David North (socialist)

David North (born 1950) is an American Trotskyist. He is the national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States (SEP), formerly the Workers League. He served as the national secretary of the SEP until the party's congress in 2008. North was the principal political and theoretical leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International during the organization's split with the Workers Revolutionary Party. North is also the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, the voice of the ICFI. He is also an author of several books and articles on the history of the Socialist movement. He delivers lectures in politics and the history of Marxism.

Books

• Trotskyism versus Stalinism (1987) ISBN 0-929087-20-8
• The Heritage We Defend (1988) ISBN 0-929087-00-3, 539pp., a history of the 4th International (online)
• Perestroika versus Socialism: Stalinism and the Restoration of Capitalism in the USSR (1989) ISBN 0-929087-39-9
• Gerry Healy and His Place in the History of the Fourth International (1991) ISBN 978-0-929087-58-0, a critical assessment of the political career of Gerry Healy, longtime leader of the Fourth International
• The Crisis of American Democracy (2004) ISBN 1-875639-36-5, lectures delivered at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, an analysis of the 2000 and 2004 US presidential elections
• Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness (2007) ISBN 1-893638-03-0
• Leon Trotsky & the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification (2007) ISBN 978-1-893638-02-0
• In Defence of Leon Trotsky (2010) ISBN 978-1-893638-05-1
• The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished 20th Century (2014) ISBN 978-1-893638-40-2
• The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left: A Marxist Critique (2015) ISBN 978-1-893638-50-1
• A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony 1990 - 2016 (2016) ISBN 978-1-893638-69-3

Lectures and other pamphlets

• The USSR And Socialism: The Trotskyist Perspective (1989) ISBN 0-929087-45-3
• Ten Years After The Split In The Workers Revolutionary Party: The WRP's Commemoration Of Healy's Expulsion (1995) ISBN 1-873045-02-6
• In Defense of the Russian Revolution: A Reply to the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification (1995) ISBN 978-0-929087-72-6
• Socialism, Historical Truth and the Crisis of Political Thought in the United States (1996) ISBN 978-0-929087-73-3
• Workers League and the Founding of the Socialist Equality Party (1996) ISBN 978-0-929087-74-0
• Equality, the Rights of Man and the Birth of Socialism (1996) ISBN 1-873045-32-8
• Anti-Semitism, Fascism and the Holocaust: A critical review of Daniel Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners" (1997) ISBN 978-0-929087-75-7
• A Tribute to Tom Henehan: 1951 to 1977 (1998) ISBN 978-0-929087-78-8
• Ernest Mandel 1923-1995: A Critical Assessment of His Role in the History of the Fourth International (1997) ISBN 1-875639-14-4
• Marxism and the Trade Unions (1998) ISBN 1-875639-29-2
• Leon Trotsky and Fate of Socialism in 20th Century: A Reply to Professor Eric Hobsbawm (1998) ISBN 1-875639-22-5
• Reform and Revolution in the Epoch of Imperialism (1998) ISBN 1-875639-28-4
• After the Slaughter: Political Lessons of the Balkan War (1999) ISBN 1-875639-35-7
• A Tribute to Vadim Rogovin (1999) ISBN 978-0-929087-50-4
• The Economic Crisis & the Return of History (2011) ISBN 978-1-893638-14-3