ICFI/Marxist Archive
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...
SPECIAL HOLIDAY OFFERS FROM MEHRING BOOKS
December 8, 2008
SPECIAL HOLIDAY OFFERS FROM MEHRING BOOKS
Leon Trotsky - Marxism in Our Time - 1939
By Leon Trotsky, November 1, 2008
In 1939, Longmans published
Marxism and Science: An addendum to “The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism”
By Ann Talbot and Chris Talbot, October 28, 2008
This essay supplements “The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism: The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner” by David North, recently published by the WSWS.
The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner—Part 3
By David North, October 24, 2008
The following is the final part of a three-part essay. The first part was posted October 23 and the second part was posted October 22. Click here to download PDF versions of Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism:
The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner—Part 2
By David North, October 23, 2008
In the autumn of 1978, as the Workers League was in the final stages of moving its political headquarters from New York to Detroit, Alex Steiner left the party without any explanation. Steiner had pr...
Vladimir Lenin - Karl Marx - 1914
By Vladimir Lenin, October 23, 2008
This work, written from July-November 1914 for publication in one of Russia's most popular encyclopedias, contains a general overview of the Marxist doctrine as well as a biographical sketch of Marx. ...
Leon Trotsky - Culture and Socialism - 1927
By Leon Trotsky, October 23, 2008
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 c...
The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism:
The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner—Part 1
By David North, October 22, 2008
In May-June 2006, I wrote Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness, a reply to an attack on the International Committee of the Fourth International by Alex Steiner and Frank Brenner, two former memb...
Leon Trotsky - Lessons of October - 1924
October 22, 2008
In this document, written just months after the failure of the Communist Party to take power in Germany in the fall of 1923, Trotsky analyzes the struggle that unfolded within the Bolshevik Party from...
Socialism: Scientific and Utopian
By Friedrich Engels, October 21, 2008
In this popular pamphlet, Engels describes the greatest accomplishment of Marxism - that of transferring Socialism from the realm of abstract morality and basing it upon the laws and potentialities of...
Leon Trotsky - The Transitional Program - 1938
October 21, 2008
This is the founding document of the Fourth International, published in September of 1938. It was previously drafted by Trotsky and discussed widely by sections of the Trotskyist movement. Assessing t...
