1. After Trotskyism, what? Some personal thoughts
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   Arash Azizi had been a member the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) for more than seven years. Recently Azizi left the organization. He outlines his decision to leave in this esssay at the request of many friends and comrades.
2. Against Sectarianism
   The Challenge of the Labor Party
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
   
3. The Age of Permanent Revolution
   A Trotsky Anthology
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1964
   A collection of writings by Leon Trotsky.
4. Beyond the Fragments
   Feminism and the Making of Socialism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1980
   A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
   
5. Braverman, Harry (Harry Frankel) - Writings - Index
   Resource Type: Article
   Writings of Harry Braverman (aka Harry Frankel) (1920-1976).
6. Broué, Pierre - Writings - Index
   Resource Type: Article
   Writings of Pierre Broué (1926 – 2005).
7. Building Working-Cass Opposition to Stalin's Dictatorship?
   The Trotskyist Opposition, 1927-1940
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1996
   A review of Tony Cliff's book Trotsky, 1927-1940. In Cliff's view, the Trotskyist movement in the USSR was not so much destroyed by Stalin as much as it collapsed under the weight of its own fundamentally faulty assumptions regarding the nature of the enemy--indeed, just who the enemy was.
8. Camejo Peter - Writings - Index
   Resource Type: Article
   Writings of Peter Camejo (1939-2008).
9. Communist League (Canada)
   Connexipedia: Entry in NationMaster Encyclopedia
   Resource Type: Article
   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.
10. The Contradiction of Trotsky
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1948
    It was worth examining carefully Trotsky's attitude at the dawn of Stalinism, for it enables us to elucidate the (theoretical) policy to which he adhered until his death. I have said that Trotsky represented, between 1923 and 1927, the contradictions of Bolshevism. I should now add that he never emerged from this divided situation. Subsequently he transported into the domain of revolutionary theory the contradiction in which he had become objectively enclosed. Of course, he was forced by events to perceive the counter-revolutionary character of Stalinism, but he was not capable of taking an overall view of the new Stalinist society and of defining it.
11. Deutscher, Isaac - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    
12. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
13. Documents of the Fourth International
    The Formative Years (1933-1940)
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Documents from conferences of the Left Opposition and its successors leading up to the founding conference of the Fourth International.
14. Ernest Mandel's Late Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1972
    
15. 50 Years of World Revolution
    An International Symposium
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    An selection of essays from a Trotksyist perspective.
16. Fourth International
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An international Trotskyist communist organisation which opposes both capitalism and Stalinism.
17. The Fourth International, Stalinism and the Origins of the International Socialists
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
18. From 1960s New Left to Trotskyism
    Recollections of a Participant
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    What I am going to do today is talk about the 1960s—the last time there was serious social struggle in the U.S.—and why some of us concluded that struggle, even quite militant struggle, is not enough.
19. Martin and Jessie Glaberman Collection
    Papers, 1939-2001
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    The papers of the Marxist radicals Martin Glaberman and Jessie Glaberman, now housed at Wayne State University.
20. Hallas, Duncas - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Duncas Hallas (1925-2002).
21. The Hero' of Kronstadt Writes History
    Review of The Revolution Betrayed
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
22. The History of American Trotskyism
    From Its Origins (1928) to the Founding of the Socialists Workers Party (1938): Report of a Participant
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    Trotskyist leader Cannon recounts the early history of the Trotskyist movement in the United States.
23. In Defense of Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    
24. The Invading Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
25. James, C.L.R. - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of C.L.R. James (1901-1989).
26. Lenin, Trotsky and the Vanguard Party
    A Contemporary View
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1964
    
27. Leon Trotsky Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A selection of Trotsky's speeches.
28. Levi, Paul - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Paul Levi (1886-1930).
29. Mandel's Economics
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1969
    
30. Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A devious satire aimed at Leninists, Trotskyists, Maoists, and vanguardists of all stripes.
    
31. Marxism and Freedom
    From 1776 to Today
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    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.
32. Marxist Bulletin No. 9
    Basic Documents of the Spartacist League
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1973
    Key documents of the Trotskyist Sparacist League.
33. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
34. My Life
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Trotsky's autobiography, published in 1930.
35. The new Islamo-Marxism: Where Trotsky meets bin Laden
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    
36. Nicolas Calas: The Trotskyist Time Forgot
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A lengthy, detailed look at modern Trotskyist poet Nicolas Calas (1907-88).
37. Notebook of an Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Over 100 articles from the pen of an active participant in the events of thirty years of labor history. Cannon covers the campaigns to save Sacco and Vanzetti, the historic strikes of the 1930s, the Korean War, mcCarthyism, and prize fighting, movies, and the Catholic Church.
38. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
39. On the Trade Unions
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    
40. The Party: Volume 1
    The Sixties, A Political Memoir: The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Barry Sheppard was a member of the US Socialist Workers Party for 28 years, and a central leader for most of that time. This is the first of two volumes recounting his life in the party.
41. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
42. The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A re-issue of two of Trotsky's works, Results and Prospcts, and The Permanent Revolution.
43. Politics Past
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
44. The Program of the Minority
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1946
    Statement of the minority in the (U.S.) Workers Party.
    
45. Prometheus Research Library
    Resource Type: Organization
    A working library of American and international Marxist history, documentation, and related interests, maintained by the Trotskyist League.
46. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
47. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    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.
    
48. Report of the Siberian Delegation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1903
    
49. Revolution in the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    
50. Revolutionary Organisation and Open Letter to IS
    Resource Type: Article
    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."
    
51. Revolutionary Strategy in the Advanced Capitalist Countries: A Reply to the Spontaneists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1973
    A Trotskyist perspective.
52. Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    A book on the Teamster's strike of 1934.
53. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    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."
54. RossDowson.com
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    An archive of materials related to Canadian Trotskyist Ross Dowson (1917-2002). Some documents are online; others are being digitized.
55. The Russian Enigma: Lenin, Also...
    Chapter 9 of Book 3 of The Russian Enigma, cut by the publisher of the original 1938 version
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    Chapter 9 of Book 3 of Ante Ciliga's The Russian Enigma originally published as In The Land of The Great Lie. The book details Ciliga's time spent in Soviet Prisons and 'isolaters' following his arrest for belonging to the Trotskyist Opposition, and provides a wealth of important documentary information concerning the miserable conditions in which the working class were reduced to living in, the extent of the 'criminalisation' of large swathes of the population, and the various forms in which resistance appeared.
56. Situationist International Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A selection of Situationist writings.
57. Six Red Months in Russia
    An Observers Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1918
    Louise Bryant's account of her time in Russia during the revolution 1917-1918.
58. The Socialist League and the Struggle for a Socialist Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1974
    The Socialist League is a democratic centralist organization which views its main tasks as gathering cadres for the future mass revolutionary party.
59. The Socialist Register 1975
    Volume 12: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1975
    
60. The Socialist Register 1976
    Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
    
61. The Socialist Register 1977
    Volume 14: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    
62. The Socialist Register 1978
    Volume 15: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
63. The Socialist Register 1980
    Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    
64. The Socialist Register 1982
    Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
    
65. The Socialist Register 1989
    Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    
66. Society of the Spectacle
    Resource Type: Book
    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."
67. State, power and bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The theory of bureaucratic state capitalism in Russia and elsewhere characterises the International Socialist Tendency and distinguishes us from most other Marxist parties worldwide. So a study of the development of Leon Trotsky's ideas on the Russian bureaucracy is of particular interest. This book reveals one of the greatest Marxists struggling to come to terms with a wholly new ­phenomenon, the Stalinist bureaucracy.
68. Street Fighting Years
    An Autobiography of the Sixties
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Tariq Ali takes readers through the fortunes of the British anti-war movement and the other political movements of the Sixties.
    
69. The Struggle for a Proletarian Party
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1943
    
70. SWP: Long March to Oblivion - Book Review
    Against The Current vol. 160
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Book review of 'The Party: The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988. A Political Memoir. Volume 2: Interregnum, Decline and Collapse, 1973-1988' by Barry Sheppard.
71. Theory and Practice of Idealism in Trotskyism and the ISO
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    We have come to conclusions there is a theoretical underpinning to the problems we (and others) experienced in the ISO, such as continually erroneous perspectives which rarely were assessed, a leadership method that emphasized cheerleading and exhortation over sober assessment of the challenges we are facing, a tendency to tail the liberals both politically and organizationally (opportunism), a growing separation between our Marxist theory and our practice (a hallmark of opportunism), a sectarian attitude towards the revolutionary left (other socialists and anarchists alike) and an intolerance toward ongoing political disagreement within the organization.
72. The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1938
    Leon Trotsky's program for the founding of the Fourth International.
    
73. Trotsky
    A Documentary
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    An illustrated biography of Leon Trotsky.
74. Trotsky, Leon - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Leon Trotsky (1879-1940).
75. Trotsky Protests Too Much
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
76. Trotsky Reconsidered: Claude Lefort's Perspective
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In spite of all the ink spilled that says the opposite, Trotsky may have been closer to Stalin than he was to Lenin. That’s the argument made by Claude Lefort (one of the leading members of Socialisme ou Barbarisme) in a 1948 essay, “The Contradiction of Trotsky.” He criticizes Trotsky for having over and over again pursued a conciliationist approach towards Stalin and failing to uphold what Lefort claims would have been Lenin’s positions if he had still been alive.
77. Trotskyism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    
78. Trotskyism and the vanguard party
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
    
79. Trotskyism and the Vanguard Party
    A critique of Trotskyism
    Resource Type: Article
    Challenging the Trotksyist idea of the 'vanguard party'.
80. Trotskyism in the United States 1940-47 Balance Sheet
    The Workers Party and the Johnson-Forest Tendency
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1947
    The Johnson-Forest tendency presented this balance sheet of Trotskyism in the United States for its co-thinkers at home and abroad who shared the program and principles of the Fourth International.
81. Trotskyism: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    
82. Volcano Days
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Brian Johnson's semi-fictional novel based on his experience (nervous breakdown, etc.) at the time he was a labour reporter on the Montreal Gazette and a member of the Revolutionary Marxist Group.
83. What is Trotskyism?
    Resource Type: Book
    

Experts on Trotskyism in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive