This volume examines the bloodiest period of the Stalinist repression of political opposition in the Soviet Union, debunking the myth that the Great Purges were merely the product of Stalin's paranoia and had no overriding political logic. Through a meticulous examination of original sources, including archival documents only made available for research in the 1990s, Professor Vadim Rogovin argues that the ferocity of the mass repression was directly proportional to the intensity of resistance to Stalin within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), particularly the opposition inspired by and associated with the exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky. Learn More

This volume examines the bloodiest period of the Stalinist repression of political opposition in the Soviet Union, debunking the myth that the Great Purges were merely the product of Stalin's paranoia and had no overriding political logic. Through a meticulous examination of original sources, including archival documents only made available for research in the 1990s, Professor Vadim Rogovin argues that the ferocity of the mass repression was directly proportional to the intensity of resistance to Stalin within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), particularly the opposition inspired by and associated with the exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky. Learn More

In 1996, Russian Marxist historian Vadim Rogovin traveled to Australia to deliver these lectures. Rogovin's central thesis is that there was and remains a Marxist alternative to Stalinism. He demonstrates that Stalin's Great Terror was not the irrational response of a paranoid tyrant, but was precipitated by the need of the Stalinist bureaucracy to eradicate the growing socialist opposition to its rule, led by Trotsky and the Left Opposition.
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This document was adopted unanimously by the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) at its founding congress held in Colombo, 27–29 May, 2011. Learn More

Born in Budapest, Hungary during the 1919 Revolution, Bill Brust, at the age of eighteen and in the midst of the Great Depression, made a decision to fight for the working class and socialist principles. For over 53 years that choice gave meaning to his life. He died on September 15, 1991 after a short illness, still devoted to the struggle for international socialism. Learn More

Contains all the key briefs, courtroom transcripts and exhibits of this extraordinary lawsuit brought by Alan Gelfand against the US government and its agents, who violated basic democratic rights through their infiltration of the American Socialist Workers Party leadership. 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

In October 1977 assassins gunned down leading Workers League member Tom Henehan while he was supervising a Young Socialists dance in New York City. This pamphlet contains the results of a preliminary investigation conducted by the International Committee of the Fourth International into the murder. It also contains the text of an open letter to the world Trotskyist movement condemning the silence of the Pabloite United Secretariat on the killing. Learn More

This volume contains documents from the 1953 split in the Fourth International, the world Trotskyist movement. Learn More