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...
Police Violence in France
Mehdi, Abdelkarim, Jalil, Virgil, Nathaniel each lost an eye. Hedi’s skull was smashed. Aimène is in a coma. Mohamed is dead. More than a month after Nahel’s death, French police are still killing and lynching in the service of oppression. Hedi’s recent testimony about events on the night of 1–2...
Rearranging the Deckchairs
Every six to nine years, the small imperialist state of Aotearoa New Zealand replaces its centre-left governing coalition with a centre-right coalition, or vice-versa. The bell now tolls for the current Labour–Green government, an alliance between a party of the union bureaucracy that long ago traded in its social-democratic programme...
Marxism & Indigenous Peoples
Of the many lies promoted by the Canadian ruling class and its political representatives, one of the more perverse is the carefully crafted narrative of a “renewed relationship” between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. “Reconciliation” is a public-relations ploy designed to rehabilitate the image of the Canadian state and spare it...
South African Menshevism
In every capitalist society on the planet the Moscow-loyal Communist parties parrot the same line: ‘‘now is not the time for socialism, first we need unity with the progressive capitalists.’’ South Africa is no exception. This class-collaborationist theory of a ‘‘two-stage’’ road to socialism is borrowed directly from the arsenal...
Smash Apartheid! Workers to Power!
South Africa’s bloody apartheid regime is staggering from a year and a half of massive upheavals by a disenfranchised black majority determined to end the white monopoly on economic and political power. The Botha regime has responded with a tiny carrot of insignificant ‘‘concessions’’ (intended primarily as a sop to...