The Fourth International

WSWS republishes extracts from The Heritage We Defend by David North, chairman of the WSWS International Editorial Board

November 15, 2003

On the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), the World Socialist Web Site is proud to republish two key chapters from The Heritage We ...

Toward a reconsideration of Trotsky’s legacy and his place in the history of the 20th century

June 29, 2001

The following is the text of a lecture given January 21, 2001 by David North, the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the WSWS and national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party of th...

Trotsky's Europe and America: new edition of seminal essays from the 1920s published in Germany

By Peter Schwarz, October 10, 2000

Arbeiterpresse Verlag, the Marxist publishing house in Germany, has published a new edition of Europe and America , a collection of speeches and essays written by Leon Trotsky in the 1920s. We are pub...

A veteran of the struggle against fascism and Stalinism

Nathan Steinberger celebrates his 90th birthday in Berlin

By Verena Nees, August 9, 2000

On July 16 Nathan Steinberger celebrated his ninetieth birthday in Berlin. He is one of the few former members of the German Communist Party (KPD) who survived the Stalinist prison camps of the Soviet...