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Authors: Tony Saunois, Judy Beishon, TU Senan, Hannah Sell, Niall Mulholland, Philip Stott, Sascha Staničić, Clare Doyle, Peter Taaffe, Robert Bechert
Published: 2020 (2024 reprint)
Pages: 192
Format: Softcover
This new collection of in-depth articles examines the key ideas of a great socialist revolutionary on the eightieth anniversary of his assassination by an agent of Joseph Stalin. The articles were written by leading members of the Committee for a Workers International, which links together revolutionary socialists around the world.
Trotsky was an inspiring revolutionary Marxist thinker and heroic fighter against capitalism, fascism and Stalinism. Along with Lenin, Trotsky was a pivotal figure in the 1917 Russian Revolution, and leader of the victorious Red Army in the struggle against tsarist and imperialist counter-revolution. Trotsky went on to play a central role in the first years of the young workers’ state in Russia, and in the Communist (Third) International before its Stalinist degeneration.
This book examines Trotsky’s role in the October 1917 Russian Revolution; his theory of ‘permanent revolution’; views on the revolutionary party; Stalinism; the national question; fascism; trade unions; and the Marxist ‘Transitional Programme’. A final essay looks at Trotsky’s herculean efforts to build the Fourth International in the 1930s as World War Two loomed.
This book is a must-read for workers and youth who want to find out about Trotskyism, and the relevance of Marxist ideas today – revolutionary ideas that are invaluable in the struggle to build the socialist forces necessary to end the misery and chaos of capitalism.
