The following is a selection of postings from the IBT Facebook page published since the last edition of 1917. 25 January 2023 | Defend and extend Scottish trans rights! Legislation passed by the devolved Scottish government to make gender-recognition certificates (GRCs) easier to obtain and available from the age of...
Transphobia & Fascism
Wellington’s Civic Square was expected to play host to a gathering of anti-trans feminists, far-right activists and fascists on Sunday 26 March. Instead, the square was filled by thousands of trans and women’s rights supporters—the largest such demonstration in New Zealand history. The rally was organised by a united-front coalition...
The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
The Objective Prerequisites for a Socialist Revolution The world political situation as a whole is chiefly characterized by a historical crisis of the leadership of the proletariat. The economic prerequisite for the proletarian revolution has already in general achieved the highest point of fruition that can be reached under capitalism....
Capitalist Necrosis & Right-Wing Populism
From Italy and Hungary to Canada and Brazil, a toxic mix of economic nationalism, xenophobia, anti-immigrant racism and social conservatism, often with a pseudo-“anti-elitist” veneer, is on the rise. As the global economy lurches from crisis to crisis, the capitalists and their politicians have no way out but to force...
In Defense of (Seymour’s) Marxism
Exposing the ‘Theoretical Framework’ of ICL’s Neo-Pabloist Turn test article source plain text The abrupt abandonment of the longstanding approach to the national question by the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL – formerly the international Spartacist tendency [iSt]) has major (many as yet unelaborated) programmatic implications....