Leon Trotsky The social revolution is entirely based upon the growth of proletarian consciousness and on the faith of the proletariat in its own strength and in the party which is leading it.

Fighting Communist Organization Workers Power

James P Cannon The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

Key Documents

The Trotskyist Manifesto

Published in 1989, this is the founding program of our international tendency. It contains the key foundations of our programmatic method, and represented the first attempt by our organization to re-elaborate the Transitional Program from 1938.

From Protest to Power

The previous program of the League for the Fifth International, published in 2003 after our sixth congress.

It presents a fuller and more general program for the class struggle of the working class and its allies, and was oriented to the period of mass anti-capitalist and antiwar mobilizations in the early part of the last decade.

The Degenerated Revolution

First published by Workers Power (UK) and the Irish Workers Group in 1982, this book contains a detailed analysis of the origins and nature of the Stalinist states in Russia, Eastern Europe, Cuba, and China.

The Death Agony of the Fourth International

Death Agony of the Fourth International, published by Workers Power (UK) and the Irish Workers Group in 1983, analyzes the history of the Fourth International and explains why there are so many “Fourth Internationals” today.