A great deal has been written over the past half-century about the Holocaust, but very little light has been shed on the causes of this historic crime. In his critique of Daniel Goldhagen's claim that the roots of genocide of European Jews were to be found in the German national psyche, David North challenges the depiction of Germany in the 1930s as an internally undifferentiated society, and the deeply pessimistic view that the triumph of fascism was inevitable. North points instead to the social roots of anti-Semitism, traces the long and honorable record of the German workers' movement led by socialists in defending the democratic rights of the Jewish people, and analyzes the reasons for the failure of the Social Democratic and Communist parties to block Hitler's rise to power. Learn More

This book contains the full stenographic record of the 1920 Congress of the Peoples of the East, held in Baku and presided over by Grigorii Zinoviev, chairman of the Communist International. The speeches focus on the national and colonial question in the near east. Translated by Brian Pearce. Learn More

Two articles by David North, former national secretary of the Workers League. Grand Jury testimony released as a result of a lawsuit by a former member of the Socialist Workers Party irrefutably proved the role of ex SWP member Sylvia Franklin as an agent of the GPU (Soviet secret police) Leaders of the SWP continue to deny this evidence. Learn More

This lecture by Bill Vann is one of seven delivered to the 1998 international symposium Marxism and the Fundamental Problems of the 20th Century by the International Committee of the Fourth International in Sydney, Australia. Learn More

Lecture by David North, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party, analyzing the relation between the growth of social inequality and the growing rejection by sections of the ruling establishment of Enlightenment concepts. Learn More

This pamphlet contains three lectures given by David North in 1995. North examines the political conceptions and activities of Ernest Mandel, long time leader of the Pabloite United Secretariat. Learn More

The 1924 edition of Zinoviev's lectures on the history of the Bolshevik party from its origins in the late 19th Century through February 1917. Zinoviev, the early leader of the Communist International, became one of the principal defendants in the Moscow Trials and was executed in August 1936. Learn More

These two lectures challenge the claims of right-wing historians that the demise of the Soviet Union proved (1) that the October Revolution was nothing more than a putsch that lacked significant popular support; (2) that any other effort to create a socialist society is doomed to failure; and (3) that the capitalist market is the only viable basis for human existence. Learn More

This lecture by David North is one of seven delivered to the 1998 international symposium Marxism and the Fundamental Problems of the 20th Century by the International Committee of the Fourth International in Sydney, Australia. Learn More