Whatever Happened to the Spartacist League?

Stalinophilia, Stalinophobia, Flinches & Opportunism

Pamphlet published by the International Bolshevik Tendency, April 2005.
(A substantial extract was also published in 1917 No. 27 as
“Prestige Politics & Programmatic Confusion: ICL & the Russian Question”)

Whatever Happened to the Spartacist League?: Loosening the Screws; ‘Impatience and Impressionism’; Revisionism on the Russian Question--From Hailing Brezhnev's Foreign Policy…; …To Hailing Brezhnev's Successor; ICL in DDR: Bluster, Wishful Thinking & Centrist Confusion; Treptow Demo: High Tide for the ICL; From SED-Unity Fantasies to Fake Mass Posturing; The Bubble Bursts; DDR ‘Political Revolution’--Down the Memory Hole; ICL's 1990 Postmortem on the DDR; Anschluss for the DDR & the Destruction of the USSR; ICL's Stalinophobic Deviation on China; Sectarianism Ad Absurdum: ICL Denounces Seattle 1999; SL/ICL: Twenty Years of Sectarianism; SL and ‘Anti-War Movements’; ICL Sectarianism Mars PDC's Record on Mumia Defense; ICL Renounces 1974 Contribution on General Strike; ICL's Record of ‘Opportunist Flinches’; Afghanistan 2001: Another Flinch; Why the SL Mattered
Appendix No. 1: Debate in the ICL Over Yeltsin's Coup
Appendix No. 2: Compare and Contrast—ICL vs. IBT on Stalinism and Soviet Defensism