Trotskyism

Trotskyism

• To win, the labour movement still needs the ideas of Leon Trotsky

  

  Vladimir Unkovski-Korica argues for the relevance of Trotsky’s notion of the united front in a review of John Kelly’s book Contemporary Trotskyism: Parties, Sects and Social Movements in Britain

• Contemporary Trotskyism - book review

  

  A valuable study of the Trotskyist tradition in Britain misses the importance of strategy in revolutionary organisation, argues Alex Snowdon

• Is France heading for another May '68?

  

  From student dissent to militant strikes and a radical alternative, the ingredients are there for mass rebellion, writes John Mullen

• Neither Washington Nor Moscow: origins and applying it today

  

  David Bush looks at what a slogan developed during World War 2 and crystallized as a position during the Cold War means for socialists in the 21st century

• Fighting fascism in the 1930s: Trotsky and the United Front - video

  

  The strategy of the united front was central to Trotsky's politics and has been used many times since to fight fascism. Katherine Connelly discusses the history, what we can learn from it, and what it means for politics today.

• Debating revolution today: Leon Trotsky in the 21st century

  

  Vladimir Unkovski-Korica looks at the legacy of Trotsky and ‘Trotskyism’ today. This is an adapted version of a speech given at Counterfire conference which took place on 3^rd and 4^th December 2016.

• Tom Watson and the strange case of Labour red baiting

  

  Lindsey German looks beyond the Labour right’s Trotsky twist and locates a deeply anti-democratic impulse    

• The fight is on - help us hit our campaign target

  

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• John Berger: the nature of mass demonstrations

  

  Demonstrations express political ambitions before the political means necessary to realise them have been created argues John Berger in this article by from May 1968

• An Impatient Life: A Memoir

  

  Daniel Bensaïd’s memoir of a life as a socialist in France provides an engaging account of a revolutionary life during the 1960s and after, finds William Booth

• The ABC of Socialism: becoming a socialist

  

  The first chapter of our recently republished book 'The ABC of Socialism' by John Rees

• The ABC of Socialism

  

  John Rees introduces a new reprint of his popular book in the preface reproduced here

• Leon Trotsky on the United Front - 1922

  Text of a speech delivered by Trotsky to French Communists during the debates in the Communist International on the question of the united front.

• Duncan Hallas: The Comintern and the united front

  Writing in 1975, revolutionary socialist Duncan Hallas stressed the need for what is often called the united front method.