The Crisis of American DemocracyThrough a detailed historical analysis, David North establishes that behind the breakdown of democracy in the United States lies the deterioration of the global economic position of American capitalism, and the development of unprecedented levels of wealth concentration and social inequality. The turn to aggressive militarism abroad, and the vast expansion of police state measures during the Bush administration arose not from the "terrorist threat", but from the extreme sharpening of social and class tensions within American society itself. |
Leon Trotsky & the Post-Soviet School of Historical FalsificationNearly 70 years after Trotsky's death, long-discredited Stalinist distortions and falsifications of his ideas and actions are finding their way into mainstream academic literature. In this penetrating analysis of two recently published biographies of Trotsky by Professors Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher, two well-known British historians, David North raises troubling questions about the state of contemporary historical scholarship. |
 The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality PartyThis document was adopted at the founding congress of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on August 3-9, 2008. Tracing essential historical events and political experiences spanning more than a century, the work establishes the theoretical and political basis of the struggle for socialism. |
Back in TimeThis is the only memoir to be written in the post-Stalin Soviet Union by a member of the Left Opposition formed under the leadership of Leon Trotsky in 1923. Nadezhda Joffe was the daughter of Adolf Abramovich Joffe, the Bolshevik leader and Left Oppositionist who committed suicide in 1927 to protest the expulsion of Trotsky from the Bolshevik Party. |
The Revolution BetrayedIn the annals of political literature, few works have withstood the test of time so well as Leon Trotsky's The Revolution Betrayed. More than 70 years after its initial publication, its analysis of the structure and dynamics of Soviet society and of the Soviet Union remains unsurpassed. |
Art as the Cognition of LifeThis anthology, the first to appear in English, contains Voronsky's major literary critical essays, including Art as the Cognition of Life and the Contemporary World. It also contains writings on Tolstoy, Gorky, Pilniak, Esenin, Larisa Reisner and Freud, newspaper articles, a satire, two letters addressed to his Stalinist persecutors, and an appendix of six documents crucial to an understanding of the events of the 1920s. |
1937: Stalin's Year of TerrorA major work of original historical research, 1937 provides a detailed and penetrating analysis of the causes and consequences of Stalin's purges. |
Marxism, History, and Socialist ConsciousnessThis polemical essay defends the foundations of scientific socialism against pseudo-Marxist conceptions prevalent among various philosophical tendencies influenced by the Frankfurt School and contemporary neo-utopianism. |
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