David North

David North’s activity in the international workers and Trotskyist movement, as a revolutionary journalist, historian and political leader, spans nearly a half century. He is presently the chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States, and has served as the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site (wsws.org) since its founding in 1998.

North has written extensively on Marxist theory, the history of socialism and the Fourth International, the geopolitics of US imperialism, and the strategy and program of the present-day struggle for socialism.

His books include:

Sounding the Alarm: Socialist Against War May Day Speeches 2014-2024 (2025)
The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide (2024)
Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century (2023)
The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History (2021, co-edited with Thomas Mackaman)
The Heritage We Defend (2018)
A Quarter-Century of War: The U.S. Drive for Global Hegemony 1990-2016 (2016)
The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left (2015)
The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century (2014)
In Defense of Leon Trotsky (2013)
The Crisis of American Democracy: The Presidential Elections of 2000 and 2004 (2004)
Gerry Healy and his place in the history of the Fourth International (1991)