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The Prometheus Research Library is a working research facility for a wide range of Marxist studies and also the central reference archive of the Spartacist League of the U.S., section of the ICL.


Box 185, Canal Street Sta., New York, NY 10013
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Books from the Prometheus Research Library


Dog Days

Dog Days: James P. Cannon vs. Max Shachtman in the Communist League of America, 1931-1933


Documents and letters about an intense factional struggle which rent the American Trotskyist organization in the early 1930s. 118 documents including letters by Trotsky on international issues, some published here for the first time. Extensive introduction and explanatory notes, glossary, index, 16 pages of historical photographs and graphics, some previously unavailable or never before published. 752 pages; smyth-sewn binding in paper and cloth. (2002)

Cloth: ISBN 0-9633828-7-X $30.00
Paper: ISBN 0-9633828-8-8 $19.95
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James P. Cannon and the Early Years of American Communism: Selected Writings and Speeches, 1920-1928


This volume of Cannon's writings covers the period when he was one of the principal leaders of the American section of the Communist International. Extensive introduction and explanatory notes, bibliography, glossary, index, 16 pages of rare photographs. 624 pages; smyth-sewn binding. (1992)

Paper: ISBN 0-9633828-1-0 $14.50
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James P. Cannon and the Early Years of American Communism

The Communist International After Lenin

The Communist International After Lenin


First Russian-language edition. By Leon Trotsky. Includes Trotsky's Critique of the 1928 draft program of the Communist International. 309 pages. (1993)

Cloth: ISBN 5-900696-01-4 $12.00
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Prometheus Research Series 1

No. 1: Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of Their Work


Complete and accurate English translation of 1921 Comintern Resolution from final German text.
(August 1988)
94 pages ISBN 0-9633828-3-7 $6.00


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No. 2: Documents on the "Proletarian Military Policy"


Includes materials from the Trotskyist movement in the U.S. and Europe during World War II. (February 1989)
102 pages ISBN 0-9633828-4-5 $9.00


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Prometheus Research Series 3

No. 3: In Memoriam, Richard S. Fraser: An Appreciation and Selection of His Work


A selection of the writings of comrade Richard S. Fraser (1913-1988), who pioneered the Trotskyist understanding of black oppression in the United States.
(August 1990)
110 pages ISBN 0-9633828-5-3 $7.00


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No. 4: Yugoslavia, East Europe and the Fourth International: The Evolution of Pabloist Liquidationism


By Jan Norden. Covers the internal discussion within the Fourth International over its flawed response to the Yugoslav Revolution and 1948 Tito-Stalin split.
(March 1993)
70 pages ISBN 0-9633828-2-9 $7.00


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Prometheus Research Series 5

No. 5: Marxist Politics or Unprincipled Combinationism? Internal Problems of the Workers Party


Max Shachtman's document from the 1936 internal bulletin of the Workers Party of the U.S. Includes introduction and glossary by PRL and appendices.
(September 2000)
88 pages ISBN 0-9633828-6-1 $7.00


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No. 6: Selected Speeches and Writings in Honor of Three Women Leaders of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist): Martha Phillips, Susan Adams, Elizabeth King Robertson


(March 2007)
96 pages ISBN 0-9633828-9-6 US$7 €6 £4 Rand7 A$10 Cdn$8

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Prometheus Research Series 4

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