The Fourth International Is Founded (1938)
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[Introductary note: Max Shachtman chaired the founding conference of the Fourth International, in Paris in September 1938.
Party and class
Fight for a workers' government (1980)
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The articles in which we first argued for the use of the slogan "workers' government", in April 1980.
From Workers' Action nos.173-5, 19 April, 26 April, and 10 May 1980.
Against the stream: the class struggle is the decisive thing
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Can groups of activists who recoil from building political organisations and organise instead around academic journals or in friendship circles play a useful role in building the left?
Choose: the working class or sect building!
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"The great thing is to get the working class to move as a class; that once obtained, they will soon find the right direction, and all who resist will be left out in the cold with small sects of their own."
Keeping your head
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Critics often accuse revolutionary socialists of being “out of touch with reality”.
Twitter: horses for courses
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I doubt that the most ardent protagonist of “Twitter revolutions” would disgree with Eric Lee’s statement (“How Twitter is like a horse”, Solidarity 197) that social media such as Twitter and Facebook are tools.
B is for Bolshevism
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A complete account of Bolshevism would require many shelves-worth of books.
The Collective Organiser
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Excerpts from Lenin, Trotsky, Gramsci, Cannon, Deutscher, and documents of the Communist International and the Fourth International. Download pdf.
Trotsky: "What is a revolutionary situation?"
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In a 1931 article, Leon Trotsky discussed what exactly defines a revolutionary situation - a situation where a working-class revolution is possible in the short term - from a general situation of capitalist disarray and mass discontent. Appendix: Lenin on what makes a revolutionary situation, from Left Wing Communism.