Origins of the Spartacist Tendency

In Defence of a Revolutionary Perspective (html 62k)

This document was originally presented to the June 1962 plenary meeting of the Socialist Workers Party (U.S.) National Committee as a “Statement of Basic Position by the Revolutionary Tendency” (RT) of the SWP. After the expulsion of the RT the document was published as Marxist Bulletin No. 1 by the Spartacist group.

Toward the Rebirth Of The Fourth International (html 23k)

Draft resolution on the world movement submitted to the 1963 SWP Convention by the Revolutionary Tendency.

For Black Trotskyism (html 32k)

By James Robertson and Shirley Stoute, 3 July 1963, from SWP Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 24, No. 30, republished in Marxist Bulletin No. 5

Marxist Bulletin No. 2 - "The Nature of the Socialist Workers Party—Revolutionary or Centrist". (html in chapters)

Discussion material of the Revolutionary Tendency within the SWP first published by Spartacist, September 1965.

Spartacist Statement to International Conference (html 20k)

Remarks made during the discussion of Cliff Slaughter’s Political Report at the International Committee Conference by Comrade Robertson on 6 April 1966 on behalf of the Spartacist delegation (with minor editorial corrections.)

Marxist Bulletin No. 8 - "Cuba and Marxist Theory" (html 130k)

Reunification Smashed (html 12k)

From Spartacist No. 6, June-July 1966. Concerning the break-down in relations between the American Committee for the Fourth International and Spartacist

Third IC Conference: Defeat for World Trotskyism (html 13k)

First published in Spartacist No. 6, June-July 1966. Account of Spartacist’s expulsion from the International Committee.

Declaration of Principles of the Spartacist League (html 23k)

The general line of this document was unanimously adopted by the Founding Conference of the Spartacist League, 3 September 1966.

Black and Red -- Class Struggle Road to Negro Freedom (html 49k)

The general line of this document was unanimously adopted by the Founding Conference of the Spartacist League, 4 September 1966.

Marxist Bulletin #4 -- Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party(html in chapters)

Spartacist League pamphlet, first published in 1967, containing documents from 1963-65 on the exclusion of Revolutionary Tendency supporters

Marxist Bulletin #3 Part I (html in chapters)

This Spartacist League pamphlet, first published in 1968, details the 1962 split in the SWP Revolutionary Tendency

Marxist Bulletin #3 Part II (html in chapters)

This Spartacist League pamphlet, first published in 1970, contains documents from 1963, culminating in the expulsion of the RT majority (Robertson-Mage-White grouping) from the SWP.

Marxist Bulletin #3 Part IV -- Conversations With Wohlforth (html in chapters)

This Spartacist League pamphlet, first published in 1970, details the minutes of the Spartacist-ACFI (American Committee for the Fourth International) Unity Negotiating Sessions in June-October 1965

Marxist Bulletin #5 (Revised Edition) -- What Strategy for Black Liberation? Trotskyism vs. Black Nationalism

This Spartacist League pamphlet, first published in 1978, contains documents from 1955-1978 dealing with the question of what strategy will lead to Black liberation in the USA.