A major work of original historical research, 1937 provides a detailed and penetrating analysis of the causes and consequences of Stalin's purges. Learn More

Ce pamphlet raconte l'histoire de l'oppression américaine de Haïti, commençant par l'invasion par les US Marines en 1915, exposant ensuite les règnes sanglants de "Papa Doc" et "Baby Doc" Duvalier, et finissant par les évènements tragiques du 29 novembre 1987 -- quand des gros bras fidèles au régime pro-américain du Général Henri Namphy ont tué des dizaines de citoyens essayant d’exercer leur droit de vote. Learn More

An analysis of Socialist Workers Party leader Jack Barnes' 1982 speech to the convention of the Young Socialist Alliance which repudiated Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. Learn More

This book examines the case of Joy Gardner, a Jamaican immigrant, who was killed by police in her home in London in 1993. Learn More

Harold Robins was the captain of Trotsky's guard in Coyoàcan, Mexico. In this speech commemorating Robins' death North discusses the issue of revolutionary security. Learn More

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

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