History

Lessons of the 1965 Indonesian Coup

Chapter Five: Pabloites cover up Stalinist treachery

By Terri Cavanagh, May 16, 2009

The crisis of working class leadership was never posed so sharply as in Indonesia between 1963 and 1965. The fate of the Indonesian workers and peasants depended entirely on overcoming and defeating t...

Lessons of the 1965 Indonesian Coup

Chapter One: The historical background

By Terri Cavanagh, May 16, 2009

In October 1965 the international working class suffered one of its greatest defeats and betrayals in the post-World War II period.

The Haymarket frame-up and the origins of May Day

Part three

By Walter Gilberti, May 13, 2009

We are republishing a series of articles that originally appeared in April 1986 under the title “One hundred years since the Haymarket frame-up.” The articles were published in the Bulletin, the n...

The Haymarket frame-up and the origins of May Day

Part two

By Walter Gilberti, May 12, 2009

We are republishing a series of articles that originally appeared in April 1986 under the title “One hundred years since the Haymarket frame-up.” The articles were published in the Bulletin, the n...

The Haymarket frame-up and the origins of May Day

Part one

By Walter Gilberti, May 11, 2009

We are republishing here a series of articles that originally appeared in April 1986 under the title “One hundred years since the Haymarket frameup.” The articles were published in the Bulletin, t...

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.

Lecture 2

“Socialism in One Country” and the Soviet economic debates of the 1920s—Part 1

By Nick Beams, May 6, 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.

“Socialism in One Country” and the Soviet economic debates of the 1920s—Part 2

By Nick Beams, May 5, 2009

This is the first of two lectures, delivered at an SEP summer school in August 2007, dealing with some of the crucial conflicts over economic policy in the Soviet Union during the 1920s.

“Socialism in One Country” and the Soviet economic debates of the 1920s—Part 1

By Nick Beams, May 4, 2009

This is the first of two lectures, delivered at an SEP summer school in August 2007, dealing with some of the crucial conflicts over economic policy in the Soviet Union during the 1920s

British Trotskyists challenge falsification of Spanish Civil War history

By our reporter, April 21, 2009

“Civil War and Foreign Intervention in Spain” was the topic of discussion at the British Academy in London on April 2.

The struggle against centrism and the founding of the Fourth International

Part three

By Bill Van Auken, April 17, 2009

There is perhaps no part of the political and theoretical heritage left by Trotsky that has been the object of more sustained and diverse attacks and revisions on the part of the centrists than the co...

The struggle against centrism and the founding of the Fourth International

Part two

By Bill Van Auken, April 16, 2009

The tragic consequences of the attempt to steer a middle course between revolutionary Marxism on the one hand and Stalinism and Social Democracy on the other found full expression in the equivocal pol...