This statement by David North, chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party, was originally published on June 14, 1999 following the conclusion of the 48-day NATO bombardment of Serbia and Kosovo. Learn More

A great deal has been written over the past half-century about the Holocaust, but very little light has been shed on the causes of this historic crime. In his critique of Daniel Goldhagen's claim that the roots of genocide of European Jews were to be found in the German national psyche, David North challenges the depiction of Germany in the 1930s as an internally undifferentiated society, and the deeply pessimistic view that the triumph of fascism was inevitable. North points instead to the social roots of anti-Semitism, traces the long and honorable record of the German workers' movement led by socialists in defending the democratic rights of the Jewish people, and analyzes the reasons for the failure of the Social Democratic and Communist parties to block Hitler's rise to power. 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

Writing in 1936, Schactman thoroughly exposed Stalin's first great frame-up trial at which the Soviet bureaucracy began the physical destruction of the entire Bolshevik old guard. Learn More

This lecture by Bill Vann is one of seven delivered to the 1998 international symposium Marxism and the Fundamental Problems of the 20th Century by the International Committee of the Fourth International in Sydney, Australia. Learn More

Workers League Political Committee statement, August 6, 1992 on the outbreak of civil war in the former Yugoslavia. (Bulletin Reader Series pamphlet) Learn More

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 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 pamphlet contains three lectures given by David North in 1995. North examines the political conceptions and activities of Ernest Mandel, long time leader of the Pabloite United Secretariat. Learn More