History
The tragedy of the 1925-1927 Chinese Revolution
Part 3
By John Chan, January 7, 2009
The rise and fall of the 1925-1927 Second Chinese Revolution was one of the most significant political events of the twentieth century. One cannot understand modern Chinese history without examining i...
The tragedy of the 1925-1927 Chinese Revolution
Part 2
By John Chan, January 6, 2009
The rise and fall of the 1925-1927 Second Chinese Revolution was one of the most significant political events of the twentieth century. One cannot understand modern Chinese history without examining i...
The tragedy of the 1925-1927 Chinese Revolution
Part 1
By John Chan, January 5, 2009
The rise and fall of the 1925-1927 Second Chinese Revolution was one of the most significant political events of the twentieth century. One cannot understand modern Chinese history without examining i...
Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike
Part Three
By Chris Marsden, December 30, 2008
Trotsky had argued that the very survival of British imperialism now rested not on the right-wing social democrats, but on the supposed lefts, without whom the right wing could not maintain its positi...
Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike
Part Two
By Chris Marsden, December 29, 2008
Bereft of any revolutionary guidance from the Communist Party of Great Britain, the working class had no possibility of arming itself against the role of the lefts who were being continually boosted u...
Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike
By Chris Marsden, December 27, 2008
More than 80 years on, the May 1926 British General Strike remains a defining moment in the history of the workers’ movement. Its lessons are essential for the development of a revolutionary strateg...
1937: Stalin's Year of Terror
December 4, 2008
This volume is the first major study by a Russian Marxist historian of the most tragic and fateful year in the history of the Soviet Union. Possessing an encyclopedic knowledge of Soviet source materi...
Leon Trotsky, Soviet Historiography, and the Fate of Classical Marxism
By David North, December 1, 2008
This paper was presented by David North at a panel on “The Intellectual and Political Legacy of Leon Trotsky” at the recent 2008 National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement...
On the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
By David North, November 3, 2008
The following report was given by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party and chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site, to a meeting entitle...
The German October: The missed revolution of 1923
Part 3
By Peter Schwarz, November 1, 2008
Eighty-five years ago, in October 1923, the German Communist Party prepared an insurrection and then cancelled it at the last minute, prompting Leon Trotsky to characterize it as “a classic demonstr...
The Historical & International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party
October 31, 2008
This document was adopted at the founding congress of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), which was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on August 3-9, 2008. Tracing essential historical events and political ...
The German October: The missed revolution of 1923
Part 2
By Peter Schwarz, October 31, 2008
Eighty-five years ago, in October 1923, the German Communist Party prepared an insurrection and then cancelled it at the last minute, prompting Leon Trotsky to characterize it as “a classic demonstr...
