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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.
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.
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Trotsky: An Introduction
Category: Books
Price: $5.00
Description: Richard Brenner gives a fact based and thought-provoking introduction to the life and times of Leon Trotsky
From Protest to Power
Category: Pamphlets
Price: $6.00
Description: The previous program of the League for the Fifth International, published in 2003 after our sixth congress.
Extra Info: 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.
A Workers' Answer to the Crisis
Category: Pamphlets
Price: $1.00
Description: This program of action was drawn up by Workers Power 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!"
Fifth International Vol.3 IS.3
Category: Journal
Price: $10.00
Description: Winter 2009 issue of Fifth International Journal. Contents
• An historic crisis of capitalism: A three part article covering the recent developments politically and economically across the world
• World economy – heading to a new upswing?
• 1919-20: Italy’s ‘Two Red Years’
• Hope in retreat: Obama and the US working class
• The Bolsheviks, the Red Army and the Russian Civil War
• Italy on the brink: 1968 and the long hot autumn
• A review of Paul Mason’s Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed
• An historic crisis of capitalism: A three part article covering the recent developments politically and economically across the world
• World economy – heading to a new upswing?
• 1919-20: Italy’s ‘Two Red Years’
• Hope in retreat: Obama and the US working class
• The Bolsheviks, the Red Army and the Russian Civil War
• Italy on the brink: 1968 and the long hot autumn
• A review of Paul Mason’s Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed
Fifth International Vol.3 IS.4
Category: Journal
Price: $10.00
Description: # Theories of late capitalist development, Harvey and Callinicos on contemporary imperialism
# Luke Cooper surveys the work of two recent high profile Marxist theories of imperialism developed by David Harvey and Alex Callinicos Marx, money and modern finance capital
# Marcus Lehner offers an outline of Karl Marx's theories of money, banking and finance and shows how it can provide a compelling account of what caused the great financial crisis Finance capital unleashed: British imperialism today
Keith Spencer makes a case-study analysis of a 'Great Power' that was at the center of the global financial whirlwind: Britain
# Luke Cooper surveys the work of two recent high profile Marxist theories of imperialism developed by David Harvey and Alex Callinicos Marx, money and modern finance capital
# Marcus Lehner offers an outline of Karl Marx's theories of money, banking and finance and shows how it can provide a compelling account of what caused the great financial crisis Finance capital unleashed: British imperialism today
Keith Spencer makes a case-study analysis of a 'Great Power' that was at the center of the global financial whirlwind: Britain
Documents of the League for the Fifth International Vol.1
Category: Books
Price: $10.00
Description: The League has published a new collection of our theses and resolutions covering the question of reformism, how revolutionaries organize themselves and their tactics in the workers movement. Alongside previously published resolutions we include here for the first time two new resolutions, on the character of the working class and the nature of trade unions under capitalism.
Extra Info: This excellent collection is a useful introduction to the politics and method of revolutionary communism. At a time when the Left is debating crucial questions of strategy, broad left parties and rank and file movements in the trade unions - socialists need to be armed with the answers and ideas to go forward. Includes: Theses on Reformism and the Workers Movement (1983), 30 Theses in Defense of Trotskyism (1992), Early Stages of Party Building, Theses on Communist Organization, Communists and Trade Unions, Character of the Working Class, Theses on the United Front, Theses on Electoral Tactics
From Resistance to Revolution
Category: Pamphlets
Price: $4.00
Description: At its recent congress the League for the Fifth International passed a new programmatic manifesto. Its policies and slogans are intended to guide revolutionary socialists in the struggles to come, and to act as a proposed manifesto for a new Fifth International
Extra Info: This document is a program of action addressed to the organizations of the working class, peasants, youth and oppressed peoples of the world engaged in a massive wave of struggles – either to win democratic freedoms as a means to overcome poverty an unemployment or in defense of existing social gains and rights. When workers in Tahrir Square in Cairo chant their solidarity with workers occupying the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin USA and these workers in turn sing, “Fight like an Egyptian!” we become aware how global the struggle has already become.
The Road to Red October
Category: Pamphlets
Price: $5.00
Description: 1917 in Russia - two revolutions and a turning point in history: the first workers' state. First published in 1987, this is an updated version using re-edited material serialized in 2007.