International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT)

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).

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.