This pamphlet contains a statement on the currency crisis in Europe in the fall of 1992. (Bulletin Reader Series pamphlet) Learn More

Pamphlet of two speeches given by Trotsky in 1924 and 1926 which characterize the world economic and political situation, with a focus on the relation between Europe and the United States. Learn More

Preobrazhensky was a prominent Bolshevik economist who at a critical period supported Trotsky's fight against the bureaucratic degeneration of the Soviet Union. This book, written after the adoption of the New Economic Policy in 1921, analyzes its inherent dangers. It is a significant contribution to political economy and the problems of socialist planning. Learn More

This lecture by Peter Schwarz, leader of the German Section of the ICFI, 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

The past several decades have witnessed the eruption of American militarism on a global scale. This set includes writings analyzing some of the most important military interventions of the last 20 years, including the first and second Gulf Wars, the "humanitarian" intervention in Somalia and the bombing of Yugoslavia. The titles in the set are: "Desert Slaughter"; "After the Slaughter": "Political Lessons of the Balkan War"; "Behind the US Invasion of Somalia"; and "Oppose Imperialist War and Colonialism". Also included are David North's "The Crisis of American Democracy" and Trotsky's important essay, "Europe and America". Learn More

The manifesto, written in the months prior to the revolutionary wave of 1848 and distributed throughout Europe, is the first definitive statement of the methods and aims of the Communist movement. It introduces the materialist conception of history and of the class struggle, explaining how bourgeois society, having sprung up amid the formation of a world market, simplifies and intensifies class antagonisms by creating the proletariat, a class which has no property aside from its own ability to labor. Learn More

The March Perspectives features commentary on the growing threat of war, as economic tensions between the United States and China, as well as America’s rivals in Europe, increase. The looming possibility of an attack on Iran and its broader implications are also analyzed. Learn More

This issue contains important political statements from the World Socialist Web Site for the month of April indexed by topic. Learn More

This issue contains important political statements from the World Socialist Web Site for the month of May, indexed by topic. Learn More