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Globalization and the International Working Class is a polemic that stands the test of time. Mehring Books is pleased to now offer this out-of-print title, first published in 1998 as a reply to the Spartacist League’s attack against the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), in ePub and Kindle formats.

This work analyzes the transformation of multi-national corporations into massive transnational entities, facilitated by the development of computer technology and telecommunications. Assessing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the ICFI statement examines the role of the international labor movement, including the trade unions in the capitalist countries, under these changed conditions. The statement points out that the left petty-bourgeois tendencies (the “pseudo-left”) adopted a nationalist standpoint, adapting “to the Stalinist and social democratic bureaucracies in the advanced capitalist countries.”

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Globalization and the International Working Class is a polemic that stands the test of time. Mehring Books is pleased to now offer this out-of-print title, first published in 1998 as a reply to the Spartacist League’s attack against the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), in ePub and Kindle formats.

This work analyzes the transformation of multi-national corporations into massive transnational entities, facilitated by the development of computer technology and telecommunications. Assessing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the ICFI statement examines the role of the international labor movement, including the trade unions in the capitalist countries, under these changed conditions. The statement points out that the left petty-bourgeois tendencies (the “pseudo-left”) adopted a nationalist standpoint, adapting “to the Stalinist and social democratic bureaucracies in the advanced capitalist countries.”

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Mehring Books is pleased to bring back to a new audience Leon Trotsky’s critical work, The War and the International (1915). The version we present here was originally published in Colombo, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), as a Young Socialists Publication, in 1971 This booklet was written in 1914 during Trotsky’s two month stay in Zurich where he had arrived from Vienna, which he left on the evening of August 3rd, the day Germany declared war against France. It contains an unsurpassed analysis of the driving forces of imperialist war.

Trotsky wrote, “World production revolts not only against the confusion produced by national and state divisions but also against the capitalist economic organizations, which has now turned into barbarous disorganization and chaos. ... The War of 1914 is the most colossal breakdown in history of an economic system destroyed by its own inherent contradictions.”

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2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx, the founder of scientific socialism and author of Das Kapital. World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North argues that far from being outmoded, Marx's teachings have burning relevance for today. The historical experiences of the twentieth century - the Russian Revolution of 1917, the rise of Stalinism, and victory of fascism in Germany in 1933 - have demonstrated, as Trotsky emphasized, that the greatest challenge to mankind is the resolution of the crisis of revolutionary leadership.

The statement "Final reflections on the centennial year of the Russian Revolution" notes the worried tones of bourgeois commentators on the precarious state of world capitalism, and the danger that the October Revolution remains a beacon to the working class all over the world.

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The second volume of Trotsky's writings devoted to the Communist International during Lenin's lifetime covers the years 1921-1923. In those years, Trotsky worked very closely with the French Communist Party in developing the strategy and tactics of world socialist revolution; his reports to the Executive Committee of the Comintern on matters from the French Commission are published here. The volume also contains his major speech at the Fourth Congress: "The New Economic Policy of Soviet Russia and the Perspectives of the World Revolution." Translated by John G. Wright. Learn More

The Socialist Equality Party Bundle provides an introduction to the history of the Socialist Equality Party and its predecessor, the Workers League. It reviews the strategic experiences through which the SEP and the international Trotskyist movement have passed over the course of the 20th century. Learn More

This volume contains the early writings of Marx, marking the first step toward the elaboration of what would become the Marxist world outlook. Learn More

This book contains the record of the Workers Inquiry into the health crisis caused by BSE/CJD, ("mad cow" disease) convened by the Socialist Equality Party of Britain in May 1997. Learn More

This book was written by Lenin in 1916 in the midst of World War I. Lenin relates the growth of monopoly and the enormous concentration of finance capital in a few hands to a new stage in capitalist development leading to inevitable military clashes between industrial nations over markets and sources of raw materials. Learn More