History

The publication of Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record is a major event in the study of the theoretical foundations of the 1917 October Revolution. Learn More

Originally published in Russian in 1981, this unique history of early Soviet philosophy is now available for the first time in English, translated by Frederick Choate. 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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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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Three articles written between 1925 and 1932 which consider the fundamental problems of the Soviet economy, from the New Economic Policy to forced collectivization. Controversial in their own day, the articles examine the deep-rooted contradictions in Soviet economic development and warn of the potentially disastrous character of Stalinist policies. Learn More

The 1993 Mack Avenue fire that resulted in the deaths of seven children on Detroit’s east side, brought the issue of utility shutoffs into the public spotlight. At that time the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party, mounted a campaign to oppose the attempt by authorities to victimize the parents and to expose the social roots of this tragedy Learn More

This document from the investigation by the International Committee of the Fourth International into Security in the Fourth International discusses the curious fact that a group of the top leaders of the US Socialist Workers Party all came from the same obscure, conservative, Midwest University - Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Learn More

Writing in 1920 aboard his military train in the midst of the Civil War, Trotsky defended the Bolsheviks' revolutionary measures against Karl Kautsky, the German renegade from Marxism and opponent of Soviet power. Learn More

Text of speech given by David North in 1995. North analyses the political trajectory of the Workers Revolutionary Party since the 1985-86 split. Learn More