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. Click here to download pdf of the whole text. 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...