The Global Pandemic, the Class Struggle and the Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
The sixth national congress of the Socialist Equality Party adopted this resolution that recognized that the coronavirus pandemic will go down in history as a “trigger event,” not unlike the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914, which sparked World War I.
The Fourth International and the Perspective of World Socialist Revolution
The 1985-86 split with the British Workers Revolutionary Party initiated a rich period in the history of Trotskyism. The period examined in the lectures in this volume facilitated the launch of the World Socialist Web Site and the preparation for the intense political struggles shaking the world today.
The 1619 Project and the falsification of history: An analysis of the New York Times’ reply to five historians
This pamphlet presents a Marxist analysis of the reply by Jake Silverstein, editor of the New York Times Magazine, to five prominent historians who requested that the Times correct historical falsifications upon which the Times’ 1619 Project is based. It also includes Tom Mackaman’s response to The American Historical Review.
Why Are They Back? Historical Falsification, Political Conspiracy, and the Return of Fascism in Germany
The appointment of Adolf Hitler in January 1933 as Chancellor of Germany was the outcome not of an election, but of a political conspiracy involving a small number of senior military and government officials headed by General Paul von Hindenburg. Its horrific consequences were World War II, the Holocaust and the destruction of tens of millions of lives.
The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
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 Defense of Leon Trotsky (second edition)
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.
The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left: A Marxist Critique
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.
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The Place of the Two American Revolutions: Past, Present and Future – a July 4th discussion
In a July 4th discussion hosted by the WSWS and moderated by Tom Mackaman and David North, five eminent historians: Victoria Bynum, Clayborne Carson, Richard Carwardine, James Oakes and Gordon Wood addressed some of the most pressing issues of American and world history, including:
*the intellectual and social influence of the Declaration of Independence;
*the parts played by such figures as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass;
*the international impact of the American Civil War;
*the presence or absence of the concepts of “revolution” and “class” in contemporary historiography;
*the ongoing attacks on the two American revolutions;
*the malignant growth of social inequality today, deepened and worsened by the horrific COVID-19 pandemic.
David North introduces Turkish-language edition of In Defense of Leon Trotsky at Istanbul Book Fair
Mehring Yayıncılık announced the publication of five major works by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) at its Istanbul Book Fair stall, including two authored by David North.
Vadim Rogovin and the sociology of Stalinism
September 18, 2018 marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Soviet Marxist historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin, the author of a seven-volume series on Stalinism and the Marxist opposition to the Soviet bureaucracy.