In November 1989 Workers League National Secretary David North traveled to the Soviet Union on behalf of the International Committee of the Fourth International. This pamphlet contains the text of a lecture presented at the Historical Archival Institute in Moscow as well as the text of discussions held with Soviet students and journalists. Learn More

This pamphlet contains a statement by the world Trotskyist movement analyzing the policies of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost reform program. Learn More

In August 1991 elements within the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union staged an abortive coup attempt. This pamphlet contains an analysis of these historic events. Learn More

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

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 marked the culmination of the betrayal by the Stalinist bureaucracy of the October 1917 revolution in Russia. In this statement David North draws the implications of this event for the international working class. 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

This polemical essay defends the foundations of scientific socialism against pseudo-Marxist conceptions prevalent among various philosophical tendencies influenced by the Frankfurt School and contemporary neo-utopianism. Learn More

Insightful analysis of the policies of Gorbachev from a Marxist perspective that anticipate the collapse of the USSR. Makes the case that glasnost and perestroika represented not the reform of socialism but the culmination of the Stalinist betrayal of the October revolution. Learn More

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