Documents and Manifestoes Links
- The Fight For Socialism Programme of the Workers' Party (1946). The WP was a "Third Camp" split from the Socialist Workers Party. It was led by Max Shachtman.
- The Relevance of Marxism On line book by Dennis "Klo" McKinsey which attempts to explain Marxism-Leninism in a clear manner. Part of the book is devoted to questions and asnwers.
- The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution Formal title is "the Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International," written by Leon Trotsky this was the founding programme for the Fourth International and remains a guiding document for Trotskyists.
- The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution By Harold Isaacs with an introduction by Leon Trotsky.
- Global Document Index A series of documents from various Trotskyist groups and tendencies.
- Against the Theory of State Capitalism 1949 document by Ted Grant replying to Tony Cliff's "The Nature of Stalinist Russia," Grant, then a member of the Fourth International, defends Trotsky's conception of the USSR as a degenerated workers' state.
- Regina Manifesto 1933 founding document of Canada's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (now the NDP).
- Erfurt Program, 1891 Radical program adopted by the German Social Democratic Party in 1891 which signified the party's adoption of Marxism.
- Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution Treatise from the Independent Group of Communists in Holland, 1930.
- Economic Socialism A text from 1886 by Henry Sidgwick which examines socialist economics.
- Political Economy: The Marxian Crises Theory An explanation of Marxist economics, reprinted from Political Economy: Marxist Study Courses, originally published in England, 1933
- Evolutionary Socialism Excerpts from Eduard Bernstein's revisions of Marxism which established modern social democracy.
- The SWP vs. Lenin: Bureaucratic Centralism or Democratic Centralism? Document produced by a dissident group expelled from Socialist Workers Party in Britain in 1994 criticizing the SWP's internal regime. The SWP leads the International Socialist tendency and is best known for publishing the newspaper Socialist Worker.
- Chen Duxiu and the Trotskyists Zheng Chaolin's memoirs written in 1945 documenting the story of Chen Duxiu, founder of the Chinese Communist Party, leader of the May 4th Movement and supporter of Leon Trotsky.
- The Port Huron Statement Written in 1962 and adopted by Students for a Democratic Society, the Port Huron Statement is considered to be a seminal document of the New Left.
- The National Question and the Class Struggle Thesis by Ber Borochov (1881-1917) arguing that national liberation is a necessary component of the class struggle. Distinguishes between progressive and reactionary nationalism.
- The Communist Manifesto The basic tract of the Marxist movement, written by Marx and Engels in 1848.
- The Genesis of Trotskyism Written in 1933, this pamphlet by Max Schachtman explains the development of Trotskyism and the International Left Opposition from the point of view of a leader of the American movement.
- Towards a New Socialism Polemic against market socialism by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell.
- The Gotha Program (1871) Excerpts from the founding manifesto of the German Social Democratic Party
- British Labour Party election manifesto, 1945 "Let Us Face the Future: A Declaration of Labour Policy for the Consideration of the Nation." This is the Manifesto on which the Labour Party was elected in 1945 and under which they instituted the modern welfare state.
- International Socialist Group - Discussion Document A 1994 document from the shortlived ISG which was formed by individuals expelled from the (British) Socialist Workers Party. Document crtiques the SWP's internal regime and its politics.
- Australian Capitalism in Crisis This document, from the Militant Socialist Organisation, presents perspectives for building a revolutionary workers party in Australia in the light of current economic and political trends.
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