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The Trotskyist publisher of the International Committee of the Fourth International and the Socialist Equality Party (formerly the Workers League), named after Franz Mehring. It grew out of Labor Publications, founded in 1970, and has traded as Mehring Books since 1995 or 1998. It publishes the writings of Leon Trotsky and other anti-Stalinist socialists — many in English for the first time — alongside works on the history of the socialist movement, the arts, economics and philosophy, with distribution in the United States, Canada, Australia and Britain.

Years
1970–present
Location
Oak Park, Michigan, United States
Name history
  1. 1970–? Labor Publications
  2. 1995–present Mehring Books — 1995 or 1998 — the exact year is unconfirmed
Also known as
Labor Publications
Affiliation
Publishing arm of the World Socialist Web Site, the International Committee of the Fourth International and the Socialist Equality Party
Languages
English
Website
https://mehring.com/
Authority records
Wikidata
Sources
Mehring Books — About; Mehring Books — Labor Publications

Backlist

60197019801990200020102020Founded 19701970: 1 title1971: 6 titles1972: 4 titles1973: 2 titles1974: 2 titles1975: 3 titles1976: 1 title1977: 3 titles1978: 3 titles1980: 1 title1981: 1 title1983: 1 title1985: 3 titles1986: 1 title1987: 5 titles1988: 1 title1989: 4 titles1990: 5 titles1991: 3 titles1992: 1 title1993: 2 titles1994: 1 title1995: 2 titles1998: 3 titles2007: 3 titles2008: 1 title2009: 1 title2010: 1 title2012: 2 titles2013: 2 titles2014: 1 title2015: 1 title2016: 1 title2017: 1 title2019: 1 title2021: 2 titles2022: 1 title
Titles of Mehring Books by year: 77 dated titles, 1970–2022, most in 1971 (6); 1 undated. Lines mark founded 1970.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1970s25
1980s17
1990s17
2000s5
2010s10
2020s3
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1970Black Nationalism & Marxist Theory✓
Bulletin Pamphlet Series -- 1
Tim WohlforthEnglish
1971Ernest Mandel✓ — The Fraud of Neo-capitalism
Bulletin Pamphlet Series -- 7
Dennis O'CaseyEnglish
1971Marxism & American Pragmatism✓
Bulletin Pamphlet Series -- 4
Tim WohlforthEnglish
1971Questions Facing Progressive Labor✓ — Including Suppressed Discussion of Trotsky
Bulletin Pamphlet Series -- 5
Lucy St. JohnEnglish
1971Stalinism & Trotskyism in the USA✓
Bulletin: Pamphlet Series - [Workers League]; 3
Fred MuellerEnglish
1971Steel✓ — Lessons of the Past, Program for Today
Bulletin Labor Series -- 1
Dan FriedEnglish
1971The Struggle for Marxism in the United States✓ — A History of American Trotskyism
A Bulletin Book
Tim WohlforthEnglish
1972SWP, Reform or Revolution?✓ — An Assessment of the Socialist Workers Party
Bulletin Pamphlet Series -- 13
Fred MuellerEnglish
1972The Case for a Labor Party✓ — Statement of the Workers League
Bulletin Labor Series -- 4
Workers League (U.S.)English
1972The Liberal Philosophy of George Novack✓
Bulletin Pamphlet Series -- 11
Alex SteinerEnglish
1972Towards a History of the Fourth International✓
Bulletin Pamphlet Series -- 10
Lucy St. John & Tim WohlforthEnglish
1973The Platform of the Joint Opposition (1927)✓Bolśheviki-Lenintsy (Oppozitsiia) & Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo soiuza. SʺezdEnglish
1973The YSA✓ — How It Began
Young Socialist Pamphlet Series -- No. [1]
Guy WilliamsEnglish
1974Heroes of the American Labor Movement✓Young Socialists (Great Britain)English
1974Trotsky's Writings on Britain✓Lev Davidovič TrockijEnglish
1975Absolutism and Revolution in Germany✓ — 1525-1848Franz MehringGerman
1975On historical materialism✓FreeFranz MehringGerman
1975Security and the Fourth International✓Fourth InternationalEnglish
1976The Case for a Commission of Inquiry✓Fourth InternationalEnglish
1977I Stake My Life✓FreeLev Davidovič TrockijEnglish
1977Security at Coyoacan✓ — An Eyewitness Demolishes a 37 Year Long Coverup: Security and the Fourth InternationalHarold RobinsEnglish
1977Trotsky's Assassin at Large✓Fourth InternationalEnglish
1978An Interview with Vanessa Redgrave✓Vanessa RedgraveEnglish
1978Manifesto✓ — 40th Anniversary of the Fourth InternationalFourth International. International CommitteeEnglish
1978The Murder of Comrade Tom Henehan✓ — Martyr of the Fourth InternationalFourth International. International CommitteeEnglish
1980The Life and Death of Tom Henehan✓ — March 16, 1951-October 16, 1977: Martyr of the Fourth International
Young Socialist Pamphlet
—English
1981The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International✓ — The Mobilization of the Masses Around Transitional Demands to Prepare the Conquest of Power: The Transitional ProgramLeon Trotsky & Fourth International. Founding Conference, 1938English
1983The Gelfand Case✓ — Barnes Still Defends Sylvia FranklinDavid NorthEnglish
1985The Gelfand Case✓ — A Legal History of the Exposure of U.S. Government Agents in the Leadership of the Socialist Workers Party—English
1985Vietnam & the World Revolution✓ — A Trotskyist AnalysisMartin McLaughlinEnglish
1985Vietnam and the World Revolution✓ — A Trotskyist AnalysisMartin McLaughlinEnglish
1986The Case Against the SWP✓ — What the Facts ShowDavid NorthEnglish
1987A Tribute to Harold Robins, Captain of Trotsky's Guard, 1908-1987✓David NorthEnglish
1987Down with Namphy Junta!✓ — US Hands off Haiti!Bill VannEnglish
1987No to Stalinism and the Popular Front!✓ — Build the Fourth International!Fourth International. International CommitteeEnglish
1987The SWP and the South African Revolution✓
Bulletin Pamphlet
Bill VannEnglish
1987Trotskyism vs. Stalinism✓ — A SpeechDavid NorthEnglish
1988The Heritage We Defend✓ — A Contribution to the History of the Fourth InternationalDavid NorthEnglish
1989Fight for International Socialism✓ — Call from Workers League Regional ConferenceDavid North, James Dennis & Workers League (U.S.) Regional Conference (1989 Detroit)English
1989Perestroika Versus Socialism✓ — Stalinism and the Restoration of Capitalism in the USSRDavid NorthEnglish
1989The Crisis Facing Labor and the Fight for Socialist Policies✓ — Workers League Political Committee Statement, March 2, 1989Workers League (U.S.). Political CommitteeEnglish
1989The Labor Party and the Strategy for Power✓Workers League (U.S.)English
1990Death on the Picket Line✓ — The Story of John McCoyJerry WhiteEnglish
1990Imperialism and the Persian Gulf Crisis✓ — Statements of the Workers League—English
1990The Revolutionary Perspective and the Struggle Against Opportunism in the Fourth International✓David NorthEnglish
1990The USSR and Socialism✓ — The Trotskyist PerspectiveDavid NorthEnglish
1990Trotskyism Vindicated✓ — The Fight for Socialism Today / David NorthDavid North & Workers League (U.S.)English
1991After the August Putsch✓ — Where Is the USSR Going?David North & Fourth International. International CommitteeEnglish
1991Desert Slaughter✓ — The Imperialist War Against IraqMartin McLaughlinEnglish
1991Oppose Imperialist War and Colonialism!✓ — Manifesto of the International Committee of the Fourth InternationalFourth International. International CommitteeEnglish
1992The End of the USSR✓David NorthEnglish
1993The Case of Roger Cawthra✓ — Anatomy of a Labor Frame-upBill VannEnglish
1993The Globalization of Capitalist Production & the International Tasks of the Working Class✓ — Perspectives Resolution of the Workers LeagueWorkers LeagueEnglish
1994Marxism, Opportunism & the Balkan Crisis✓ — Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth InternationalFourth International. International CommitteeEnglish
1995Back in Time✓ — My Life, My Fate, My Epoch: The Memoirs of Nadezhda a. JoffeNadezhda IoffeEnglish
1995Was There an Alternative to Stalinism in the USSR?✓ — Two EssaysV. Z. RogovinEnglish
19981937✓ — Stalin's Year of TerrorVadim Zakharovich RogovinEnglish
1998Art as the Cognition of Life✓ — Selected Writings, 1911-1936Aleksandr Konstantinovich VoronskiĭEnglish
1998Stalinism in Eastern Europe✓ — The Rise and Fall of the GDR; This Lecture Was Delivered on January 6, 1998, to the International Summer School on Marxism and the Fundamental Problems of the 20th Century, Organised by the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) in Sydney, from January 3 - 10, 1998Peter SchwarzEnglish
2007Leon Trotsky & the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification✓David NorthEnglish
2007Leon Trotsky and the Post-soviet School of Historical Falsification: A Review of Two Biographies of Trotsky by Geoffrey Swain and Ian ThatcherDavid NorthEnglish
2007Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness✓David NorthEnglish
2008The Historical & International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party✓—English
2009Stalin's Terror of 1937-1938✓ — Political Genocide in the USSRVadim Zakharovich RogovinEnglish
2010In Defense of Leon Trotsky✓David NorthEnglish
2012The Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR (1920s and 1930s)✓I. IAkhotEnglish
2012The Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR (the 1920s & 1930s)✓Ovšij Ovšievič JachotEnglish
2013In Defense of Leon Trotsky✓David NorthEnglish
2013The Sky Between the Leaves✓ — Film Reviews, Essays & Interviews, 1992-2012David WalshEnglish
2014The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century✓(1950), David NorthEnglish
2015The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left✓ — A Marxist CritiqueDavid NorthEnglish
2016A Quarter Century of War✓ — The US Drive for Global Hegemony 1990-2016David NorthEnglish
2017Why Study the Russian Revolution?✓ — Centennial Lectures of the International Committee of the Fourth InternationalFourth InternationalEnglish
2019Bolsheviks Against Stalinism (1928/1933)✓
Was There an Alternative?
Vadim Zakharovich RogovinEnglish
2021The New York Times' 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History✓ — Essays and InterviewsDavid North & Thomas MackamanEnglish
2021Was There an Alternative? 1923-1927✓ — Trotskyism: A Look Back Through the Years
Was There an Alternative?; Volume 1
Vadim Zacharovič RogovinEnglish
2022COVID, Capitalism, and Class War✓ — A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic: Volume 1, 2020Evan BlakeEnglish
n.d.The Crisis of American Democracy — The Presidential Elections of 2000 and 2004David NorthEnglish