Educate Yourself
Organization and Tactics
Level 1: Basic Orientation, Methods, Tradition and History
Interview With Ted Grant on Militant - Fred Weston
On the Mass Organizations - Ted Grant
Where to Begin? - Lenin
A
very short and helpful essay on Marxist tactics. It briefly discusses
the function of a party newspaper, in addition to basic tactics that a
revolutionary Marxist organization will need to be successful. Correct
tactics are of fundamental importance, given that sectarian
ultra-leftism and opportunism remain a common problem in our time.
Level 2: Our Tendency's History
Origins of British Trotskyism - Rob Sewell
History of British Trotskyism - Ted Grant
Majority Resolution on Walton Election - By the Taafe Group in Militant
Minority Resolution on Walton Election - By Opposition led by Ted Grant
The New Turn: A Threat to Forty Years' Work
40 Years After Militant's Founding: How It Was Built and How It Was Destroyed - Rob Sewell
Level 3: Traditions of Our Tendency
Against Bureaucratic Centralism
Problems of Work Within the Mass Organizations
Problems of Entrism - Ted Grant
Level 4: Principles of Orientation in Our Tendency
Marxism versus Sectarianism - Alan Woods
Replies to Luis Oviedo - Alan Woods (Parts Two, Three, Four and Five)
Level 5: Requirements of Professional Conduct
On Democratic Centralism and the Regime - Trotsky
Statement of the PB on the Expulsion from WIL of Healey (1943)
Level 6: Classical Orientation
Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder - Lenin
The Trade-Unions in the Epoch of Imperialist Decay - Leon Trotsky
Level 7: Lenin, Trotsky, and Bolshevism - Laying the Foundation for Our Methods
Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution - Alan Woods
Level 8: Conduct and Clarity Amidst Crisis
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back - Lenin
Level 9: Refuting the Slanders
The Myth of Lenin's Concept of the Party - Hal Draper (Tends to be overly academic at times, but generally helpful nonetheless)
Level 10: Professional Methods of Work and Political Struggle Under Conditions of Repression




