Richard Brenner gives a fact based and thought-provoking introduction to the life and times of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was one of the leaders of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, was exiled, and ultimately murdered by Stalin’s assassin, Ramon Mercader.
This program of action was drawn up by Workers Power (US) to act as a unifying guide to all workers and, with them, their organizations in the United States struggling to resist attempts by the bosses to make them pay the costs of a crisis they did nothing to commit. The battle cry of the working class can only be at this point in time, "from resistance to revolution!"
The current program of the League for the Fifth International, adopted at the sixth congress and published in 2003. This program is essential reading for revolutionaries across the world in the fight for socialism
U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below by Kim Moody, Verso 2007. Reviewed by Andy Yorke.
What caused the credit crunch? Some said lenders got “too greedy." Others blamed the regulators. Yet more denied it was even happening. The Credit Crunch – A Marxist Analysis offers a radically different explanation.
Charting how the events unfolded, and drawing on Karl Marx’s theory of crisis, Richard Brenner and Michael Pröbsting argue that the credit crunch foreshadows a crisis of globalization.
Andy Yorke asks, “Why have American workers never had a party of their own?” The answer, he argues, can be found in the historic struggles of the working class.
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