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  DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE
  The Downward Spiral of the International Committee of the Fourth International Conclusion A new stage in the degeneration of the International Committee (Feb 21, 2010)
  The Downward Spiral of the International Committee of the Fourth International Chapter 7 A defense of positivism in the guise of a defense of science (Jan. 28, 2010)
  The Downward Spiral of the International Committee of the Fourth International Chapter 6 Notes on philosophy and science (Jan. 25, 2010)
  The Downward Spiral of the International Committee of the Fourth International Chapter 5 Dialectics vs. positivism in the philosophy of science (Jan. 16, 2010)
  The Downward Spiral of the International Committee of the Fourth International Chapter 4 The Talbots weigh in: An olive branch to liberalism and misrepresentations on science (Dec. 24, 2009)
  The Downward Spiral of the International Committee of the Fourth International Chapter 3 Concocting a smear campaign : Distorting the history of the Workers League/SEP (Dec. 12, 2009)
  The Downward Spiral of the International Committee of the Fourth International Chapter 2 Concocting a smear campaign : Falsifying my history (Dec. 5, 2009)
  The Downward Spiral of the International Committee of the Fourth International Chapter 1 Concocting a smear campaign : A dash of political blackmail and a serving of pseudo-history (Nov. 26, 2009)
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  Español : Espiral descendente del Comité Internacional de la IV Internacional Conclusión Una nueva etapa en la degeneración del Comité Internacional (June, 27, 2010)
  Español : Espiral descendente del Comité Internacional de la IV Internacional Capítulo 7 Una defensa del positivismo so pretexto de una defensa de la ciencia (May 31, 2010)
  Español : Espiral descendente del Comité Internacional de la IV Internacional Capítulo 6 Notas sobre filosofía y ciencia (May 22, 2010)
  Español : Espiral descendente del Comité Internacional de la IV Internacional Capítulo 5 Dialéctica vs positivismo en la Filosofía de la Ciencia (May 9, 2010)
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  Español : Espiral descendente del Comité Internacional de la IV Internacional Capítulo 2 Confeccionando una campaña de desprestigio: falsificación de mi historia (March 27, 2010)
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Marxism Without its Head or its Heart:

A Reply to David North

To the members and supporters of the International Committee of the Fourth International:
For three years we tried to engage the leadership of the ICFI in a discussion over grave concerns we had about the theoretical and political orientation of the movement. Finally David North responded to our documents with his Marxism, History and Socialist Consciousness. It isn’t empty rhetoric on our parts to say that we would have welcomed being proven wrong. This would have demonstrated the basic political health of the IC, to say nothing of sparing us the thankless task of pursuing this polemic any further. Instead, North has produced a dreadful piece of work that only confirms in a striking manner all the concerns we have raised. It is a document that is rife with misrepresentations and evasions, it compounds serious political errors of judgment by stridently refusing to acknowledge them ...

Marx

Marx

Paris Commune poster

Paris Commune poster

Street demonstration, Petrograd, 18 June 1917. The banner in the foreground reads Down With The 10 Capitalist Ministers, All Power To The Soviets Of Workers', Soldiers', And Peasants' Deputies, And To The Socialist Ministers, We Demand That Nicholas II Be Transfered To The Peter-Paul Fortress.

Street demonstration, Petrograd, 18 June 1917.

 Marxism Without its Head or its Heart
 Chapter 1 - Rationalizing Objectivism and Abandoning Marxism
 Chapter 2 - The WSWS as a Left Apologist for Bourgeois Nationalism in Iraq
 Chapter 3 - Their Science and Ours
 Chapter 4 - The Long Road Back to Pragmatism
 Chapter 5 - Abandoning the Struggle for Socialist Consciousness in the Working Class
 Chapter 6 - The Real Dialectic of the Enlightenment
 Chapter 7 - Objectivism and Socialist Consciousness - Part 1
 Chapter 8 - Objectivism and Socialist Consciousness - Part 2
 Chapter 9 - Remarks on Bernstein, 'Neo-Utopianism' and Political Amalgams
 Chapter 10 - Mass Psychology and Marxism
 Chapter 11 - Conclusion
 Afterword - A Letter from David North
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