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- Abram Leon: The Jewish Question - A Marxist Interpretation (1946) - An influential work by the Belgian-Jewish Trotskyist published in 1946.
www.marxists.de/religion/leon/index.htm
- Against the Theory of State Capitalism - A refutation of Tony Cliff's theory written in 1949 by Ted Grant. Cliff went on to found the International Socialist Tendency and what is now the Socialist Workers Party in Britain.
www.angelfire.com/pr/red/revolution/ against_the_theory_of_state_capi.htm
- 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.
home.mira.net/~lynnbea/cwi/index.htm
- British Labour Party Election Manifesto, 1945 - "Let Us Face the Future: A Declaration of Labour Policy for the Consideration of the Nation." Full text of the manifesto on which Labour was elected in 1945, under which they instituted the welfare state in Britain.
www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1945/1945-labour-manifesto.shtml
- 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.
www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/zheng.htm
- Economic Socialism - A text from 1886 by Henry Sidgwick which examines socialist economics.
panoramix.univ-paris1.fr/CHPE/Textes/Sidgwick/Social0.html
- Erfurt Program, 1891 - Radical program adopted by the German Social Democratic Party in 1891 which signified the party's adoption of Marxism.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1891erfurt.html
- Evolutionary Socialism - Excerpts from Eduard Bernstein's revisions of Marxism which established modern social democracy.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/bernstein-revsoc.html
- Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution - Treatise from the Independent Group of Communists in Holland, 1930.
www.gn.apc.org/Reality/econ/gik1.htm
- Global Document Index - A series of documents from various Trotskyist groups and tendencies.
www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/index.htm
- 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.
www.etext.org/Politics/International.Socialists-UK/isg.txt
- Regina Manifesto - 1933 founding document of Canada's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (now the NDP).
www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/ECON/needhdata/Regina_Manifesto.html
- The Communist Manifesto - The basic tract of the Marxist movement, written by Marx and Engels in 1848.
www.flash.net/~detcpusa/manifesto.html
- 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.
www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/works/ffsind.htm
- 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.
www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/works/shacht01.htm
- The Gotha Program (1871) - Excerpts from the founding manifesto of the German Social Democratic Party
history.hanover.edu/texts/gotha.html
- The Manifesto of the Communist Party - By Marx and Engels, the document that changed the world. Site includes introductions to all major releases in the nineteenth century.
csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Archive/1848-CM
- 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.
www.angelfire.com/il2/borochov/class.html
- 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.
coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/huron.html
- 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.
my.ohio.voyager.net/~klomckin/Part1.html#THE RELEVANCE OF MARXISM
- 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.
www.etext.org/Politics/International.Socialists-UK/swp.txt
- The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution - By Harold Isaacs with an introduction by Leon Trotsky.
www.zhongguo.org/Isaacs/default.htm
- 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.
marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1938-tp/index.htm
- Towards a New Socialism - Polemic against market socialism by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell.
www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book
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