The Fourth International
Japan’s elections: the Communist Party’s role
By Peter Symonds, August 28, 2009
At a critical turning point in Japanese politics, the Communist Party is positioning itself as a safety valve for the political establishment.
The struggle against centrism and the founding of the Fourth International
Part three
By Bill Van Auken, April 17, 2009
There is perhaps no part of the political and theoretical heritage left by Trotsky that has been the object of more sustained and diverse attacks and revisions on the part of the centrists than the co...
The struggle against centrism and the founding of the Fourth International
Part two
By Bill Van Auken, April 16, 2009
The tragic consequences of the attempt to steer a middle course between revolutionary Marxism on the one hand and Stalinism and Social Democracy on the other found full expression in the equivocal pol...
The struggle against centrism and the founding of the Fourth International
Part one
By Bill Van Auken, April 15, 2009
The five years between Trotsky’s call for the Fourth International in 1933 and the holding of a founding conference in 1938 were marked by a continuous struggle against a wide range of centrist poli...
Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike
Part Three
By Chris Marsden, December 30, 2008
Trotsky had argued that the very survival of British imperialism now rested not on the right-wing social democrats, but on the supposed lefts, without whom the right wing could not maintain its positi...
Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike
Part Two
By Chris Marsden, December 29, 2008
Bereft of any revolutionary guidance from the Communist Party of Great Britain, the working class had no possibility of arming itself against the role of the lefts who were being continually boosted u...
Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike
By Chris Marsden, December 27, 2008
More than 80 years on, the May 1926 British General Strike remains a defining moment in the history of the workers’ movement. Its lessons are essential for the development of a revolutionary strateg...
The Spanish Civil War by Andy Durgan
Britain’s SWP lends credence to Stalinist line on Spanish Civil War—Part 1
By Ann Talbot, September 16, 2008
Andy Durgan, The Spanish Civil War (New York, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). The Spanish Civil War generates a massive body of historical work every year. This book stands out and merits attent...
From Pabloism to the Greens
Peter Camejo dead at 68
By Fred Mazelis, September 16, 2008
This past weekend brought news of the death of Peter Camejo, a leading figure in the US Green Party, three times its candidate for governor of California, and Ralph Nader’s vice presidential run...
Public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne to commemorate...
The 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
September 9, 2008
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution established by Leon Trotsky in September 1938. The founding of the FI and the ...
Letter from the children of Jean Brust, veteran Trotskyist
November 30, 2007
November 24 marked 10 years since the death of Jean Brust, a founding member of the Workers League, predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party. The following letter was sent to the World Socialist We...
Ten years since the death of Jean Brust, veteran Trotskyist
November 26, 2007
November 24 marks ten years since the death of Jean Brust, a founding member of the Socialist Equality Party and its predecessor, the Workers League. Brust, a veteran of 60 years fighting for socialis...
