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

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

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

The February Perspectives features analyses of the Obama administration’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan and the growing demands by international finance capital for the introduction of savage austerity measures, including the important statement “Socialism and the Greek debt Crisis.”

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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