A collection of documents related to debates on the heritage of the international Spartacist tendency (iSt) and its relevance today
First published: 4 February 2024
Last updated: 28 November 2024
Spartacist No.68, revision of the ICL program, September 2023
Letters between LFI and ICL, Sep/Oct 2023
Spartacism Junked, 3 October 2023
ICL/BT debate, 11 November 2023, London [video]
The Baby & the Bathwater: Reforge the international Spartacist tendency, open letter, 1 January 2024
Response of the ICL to IBT Open Letter, 11 January 2024
Program First: IBT to ICL, 22 January 2024
ICL/LFI debate, 13 January 2024, New York City [video]
IBT at ICL/LFI debate: Interventions from the floor, 26 January 2024
The Continuity of Spartacism? Review of ICL/LFI Debate, 5 February 2024
BT report of ICL/LFI debate, 28 January 2024
Bolshevik-Leninist letter [to Revolutionary Regroupment], 1 February 2024
On the end of fraternal relations with Bolshevik-Leninist (Australia), Revolutionary Regroupment, 23 February 2024
Spartacists Adrift: Revolutionary Leadership & Permanent Revolution, speeches and video of IBT/ICL debate, 3 September 2024
The 1981 Purge of Australian Spartacism, 28 November 2024
In Defence of a Revolutionary Perspective, Marxist Bulletin No.1, first published June 1962
Cuba and Marxist Theory, Marxist Bulletin No.8, June 1966
Declaration of Principles of the Spartacist League, 3 September 1966
Black and Red: Class Struggle Road to Negro Freedom, 4 September 1966
Genesis of Pabloism, 1972
Revolutionary Work in the American Labor Movement: 1920s–1950s, June-September 1973
Spartacist Trade Union Work in the 1970s: Selected Readings
The Stalin School of Falsification Revisited, June–October 1973
The Birth of the Zionist State: A Marxist Analysis, 1973–74
On the United Front Question, 1974
Theses on Ireland, 9 September 1977
Lenin and the Vanguard Party , 1977–78
For more, see the Marxist Archives section of this website.
Whatever Happened to the Spartacist League?, 2005
ICL vs. IBT, Trotskyist Bulletin No.5, 2003
Marxism & the Quebec National Question, Trotskyist Bulletin No.7, 1999/2013
On the Logan Show Trial, 2008
In Defense of (Seymour’s) Marxism: Exposing the ‘Theoretical Framework’ of ICL’s Neo-Pabloist Turn, 2018
From Trotskyism to Neo-Pabloism: ICL Breaks with Leninism on the National Question, 2018
Stop the Liquidation of the Trade Union Work, 1983
The Road to Jimstown: Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt, No.4, 1985
Polemics with the IG, Trotskyist Bulletin No.6, 1999
The BT split from the IBT in October 2018. Our record of this split and subsequent polemics are available here: