2016 Holiday Sale Week 3 SOCIALISM AND THE FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR |
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| Even before Donald Trump assumes office, he is already stoking up tensions with China. His "America First" policy will increase conflict with other countries, themselves mired in economic slump. The US is dragging the entire world into the maelstrom of imperialist war.
The International Committee of the Fourth International has urgently called for the building of a new international anti-war movement, based on the working class and directed against the capitalist system. |
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Leon Trotsky's The War and the International (1915)
Mehring Books is pleased to bring back to a new audience Leon Trotsky's critical work, The War and the International (1915). The version we present here was originally published in Colombo, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), as a Young Socialists Publication, in 1971. This booklet was written in 1914 during Trotsky's two month stay in Zurich, having left Vienna on the evening of August 3rd, the day Germany declared war against France. It contains an unsurpassed analysis of the driving forces of imperialist war. Trotsky wrote, "The War of 1914 is the most colossal breakdown in history of an economic system destroyed by its own inherent contradictions."
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A Quarter Century of War: The U.S. Drive for Global Hegemony 1990-2016(David North)
Beginning with the first Persian Gulf conflict of 1990--91, the United States has been at war continuously for a quarter century. While using propaganda catchphrases, such as "defense of human rights" and "War on Terror," to conceal the real aims of its interventions in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa, as well as its confrontation with Russia and China, the United States has been en gaged in a struggle for global hegemony.
The essays and lectures in this volume, informed by a Marxist understanding of the contradictions of American and world imperialism, analyze the progression of military interventions and geopolitical crises as they have developed over the past quarter century, not as a sequence of isolated episodes, but as moments in the unfolding of an interconnected historical process.
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| This book was written by Lenin in 1916 in the  midst of World War I. Lenin relates the growth of monopoly and the enormous concentration of finance capital in a few hands to a new stage in capitalist development leading to inevitable military clashes between industrial nations over markets and sources of raw materials. |
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 The Fight Against Imperialist War bundle The International Committee of the Fourth International, in the forefront of the struggle against imperialist war, insists that the international working class is the only force which can put an end to war. The struggle for socialism, against the unending assault on the working class, is intimately linked to the struggle against war.
Included in this bundle for $19.95 are: Socialism and the Fight Against War - 2016
Socialism and the Fight Against Imperialist War - 2014
Into the Maelstrom: The Invasion of Iraq and the Crisis of American Imperialism - 2013
Desert Slaughter: The Imperialist War Against Iraq (Statements of the Workers League 1991)
Oppose Imperialist War and Colonialism - 1991 World Congress in Berlin |
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The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century (David North) One hundred years after the outbreak of World War I and the Russian Revolution, none of the problems of the twentieth century--devastating wars, economic crises, social inequality, and the threat of dictatorship--have been solved. In fact, they are posed even more sharply today.
David North argues against contemporary historians who maintain that the dissolution of the USSR signaled the "end of history" (Fukuyama), or the "short twentieth century"(Hobsbawm).Paperback, hardcover and ePub
available now at discounted prices. |
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