This document was adopted at the founding congress of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on August 3-9, 2008. Tracing essential historical events and political experiences spanning more than a century, the work establishes the theoretical and political basis of the struggle for socialism.

Adopted in January by the founding congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), this document reviews and examines essential historical events and political experiences of the Australian working class throughout the twentieth century, within the context of global economic, political and social processes.

The Socialist Equality Party, the German section of the ICFI, adopted this document unanimously at its Founding Congress held on May 23, 2010 in Berlin. It examines the history of the struggle for international socialism in Germany throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and the experiences that led to the founding of the Socialist Equality Party in Germany.

The document was adopted unanimously at the founding congress of the SEP (Britain), held October 22-25, 2010 in Manchester. It reviews and examines the most critical political experiences of the British working class, centering in particular on the post-war history of the Trotskyist movement.

This document was adopted by the SEP (Sri Lanka) at its 2011 founding congress in Colombo. It reviews the 75-year struggle of the Fourth International in South Asia for Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution. It is critical for an understanding of the problems of the development of the revolutionary movement on the Indian subcontinent.

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.

In this book, 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.

The polemical essays in this volume examine the complex interaction between history, philosophy and politics. The author defends historical materialism against contemporary anti-Marxist philosophical tendencies related to the Frankfurt School and postmodernism.

The origins of this work lie in the political struggle waged by the ICFI and the Workers League, the predecessor of the Socialist Euality Party (US), from 1982-1986, to defend Trotskyism against the nationalist opportunism of the ICFI’s former British section. It establishes the continuity of orthodox Trotskyism in the political struggles inside the Fourth International in the 20th Century.

Gerry Healy (1913-1989) was a longtime leader of the Fourth International, whose struggle in the British and international Trotskyist movement spanned five decades, until his break with the International Committee in 1985. This book contains a critical Marxist assessment of the life of Healy and its relationship to the historical development of the Fourth International.

This series of four articles was originally published in the Bulletin, the newspaper of the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party (United States), from October-December, 1982, five years after the assassination of Tom Henehan.

In 1985, after a protracted process of political degeneration, the Workers Revolutionary Party, the British section of the ICFI, broke decisively from Trotskyism. This work demonstrates that the crisis in the WRP was bound up with its retreat from the principles that the British Trotskyists had previously defended.

In 1985, after a protracted process of political degeneration, the Workers Revolutionary Party, the British section of the ICFI, broke decisively from Trotskyism. This work demonstrates that the crisis in the WRP was bound up with its retreat from the principles that the British Trotskyists had previously defended.

The Second Plenum of the ICFI (held September 29–October 12, 1986) examined the impact of the WRP’s opportunism throughout the ICFI and developed a critique of the “tactical opportunism” which distorted the development of perspectives in different sections.

The Third Plenum of the ICFI (March 10–23, 1987) produced an analysis of the relations between the WRP and MAS (Movement for Socialism) in Argentina, entitled, “No to Stalinism and the Popular Front,” which also reviewed the origins and political record of the Morenoite tendency in Latin America.

This volume of Fourth International pays tribute to the memory of Keerthi Balasuriya, the longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist League, the Sri Lankan section of the ICFI, who died on December 18, 1987, at the age of 39.

This volume of Fourth International includes a statement on the announcement by the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on Monday, June 13, 198 8, rehabilitating Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Yuri Pyatakov, and other “Old Bolshevik” leaders of the Russian Revolution who were sentenced to death during the Moscow trials of 1936-37 and executed.

This volume of Fourth International includes the perspectives resolution of the ICFI, which was adopted at the Seventh Plenum, held from July 23–26, 1988. It also contains statements on Gorbachev and the Soviet Union, the assassination of comrade R.A. Pitawala in Sri Lanka, and the cases of Patrick Slaughter and Mark Curtis.

This volume of Fourth International includes the perspectives resolution of the ICFI, which was adopted at the Seventh Plenum, held from July 23–26, 1988. It also contains statements on Gorbachev and the Soviet Union, the assassination of comrade R.A. Pitawala in Sri Lanka, and the cases of Patrick Slaughter and Mark Curtis.

This volume of Fourth International the May Day, 1991 statement of the ICFI, announcing the call for a World Conference of Workers Against Imperialist War and Colonialism, which would be held the following November, as well as documents from David North’s trip to the Soviet Union.

This volume documents the ICFI’s response to the dissolution of the Soviet Union by the Stalinist bureaucracy and the restoration of capitalism in Russia and the states of eastern Europe. It includes the resolutions and speeches from the ICFI World Conference of Workers against Imperialist War and Colonialism.

This volume includes a number of documents on the ICFI’s response to the Stalinist bureaucracy’s dissolution of the Soviet Union, including “Capital, Labor and the Nation-State,” a speech delivered by David North addressing the crisis of all the old nationally-based trade unions and political organizations.

This book traces the historical and social origins, the international context and the unfolding of the struggle of the Polish working class in 1980-81.

In this 1987 speech, delivered on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky, North reviews the history of Trotsky's struggle against the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union.

This resolution of the ICFI was adopted at its Seventh Plenum, held from July 23–26, 1988. It examines the globalization of the world economy and the mounting conflict of US, Japanese and European imperialism; the rapid growth of the countries of the Asian-Pacific Rim; and the significance of the process of capitalist restoration in China and the Soviet Union.

This volume, first published in book form in 1989, is a collection of articles published in the Workers League’s Bulletin newspaper between March and May of 1989. It contained a comprehensive and politically devastating analysis of the program and actions of the regime of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union.

A single reading of The Revolution Betrayed will still yield more knowledge of the structure and dynamics of Soviet society than would be acquired from a systematic review of the countless thousands of volumes which bourgeois “Sovietology” has inflicted on the public over the last few decades.

On February 12, 1996, the Workers League announced its decision to found a new political party, the Socialist Equality Party. This report by National Secretary David North to a meeting of the Workers League membership, elaborates the political and theoretical foundations for the transition to the SEP.

This work, first published in 1998, evaluates the bitter historical experiences of the working class with the trade unions and national liberation movements, and with Stalinism as practiced in the former Soviet Union and China.

In January 1998, the ICFI held its first-ever International Summer School. Their central premise is that an answer to the burning issues of the day—growing social inequality, deepening economic crisis, the decline in the cultural level of society and the prevailing political paralysis in the workers’ movement—is bound up with examining and assimilating the lessons of the 20th century.

These speeches addressed critical problems of the 20th century. Lecturers addressed the foundations of Marxism, the science of perspective and the defense of objective truth; the origins of WWI; the rise of fascism in Germany; the origins of Stalinism in the Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution, and problems of art and culture in the Soviet Union.

The reports at this meeting constituted a worked-out Marxist analysis of the state of world affairs at the beginning of 2006 and a perspective to guide the struggles of the working class in the period ahead.

These lectures address critical political and historical issues related to the struggle by the Trotskyist Left Opposition, founded by Trotsky in 1923, against the nationalist policies of the Stalinist bureaucracy and its usurpation of political power inside the Soviet Union and the Communist International.

In 1917, the Russian working class, acting under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party led by Lenin and Trotsky, overthrew the bourgeois provisional government and established the first workers’ state in world history. The ICFI commemorated the centenary in 2017 with an online lecture series.

These lectures address the history of the ICFI from 1982-1995: from the initial formulation of a detailed critique of the Workers Revolutionary Party’s revisions of the theory and program of Trotskyism, to the decision to transform the leagues of the ICFI into parties.

This booklet was written in 1914 during Trotsky’s two month stay in Zurich. It contains an unsurpassed analysis of the driving forces of imperialist war.

In this work, Trotsky analyzes the struggle that unfolded within the Bolshevik Party from February 1917 through the October Revolution of 1917. This history shows that the fundamental instrument of proletarian revolution is the party.

In these essays Trotsky examines the political and social origins of fascism and elaborates the strategical and tactical methods for the defense of the working class against this deadly menace. Among the topics covered by Trotsky is the use of the united front and the arming of the working class for self defense.

This work concisely explains the fundamentals of a Marxist approach to culture and art, explaining the link between the growth of technological culture and mass acquisition of artistic and spiritual culture in the 1920s USSR.

Delivered before a meeting of Social-Democratic students in Copenhagen on November 27, 1932, this is a concise presentation of the main driving forces of the Russian Revolution. Trotsky defends the gains of October 1917, explains how it occurred, and addresses those who doubt the revolution because of its great costs.

Written in the midst of Stalin's Terror, which exterminated the Old Bolsheviks who had led the October Revolution, this pamphlet by Trotsky analyzes Stalin's claim to be the continuator of Bolshevism.

This is the founding document of the Fourth International, published in September 1938. Assessing the historical lessons of the betrayal of the working class by both the Second and Third Internationals, Trotsky outlines the principles upon which to build a new proletarian leadership for the struggles against world imperialism and Stalinism.

This is the founding document of the Fourth International, published in September 1938. Assessing the historical lessons of the betrayal of the working class by both the Second and Third Internationals, Trotsky outlines the principles upon which to build a new proletarian leadership for the struggles against world imperialism and Stalinism.

The manifesto, written in the months prior to the revolutionary wave of 1848 and distributed throughout Europe, is the first definitive statement of the methods and aims of the Communist movement.

In this work, the lifelong collaborator of Marx describes the greatest accomplishment of Marxism—transferring socialism from the realm of abstract morality, and basing it upon the laws and potentialities of the world as it exists.

This translation of Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy follows the 1888 German edition, the text for which was revised by Engels and included Karl Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach.