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

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

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

Léon Trotsky (1879-1940) compte parmi les figures les plus grandes et les plus controversées de l’histoire politique du vingtième siècle. De son vivant, il fut la cible d’une odieuse campagne de mensonges et d’accusations de la part du régime stalinien en URSS, qui culmina par l’assassinat du chef révolutionnaire exilé. Soixante-dix ans après le meurtre de Trotsky, les distortions et falsifications historiques staliniennes, depuis longtemps discréditées, se retrouvent dans le courant dominant de la pensée universitaire. Learn More

This pamphlet contains three lectures given by David North in 1995. North examines the political conceptions and activities of Ernest Mandel, long time leader of the Pabloite United Secretariat. Learn More