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.
archive: the left side of the brain is bigger - A constantly growing collection of writings by left-wing thinkers: Sartre, Einstein, Orwell, Gandhi, Naomi Klein, Pinter, Picasso, Marx, Gore Vidal, Oscar Wilde, GB Shaw, Beauvoir, Martin Luther King, Alice Walker and others.
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.
CapitAllism - Calls for a cap on personal incomes as a solution to inequity.
Economic Socialism - A text by Henry Sidgwick which examines socialist economics, originally published in 1886 in The Contemporary Review.
Erfurt Program, 1891 - Radical program adopted by the German Social Democratic Party in 1891 which signified the party's adoption of Marxism.
Evolutionary Socialism - Excerpts from Eduard Bernstein's revisions of Marxism which established modern social democracy.
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 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.
Global Document Index - A series of documents from various Trotskyist groups and tendencies.
The Gotha Program (1871) - Excerpts from the founding manifesto of the German Social Democratic Party
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.
Marxist.net - Marxist discussion and analytical resource material to guide the building of the revolutionary party and the socialist revolution. From the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI)
Marxists Internet Archive - The most complete database of Marxism hitherto made. The archive is divided into three major sections: Marxist writers, Marxist history, and reference materials. Marxist writers has information on Marxists from Karl Marx and Frederick Engels to Che Guevara to Vladimir Lenin to Rosa Luxemburg.
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 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.
Prout World - Site concerning the Progressive Utilization Theory, "Prout" a "neo-humanist" system addressing the socio-economics of liberation. This seems to be a utopian socialist theory based on eastern religious principles.
Regina Manifesto - 1933 founding document of Canada's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (now the NDP).
Socialism Web - An explanation and defence of socialism from an independent socialist.
Socialist Perspective - This site promotes socialism by critiquing capitalism, rather than by describing socialism. All material on this site can be freely distributed on a non-profit basis.
The State and Revolution - The Marxist theory of the state and the tasks of the proletariat in the revolution by Lenin.
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.
Towards a New Socialism - Polemic against market socialism by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell.
What is to be Done? - In which Lenin outlines the concept of the vanguard revolutionary party run according to the principles of democratic centralism.
Working Class Movement Library - A collection of materials concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labor movement, its allies and its enemies, since the late eighteenth century.
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