Polemics
A German ex-radical adds to the anti-Trotskyist slanders
By Stefan Steinberg, July 31, 2003
German journalist Robert Misik is the latest to join in a peculiar international campaign seeking to link the activities of neo-conservative ideologues in the Bush government to the politics of Trotsk...
Oil and “conspiracy theories”: a reply to a liberal apologist for the US war in Afghanistan
Part two
By Patrick Martin, September 21, 2002
Below is the concluding part of a two-part article replying to a recent commentary attacking so-called “conspiracy theories” about the US response to the September 11 terror attacks, inclu...
Oil and “conspiracy theories”: a reply to a liberal apologist for the US war in Afghanistan
By Patrick Martin, September 20, 2002
Below is the first part of a two-part article replying to a recent commentary attacking so-called “conspiracy theories” about the US response to the September 11 terror attacks, including ...
The political depravity of journalist Christopher Hitchens
By David Walsh, October 5, 2001
A historical turning point has this benefit: it brings out an individual’s true political physiognomy. What has been extraneous or cosmetic falls away, and the essence emerges.
A reply to an LTTE supporter
Marxism and the national question in Sri Lanka
Part Two
By Peter Symonds, March 12, 2001
The following is the concluding part of a two-part reply to SK, a supporter of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which has for the last 18 years been fighting in Sri Lanka for a separate Ta...
Letter from SK
March 10, 2001
To the WSWS,
A reply to an LTTE supporter
Marxism and the national question in Sri Lanka
Part One
By Peter Symonds, March 10, 2001
The following is part one of a two-part reply to SK, a supporter of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which has for the last 18 years been fighting in Sri Lanka for a separate Tamil state i...
Conference at New York University: a demoralized attack on Trotskyism
By Bill Vann, November 14, 2000
“Explorations of the History of US Trotskyism” was the title of a conference held at the end of September at New York University. Anyone not familiar with this history but attracted to the...
Zimbabwe: Promotion of the MDC by middle class radicals politically disarms the working class
By Barbara Slaughter and Chris Marsden, October 7, 2000
In the parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe in June this year, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won 57 of the directly elected parliamentary seats. Having been launched as a political party onl...
Letter from John Carolan in response to John Braddock's article on New Zealand students
August 12, 2000
John Braddock's article (31st May) on NZ students' national campaign for Free Education examines in some depth the privatisation of the NZ tertiary system. However, as a member of the Fightback! campa...
A reply to a radical activist in New Zealand
By John Braddock and Linda Tenenbaum, August 12, 2000
Between mid-May and late July, New Zealand university students held a number of protests over the deepening crisis in the country's tertiary education system. Sharp funding cutbacks initiated by previ...
A reply to US Green Party supporters
By Barry Grey, July 3, 2000
Two letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site in response to our June 27 article “US Green Party candidate Ralph Nader courts Buchanan supporters” (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jun...
