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  1. Against Sectarianism
    The Challenge of the Labor Party

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1974
    Members of the Socialist League argue that Trotskyist-socialists should continue to work within the NDP with the goal of winning the ranks of the NDP to a socialist program.
  2. The Age of Permanent Revolution
    A Trotsky Anthology

    Resource Type: Book
  3. Anti-War Movement's Strange Allies: Hard Line Islamists
    Canada's progressive Muslims wonder why left would embrace theocrats

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Canada's anti-war movement has become not only the primary vehicle for an obscure, formerly left-wing group that attacks anyone who opposes Shariah courts in Canada, it's also now the main source of public respectability for a Toronto think-tank that advocates for the establishment of theocracies that hang gay people.
  4. Beyond the Fragments 
    Feminism and the Making of Socialism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1980
    A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
  5. Communist League (Canada)
    Connexipedia: Entry in NationMaster Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Founded as the Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire in 1977 as the result of a merger of the League for Socialist Action, the Revolutionary Marxist Group and the Groupe Marxiste Revolutionaire.
  6. The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
    Resource Type: Book
  7. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  8. Didn't See The Same Movie
    Review of Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
  9. Documents of the Fourth International
    The Formative Years (1933-1940)

    Resource Type: Book
  10. Encyclopedia of Trotskyism Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Documents on the history of Trotskyism and the Fourth International.
  11. Ernest Mandel’s Late Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1972
  12. Fourth International
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An international Trotskyist communist organisation which opposes both capitalism and Stalinism.
  13. The Fourth International, Stalinism and the Origins of the International Socialists
    Resource Type: Book
  14. The ‘Hero’ of Kronstadt Writes History
    Review of The Revolution Betrayed

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1937
    It is only necessary to reflect on the paramount role which Trotsky played in the first thundering years of Bolshevik Russia to understand why he cannot admit that the Bolshevik revolution was only able to change the form of capitalism but was not able to do away with the capitalist form of exploitation. It is the shadow of that period that lies in the way of his understanding.
  15. The History of American Trotskyism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1944   Published: 1972
  16. Introduction to the Johnson-Forest Tendency and the Background to “Facing Reality”
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
  17. The Invading Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1947
    History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
  18. The Left and the Jihad
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    The left was once the principal enemy of radical Islamism. So how did old enemies become new friends?
  19. Left Communism and Trotskyism: A Roundtable
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
  20. Lenin, Trotsky and the Vanguard Party
    A Contemporary View

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1963   Published: 1964
  21. Living socialism, The experience of the eighties
    New Internationalist November 1985

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1985
    Discussion focusing on the challenges of living a socialist life in modern times. Political commitments to meeting people's needs can be more rhetoric than reality. "How can socialism maintain its ideals in an international climate shaped by those hostile towards it?"
  22. Mandel's Economics
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1969
  23. Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A devious satire aimed at Leninists, Trotksyists, Maoists, and vanguardists of all stripes.
  24. Marxism and Freedom 
    From 1776 to Today

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   Published: 1971
    Dunayevskaya argues that Marx's theory is the generalisation of the instinctive striving of the proletariat for a new social order, a truly human society.
  25. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  26. My Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1930
  27. Notebook of an Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
  28. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
  29. Origins of the International Socialists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
  30. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  31. The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects
    Resource Type: Book
  32. Politics Past
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   Published: 1970
    A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
  33. The Program of the Minority
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1946
    Statement of the minority in the (U.S.) Workers Party.
  34. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
  35. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  36. Revolution in the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
  37. Revolutionary Organisation and Open Letter to IS
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1972
    A 1972 pamphlet incorporating two previously published texts, 'Revolutionary Organisation' (1961) and 'An Open Letter to I.S.' (1968). They are presented as "a contribution to the serious discussing now taking place, within the ranks of revolutionaryies, as to what kind of organisation is necessary."
  38. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx—From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
  39. Situationist International Anthology 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
  40. Six Red Months in Russia
    An Observers Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918
    Louise Bryant's account of her time in Russia during the revolution 1917-1918.
  41. The Socialist League and the Struggle for a Socialist Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1974
    The Socialist League is a democratic centralist organization which views its main tasks as gathering cadres for the future mass revolutionary party.
  42. Society of the Spectacle 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 2005
    An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
  43. Street Fighting Years 
    An Autobiography of the Sixties

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Tariq Ali takes readers through the fortunes of the British anti-war movement and the other political movements of the Sixties.
  44. The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1938
    Leon Trotsky's program for the founding of the Fourth International.
  45. Leon Trotsky
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1940
    Trotsky's works, and most of all his History of the Russian Revolution, will immortalize his name as a writer and politician. But there is a real need to oppose the development of the Trotsky legend which will make out of this leader of the Russian state capitalist revolution a martyr of the international working class — a legend which must be rejected together with all other postulates and aspects of bolshevism.
  46. Trotsky Protests Too Much
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1938
    Leon Trotsky is outraged that people should have revived the Kronstadt “episode” and ask questions about his part. It does not occur to him that those who have come to his defence against his detractor have a right to ask what methods he had employed when he was in power, and how he had dealt with those who did not subscribe to his dictum as gospel truth.
  47. Trotskyism and the vanguard party 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1974
    One of the most consistent achievements of the Trotskyists over the years has been to drive people away from radical politics. The number of burned-out and alienated ex-Trotskyists greatly exceeds the number of active Trotskyists. Their transparently manipulative tactics in the organizations they infiltrate tend to drive ordinary members away, forever wary of anyone identified as a Trotskyist.
  48. Trotskyism in the United States 1940-47 Balance Sheet
    The Workers Party and the Johnson-Forest Tendency

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1947

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