International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT)

Talk by an IBT supporter at an online meeting on 20 March 2021 to discuss Israeli apartheid, the reactionary role of imperialism in the region, and the struggle for Palestinian liberation through workers’ power and a Socialist Federation of the Middle East. Read on our website: http://www.bolshevik.org/1917/no44/ibt_20210322_israeli_apartheid.html

Talk by an IBT supporter at an online meeting on 20 February 2021 on how revolutionaries face American imperialism under a Joe Biden Democratic administration and lessons we can learn for the future. Read on our website: http://www.bolshevik.org/1917/no44/ibt_20210223_woke_liberalism_democrats.html

Talk by an IBT supporter at an online meeting on 23 January 2021 on Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as leader of the Labour Party, how revolutionaries approach left Labourism and lessons we can learn for the future. Read on our website: http://www.bolshevik.org/1917/no43/ibt_20210130_corbyn_project.html

Talk by an IBT supporter at an online meeting on 17 October 2020 on the Marxist approach to the 2020 US presidential election, the current state of America and the key issues facing working-people (Covid-19, Black Lives Matter, economic crisis, etc.). bolshevik.org

IBT study class held on 15 May 2020 giving an introductory overview of Marxist economics: “value” and "surplus value," exploitation, the tendency for the average rate of profit to fall, and the economic crises it engenders. This study class analyzes the fundamental metric of a capitalist economy (i.e., profit) and provides a good introduction to Marxist economics. Read on our website: ​​ http://ww...

Talk by an IBT supporter on a panel at the Left Forum at City University of New York on 3 June 2018 on Marx’s evolving views on elections, revolution and the possibility of peaceful change. bolshevik.org

Talk by an IBT supporter on a panel at at Goldsmiths, University of London on 17 February 2018 on women’s oppression, the separation between feminism and Marxism, and the need for a revolutionary programme to uproot capitalism and thereby end the material basis for all forms of social oppression. Read on our website: http://bolshevik.org/1917/no41/ibt_1917_41_08_me_too.html

Talk by an IBT supporter at Central Connecticut State University, Connecticut on 4 November 2017 to commemorate the centenary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in the Russian Revolution of October 1917, the greatest event in modern history. bolshevik.org

Talk by an IBT supporter at Brock University, Ontario, Canada on 3 March 2017 on the decline of US imperialism, the rise of Trumpism (i.e., right-wing populism), and the need for revolutionary leadership in the fight for new Red Octobers. Read on our website: http://bolshevik.org/1917/no39/ibt_1917_39_11_trump_ugly_face_capitalism.html

Talk by an IBT supporter at a public meeting on 1 February 2015. Our comrade at the time was a prominent activist in the anti-water charges movement in Cork who was arrested in 2014 for taking part in civil disobedience preventing the installation of water meters in Cobh, Ireland. Read on our website: http://www.bolshevik.org/1917/no37/ibt_1917_37_05_ireland_water_charges.html

Talk by IBT supporter Howard Keylor at a public forum on 13 December 2014 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the historic 1984 anti-apartheid longshore (ILWU) boycott. Keylor was a co-leader of the boycott and longtime ILWU Local 10 Exec. Board member. Read on our website: http://www.bolshevik.org/statements/ibt_20150705_longshore_forum_main.html

Talk by longtime ILWU militant Jack Heyman at a public forum on 13 December 2014 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the historic 1984 anti-apartheid longshore (ILWU) boycott. Heyman was a boycott support organizer in 1984 and later an ILWU Local 10 Exec. Board member. Read on our website: http://www.bolshevik.org/statements/ibt_20150705_longshore_forum_main.html

Remarks by IBT supporter Tom Riley who chaired a public forum on 13 December 2014 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the historic 1984 anti-apartheid longshore (ILWU) boycott. Read on our website: http://www.bolshevik.org/statements/ibt_20150705_longshore_forum_main.html

Talk by an IBT supporter at a public meeting on 2 October 2014 to discuss the emergence of the imperialist epoch at the dawn of the 20th century, the significance of World War I, and the historic impact and lessons of the Russian Revolution. bolshevik.org