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  • Gonzalothot [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Wouldn't be too surprised if the Cliffite Trots and third campists were.

    Movements and organizations Cliffite Trots (like the recently dissolved ISO) showed solidarity with (at least initially):

    • The “mujahideen” in Afghanistan against the socialist government and the Soviet Union
    • The “Velvet Revolution” in Czechoslovakia which brought neoliberal capitalism to power
    • The pro-Western “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine
    • The pro-Western “Rose Revolution” in Georgia
    • The 1991 overthrow of the USSR (trumpeting Boris Yeltsin)
    • The Kosovo Liberation Army (a fascist force)
    • The middle-class and pro-Western Green movement in Iran
    • The Libyan rebels that championed NATO intervention
    • The Free Syrian Army that champions NATO intervention

    Movements and organizations Cliffite Trots refused to support, and attacked instead as “Stalinist”:

    • The Cuban Revolution and the Communist Party of Cuba
    • The United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution
    • The Chinese Revolution and the Communist Party of China including during the Mao era
    • North Korea, even during the Korean War
    • The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola
    • The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

    Many orthodox Trots (particularly the ones in Latin America) tend to be generally anti-imperialist though.