On October 19, 1997 the Socialist Equality Party held a public meeting in Michigan to commemorate the twentieth anniversary since the assassination of Tom Henehan. "Of all the words that could be used to describe Tom Henehan, superficial is the last that would come to mind. Tom was drawn to the Workers League by its concern for problems of theory, its study of Marxism as a science, and the profound sense of history that permeated its perspective and program." Learn More

Tribute to Russian Marxist historian Vadim Rogovin delivered by David North, chairman of the editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site in 1998 in Berlin. Rogovin died in 1998 at the age of 61, after completing six volumes of a seven-volume history of the political conflicts within the Communist Party of the USSR and the Communist International between 1922 and 1940. 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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Written in 1988, this far-sighted document examines the globalization of the world economy and the mounting conflict of US, Japanese and European imperialism; the rapid growth of the countries of the Asian-Pacific Rim; and the significance of the process of capitalist restoration in China and the Soviet Union. Learn More

The 1985-86 split by the British Workers Revolutionary Party with the International Committee of the Fourth International involved fundamental questions of Marxist program and perspective. This set contains major writings relating to this vital political experience of the Trotskyist movement, including: "Gerry Healy and His Place in the History of the Fourth International"; "How the Workers Revolutionary Party Betrayed Trotskyism"; and "The ICFI Defends Trotskyism". Learn More

Contains articles written by Trotsky on the relation of the Marxist party to the trade unions. Learn More

This book documents Trotsky's intervention in the political struggle with the Burnham-Shachtman tendency inside the US Socialist Workers Party, which was of fundamental importance for the Fourth International. Learn More

This volume contains three reports delivered at distinct stages of what has developed into the most serious economic crisis of the capitalist system since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Learn More

The Stalin’s Terror Bundle includes writings by Russian Marxist historian Vadim Rogovin on the Great Terror. Rogovin demonstrates that the purges of 1937-1938 were aimed at exterminating all those who had any connection to the socialist traditions of the 1917 Revolution. Learn More