International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT)

The following are speeches by IBT supporters Vera Ashborne and Adaire Hannah at the “Rally for Trans Acceptance and Reproductive Rights” in Wellington, New Zealand on 25 March 2023. The rally was organized for trans acceptance and reproductive rights and to oppose well-known UK far-right transphobe Kellie-Jay Keen (aka, Posie Parker).

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Talk by an IBT supporter at an online public meeting on 26 February 2023 outlining a revolutionary perspective to overthrow global capitalism as the world inches towards a direct military confrontation between Western imperialist forces and the Russia-China bloc (ie, a possible thermo-nuclear World War III).

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The following is a speech by IBT supporter Vera Ashborne at a rally for trans healthcare in Wellington, New Zealand on 11 February 2023. 

Talk by an IBT supporter at an online public meeting on 25 September 2022 outlining a revolutionary Marxist analysis of capitalism in its death agony, the rise of right-wing populism and how communists address this phenomenon and counterpose a class-struggle approach.

IBT study class held on 26 June 2022 looking at the rise of the Popular Front in the 1930s and a Trotskyist analysis of the betrayal and defeat of the Spanish Revolution.

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Talk by an IBT supporter at an online meeting on 5 June 2022 outlining a revolutionary Marxist analysis of the oppression of Canada’s Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Métis and Inuit), the sham of a so-called “renewed relationship” and “reconciliation” with the Indigenous under Canadian capitalism, and the global struggle for Indigenous liberation through socialist revolution.

Read on our website: http://bolshevik.org/statements/ibt_20220623_indigenous_peoples_canada.html

IBT study class held on 15 May 2022 looking at Trotsky’s sociological analysis of fascism, the threat it poses today, and the political program necessary to defeat the far right.

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IBT study class held on 24 April 2022 looking at the degeneration of the Russian Revolution, Trotsky’s analysis of the USSR as a “degenerated workers’ state” and his perspective of “political revolution.”

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IBT study class held on 27 March 2022 looking at the development and application of Trotsky’s theory and program of Permanent Revolution.

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IBT study class held on 6 March 2022 looking at Trotsky’s writing on imperialist war in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and inter-imperialist rivalries.

Read on our website: http://www.bolshevik.org/1917/no45/ibt_20220310_revolutionaries_imperialist_war.html