History

The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project

Part two

By Jean Shaoul, January 22, 2009

The conclusion of a two-part report on Israel and Palestine given to an expanded meeting of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board in Sydney, Australia in January 2006.

The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project

Part One

By Jean Shaoul, January 21, 2009

The first of a two-part report on Israel and Palestine given to an expanded meeting of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board in Sydney, Australia in January 2006.

Trotsky’s home in exile in Norway

January 13, 2009

On a recent visit to Norway, a German supporter of the ICFI visited the house in which Leon Trotsky took refuge some time after he was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1929. This reader provided an a...

The tragedy of the 1925-1927 Chinese Revolution

Part 3

By John Chan, January 7, 2009

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 i...

The tragedy of the 1925-1927 Chinese Revolution

Part 2

By John Chan, January 6, 2009

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 i...

The tragedy of the 1925-1927 Chinese Revolution

Part 1

By John Chan, January 5, 2009

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 i...

Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike

Part Three

By Chris Marsden, December 30, 2008

Trotsky had argued that the very survival of British imperialism now rested not on the right-wing social democrats, but on the supposed lefts, without whom the right wing could not maintain its positi...

Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike

Part Two

By Chris Marsden, December 29, 2008

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 u...

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...

1937: Stalin's Year of Terror

December 4, 2008

This volume is the first major study by a Russian Marxist historian of the most tragic and fateful year in the history of the Soviet Union. Possessing an encyclopedic knowledge of Soviet source materi...

Leon Trotsky, Soviet Historiography, and the Fate of Classical Marxism

By David North, December 1, 2008

This paper was presented by David North at a panel on “The Intellectual and Political Legacy of Leon Trotsky” at the recent 2008 National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement...

On the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International

By David North, November 3, 2008

The following report was given by David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party and chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site, to a meeting entitle...