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The work reviews the political and theoretical disputes inside the Fourth International, the international Marxist movement founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938. It is a devastating reply to former WRP General Secretary Michael Banda's document "27 Reasons why the International Committee Should be Buried Forthwith and the Fourth International Built"

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One hundred years after the outbreak of World War I and the Russian Revolution, none of the problems of the twentieth century—devastating wars, economic crises, social inequality, and the threat of dictatorship—have been solved. In fact, they are posed even more sharply today.

David North argues against contemporary historians who maintain that the dissolution of the USSR signaled the “end of history” (Fukuyama), or the “short twentieth century”(Hobsbawm).

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This bundle contains The Revolution Betrayed, Trotsky’s unsurpassed analysis of Stalinism, and In Defense of Leon Trotsky, David North’s defense of Trotsky against contemporary falsifiers. Both of these works are indispensable reading for those wishing to develop understanding of the significance of the life and work of Trotsky, the co-leader of the Russian Revolution and the indefatigable opponent of Stalin.

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The bankruptcy of Detroit - the largest municipal bankruptcy case in US history - was a political conspiracy and a social crime, designed to set a national precedent in the looting of employee pensions and public assets. The Workers Inquiry into the Bankruptcy of Detroit and the Attack on the DIA and Pensions, held February 15, 2014 at Wayne State University, exposed the political, social and economic forces behind the bankruptcy. The booklet contains reports on the social and historical context, the record of political conspiracy involving state and local authorities and the Obama administration, the legal aspects, the rape of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the economic parasitism behind the decline of the once-powerful industrial city.

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A unique collection of film reviews, essays on film and interviews with directors and film critics by WSWS Art and Culture Editor David Walsh spanning the 20 years from 1992-2012. Learn More

This bundle contains a selection of writings by David North, chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site on basic questions of Marxist theory, history and principles. Included in this bundle are The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo Left: A Marxist Critique and The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century. Learn More

David North defends Trotsky’s legacy against the campaign of historical falsification begun by Stalin and continuing to this day. While Stalin assassinated Trotsky in 1940, he was unable to silence the Fourth International, founded to embody the revolutionary heritage of 1917.

This work contains a devastating refutation of biographies of Trotsky published in recent years by three British historians: Ian Thatcher, Geoffrey Swain and Robert Service. The significantly expanded edition contains a new foreword, four new chapters and two appendices.

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The fight to defend the artwork at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is of the highest importance to young people and workers in Detroit, across the United States and internationally. In threatening the collection of one of the premier art museums, the ruling elite is demonstrating it antagonism to everything of value in the development of human thought and culture.

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March 19, 2013 marked the 10th anniversary of the invasion, a criminal act taken in defiance of mass protests all over the world. Over the past decade, the American government has engaged in one military intervention after the next. Meanwhile, the former leaders of anti-war protests have integrated themselves into the imperialist framework through their support for the Obama administration. The articles in this pamphlet provide a revolutionary socialist program and perspective for the resurgence of mass opposition to war, and its connection to the growth of working class struggles all over the world. Learn More