History
Chapter 7 - The struggle against Fascism
Sun, 05/03/2000 - 17:59Fascism has spattered the blood of millions across the pages of twentieth century history. In Germany, between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party set up the most savage and murderous dictatorship ever known. Read more...
Chapter 8 - The Fourth International
Sun, 05/03/2000 - 17:59In 1923 Trotsky first raised the banner of revolt against Stalin. For the next 10 years he fought to rouse the Communist workers of the world in a fight for the complete reform of the Communist International (Comintern): the removal of the Stalin leadership and a return to the path of world revolution. Read more...
Chapter 9 - The transitional programme
Sun, 05/03/2000 - 17:59Amidst all the struggles of the 1930s, Trotsky never lost sight of the most important condition for establishing a new International: Read more...
Chapter 10 - Life is beautiful
Sun, 05/03/2000 - 17:59Exiled in Mexico, Trotsky and his wife Natalia listened helplessly as the reports came of daily atrocities and murders by the Stalin regime in the USSR: Read more...
Labour's racist record
Fri, 03/12/1999 - 18:22In mid-November the Asylum and Immigration Act 1999 became law. Its provisions mean hardship, social isolation and effective criminalisation for asylum seekers. Linda Miller and Kate Foster explain that support for racist legislation is nothing new, either from the Labour Party or Britain’s trade union movement. Read more...
1929: the Wall Street crash
Sun, 24/10/1999 - 18:26Bill Jenkins remembers the Wall Street crash of 1929, seventy years ago this month, which plunged the world economy into recession, and punctured capitalism’s dreams of an endless golden future Read more...
Schools for socialism – Bolsheviks and education
Kate Foster Fri, 03/09/1999 - 22:00Kate Foster looks at education in Russia in the first years after the revolution Read more...
The Red Army: A workers’ army built from scratch
Colin Lloyd Tue, 03/08/1999 - 18:19To make a revolution we will have to smash the existing armed forces and build our own, democratic workers state. “It can’t be done”, is the response we are often met with. But it can - it was. In this article on the Red Army, built during the Russian Revolution, Colin Lloyd shows how it was done, and how, against the odds, the armed power of the working class defeated a powerful counter-revolution Read more...
International Left Opposition, 1928-33; forging an international leadership
Thu, 01/07/1999 - 18:54Battered 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...
An ongoing history: the LRCI ten years on
Wed, 30/06/1999 - 10:59The 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...
