Socialist Equality Party

The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (United States) was adopted at the founding congress of the Socialist Equality Party in 2008. It traces essential historical events and political experiences of the working class and Marxist movement spanning more than a century and, on this basis, establishes the theoretical and political basis of the struggle for socialism.

Further material on the history of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International is available here.

1. The Principled Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party
2. The Origins and Development of Marxism
3. The Origins of Bolshevism
4. The Theory of Permanent Revolution
5. Lenin’s Defense of Materialism
6. Imperialist War and the Collapse of the Second International
7. The Russian Revolution and the Vindication of Permanent Revolution
8. The Communist International
9. The Origins of Stalinism and the Founding of the Left Opposition
10. The Consequences of “Socialism in One Country”
11. The Expulsion of Trotsky
12. The Early Struggles of the International Left Opposition
13. The Victory of Fascism in Germany
14. The Fourth International and the Struggle against Centrism
15. The Treachery of the Popular Front
16. The Revolution Betrayed
17. The Founding of the Fourth International
18. The Outbreak of World War II and Trotsky’s Last Struggle
19. Trotsky’s Defense of Materialist Dialectics
20. The Petty-Bourgeois Opposition and Party Organization
21. The Fourth International and the Outbreak of World War II
22. Trotsky’s Place In History
23. The United States Enters the War
24. The End of the War and the “Buffer States”
25. The United States and the Restabilization of Capitalism
26. The Post War Upsurge of the Masses
27. The Chinese Revolution
28. The Establishment of Israel
29. The Korean War
30. The Origins of Pabloite Revisionism
31. Pablo’s Repudiation of Trotskyism
32. The “Open Letter” and the Formation of the International Committee
33. The Lenin-Trotsky Theory of the Party
34. Stalinism in Crisis
35. Castroism and the SWP’s Return to Pablo
36. The SLL’s Defense of Trotskyism
37. The Pabloite Reunification and the Betrayal in Ceylon
38. Opposition in the SWP: The Emergence of the ACFI
39. The Third Congress of the ICFI
40. Pabloism, the New Left and Guerrillaism
41. “Continuity” vs. “Reconstruction” of the Fourth International
42. The Formation of the Workers League
43. Split in the International Committee
44. The Founding of the Workers Revolutionary Party and the World Crisis of 1973-75
45. Wohlforth’s Break with the Workers League
46. The Workers League After Wohlforth
47. The Origins of the “Security and the Fourth International” Investigation
48. The Role of Joseph Hansen
49. A Phony “Verdict”: The Pabloites Endorse the Cover-up of Stalinist Crimes
50. A Shift in the World Situation: The Capitalist Counter-Offensive
51. The Crisis in the Workers Revolutionary Party
52. The Workers League’s Critique of the WRP
53. The Collapse of the WRP and the Split in the International Committee
54. A Further Comment on the Cause and Significance of the Split in the ICFI
55. After the Split: The Significance and Implications of Globalization
56. Perestroika and Glasnost in the USSR
57. The End of the USSR
58. The Struggle Against the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification
59. Globalization and the National Question
60. Globalization and the trade unions
61. The Formation of the Socialist Equality Party
62. The Significance of Equality
63. The World Socialist Web Site
64. The Explosion of Militarism and the Crisis of American Society
65. The Crisis of World Capitalism and the Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
66. The SEP, the ICFI and the Resurgence of Marxism