One of the good things about Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution is that along with the clash of hostile class forces in that revolution it presents the disputes and struggles that took place inside the monarchy, the bourgeoisie, the petty bourgeoisie, and the proletariat, and the parties that spoke or tried...
Trotsky’s Struggle for the Fourth International
All of Leon Trotsky's basic teachings are concentrated in the major task of his lifetime's activity--the building of the Fourth International. For an entire decade--1923-1933--he struggled to reform the Third International, which he had founded together with Lenin. When Stalinism paved the way for Hitler's assumption of power in Germany;...
How the Fourth International was Conceived
Our movement has the right to consider itself the representative and the historical standard bearer of revolutionary socialism. It is at the end of a chain whose links were the Communist League of Marx and Engels, the International Working Men's Association (First International), the Second International, the Bolshevik Party of...
Revolutionaries & Imperialist War
This war in Ukraine is going to reverberate for years. It’s an event of world historical significance, which has disoriented people and is realigning political forces in strange ways. Let us start from first principles. So what is our first principle? It might not come as a great surprise to...