Ernest Mandel: A Centrist For All Seasons
SL Confronts USec Leader on U.S. Tour Spartacist, No. 25, Summer 1978 An abbreviated version of this article was distributed at a meeting in New York on May 4 where Mandel spoke on the...
Pabloist Revisionism and the Destruction of the Fourth International
Cannon Versus Pablo:
a review of James P. Cannon’s Speeches to the Party, Pathfinder Press, New York, 1973 published in Workers Vanguard, No. 28, 14 September 1973 The publication of James Cannon’s speeches and letters from the...
Our Orientation
The following article was first published in the May 1954 issue of The Educator, an internal organ of the Socialist Union of America, headed by Bert Cochran. (Draft Resolution Adopted by National Board, April...
A Letter to Trotskyists Throughout the World
The following letter was first published in the 16 November 1953 issue of the Militant. From the 25th Anniversary Plenum of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party To All Trotskyists: Dear Comrades:...
Trade Unionists and Revolutionists
[From James P. Cannon, Speeches to the Party, Pathfinder 1973, pp. 51–66] At the May 1952 plenum of the SWP National Committee and at the national convention in July, the speeches and reports reflected...
Report to the May Plenum
[From James P. Cannon, Speeches to the Party, Pathfinder 1973, pp. 136–163] This speech was delivered by Cannon at the May 28–31, 1953, plenum of the SWP National Committee in New York. Comrade chairman,...
Internationalism and the SWP
[From James P. Cannon, Speeches to the Party, Pathfinder 1973, pp. 67–91] The following is a speech to a meeting of the majority caucus of the New York Local, May 18, 1953. We have...
Declaration of the Delegates of the French Majority and Resolution on the Austrian Question
These documents appeared in the SWP’s International Information Bulletin, December 1951. Declaration of the Delegates of the French Majority The Congress of the PCI rejected the resolution of the 9th Plenum not because of...
What Should Be Modified and What Should Be Maintained in the Theses of the Second World Congress of the Fourth International on the Question of Stalinism? (Ten Theses)
by Ernest Germain (Mandel) This document appeared in the SWP’s International Information Bulletin, April 1951 FOREWORD — The theses on general orientation adopted by the 9th Plenum of the IEC have defined the general...
Where Are We Going?
by Michel Pablo This document appeared in the SWP’s International Information Bulletin, March 1951 The Ninth Plenum of the IEC has opened the preparatory discussion for the Third World Congress of our International and...