The Heritage We Defend: A Contribution to the History of the Fourth International

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The work reviews the political and theoretical disputes inside the Fourth International, the international Marxist movement founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938.

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The work reviews the political and theoretical disputes inside the Fourth International, the international Marxist movement founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938.

Through detailed references to original documents and programmatic statements from the archives of the Trotskyist movement, the central political problems of the revolutionary movement - from the "French Turn" of the 1930s to the proletarian military policy of the second World War, to the post-war struggle against Pabloism - are elucidated.

Contains a detailed and objective assessment of the political contribution and evolution of James P. Cannon, Trotsky's most important cothinker in the US, as well as the evolution of the US Socialist Workers Party.

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Author	David North
Publisher	Labor Publications
Publication Date	1988
Pages	539
Publication Type	Paperback
ISBN	978-0-929087-00-9

Chapter	Page
Preface	*vii*
1. M. Banda Renounces Trotskyism	1
2. The Banda School of Falsification	18
3. The SWP and the 1940 Elections	32
4. The SWP and American Stalinism	42
5. Revolutionary Defeatism in World War II	55
6. Trotsky's Proletarian Military Policy	70
7. The Fourth International in World War II	86
8. The "Three Theses" of the Retrogressionists	98
9. The Morrow-Goldman Faction	*108*
10. Cannon's "American Theses"	*120*
11. The Fourth International After the War	*130*
12. The Fourth International and the Yugoslav Revolution	*141*
13. The Origins of Pabloism	*155*
14. The Metaphysics of Nationalized Property	*171*
15. The Nature of Pabloite Opportunism	*184*
16. Cannon's Struggle Against the Cochranites	*198*
17. The Split in the Fourth International	*212*
18. James P. Cannon's "Open Letter"	*229*
19. After the Split	*247*
20. The SWP and McCarthyism	*263*
21. The SWP in Retreat	*276*
22. Khrushchev's Secret Speech to the Twentieth Congress	*289*
23. The Impact of the Hungarian Revolution	*303*
24. The SWP's "Regroupment" Fiasco	*314*
25. The British Trotskyists Oppose Unprincipled Unity	*331*
26. The Cuban Revolution	*347*
27. Hansen's Debasement of Marxist Theory	*361*
28. The SLL Defends the International Committee	*373*
29. The Historic Betrayal in Ceylon	*391*
30. Marxism and the "Breakdown" Theory	*405*
31. A Petty-Bourgeois Nationalist Unmasked	*420*
32. The Wohlforth Incident	*437*
33. M. Banda Embraces Stalinism (I)	*454*
34. M. Banda Embraces Stalinism (II)	*473*
35. M. Banda Embraces Stalinism (III)	*488*
Notes	*509*
Index	*527*

David North is the chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and lectures on questions relating to contemporary US and international politics, European and Soviet history, and the history of the Trotskyist movement, including The Crisis of American Democracy; Marxism, History and Socialist Consciousness; Leon Trotsky and the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification; and The Heritage We Defend .

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