http://www.wsws.org/topics/historyCategory/iss-98/ http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/02/02/pers-f02.html Leon Trotsky drew far-reaching conclusions from the disastrous defeat of the German working class in 1933. Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/333071da-eb9c-4362-b9fc-8301bd2336bB/pers-f02.html 2013-02-02T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/10/tsar-o29.html A WSWS reader has written in with a comment on the unique documentary film Tsar to Lenin, available from Mehring Books. Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/5977e437-70fe-48bc-af65-756dd444fbdF/tsar-o29.html 2012-10-29T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/10/hobs-o08.html On October 1, noted British historian Eric Hobsbawm died at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He was 95. Mon, 08 Oct 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/71fc1200-bf35-4115-b153-2c954b3305bM/hobs-o08.html 2012-10-08T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/09/ttle-s10.html In this series of meetings in the US, Socialist Equality Party National Chairman David North will introduce showings of Tsar to Lenin with a lecture on the Russian Revolution. Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/8b35a6db-4163-4cd6-b7fb-ec5fdb6aaaeI/ttle-s10.html 2012-09-10T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/12/pers-d30.html Today marks the 75th anniversary of a momentous chapter in the history of the American and international working class—the beginning of the Flint sit-down strike. Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/18625803-3e53-4ea7-a66a-f33c41fde23F/pers-d30.html 2011-12-30T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/06/ran1-j25.html This is the first in a three-part consideration of the English author Arthur Ransome, particularly as regards his relationship to the October 1917 revolution in Russia. Sat, 25 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/5eff7024-3eed-418e-b3b5-acb6be0dc9dP/ran1-j25.html 2011-06-25T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/06/mehr-j24.html Mehring Books is making available for online purchase Felix Morrow’s Revolution and Counterrevolution in Spain. Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/7af14d19-c9c2-4835-b1b5-3b4a74638fdL/mehr-j24.html 2011-06-24T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/01/rosa-j14.html In a vulgar attempt to distort Rosa Luxemburg’s writings, the German Left Party resorts to interpreting passages out of context in order to justify their own opportunism. Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/1ac3c623-3895-47cb-8eea-f54cdf30b8bL/rosa-j14.html 2011-01-14T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/05/adde-m15.html The following is an addendum to the lecture “Imperialism and the political economy of the Holocaust,” delivered by Nick Beams at San Diego State University on April 29. Sat, 15 May 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/715755df-c8fd-4f56-b487-354d5b7804cH/adde-m15.html 2010-05-15T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/05/holo-m12.html This lecture was delivered at San Diego State University on April 29. It was the eighth in a series entitled "Killing for a higher cause: Political violence in a world in crisis" sponsored by the Institute on World Affairs within the Political Science Department of the San Diego State University. Wed, 12 May 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/78ccc19f-aa85-4899-867c-9e60986826dH/holo-m12.html 2010-05-12T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/11/nbww-n18.html 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: Lessons and Warnings” to audiences in Sydney and Melbourne in November, 2009. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/36f583ba-62a8-47c3-aaf1-84d3fbf6071D/nbww-n18.html 2009-11-18T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/11/meet-n18.html 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”. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/8d59d23e-d6f5-414e-828d-e68fd29161dJ/meet-n18.html 2009-11-18T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/11/pers-n09.html 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 of November 1989. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/0054b7c9-64d8-41b7-931d-55fe3d69f18D/pers-n09.html 2009-11-09T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/11/bsa2-n06.html 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, 1989. Today we are posting the second of three parts of the statement. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/e1eb529a-4e8f-4392-a547-a17c283e5dcO/bsa2-n06.html 2009-11-06T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/11/wwii-n04.html 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 by Françoise Thull, a member of the Socialist Equality Party in Germany (Partei Partei für Soziale Gleichheit, PSG), who spoke on the experiences of her family in France during that period. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/03e1d219-36ed-427d-9226-8a964a6ac6bG/wwii-n04.html 2009-11-04T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/11/slau-n02.html 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 by veteran Trotskyist and SEP (UK) Central Committee member Barbara Slaughter. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/49cb1783-29ad-4359-81b5-17c3ce7c86fJ/slau-n02.html 2009-11-02T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/10/wwii-o31.html The following is a contribution by WSWS Editorial Board member Julie Hyland to an October 11 meeting convened by the European sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International to consider the lessons of the Second World War. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/97381789-af58-42b6-8984-95e9d8aed9dF/wwii-o31.html 2009-10-31T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/10/wwii-o29.html 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. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/c94f173f-9d6f-4fd6-a4dc-ede3236ad5bO/wwii-o29.html 2009-10-29T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/10/soci-o13.html The lectures deal with some of the crucial conflicts over economic policy in the Soviet Union during the 1920s. One of the motivations for the lectures was to answer the distortions advanced by the British academic Geoffrey Swain in his book Trotsky published in 2006. Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/76786e51-1aaa-415c-b742-c99b542bb09N/soci-o13.html 2009-10-13T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/09/sepm-s22.html World War II engulfed the entire European continent, pitting all of the continental powers in the bloodiest slaughter in world history. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/204ac96f-7f46-4d5e-bfdf-d2a478f35f4F/sepm-s22.html 2009-09-22T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/09/isse-s22.html World War II was the bloodiest and most tragic event in world history. Up to 70 million people lost their lives during the six year conflict. It witnessed unimaginable barbarism, including above all the mass murder of 6 million European Jews by the Nazis. The war ended with the dropping of the atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/be462556-8c4a-4bf2-a286-6fb7a533fe0G/isse-s22.html 2009-09-22T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/08/mpls-a29.html The final part of a four-part series on the 1934 Minneapolis general truck drivers’ strike. Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/78fa8033-52e9-433e-8bf2-8f7ab1a9f80K/mpls-a29.html 2009-08-29T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/08/mpls-a28.html The third part of a four-part series on the 1934 Minneapolis general truck drivers’ strike. Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/c7672fe1-c688-466c-9623-01d083d28daI/mpls-a28.html 2009-08-28T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/08/mpls-a26.html The first part of a four-part series on the 1934 Minneapolis general truck drivers’ strike. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/ad721942-3e21-4cd4-b889-056e786eb84D/mpls-a26.html 2009-08-26T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/08/pers-a24.html 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 and the USSR. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/b1d88f37-544e-4c11-ba5d-28de9a7a93cB/pers-a24.html 2009-08-24T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/05/nbp2-m07.html 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. Thu, 07 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/81a33aed-df13-47e5-9577-a4f527783a2N/nbp2-m07.html 2009-05-07T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/04/cnt1-a15.html 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 political organizations active during this period, particularly in Europe , many of which professed sympathy with Trotsky’s perspective and some of which declared themselves for the Fourth International. Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/41cb8285-d4cf-4bb2-aad7-611b91d6198I/cnt1-a15.html 2009-04-15T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/02/rev2-f26.html 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 century in order to prepare for the struggles of the twenty-first. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/f74b689c-eb9c-45a5-9567-c27c44e237bP/rev2-f26.html 2009-02-26T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/01/lec3-j07.html 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 its lessons. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/74db42b4-6aa3-4b73-96aa-93cde34afceJ/lec3-j07.html 2009-01-07T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/01/lec2-j06.html 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 its lessons. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/150fe2a9-a86f-44dc-91ad-958281b471cF/lec2-j06.html 2009-01-06T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/01/lec1-j05.html 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 its lessons. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/1442538f-84ab-4a46-a0a8-bcca0777f2eB/lec1-j05.html 2009-01-05T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/12/bgn2-d29.html 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 under the Comintern’s orders. Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/a983517c-a6fb-4e16-bbe3-f1909938b8dE/bgn2-d29.html 2008-12-29T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/11/corr-n04.html A selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site. Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/a69dfd93-777f-4445-b803-1555161cbe5G/corr-n04.html 2008-11-04T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/10/mani-o14.html The manifesto, written in the months prior to the revolutionary wave of 1848 and distributed throughout Europe, is the first definitive statement of the methods and aims of the Communist movement. It introduces the materialist conception of history and of the class struggle, explaining how bourgeois society, having sprung up amid the formation of a world market, simplifies and intensifies class antagonisms by creating the proletariat, a class which has no property aside from its own ability to labor. It explains and refutes objections to the basic demands of the Communist movement, and offers remarkably concise yet profound statements of many of the fundamental tenets of Marxism -- for instance, the state as a "committee for managing the affairs of the entire bourgeoisie," internationalism ("workingmen have no fatherland"), and the role of the political party: "Every class struggle is a political struggle." It closes with an analysis and criticism of other parties, socialist ideologies, and oppositional tendencies. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/fe2601d6-5193-4552-ace6-9d114d0709eE/mani-o14.html 2008-10-14T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/09/rose-s13.html The recent release of previously secret grand jury transcripts has revealed that crucial testimony was perjured in the conviction and 1953 execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union. Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/7012cf7c-ebc7-40b8-852b-3e769e42d99I/rose-s13.html 2008-09-13T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/09/1968-s08.html This is the eighth and final part in a series of articles dealing with the events of May/June 1968 in France. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/d0ebee21-5e13-4038-aea4-acb2fac809eF/1968-s08.html 2008-09-08T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/09/1968-s05.html This is the sixth in series of articles dealing with the events of May/June 1968 in France. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/0d28e1d7-06ac-43b3-9beb-92d4a2de124M/1968-s05.html 2008-09-05T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/09/fran-s04.html The Organization Communiste Internationaliste (OCI) officially broke with the International Committee of the Fourth International in 1971, but the political course it pursued in 1968 was already far removed from the revolutionary perspective it had defended, along with other ICFI sections, against Pabloite revisionism at the beginning of the 1950s. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/4d309e7b-5c03-4d46-8466-b309c87c825M/fran-s04.html 2008-09-04T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/05/rock-m03.html The following is second of a two-part series. The first part can be read here. Wed, 03 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/8760081b-77e3-4276-8d69-c28a35db7b0O/rock-m03.html 2006-05-03T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/05/rock-m02.html The following is the first of a two-part series. The second part will be posted tomorrow. Tue, 02 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/94afa366-d4ac-4e79-8768-a76cdfee9c0K/rock-m02.html 2006-05-02T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/10/scho-o31.html The International Summer School held in early January by the International Committee of the Fourth International and the Socialist Equality Party of Australia represented a milestone in the revival of classical Marxism. Entitled "Marxism and the Fundamental Problems of the Twentieth Century," the school, held in Sydney from January 3 to 10, was the first such international symposium organized by the world Trotskyist movement. Sat, 31 Oct 1998 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/a4a8af73-d23c-486a-85f1-a8176dd197eI/scho-o31.html 1998-10-31T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/01/scho-j31.html The International Summer School held in early January by the International Committee of the Fourth International and the Socialist Equality Party of Australia represented a milestone in the revival of classical Marxism. Entitled "Marxism and the Fundamental Problems of the Twentieth Century," the school, held in Sydney from January 3 to 10, was the first such international symposium organized by the world Trotskyist movement. Sat, 31 Jan 1998 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/50a10b3b-6f14-4d8b-b9df-8c6ab3957d0L/scho-j31.html 1998-01-31T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/01/unio-j10.html The following lecture was delivered on January 10, 1998 to the International Summer School on Marxism and the Fundamental Problems of the 20th Century, organised by the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) in Sydney from January 3-10, 1998. Sat, 10 Jan 1998 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/1b0a7a18-eb1c-4019-b846-0cb621058eeK/unio-j10.html 1998-01-10T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/01/cast-j07.html This lecture was delivered on January 7, 1998 to the International Summer School on Marxism and the Fundamental Problems of the 20th Century, organised by the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) in Sydney, from January 3-10, 1998. Wed, 07 Jan 1998 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/14440033-201f-42a3-9927-5c73359ab4aE/cast-j07.html 1998-01-07T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/01/stal-j06.html ICFI Secretary Peter Schwarz explains the historical origins of the East German state and demonstrates that Stalinism, not socialism, existed there. Tue, 06 Jan 1998 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/c899050f-e8b0-40c8-818d-b856cba1a35D/stal-j06.html 1998-01-06T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/01/revo-j05.html In this lecture SEP (US) National Secretary David North examines the theoretical conflicts within the German Social Democratic Party in the 1890s. Mon, 05 Jan 1998 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/87743ed0-8285-4ea7-b04e-3058a34839bA/revo-j05.html 1998-01-05T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/01/glob-j04.html The globalisation of production has prepared a new period of social revolution. This is the inevitable outcome of the vast changes in the structure of world capitalist economy over the past two decades -- the culmination of processes stretching back over 200 years. Sun, 04 Jan 1998 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/bc114ad8-beb5-4659-b3d6-74ebebac682N/glob-j04.html 1998-01-04T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/01/trot-j03.html No discussion on the fate of socialism in the 20th century deserves to be taken seriously unless it considers, with the necessary care, the consequences of Trotsky’s defeat. Sat, 03 Jan 1998 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/83629005-4ca3-488f-b12e-8d35dabe5a9M/trot-j03.html 1998-01-03T05:00:00Z http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/01/aest-j03.html Art expresses things about life, about people and about oneself that are not revealed in political or scientific thought. To become whole, human beings require the truth about the world, and themselves, that art offers. Sat, 03 Jan 1998 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wsws.org/asset/5d594f92-9298-4506-bd4d-62dd0645a3dJ/aest-j03.html 1998-01-03T05:00:00Z