Trotskyist International 26

International Left Opposition, 1928-33; forging an international leadership

Thu, 01/07/1999 - 18:54

Battered but unbroken by his fight inside the USSR with Stalin, Trotsky began his foreign exile in 1929 by creating an international opposition (ILO). Dave Stockton reveal the obstacles that had to be overcome by the ILO in building unity around political principle, a trusted international leadership and disciplined practice Read more...

US Labor Party: Has socialism a future in the USA?

Wed, 30/06/1999 - 10:59

Against a background of steep decline in the trade unions in the United States, the formation and growth of the US Labor Party is a sign that militancy and class consciousness persist in the vanguard of the working class. Marco Zucci argues that if big business is to get a real fright then a major shake-up of the nature and direction of the fledgling party is needed Read more...

An ongoing history: the LRCI ten years on

Wed, 30/06/1999 - 10:59

The LRCI was founded ten years ago. Richard Brenner draws a balance sheet of our fight for a re-elaborated Trotskyist programme and a new democratic centralist international Read more...

Fraccion Trotskista: failing to break with centrism

Wed, 30/06/1999 - 10:59

Four years of discussions between the LRCI and the Latin American based Fraccion Trotskista have failed to produce revolutionary unity. Keith Harvey sums up the lessons and explains the principled basis for international left regroupment Read more...

Trotsky's critics: recycled rubbish

Wed, 30/06/1999 - 10:59

In late 1998, Resistance Books published Trotsky's theory of Permanent Revolution, A Leninist critique. The book's author, Democratic Socialist Party veteran Doug Lorimer, claims to subject Trotsky's writing to a "sustained critique" and show that "Trotsky's theory is wrong on the fundamental questions" of revolution in colonial and semi colonial countries. In fact most of the arguments in this self proclaimed "pioneering essay" were pioneered by Stalin and his apologists in the 1920s, as they conducted their campaign against Trotsky's 'original sin', the theory of Permanent Revolution. The DSP has again recycled these Stalinist arguments, supplemented by a few of their own, to distort and discredit the views of Trotsky and Trotskyism. Read more...

Hitler 1889-1936: hubris

Tue, 29/06/1999 - 22:00

It is a fair bet that Hitler would be on most people’s top ten list of twentieth century figures who were “mad, bad and dangerous to know”. Kershaw’s excellent first volume of Hitler’s life tells us why they’d be right. Read more...