Trotskyism in the United States

George Breitman (1916 - 1986) was one of the leaders of the US Trotskyists: branch organizer, editor of the weekly Militant, member of the Socialist Workers Party's National Committee, acclaimed analyst of the ideas of Malcolm X, and editor of a multivolume collection of Leon Trostsky's writings. Paul Le Blanc is professor of history at La Roche College and the author or editor of many books on the labor movement, including Black Liberation and the American Dream, A Short History of the U.S. Working Class, U.S. Labor in the Twentieth Century, Rosa Luxemburg: Reflections and Writings, From Marx to Gramsci, andLenin and the Revolutionary Party. For many years he was the consulting editor for Humanity Books' Revolutionary Studies series. Alan Wald is H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He has been active on the Left since the 1960s and is author of several books, including The New York Intellectuals, The Responsibility of Intellectuals, and Writing from the Left.

Trotskyism in the United States: The First Fifty Years; The Liberating Influence of the Transitional Program: Three Talks; George Novack, 1905-92: Meaning a Life; Leninism in the United States and the Decline of American Trotskyism; From the Old Left to the New Left and Beyond: The Legacy of Prospects for Socialism in the United States; The End of "American Trotskyism"? Problems in History and Theory; Index.

"Contemporary American radicals have much to learn from this book. In a set of spirited, insightful essays, Paul Le Blanc and Alan Wald ably defend the tradition of American Trotskyism even as they make clear their rejection of much that went by the name