Misc. Documents of Archival/Historic Interest

In this section of our web site we will repost a variety of documents produced by Revolutionary Regroupment's political predecessors, concentrating on the post-WW 2 period of the Trotskyist movement. While we seek to continue the work and build on the contributions of those who came before us, we do not dogmatically defend past mistakes that may inevitably have been committed. Therefore our posting these documents reflects broad agreement, not an uncritical adherence to every secondary argument and formulation. For a fuller documentation see the Marxists Internet Archive (www.marxists.org) and material published on the web site of the International Bolshevik Tendency (www.bolshevik.org) before our break with them on 9/25/08.

Added 3/14/09: What Is Revolutionary Leadership? (Second Edition) Articles originally printed in Labour Review (theoretical journal of the Socialist Labour League of Britain) and republished by the Spartacist League with introductory and supplemental material.

Added 3/30/10; "The "Law of the Falling Tendency of the Rate of Profit": It's Place in the Marxist Theoretical System and Relevance to the US Economy" (11 MB pdf file). 1963 doctoral dissertation by a leader of the Revolutionary Tendency in the Socialist Workers Party and subsequently Spartacist League in the US.

Added 3/14/09: No Vote to the SPD/No Vote to the PDS,Critical Electoral Support to the SpAD Statement 11/17/90. Distributed by the German supporters of the International Bolshevik Tendency,  translated and reprinted in the Spartacist League's "Hate Trotskyism, Hate the Spartacist League" series (#6)]

Added 3/14/09: On the Spartacist Tendency. Excerpt from a 6/16/88 letter from Bill Logan on behalf of the Permanent Revolution Group (New Zealand) to the Communist Left (New Zealand).

Added 2/23/10; FROM NEW YORK TO SRI LANKA: IT IS DESPERATELY NECESSARY TO FIGHT!   A Call to Struggle Against the Degeneration of the iSt. First public statement of the External Tendency of the international Spartacist tendency. October 1982

Added 3/13/10, Greetings to Clara Fraser's Memorial Meeting by Samuel Trachtenberg. April 19, 1998.

Updated 6/20/10, Miitant Longshoreman 22 (1/31/81 - 7/25/87) issues published by Howard Keylor after his resignation from the Spartacist League/US

Added 5/10/10; Seize the Opportunity! Revolutionary Regroupment  First printed in Spartacist # 14, November-December 1969]

Added 5/10/10; Jim Robertson's infamous 1977 "Goatfucker" Speech (3.47 mb) documenting a key moment in the Spartacist League's degeneration. Posted for archival purposes only and originally reprinted as "What the Spartacist Really Stands For" by CommunistCadre.