David North

David North (born 1950 ) is an American Trotskyist and editor-in-chief of the World Socialist Web Site .

North studied history at the University of Connecticut . From 1976 he was national secretary of the Workers League and later the Socialist Equality Party (SEP). Since August 2008 he has been its national chairman. He lives in Detroit.

When North sent nine questions to the Trotsky biographer Robert Service in 2014 because he had been invited by Jörg Baberowski to a doctoral seminar in Berlin , Baberowski rejected the questions at Service's request, which sparked the ongoing controversy surrounding Baberowski.

Works (selection)

• The Heritage We Defend: A Contribution to the History of the 4th International . Arbeiterpresse-Verlag, Essen, 1988. ISBN 3-88634-051-1
• Gerry Healy and His Place in the History of the Fourth International . Arbeiterpresse-Verlag, Essen, 1992. ISBN 3-88634-055-4
• America's Democracy in Crisis: the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Elections . Arbeiterpresse-Verlag, Essen, 2005. ISBN 3-88634-084-8
• Hegel, Marx, Engels and the origins of Marxism . Arbeiterpresse-Verlag, Essen, 2007. ISBN 978-3-88634-104-7
• Defense of Leon Trotsky . Mehring-Verlag, Essen, 2010. ISBN 978-3-88634-085-9 (2nd expanded edition 2016)
• The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century . Mehring-Verlag, Essen, 2015. ISBN 978-3-88634-132-0
• The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo Left . Mehring-Verlag, Essen, 2016. ISBN 978-3-88634-134-4

Web links

• Literature by and about David North in the catalog of the German National Library
• "Marxism, History and Socialist Consciousness" article from August 2007
• "Leon Trotsky and the Defense of Historical Truth" Lecture in Leipzig 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview in Neues Deutschland, January 3, 2018.
2. ↑ Martin Beglinger and Peer Teuwsen, Let's get the opinion police! What the attacks against the Berlin historian Jörg Baberowski say about the state of a polarized society , in: NZZ June 24, 2016.