An analysis of Socialist Workers Party leader Jack Barnes’ 1982 speech to the convention of the Young Socialist Alliance which repudiated Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution.
The SWP’s explicit repudiation of the Theory of Permanent Revolution — proclaimed by Barnes in late 1982 — vindicated the ICFI’s fight against Pabloite revisionism. In place of the struggle for the political independence of the working class, the SWP promoted bourgeois nationalist and petty-bourgeois movements such as the New Jewel movement in Grenada, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and the Farabundo Marti of El Salvador.
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