The 1927 program of the Joint (Bolshevik-Leninist) Opposition which drew together the supporters of Trotsky and Zinoviev against Stalin and Bukharin. Submitted to the Central Committee in September 1927, the program was signed by thirteen members of the Central Committee, including Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Smilga, Evdokimov, Rakovsky, Piatakov and Bakaev. Learn More

David King's "Red Star Over Russia" presents over 550 photographs, posters and works of art illustrating the history of Russia from 1917 through 1953. Much of the material covering the October Revolution, Civil War and Great Terror is published for the first time. The accompanying text provides a clear historical background needed to understand the graphic material. Learn More

"The Revolution Betrayed", Leon Trotsky's masterful analysis of the contradictory character of the USSR and the counter-revolutionary character of the Stalinist bureaucracy, has stood the test of time. In addition to this work, this set also contains a selection of other important writings by Trotsky, from the Russian Revolution to the founding of the Fourth International in 1938. Titles included are: "The Revolution Betrayed"; "In Defense of the October Revolution"; "The Transitional Program": "The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International"; "Political Profiles"; and "Whither France". Learn More

This book contains four articles by Trotsky devoted to fundamental problems of the revolutionary movement. 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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Voronsky was an outstanding figure of post-revolutionary Soviet intellectual life, editor of the most important literary journal of the 1920s in the USSR and a supporter of Trotsky and the Left Opposition in the struggle against Stalinism. He was executed by Stalin in 1937. A defender of the "fellow traveler" writers and an opponent of the Proletarian Culture movement, Voronsky was one of the authentic representatives of classical Marxism in the field of literary criticism in the twentieth century. Learn More

This is the only memoir to be written in the post-Stalin Soviet Union by a member of the Left Opposition, which was formed under the leadership of Leon Trotsky in 1923. Nadezhda Joffe was the daughter of Adolf Abramovich Joffe, the Bolshevik leader and Left Oppositionist who committed suicide in 1927 to protest the expulsion of Trotsky from the Bolshevik Party. Learn More

This indispensable volume traces the origins and birth of the Left Opposition to Stalinism in the Soviet Union. Here is the crucial record of the initial stages of the political battle which was to determine the fate of the first workers state. Learn More

This document was adopted at the founding congress of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on August 3-9, 2008. Tracing essential historical events and political experiences spanning more than a century, the work establishes the theoretical and political basis of the struggle for socialism. Learn More