Appendix A - Natalya Trotsky breaks with the Fourth International

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We reproduce below the statement made by Trotsky’s widow, Natalya, when she broke from the Trotskyist movement. Her reasoning was that their concessions to Stalinism had resulted in their definitive abandonment of proletarian revolution. The two key factors which she refers to are the Trotskyists’ decision to categorise the Moscow-dominated states in Eastern Europe as “deformed workers’ states”...

Appendix B - Trotsky and Trotskyism: The Chronology (1879-1943)

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As can be seen in the pamphlet, our method is not to argue against Trotsky the man. This is not simply because argumentum ad hominem is useless as a way to understand revolutionary history but also because we absolutely reject the bourgeois idea that history is really the history of great men. The life of Trotsky (and indeed of Lenin) is adequate testimony to the fact that individuals are not...

World March of Women - Reform or Revolution?

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Manifesto at the Women's Day (2000) · After centuries of fighting for freedom and equality, what have we got? · we still earn less than men for the same work - globally we earn 40% less; · Equal Pay legislation has failed. In those countries which introduced legislation - some more than 30 years ago - women still earn 75% of male wages (in the US it’s more like 58% if you’re not white); · ...

Editorial

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Internationalist Communist

For over a decade the International Bureau had to face increasing political isolation as the working class lost confidence in itself under the blows of economic restructuring and political disorientation (the twin myths of the collapse of communism and the disappearance of the working class). However, as the old millenium breathes its last we are encouraged by a marked resurgence of interest from...

Prague S26

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Central Europe
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Internationalist Communist

Only the World Working Class can Put a Stop to Capitalist “Globalisation” · (IBRP Statement on the occasion of the September protests at the IMF/World Bank meeting) · This time it’s the turn of the bureaucrats of the World Bank and the IMF to run the gauntlet of “anti-capitalist” protests as they gather in Prague for their 55th annual general meeting.

US Boom: Triumph of the Paper Economy

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United States of America
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Giorgio Paolucci
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Internationalist Communist

Translated from Prometeo 18, December 1999 · Eight years of uninterrupted growth in GDP, an inflation rate well under two per cent and unemployment amongst the lowest in the world (4.5 per cent): all these have turned the USA into a new mystery for political economy. All the specialist magazines are talking about it while the daily press now assumes that the American recipe is the panacea against...

Towards the New International

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Internationalist Communist

(Translated from Prometeo Series VI No.1, June 2000) · Before we can talk about a new International we need to be clear about two things: the first is the reason why an International is necessary and the second is what were the main characteristics of previous Internationals. · Why Do We Need an International? · The Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels concludes with the words, “Workers of the...

Statement on the War in Chechnya

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Russia and Eastern Europe
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Internationalist Communist

(From Russia) · IBRP Introduction · Behind the conflict in Chechnya lies the external competition with the imperialist powers of the west. In particular the US and Europe are each competing to gain a foothold in Central Asia. Azerbaijan’s government has recently agreed to start shipping Caspian Oil via the Baku-Novorossisk pipeline.

News of Radical Communists of Ukraine

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Russia and Eastern Europe
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Internationalist Communist

(In early summer the IBRP received the following letter from a group hitherto unknown to us, Radical Communists of Ukraine. We are publishing it with our reply, not only as testimony to the emergence of a range of groups striving for revolutionary clarity in the ex-USSR, but also to extend a warm welcome to the comrades who have since translated the IBRP Platform into Russian and Ukrainian - see...

Public Sector Strike or Sapping of the Workers’ Movement

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South America
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Internationalist Communist

(From Colombia) · Background to New Bourgeois Measures, Reaction of the Masses and Imperialist Promises · In Colombia a process of insurrection has been unleashed by capitalism as the conflict between the two bourgeois military fronts is extended and exacerbated. This flare-up also involves a struggle for total control over the drugs business in an exceptional situation where the imperialist...

Peyke Anternasionalisti - Communists, the Working Class and the Election Issue

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Middle East
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Internationalist Communist

IBRP Introduction · This article is translated from Peyke Anternasionalisti nos. 8 and 9, December 1999. It was written prior to the elections held later that month and which brought a landslide reformist victory. The response of the powerful Council of Guardians was to declare that there had been irregularities in the vote counting for some areas in Tehran and it was doubtful whether some of the...

World March of Women - Reform or Revolution?

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Feminism
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Discriminations
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Internationalist Notes

After centuries of fighting for freedom and equality, what have we got? · 1. We still earn less than men for the same work - globally we earn 40% less; · 2. Equal Pay legislation has failed. In those countries which introduced legislation - some more than 30 years ago - women still earn 75% of male wages (in the US it’s more like 58% if you’re not white); · 3.

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