International Bolshevik Tendency
Oxford
Joined February 2012
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Barbara retweeted
1/ Huge congratulations to China Miéville on winning the 2026 @GoldsmithsPrize for The Rouse! And thank you, China, for donating your prize money to the UCU hardship fund. 10k is a lot to give up, and we’re so grateful for your comradeship. From his speech:
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Marx & Engels Collected Works finally back on Marxist Internet Archive! marxists.org/archive/marx/wo…
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We don’t have an independent party, & we aren’t going to build one by tailing the parties that are tailing the party that’s tailing the party that’s tailing ACT. Demand what we need, make a scandal, & spoil your ballot on Saturday.
Breaking the Cycle
On 7 November, New Zealanders will be asked to choose who manages a crisis that none of the major contestants intend to resolve.
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Dockers Do Not Work for War!
'The mobilization comes amid a wider resurgence of class struggle. Across Europe, youth-led protests have erupted against rising prices, austerity, deteriorating services & the absence of prospects for an entire generation.'
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"Dockers do not work for war!"
Actions across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas demonstrated the international reach of organized labor and the strategic power dockworkers hold within the global economy.
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Our comrades in NZ on this weekend's election and how the two potential coalitions pass management of capitalism from hand to hand
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Breaking the Cycle
On 7 November, New Zealanders will be asked to choose who manages a crisis that none of the major contestants intend to resolve.
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Video of Vera's speech comparing the strategies of Marxism and intersectional feminism on trans liberation:
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Materialism or Moralism?
New video on Marxism, intersectional feminism & trans liberation
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Text online at bolshevik.org/statements/ibt…
Many left-leaning voters will opt for Polanski on Thursday, with more or less enthusiasm. This is a mistake. There is no shame in declaring a particular electoral contest of no use to us as a class.
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Electoral Diversions
No working-class choice in Holborn & St Pancras
Why are we in this situation, where the two high-profile 'left' candidates in a high-profile by-election cannot represent even the basics of working-class independence?bolshevik.org/statements/ibt…
Barbara retweeted
When IBT supporters joined the nascent party in mid-2025, we had no illusions it was, or would become, what is really needed - a revolutionary party leading an independent working class with the objective of overthrowing the capitalist state....
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It Was Never Your Party
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Over a year after an impatient Zarah Sultana and a reluctant Jeremy Corbyn announced the formation of a new left-wing party in Britain, the hopes of the 800,000 initial sign-ups lie in tatters....
It Was Never Your Party
Drawing a kind of line under an "interesting" year. I think I've promised this article to many people for quite some time ... well, here it is!
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**It Was Never Your Party**
A squandered opportunity
Now we (and many many others) have left, we look back over a year of Your Party
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Barbara retweeted
Bill Logan remembers a founder of NZ Trotskyism and a significant link in the history of our tendency
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Owen Gager (1939-2024). Obituary for a founder of New Zealand Trotskyism
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Free Bogdan Syrotiuk, a clear victim of the NATO-aligned Ukrainian government
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The IBT calls to free Bogdan Syrotiuk, Ukrainian militant of @WSWS_Updates, sentenced to 15 years for treason
His “crime”?
Publishing articles that condemned both sides in the war and called for the working class of Ukraine and Russia to stand together bolshevik.org/statements/ibt…
Report from the frontline of neo-Spartacism
*Neo-Pabloism & Revolutionary Regroupment*
Reviewing the ICL’s Ninth International Conference
We were invited to the Spartacist international conference. This is our report:
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Barbara retweeted
A victory for freedom of speech and vindication for Jewish anti-zionist Tony Greenstein, found NOT GUILTY of inviting support for a proscribed organisation. Jurors did not fall for the prosecution's tortuous logic. Don't miss Tony's closing speech.
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How I am (not) voting in the Unite General Secretary election
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A long read but worth it. A major piece on imperialism today and how we got here. Read it at bolshevik.org/great_power_ri…
A new three-part article on changes in the imperialist system over time and the tasks of revolutionaries today
Part I: Multipolarity & World War
Part II: Pax Americana
Part III: Return to Multipolarity & Inter-Imperialist Conflict
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I met Mokoena when I was in South Africa last year. An inspiring comrade working in difficult conditions, who knew the danger of his work and did it anyway. Avenge Mokoena - fight for working-class power!
Read more here:
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Political Assassination in Potchefstroom Shacks
Electricity, neo-apartheid & working-class power
South African community organiser, human-rights activist and anti-corruption campaigner Mokoena Letsie was brutally gunned down on 27 May.
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Barbara retweeted
Text of our online talk, Materialism or Moralism? Marxism, intersectional feminism & trans liberation
What strategies can we use to fight for trans liberation? What is the role of the family in oppressions related to sex, gender & sexuality?
Now online at bolshevik.org/statements/ibt…
Online public forum:
Materialism or Moralism?
Marxism, Intersectional Feminism & Trans Liberation
Sunday 14 June 2026
10am BST | 11am CEST | 7pm AEST | 9pm NZST
Register on zoom at bolshevik.org/trans-forum
Barbara retweeted
Here are reviews of a few books that I could not ignore analysing this summer.
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A comrade applies the points in this speech to Cuba and Venezuela substack.com/@robertdavidb/n…
A Dangerous Trap: The popular front in theory & history
Now on our substack: talk by Bolshevik Caucus supporter @barb1917 at an online panel discussion on cross-class coalitions
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Republished from @ibt1917
