The heritage we defend : a contribution to the history of the Fourth International

This is a critical Marxist analysis of the history of the Fourth International since the assassination of Leon Trotsky in 1940. Concentrating on the theoretical issues confronting the Fourth International from its founding through the international split in 1985-86, the volume examines the implications of the struggle against Stalinism, bourgeois nationalism and various forms of petty-bourgeois radicalism. Indispensable reading for all those seeking a serious analysis of the central political problems confronting the working class in the latter half of the twentieth century and today. This Marxist polemic reviews the political and theoretical disputes inside the Fourth International, the international Marxist movement founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938, and gives a detailed objective assessment of the political contribution and evolution of James P. Cannon, Trotsky's most important cothinker in the US. Based on extensive research, with detailed references to original documents and programmatic statements from the archives of the Trotskyist movement..