Speech by an IBT supporter at a protest outside the Austrian Embassy in London on 29 April 2024 to defend Austrian socialist Michael Pröbsting of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) who was charged with “incitement to commit terrorist offenses” for distributing a statement supporting the Palestinians and calling for “the destruction of the Zionist state.” bolshevik.org
An IBT spokesperson on a panel discussion at Brock University, in St. Catharines, Canada, on 24 January 2024. The event was sponsored by Local 4207 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). bolshevik.org
The following are remarks made by an IBT spokesperson on a panel discussion entitled “Understanding the War in Ukraine” at Brock University, in St. Catharines, Canada, on 2 November 2023. The event was sponsored by Local 4207 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). bolshevik.org
The following is a speech by an IBT supporter at a protest demanding to “End NATO's Proxy War in Ukraine!” in Toronto, Canada on 1 October 2023. The protest was organized and endorsed by the IBT and other left organizations in Toronto. bolshevik.org
Talk by an IBT supporter at an online public meeting on 11 June 2023 discussing the rise of popular-front 'pink tide' governments in Latin America and the task of revolutionaries in the coming period. bolshevik.org
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). bolshevik.org
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). bolshevik.org
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. bolshevik.org
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. bolshevik.org
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.” bolshevik.org
IBT study class held on 27 March 2022 looking at the development and application of Trotsky’s theory and program of Permanent Revolution. bolshevik.org
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
Talk by an IBT supporter at an online meeting on 30 January 2022 to discuss the crisis in Ukraine, NATO provocations and inter-imperialist rivalries between the West and Russian imperialism. Read on our website: http://www.bolshevik.org/statements/ibt_20220201_nato_imperialists_ukraine.html
Talk by an IBT supporter at an online meeting on 12 September 2021 to discuss US imperialism's "War on Terror" and the end of its two-decade-long occupation of Afghanistan. Read on our website: http://www.bolshevik.org/1917/no45/ibt_20210825_us_defeated_afghanistan.html
Talk by an IBT supporter at an online meeting on 22 August 2021 to mark the 30th anniversary of the defeat of the Moscow coup and fall of the Soviet Union. Read on our website: http://www.bolshevik.org/1917/no45/ibt_20220831_revolution_overthrown.html
Talk by an IBT supporter at an online meeting on 6 June 2021 to discuss the Marxist understanding of the state, the role of the cops under capitalism, and the struggle to end police violence through social revolution and workers’ power. bolshevik.org
Talk by an IBT supporter at an online meeting on 1 May 2021 to launch our new pamphlet Class & Climate and discuss the ecological and climate catastrophe within the context of class and the need for the revolutionary overturn of capitalism. Read on our website: http://bolshevik.org/climate/index.html