Four lectures with contemporaneous analysis of the 2000 and 2004 US Presidential elections. Through a detailed historical analysis, North establishes that behind the breakdown of democracy in the United States lies the deterioration of the global economic position of American capitalism, and the development of unprecedented levels of wealth concentration and social inequality. The turn to aggressive militarism abroad, and the vast expansion of police state measures during the Bush administration arose not from the "terrorist threat," but from the extreme sharpening of social and class tensions within American society itself. Learn More

The work reviews the political and theoretical disputes inside the Fourth International, the international Marxist movement founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938. Learn More

This volume contains three reports delivered at distinct stages of what has developed into the most serious economic crisis of the capitalist system since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Learn More

The Economics Bundle contains selections from both classical and contemporary Marxist literature. These works examine the historical origins and nature of capitalism, as well as its development over the course of the 20th century. Learn More

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) – the leader of the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s unyielding opponent – remains an immensely controversial figure seventy years after his assassination in Mexico City. In this collection of essays and lectures, David North, an authority on Soviet history, examines the disputes surrounding Trotsky’s life and ideas and explains their contemporary relevance.


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A major work of original historical research, 1937 provides a detailed and penetrating analysis of the causes and consequences of Stalin's purges. Learn More

This statement by David North, chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party, was originally published on June 14, 1999 following the conclusion of the 48-day NATO bombardment of Serbia and Kosovo. Learn More

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

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