Committee for a workers' International

Leon Trotsky's living legacy

Review of "The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky", published in the latest issue of Socialism Today

Socialism: Past or future?

Review of ‘PostCapitalism: a guide to our future’ by Paul Mason

Trotsky: The first year of war

Article by LEON TROTSKY translated into English for first time

Eric Hobsbawm: Left-wing historian and author of ‘How To Change The World' dies

Aged 95, Hobsbawm still participated in the debate about the alternative to capitalism

Book review: Leon Trotsky - A revolutionary's life

Joshua Rubenstein’s contradictory biography

Socialist History: 100th anniversary of division between Lenin's Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks

100 years ago, on July 30 1903, the second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party began in Brussels. This congress saw the historic division between the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.

Theory: 50 years since the death of Stalin 2

Reactionary epochs like ours not only disintegrate and weaken the working class and isolate its vanguard but also lower the general ideological level of the movement and throw political thinking back to stages long since passed through. In these conditions the task of the vanguard is, above all, not to let itself be...

Trotsky: Trotsky's relevance today

SIXTY YEARS AGO this August, Stalin’s hit man, Raymond Mercader, murdered the greatest living revolutionary of that time, Leon Trotsky. It was not just the Trotskyists who felt the terrible blow of his death but the working class and labour movement of the whole world. This brain - in a sense, the brain of the...

Trotsky: Index

To commemorate the contribution of Leon Trotsky in building the workers’ movement internationally, we print here three articles which look at different aspects of his political work. Their publication mark the sixtieth anniversary of the murder of Leon Trotsky by an assassin hired by Stalin in Mexico in August...

Theory: What is socialism?

Socialism in the 21st century by Hannah Sell

FOR 300 years or so of its existence, capitalism has transformed the planet over and over again. Rail, electricity, the internal combustion engine, flight, space...

Theory: 50 years since the death of Stalin 1

The death of Joseph Stalin, took place half a century ago this month. However the anniversary has been largely covered in a superficial manner in the international media. Although the press has spent much time recording the terrible crimes of Stalinism and providing psychological profiles of the absolute ruler, little...

History: 120th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx

On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in his armchair, peacefully gone to sleep -- but for ever.