[8][9] During his professional career, he was also CEO of the Metro Detroit-based Grand River Printing and Imaging Inc., winning the "Best Places to Work" award from Crain's Detroit Business magazine in 2003.

In May 1972, North wrote "Where Wallace Really Stands," a detailed exposure of the racist Alabama governor who was seeking the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

[18] Jorge O'Leary, the leader of the Phelps Dodge miners struggle, stated in a 2021 interview: "The Bulletin, through Dave North, gave us a lot of information for our benefit.

In 1975, North located and photographed Mark Zbrowski, former agent of NKVD, who acted as a mole within the Trotskyist movement, as part of the investigation.

[24] In May 1986 North co-authored an analysis of the split, "How the Workers Revolutionary Party Betrayed Trotskyism," with Keerthi Balasuriya, the national secretary of the Sri Lankan section of the ICFI.

In 1986-87 North wrote The Heritage We Defend, which placed the split with the WRP in the context of the history of the Fourth International, and, in particular, the Trotskyist movement's opposition to opportunism.

"[28] In 1995, North called for the national sections of the ICFI to transform themselves from leagues into parties, anticipating a "new and protracted era of international capitalist disequilibrium.

In January 2020, he co-authored a statement with SEP (US) national secretary Joseph Kishore that argued that the 2020s would be a "decade of intensifying class struggle and world socialist revolution.

"[36] North has defended the view that Trotsky represented a Marxist alternative to Stalinism, and therefore states that the collapse of the USSR does not mean that Marxism is a failed project.

"[5] Speaking about the 2016 United States presidential election, North told Neues Deutschland that Donald Trump "embodies a cross between all the criminal and immoral features and machinations of the real estate, finance, gambling and entertainment industries".

[2] Interviewed by journalist Chris Hedges in 2018, North stated that while middle class groups promoted identity politics as a response to social tensions and poverty, American workers were not racist and "have a deep belief in democratic rights".

"[39] North has also written that a "new and powerful mass international movement, based on a socialist program, and strategically guided by the principles of revolutionary class struggle," is the only way "war is to be stopped and a global catastrophe averted.

In his 2015 book, The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left, North writes,"during the past decade, the connection has become much clearer between the reactionary pseudo-left politics of the middle class and the theories of Nietzsche, Brzozowski, Sorel, De Man, the Frankfurt School and the many forms of extreme philosophical subjectivism and irrationalism propagated by postmodernists (Foucault, Laclau, Badiou et al.).

Pseudo-left politics – centered on race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, and sexual preference – has come to play a critical role in suppressing opposition to capitalism, by rejecting class as the essential social category and emphasizing instead personal 'identity' and 'lifestyle,' and by legitimizing imperialist interventions and wars in the name of 'human rights.

[43]" North further elaborated his position writing, "In direct contrast to the overwhelming mass of literature now being produced on the situation in the USSR, this book maintains that the policies of Gorbachev signify neither a break with Stalinism nor a new flowering of Soviet democracy.