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

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

Two articles by David North, former national secretary of the Workers League. Grand Jury testimony released as a result of a lawsuit by a former member of the Socialist Workers Party irrefutably proved the role of ex SWP member Sylvia Franklin as an agent of the GPU (Soviet secret police) Leaders of the SWP continue to deny this evidence. Learn More

This book contains the preliminary report on the investigation conducted by the International Committee of the Fourth International into the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico on August 20, 1940. The investigation, launched in 1975, uncovered long concealed evidence of the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by the Soviet secret police (GPU). It exposed the role of Joseph Hansen, then leader of the US Socialist Workers Party, as a double agent of the FBI and GPU. Learn More

In this open letter to Cliff Slaughter, leader of the one-time British Workers Revolutionary Party and once an active participant in the investigation into Trotsky's murder, Gelfand defends his lawsuit against the American FBI and CIA and their agents in the leadership of the Socialist Workers Party. Learn More

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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The decade-long investigation conducted by the International Committee of the Fourth International into the events surrounding the assassination of Leon Trotsky in 1940 established that Joseph Hansen, long time leader of the Socialist Workers Party, which had been responsible for Trotsky's security in Mexico, was an agent of the US government. David North rebuts attempts to discredit the findings of the Security and the Fourth International Investigation. Learn More

Contains all the key briefs, courtroom transcripts and exhibits of this extraordinary lawsuit brought by Alan Gelfand against the US government and its agents, who violated basic democratic rights through their infiltration of the American Socialist Workers Party leadership. Learn More