Internationally known as the
International Communist League (ICL) and part of the
Fourth International. Their website can be found at
http://www.icl-fi.org.
The Spartacist League is a
Trotskyist revolutionary organisation with a relatively large following in the
US, and a smaller presence in a number of other countries. Unpopular among the rest of
the left, they are often denounced as '
ultra-left',
Stalinist, '
tanky',
sectarian and even
cult-like. Like much of the left, but not the
ISO, they believe that the
USSR was during its existence a
deformed workers' state rather than an example of
state capitalism.
In my personal opinion, they offer a good analysis of the world from an orthodox
Marxist perspective, however their opinion on how
socialists are to successfully bring about and sustain a new kind of society is lacking. With their subjective viewpoint they write off progressive
reformists such as
Ralph Nader,
Ken Livingstone and indeed all
social democrats as obstacles to revolution, in that they are simply apologists for
capitalism. Their purist standards prevent them from forming any kind of alliance with other organisations, for example the
International Socialist Organisation, with whom they would seem to be sworn enemies.