Documents and Statements
Statement on the 2024 US Presidential Election
Supporters of the International Trotskyist Opposition (ITO) and the International Socialist League (ISL) in the US.
Statement one year into the new Israeli genocide
International Socialist League (ISL), League for the Fifth International (L5I), International Trotskyist Opposition (ITO).
EUROPEAN UNION:
Balance sheet and prospects for an imperialist union.
For a socialist Europe as the only real alternative
Joint Statement by the International Trotskyist Opposition (ITO), and the League for the Fifth International (L5I).
The war in Ukraine two years after the Russian invasion
Joint Statement by the International Socialist League (ISL), the International Trotskyist Opposition (ITO), and the League for the Fifth International (L5I).
The International Marxist Tendency: an opportunist and sectarian current
ITO-LFI Declaration
Joint Statement on Palestine
Four Points for Refounding the Revolutionary International
Resolution on Palestine
The Ukraine war one year on, no end in sight
Congress to Reconstitute the International Trotskyist Opposition (2022)
Articles
- After the 2024 US elections
The voting in the painfully long and expensive 2024 US elections ended on November 5. The vote-counting continues as I write on November 10, but the overall results are clear.
Donald Trump has won a second term as president. The Republicans have a majority in the Senate and seem on their way to a slim majority in the House of Representatives. The balance in state governorships is unchanged. Seven of ten state referenda on abortion were won by the pro-choice side. In Florida, an abortion-rights initiative won 57 percent of the vote but didn’t overcome the 60 percent threshold for passage.
- Capitalism, democracy, and the 2024 US elections
In all major US elections, a chorus of liberals, social democrats, Stalinists, and post-Stalinists urges a vote for candidates of the Democratic Party. “The Democrats have their weaknesses,” they say, “but a Republican victory would be a disaster.”
This year, the chorus is louder than ever. “Democracy is at stake!” the advocates for voting for the Democrats say. But is this true? Would the election of Donald Trump destroy democracy in the US? Would the election of Kamala Harris prevent it? In fact, neither proposition is true.
- Ukraine: Where the war is goingThe imperialist arms race in Europe and the turn of the war. The crisis on the Ukrainian front. The positioning of revolutionary Marxists The drums of war are beating, but also improvised readings. It’s best to stick to the reality principle. The method of Marxism. The arms race of all imperialist poles, even in the… Read more: Ukraine: Where the war is going
- On the side of the HouthisThe big national press has intoned the patriotic campaign against the Houthis. While the grand national unity in support of the military mission in the Red Sea is celebrated in Parliament – from Meloni to M5S via the PD – “opposition” columnists compete in declaring themselves more militaristic than the post-fascist-led government itself. The case… Read more: On the side of the Houthis
- For a free, secular and socialist PalestineIn a socialist Middle East There is no solution to the Palestinian question without the revolutionary destruction of the Zionist state A succession of bombings of the civilian population of Gaza is occurring at this moment. No places of worship, schools or hospitals are spared, where especially children and women desperately seek refuge. A massacre.… Read more: For a free, secular and socialist Palestine