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Uprising of Black Youth and the Fight For Independent Black Political Action

By ALAN BENJAMIN Black youth in more than 50 cities across the United States have risen up to protest the August 9 killing by a white police officer of 18-year-old Michael [...]

December 17, 2016

What Lessons Can We Learn From Labor’s Defeats in Wisconsin in 2011 and 2015?

By Labor Fightback Network Now that Governor Walker has signed the “right-to-work” bill passed by the Wisconsin legislature, whose purpose is to severely weaken [...]

December 17, 2016

The Revolutionary Party & Its Role in the Struggle for Socialism

By James P. Cannon The greatest contribution to the arsenal of Marxism since the death of Engels in 1895 was Lenin’s conception of the vanguard party as the organizer and [...]

December 16, 2016

Intro to Socialism

Introduction The world today is in a mess. Look at your neighborhood and look at the world. We are facing the worst economic depression since the 1930s. Everyday we [...]

December 16, 2016

Why We Need a Discussion and Debate on Labor and Political Independence

Labor Fightback Network At our recent conference, the Labor Fightback Network (LFN) agreed to open and facilitate a conversation on labor independent political action. This [...]

December 15, 2016

The Theoretical Underpinnings of Our Advocacy of a Black Workers Party in the U.S.

By Alan Benjamin The advocacy of an independent Black Party in the United States is rooted in the history and traditions of the Socialist Workers Party going all the [...]

December 8, 2016

WOMEN IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

APPEAL FROM RUBINA JAMIL Dear Comrades, Friends, Sisters and Brothers, As you all know, by celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8th, 2017, we commemorate and pay [...]

November 18, 2016

Some Reflections on the Founding of the Fourth International and the Relevance of its Programme

By Daniel Gluckstein and François Forgue On 3 September 1938, in a barn in a small rural community of the Paris region, 22 militant activists representing organisations from [...]

November 17, 2016

Trotsky and the Founding of the American Section of the Fourth International

By ALAN BENJAMIN After his arrival in Mexico in 1937, Leon Trotsky began to press for an international conference to found the Fourth International. He immediately [...]

October 16, 2016

TIME TO SAY ‘NO’ TO LESSER-EVILISM!

Editorial Statement on the Results of the November 8, 2016, Presidential Election Following the victory of Donald Trump on November 8, a number of prominent left-leaning [...]

October 16, 2016