Marxism and the Fundamental Problems of the 20th Century
Nick Beams delivers lecture in Sydney and Melbourne
World War Two: Lessons and Warnings
By Nick Beams, November 18, 2009
Nick Beams, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) and a member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, delivered a lecture on “World War Two: L...
Myths and legends about World War II exposed at Australian SEP public meetings
By our correspondents, November 18, 2009
The Socialist Equality Party in Australia held public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne this month on “Seventy years since World War II: lessons and warnings”.
The fall of the Berlin Wall
By Peter Schwarz, November 9, 2009
The contradiction between the official celebrations and the lack of public enthusiasm over the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall speaks volumes about the real significance of the events ...
Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall
Statement of the Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, October 18, 1989—Part 2
Overthrow the Stalinist bureaucracy! Build workers’ councils in East Germany!
November 6, 2009
This statement by the Central Committee of the Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, the predecessor of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party of Germany), was issued on October 18, 198...
European Trotskyists mark seventieth anniversary of World War II
“It was industrialised slaughter on an unimaginable scale”
By Barbara Slaughter, November 2, 2009
On October 11 in London, the European sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International held a joint meeting on the lessons of the Second World War. We publish here the remarks made ...
Seventy years since the outbreak of World War II: Causes, Consequences and Lessons
By David North, October 29, 2009
The following is adapted from a lecture given by SEP National Chairman and WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North to meetings held in October in California and Michigan.
Revolutionary leadership and the struggle of 1934
75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike—Part four
By Ron Jorgenson, August 29, 2009
The final part of a four-part series on the 1934 Minneapolis general truck drivers’ strike.
Revolutionary leadership and the struggle of 1934
75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike—Part three
By Ron Jorgenson, August 28, 2009
The third part of a four-part series on the 1934 Minneapolis general truck drivers’ strike.
Revolutionary leadership and the struggle of 1934
75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike–Part one
By Ron Jorgenson, August 26, 2009
The first part of a four-part series on the 1934 Minneapolis general truck drivers’ strike.
70 years since the Hitler-Stalin Pact
By Alex Lantier, August 24, 2009
Seventy years ago, Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov met in Moscow to sign a hastily-negotiated Non-Aggression Pact between Hitlerite Germany ...
Lecture 2
“Socialism in One Country” and the Soviet economic debates of the 1920s—Part 2
By Nick Beams, May 7, 2009
This is the second of two lectures delivered at an SEP summer school in August 2007 that deal with some of the crucial conflicts over economic policy in the Soviet Union during the 1920s.
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...
