This anthology contains selected writings by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Marx and Engels focus on the followers of Bakunin, who were active in the First International. It also contains excerpts from Lenin's writings on the question of syndicalism. (some shelf wear) 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

This pamphlet contains a statement on the currency crisis in Europe in the fall of 1992. (Bulletin Reader Series pamphlet) Learn More

Pamphlet of two speeches given by Trotsky in 1924 and 1926 which characterize the world economic and political situation, with a focus on the relation between Europe and the United States. Learn More

Preobrazhensky was a prominent Bolshevik economist who at a critical period supported Trotsky's fight against the bureaucratic degeneration of the Soviet Union. This book, written after the adoption of the New Economic Policy in 1921, analyzes its inherent dangers. It is a significant contribution to political economy and the problems of socialist planning. Learn More

Before winning international fame in October 1917, Trotsky had already gained a reputation as one of the most talented socialist writers and critics. In this compilation of profiles, Trotsky creates indelible portraits of some of the giants of pre-World War One European socialism, including Jean Jaures, Karl Kautsky, Victor and Fritz Adler, George Plekhanov, Julius Martov, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Learn More

This lecture by Peter Schwarz, leader of the German Section of the ICFI, 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

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 introduces the materialist conception of history and of the class struggle, explaining how bourgeois society, having sprung up amid the formation of a world market, simplifies and intensifies class antagonisms by creating the proletariat, a class which has no property aside from its own ability to labor. Learn More

Written in 1988, this far-sighted document examines the globalization of the world economy and the mounting conflict of US, Japanese and European imperialism; the rapid growth of the countries of the Asian-Pacific Rim; and the significance of the process of capitalist restoration in China and the Soviet Union. Learn More