International Socialist Tendency Documents Page

Updated February 22, 2002.

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Listed are a series of documents relating to the current struggle between the International Socialist Organization and the Socialist Workers Party as well as past struggles within the International Socialist Tendency:

• December 17, 2001. Statement on the IS Tendency by a pro-ISO group of former members of the Irish SWP.
• July 5, 2001. Report on the IST meeting which formally expelled the ISO (US). Written by Alex Callinicos for the SWP Central Committee.
• December 2001. The Joke Mark Steel Won't Tell. Satirical book review.
• June 2001. Between Things Ended and Things Begun: Perspectives for Socialists. Article by Ahmed Shawki of the ISO (US) on perspectives for socialists in the United States.
• May 17, 2001. Regroupment. A letter by Alex Callinicos to members of the IS tendency on the Tendency's attitude towards regroupment.
• February 2001. Two letters - the first was sent out to IS Tendency groups by pro-IST former members of the Greek SEK, formerly the largest IS group outside Britain. The second letter was sent by the ISO (US) Steering Committee to the IS Tendency following the Greek letter.
• March 7, 2001 document The Anti-Capitalist Movement and the Revolutionary Left by Alex Callinicos outlines the SWP's reasons for removing the American ISO from the IS Tendency. View html version or download as MS Word document.
• ISO reply to the SWP released March 12, 2001.
• Statement on Relations between the SWP (GB) and the ISO (US) written by the SWP Central Committee and released March 12, 2001.
• Letter from the DEA (Internationalist Workers Left - Greece) to sections of the IST on its recent split from the SEK. Released March 25, 2001.
• Open Letter from the International Socialist Organisation (New Zealand) to the International Socialist Organization (US). Dated March 19, 2001.
• The ISO (US) and the International Socialist Tendency. A detailed response from the ISO (US) Steering Committee (written for the July 2001 IST meeting) to the SWP Central Committee's Statement of March 12. The ISO statement seeks to refute the SWP's charges, critiques the SWP's "failed perspectives" and accuses the British party of violating democratic norms by its interference with groups within the IS Tendency.
• March 2001 ISO Internal Discussion Bulletin. Includes a series of documents from the ISO and the SWP outlining the dispute. View scanned original, or view html version, or download as MS Word document.
• Notes for a Platform for the Opposition (I) Document from an internal ISO opposition group (March 2000).
• Notes for a Platform for the Opposition (II) The above document continued.
• SWP Party Notes - May 15, 2000. Reorganisation of branches.
• SWP Party Notes - June 5, 2000. Discusses severing of relations between ISO and SWP.
• ISO Notes - May 18, 2000. Discusses the threat posed by the "Sverdlov" list.
• ISG Discussion Document. A 1994 critique of the politics, perspectives and internal regime of the Socialist Workers Party written by former members.
• SWP vs. Lenin: Bureaucratic Centralism or Democratic Centralism. A 1994 document by former SWP members assailing the party's lack of democratic structure.
• Statement on the IS List. A 1995 order by the SWP banning members from participating in an informal IS Tendency listserv after documents from the International Socialist Group were posted on the list (same documents as above).
• 1986 Canadian IS faction fight documents.
• Documents from 1994 and 1996 Canadian IS faction fights.
• Leninism, Trotskyism and Socialist Organization Today. 1996 document from the Political Reorientation Faction of IS Canada.