summer 2013, The eight-storey Rana Plaza factory collapse in Dhaka on 24 April is but the most horrible of examples of Imperialism in action. Aminul Islam a Bangladeshi labour rights activist and former apparel worker was torturtured and murdered… 0
  • In Defence of Trotskyism No.06 Continuity is the whole history of Trotskyism and how Trotskyists saw it. We address here the ‘left-Trotskyist’, groupings, the Spart ‘family’, the ICL, the IBT and the IG and Workers Power/LFI, who parted company with the RCIT in mid-2011. 0
  • In Defence of Trotskyism No.07 Polemic against Workers Power. When the League for the Fifth International (LFI) was founded in 2003 this represented the victory of the semi-state capitalist Fifthist line. 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.08 The CWI and IMT: Right Centrist Heirs Of Ted Grant “Nevertheless, the (Ulster Workers Council) strike also demonstrated in a distorted form and on a reactionary issue, the colossal power of the working class when it moves into action.” Militant Int. 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.09 This is in two parts; On the Continuity of Trotskyism: Programme vs. Struggle? No, Programme via Struggle! The second part is On the Continuity of Trotskyism: Reply to Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.10 Part 1 December 2014: The general historic role of the Stalinist bureaucracy and their Comintern is counter-revolutionary. But… (cocentrating on Stalin) 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.11 The US has five battleship fleets, the Second Fleet in the Atlantic, the Third Fleet in the Eastern Pacific, the Fifth Fleet in the Arabian Gulf and Indian Ocean, the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean and the Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific. 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.12 This picture montage is entitled, Joy of the “Ukrainian patriot” – his arrow points to the victim, a pregnant woman cleaner in the building, the killer at the window (he appeared there to celebrate just after her screams stopped) and the crime scene 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.12 (Français) Ukraine: La Gauche française et l impérialisme Le NPA se plie carrément à l impérialisme Français sur l Ukraine Lutte Ouvrière cache leurs couleurs révolutionnaires sous le drapeau du syndicalisme 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.13 Trotsky’s Transitional Programme is the method which was employed by the pioneers of scientific socialism, Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto. It was used successfully by the Bolsheviks to become the method of first four congresses of the Comint 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.14 How fares that ‘ revolution ’ in Libya that was supported by im-perialism and the ‘ left – Trotskyist ’ groups addressed in this pamphlet; Workers Power, its 2011 split the Austrian – based RCIT, and the US/New Zealand/Zimbawbe group the LCC? 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.15 Part 2 June 2015: This concentrates on the politics of Mao Tse Tung. The general historic role of the Stalinist bureaucracy and their Comintern is counter-revolutionary. 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.16 A first-hand account of the Hungarian Revolution and its crushing by the Soviet intervention. Peter Fryer was correspondent for the Daily Worker (Now Morning Star) a newspaper under the control of the Communist Party of Great Britain. 0
  • In Defence of Trotskyism No.17 The popular image of Arabs in some our most beloved Hollywood movies actually resembles … the popular image of Jews in Nazi propaganda … Hollywood and Washington share the same genes. Political and economic events like the crisis of high oil prices in 0
  • In Defence of Trotskyism No.18 EU Referendum: Three Marxist Perspectives Vote Yes: For the Socialist United States of Europe! Abstain: The referendum and class independence Vote No: No support to the EU neo-liberal cartel! 0
  • In Defence of Trotskyism No.19 Third Campism: “If this be Trotskyism then I at least am no Trotskyist” 0
  • In Defence Of Trotskyism No.20 Ireland and Palestine The IBT/Spart family ‘Interpenetrated peoples’ theory denies the rights of oppressed nations to self-determination 0

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