Workers' Liberty 3/8: The other history of American Trotskyism
What is the role of a revolutionary organisation?
Submitted on 18 June, 2007 - 16:15
By Max Shachtman
It is an axiom by now that the defeats and setbacks suffered by the working class throughout the world [in the Twentieth Century] have been due not to the vigour and stability of the exisiting social order, but to the absence or immaturity of the conscious revolutionary vanguard.
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L’autre histoire du trotskisme américain
Submitted on 20 April, 2007 - 07:09
Workers' Liberty Numéro 3/8
L’autre histoire du trotskisme américain
(Introduction du numéro 3/8 de novembre 2006 de la revue Workers’ Liberty qui reproduit quatre textes de Max Shachtman : Quel est le rôle de l’organisation révolutionnaire ? paru dans New International d’Avril 1945, Vingt ans du trotskisme américain et La fondation du Workers’ Party, parus dans New International de janvier - février 1954, L’accusation de Natalia Trotsky contre la Quatrième Internationale de Cannon de 1951. Ce numéro reproduit aussi la lettre de rupture de Natalia Sedova Trotsky du 9 mai 1951 adressée au comité exécutif de la QI et au comité politique du SWP.)
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Natalia Sedova Trotsky's Break with the Fourth International
Submitted on 11 February, 2007 - 11:51
To the Executive Committee of the Fourth International and the Political Committee of the Socialist Workers Party (USA)
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Workers' Liberty 3/8: the other history of American Trotskyism
Submitted on 25 November, 2006 - 13:13In this mythic tale Shachtman played the role of the bad angel, Lucifer, the once-luminous lieutenant who rose in revolt against Trotsky, and against “the programme of the Fourth International”; and who was driven out of the ‘official’ Trotskyist movement to live a life of apostasy, sin, renegacy. Cannon was cast as the faithful Archangel, the Gabriel of Trotskyism, the incorruptible warrior for Trotsky and the working-class, the paragon of loyalty to "The Programme of the Fourth International."
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The other history of American Trotskyism
Submitted on 4 November, 2006 - 17:05
Cassius: Stoop then, and wash. How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states yet unborn and in accents yet unknown.
Julius Caesar
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Twenty Five Years of American Trotskyism
Submitted on 4 November, 2006 - 17:01
It is now twenty-five years since the Trotskyist movement was launched in the United States under circumstances which had already ceased to be unusual for that movement. The date was 27 October 1928.
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The founding of the Workers’ Party
Submitted on 4 November, 2006 - 16:43
By Max Shachtman
The Workers Party was organised as a result of the factional struggle that broke out in the American Trotskyist movement (the Socialist Workers Party and its youth organisation) when the Second World War began, and ended in a split. Those who founded the new party had reason to be confident.
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Natalia Trotsky’s indictment of Cannon’s Fourth International
Submitted on 4 November, 2006 - 16:42
By Max Shachtman
The letter of Natalia Sedova Trotsky, in which she breaks off relations with the Fourth International and with the Socialist Workers Party, is a document of outstanding political importance.
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