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Marxist Archive

A selection of significant documents relating to Marxism, particularly aspects of the history of Trotskyism. See the Marxists Internet Archive for a extensive collection of Marxist classics.

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Sample collection, book, article and sub-page:

Fourth International

Revolutionary Spartacism

  • Collection on Origins of the Spartacist League
  • Marxist Bulletins 
  • PDFs of pamphlet – “Fight to Implement Busing” – could HTMLize in future but not a priority
  • Why the USSR is not Capitalist
  • PDFs of Spartacist – full set – or combine this with list of articles from Spartacist
  • Articles from Spartacist – what we have in HTML in chrono order, to be added to in future – including anything also included in a collection or book or 1917 or whatever
  • Articles from WV – ditto
  • Articles from W&R – ditto – some are a priority to be HTMLized on Elle’s list
  • Articles from RCL Newsletter and Young Spartacist – ditto
  • Collection: Youth Organising
  • Spartacist articles on race and the national question
  • Collection: Trotskyism in Ceylon
  • Collection: Revolutionary Defence Policy
  • Collection on Spartacism in Australia and New Zealand (including Bill/Adaire docs post expulsion)
  • Spartacist trade union work: TU material from TP book
  • Articles from Internal Bulletins 
  • Introduction to Fight for Socialism
  • The Stalin School of Falsification Revisited
  • Book: Lenin & the Vanguard Party
  • Book: The Jacobin Communist Tradition [WIP]
  • Shane Mage thesis (PDF)

Other Anti-Pabloite

  • What is Revolutionary Leadership?
  • The Clock Without a Spring

External Tendency of the iSt, 1982-85

  • Declaration of an external tendency of the iSt
  • Stop The Liquidation Of The Trade Union Work!
  • Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt No. 1 – PDF
  • Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt No. 2
  • Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt No. 3
  • Bulletin of the External Tendency of the iSt No. 4: The Road to Jimstown
  • Militant Longshoreman (on RR and BT sites)

Permanent Revolution Group (New Zealand) 1986-90

  • The Struggle Against Unemployment: Socialist Strategy vs Trade Union Bureaucracy
  • Popular Fronts vs Proletarian Revolution: Russia-Spain-Sri Lanka
  • Permanent Revolution: Yesterday & Today
  • For an Indefinite General Strike Until the Employment Contracts Bill is Withdrawn!

IBT supplements and miscellaneous [move?]

Articles from 1917 West: Journal produced by the San Francisco Bay Area local of the IBT, 1992-95

Articles from The Bolshevik: Journal produced by the New Zealand section of the IBT, 1993-95

Marxist Bulletin (Britain): Journal published between 1997 and 2000, initially by a group of comrades inside the Socialist Labour Party and then by the British section of the IBT

1917 British supplements, 2001-06