History
The struggle against centrism and the founding of the Fourth International
Part one
By Bill Van Auken, April 15, 2009
The five years between Trotsky’s call for the Fourth International in 1933 and the holding of a founding conference in 1938 were marked by a continuous struggle against a wide range of centrist poli...
After the slaughter: political lessons of the Balkan War
By David North, March 30, 2009
March 24 marked the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the 11-week US-NATO bombardment of Serbia and Kosovo. This statement by David North, chairman of the international editorial board of the World...
Britain: 25 years since the year-long miners’ strike
Part two
By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland, March 7, 2009
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the 1984-85 British miners’ strike. We are republishing the conclusion of a two-part series that reviews its essential lessons. The series was first publishe...
Britain: 25 years since the year-long miners’ strike
Part one
By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland, March 6, 2009
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the 1984-85 British miners’ strike. Below we are republishing the first of a two-part series that reviews its essential lessons. The series was first publish...
The Revolution Betrayed and the fate of the Soviet Union
By Peter Daniels, February 26, 2009
An understanding the Russian Revolution and the Soviet state—their rise and subsequent degeneration—is critical in politically arming the working class by learning the lessons of the twentieth cen...
The Revolution Betrayed and the fate of the Soviet Union
Part one
By Peter Daniels, February 25, 2009
An understanding of the Russian Revolution and the Soviet state—their rise and subsequent degeneration—is critical in politically arming the working class by learning the lessons of the 20th centu...
The American media and the Lincoln bicentenary
By Tom Eley and David Walsh, February 17, 2009
The US media’s attempts to portray Obama as the heir of Lincoln’s legacy involve a grotesque historical and political falsification. While Lincoln will forever be associated with one of the great ...
David North to speak at Michigan meeting
The world economic crisis and the return of history
February 2, 2009
David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party and chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, will speak on the origins and implications of the worl...
Video: “So many thousands of unknown nameless people”—Franco's mass graves
January 28, 2009
Vicky Short of the World Socialist Web Site interviewed Montserrat Martinez about her campaign to discover the truth about the mass graves that contain the remains of Republicans and leftists killed b...
The Spanish Civil War and the Popular Front
Part two
By Ann Talbot, January 27, 2009
In Spain, Trotsky wrote, two irreconcilable programmes confronted one another. There was the programme that consisted of “saving at any cost private property from the proletariat, and saving as far ...
The Spanish Civil War and the Popular Front
Part one
By Ann Talbot, January 26, 2009
The Soviet intervention in Spain can best be understood as an attempt to strangle a developing revolution, to physically liquidate its leading representatives, terrorize wider layers of workers and pe...
The Bolsheviks in Power
The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd
January 22, 2009
Mehring books is proud to offer The Bolheviks in Power by Alexander Rabinowitch.
