Workers' Liberty 3/30: The 1939-40 split in the Fourth International

In 1940 the Trotskyist movement split over attitudes to Stalinism. The participation and victory of Stalin's USSR in World War 2 as an imperialist power would make that split a fundamental political dividing-point.

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• Introduction: many Trotskyisms
• Max Shachtman's speech on the Russian Question at the New York membership meeting of the US Trotskyist movement, October 1939
  • Part 1: the dispute in the party
  • Part 2: Russian imperialism
  • Part 3: the bureaucratic conservatism of the Cannon majority
• "Trotsky and his critics": a later discussion of the issues by Max Shachtman
• Remember Leon Trotsky!
• Chronology