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 penetrating analysis and comprehensive refutation of three recently-published biographies of Leon Trotsky by well-known British historians -- Professors Robert Service, Ian Thatcher and Geoffrey Swain -- David North raises troubling questions about the state of contemporary historical scholarship. Also available in epub and pdf format


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The publication of Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record is a major event in the study of the theoretical foundations of the 1917 October Revolution. The documents presented in this substantial volume—compiled, translated and introduced by historians Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido—provide a comprehensive review of the controversies and polemics from which the theory of permanent revolution emerged. Day and Gaido have produced a book that is indispensable for those who wish to understand the development of Marxist theory and revolutionary strategy in the twentieth century. -- David North Learn More

This work is vital reading for those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the failed Chinese revolution of 1925-27, one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. Contains Trotsky's original introduction.

“Isaacs’ book represents a scientific work from beginning to end. It is based on a conscientious study of a vast number of original sources and supplementary material.… The author of this book tries to deduce the character of the Chinese Revolution not from a priori definitions and not from historical analogies, but from the living structure of Chinese society and from the dynamics of its inner forces.… The reader will carry away not only a better-knit picture of the march of events but—what is more important—will learn to understand their social mainsprings.” -- Leon Trotsky Learn More

The Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party), the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, adopted this document unanimously at its Founding Congress held on May 23, 2010 in Berlin. (Free shipping to Australia) Learn More

2011 marks the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936 when a revolt by fascist army officers was met with an armed uprising by the Spanish working class. First published in 1938, in the midst of the civil war, Felix Morrow’s account is essential reading for a deeper understanding of the tragic events in Spain.

This work contains a devastating indictment of the Popular Front policies of the Stalinist Communist Party, which played a criminal role in strangling the revolutionary struggles of the Spanish working class. Morrow not only analyses the counterrevolutionary role of Stalinism but takes up the policies of the anarchist CNT and the centrist Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), whose policies played a central role in the defeat of the revolution at the hands of Franco’s fascists.
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The document was adopted unanimously at the founding congress of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), held October 22-25, 2010 in Manchester. It reviews and examines the most critical political experiences of the British working class, centering in particular on the post-war history of the Trotskyist movement.

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This bundle contains a selection of writings from the investigation conducted by the International Committee of the Fourth International into the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico on August 20, 1940.

It contains the following titles:

The Gelfand Case, Vol I and II

Why Leon Trotsky was Murdered

The Case Against the SWP, What the Facts Show

In Defense of the Gelfand Case
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In this essay WSWS writer Tom Mackaman examines the significance for the working class of the 1981 strike by PATCO air traffic controllers in the US.

The mass firing of the PATCO strikers by US President Ronald Reagan marked the definitive end of the period of relative class compromise and social reform that had prevailed in the US and other advanced industrial countries since the end of World War II. From that moment on, the capitalist class has carried out a relentless offensive to roll back the gains the working class realized over decades of struggle.

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