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WSWS Perspectives Journal (one-year subscription)
$85.00
A monthly journal containing the "Perspectives" articles published on the World Socialist Web Site.
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Learn MoreWSWS Perspectives Journal February 2010 (single issue)
$10.00
A monthly journal containing the "Perspectives" articles published on the World Socialist Web Site.
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Learn MoreThe Crisis of American Democracy
$14.95
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 Northern Territory Intervention and Rudd's Apology: The Real Agenda
$2.00
This pamphlet contains articles and statements from the World Socialist Web Site on the Australian government's military intervention into Aboriginal communities which was based on the pretext of stopping child sexual abuse. Learn More
Socialism, Historical Truth and the Crisis of Political Thought in the United States
$3.50
This pamphlet contains a lecture given by David North in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1996. It is a response to a review by Harvard historian David Pipes of Dimitri Volkogonov's book Trotsky: the Eternal Revolutionary. Learn More
Hurricane Katrina: Social Consequences and Political Lessons
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This pamphlet brings together 20 articles and statements published by the World Socialist Web Site in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, presenting an assessment of the social significance and political implications of the disaster. Learn More
Industrial Inferno: The Story of the Thai Toy Factory Fire
$21.95
This is an extraordinary account of the worst factory fire in history - the 1993 blaze at the Kader Industrial Toy Company outside Bangkok, Thailand. One hundred and eighty-eight people - 174 women and 14 men - perished in the fire. Kader workers earned less than $1 an hour making toys for such corporate giants as Toys 'R Us, Hasbro and Tyco. Those who died were trapped in a building with no fire extinguishers or alarms and no fire escape; management had locked the exits. Learn More
French Workers in Revolt: A New Stage in the Class Struggle, November-December 1995
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On-the-spot report of the strike wave that swept France in November- December 1995 against the attacks on social programs and pensions by the right-wing government of Prime Minister Alain Juppé. Learn More
Hollywood Honors Elia Kazan: Filmmaker and Informer
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Elia Kazan, director of 19 feature films between 1945 and 1976, was one of the most prominent figures to turn informer during the anti-communist witchhunts of the early 1950s. In this eassy David Walsh, arts editor of the World Socialist Web Site, looks at the decision by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to grant Kazan an honorary award in 1999. Learn More
Human BSE: Anatomy of a Health Disaster
$9.95
This book contains the record of the Workers Inquiry into the health crisis caused by BSE/CJD, ("mad cow" disease) convened by the Socialist Equality Party of Britain in May 1997. Learn More
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