ICFI/Marxist Archive
A Petty-Bourgeois Opposition in the SWP - 1939
By Leon Trotsky, October 21, 2008
Trotsky deals here with a skeptical-eclectic petty-bourgeois tendency that had arisen in the US Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the late 1930s, led by James Burnham and Max Shachtman. After reviewing...
Stalinism and Bolshevism - 1937
By Leon Trotsky, October 20, 2008
One of the clearest rebuttals to those who claim that Stalinism is the natural outcome of Marxism and Bolshevism. In responding to anarchists, Mensheviks and other critics who were using Stalin's Mosc...
SEP candidate Jerry White addresses successful meetings in Britain
By Robert Stevens, October 15, 2008
Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White addressed successful meetings this week in London and Manchester, England, and Glasgow, Scotland.
SEP public meeting in Sri Lanka
The international financial crisis and its implications for South Asia
October 15, 2008
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and the International Students for Socialist Equality (ISSE) in Sri Lanka will hold a public meeting on October 18 to discuss the global financial crisis and its imp...
The Communist Manifesto
By Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, October 14, 2008
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 ...
SEP public meetings in Ann Arbor, New York, and California
70th Anniversary of the Fourth International: Socialism and the Future of Humanity
October 14, 2008
The world economy is entering a period of crisis on a scale not seen since the Great Depression. The ideological buttresses of the capitalist system are disintegrating, as the miracles of the “free ...
The revolutionary implications of the decline of American capitalism—Part 2
By Barry Grey, October 14, 2008
Today we are posting the concluding part of the report delivered by WSWS National Editor Barry Grey to the Founding Congress of the Socialist Equality Party on August 9, 2008. The first part was poste...
The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 11
October 10, 2008
Among the political consequences of the dissolution of the Soviet Union was the proliferation of nationalist and separatist movements demanding the creation of new states.
Nick Beams addresses 70th anniversary meeting
Capitalist breakdown and the revolutionary perspective of the Fourth International
Part 1
By Nick Beams, October 4, 2008
Published below is the first part of a report delivered on September 28, by Nick Beams to a public meeting in Sydney on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International. Beams is a mem...
Australia: Public meetings mark 70th anniversary of the Fourth International
Historical lessons discussed
By our reporters, October 2, 2008
The Socialist Equality Party (Australia) held lively and well-attended public meetings in Sydney on Sunday and Melbourne on Wednesday night to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the F...
Public meetings in UK and Germany
SEP candidate Jerry White to speak on crisis of US and world capitalism
October 1, 2008
The presidential candidate of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States, Jerry White, will speak at a series of meetings next month in Britain and Germany.
The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party--Part 3
September 30, 2008
The Socialist Equality Party (US) today continues publication of The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party. The document was discussed extensively and adopted unanim...
