Leon Trotsky

Trotsky's Last Letter to the Russian Workers

Greetings to the Soviet workers, collective farmers, soldiers of the Red Army and sailors of the Red Navy! Greetings from distant Mexico where I found refuge after the Stalinist clique had exiled me to Turkey and after the bourgeoisie had hounded me from country to country! Dear Comrades! The lying Stalinist press has been maliciously deceiving you for a long time on all questions, including those which relate to myself and my political co-thinkers. You possess no workers’ press; you read only the press of the bureaucracy, which lies systematically so as to keep you in darkness and thus render...

Last Letter to the Russian Workers

Greetings to the Soviet workers, collective farmers, soldiers of the Red Army and sailors of the Red Navy! Greetings from distant Mexico where I found refuge after the Stalinist clique had exiled me to Turkey and after the bourgeoisie had hounded me from country to country! Dear Comrades! The lying Stalinist press has been maliciously deceiving you for a long time on all questions, including those which relate to myself and my political co-thinkers. You possess no workers’ press; you read only the press of the bureaucracy, which lies systematically so as to keep you in darkness and thus render...

Last Letter to the Russian Workers

Greetings to the Soviet workers, collective farmers, soldiers of the Red Army and sailors of the Red Navy! Greetings from distant Mexico where I found refuge after the Stalinist clique had exiled me to Turkey and after the bourgeoisie had hounded me from country to country! Dear Comrades! The lying Stalinist press has been maliciously deceiving you for a long time on all questions, including those which relate to myself and my political co-thinkers. You possess no workers’ press; you read only the press of the bureaucracy, which lies systematically so as to keep you in darkness and thus render...

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Letters and debate Trotsky was no Zinovieite (Mark Osborne) Are the Serbs of Bosnia and Croatia just "ethnic groups"? (Ernie Haberkern) Room for debate (Ted Crawford) Early third camp (Lauren Otters) Download PDF

Czech Imperialism and the National Question in Central Europe (1938)

Between the two imperialists world wars the Marxists considered Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Poland to be imperialist powers, because in these three states there were oppressed national minorities – Croats, Kosovars and others in Yugoslavia, Slovakians and Sudeten ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia, Ukrainians in Poland. If it could be taken apart from the entire context which in fact it had, and if German imperialism had not been German imperialism, Hitler's claim to the Sudetenland, where the majority wanted to unite with Germany, would have been more or less reasonable. In reality it was...

The politics of Victor Serge

Cathy Nugent reviews "The Serge-Trotsky Papers, Correspondence and other writings, between Serge and Trotsky." Download PDF

IS and Ireland, Czechoslovakia, and the national question (Easter Conference, 1969)

Introduction (2014) The following text, part of the discussion on Ireland in IS (now called SWP) in 1968–69, attempted to expound the basic Marxist principles on national questions, as the Trotskyist Tendency (forerunner of AWL) understood them. It was moved at the Easter 1969 conference of the organisation. The previous August, the Russians and the armies of their satellite states had invaded Czechoslovakia to suppress the liberal Stalinist regime there. For forgotten reasons, our resolution took the form of an amendment to a resolution from the Glasgow branch. The Trotskyist Tendency, like...

How to give the sack (1968)

Now I know that we have no disreputable working class readers, the sort of people who would do grievous wrong to the humane sensibilities of their employer by forcing him to dismiss them. Of course not. Readers therefore will be inclined to view sympathetically the problems, pressures and 'emotional stresses' which face the average Personel Manager, whose job, naturally, includes regular chopping sessions with an industrial hatchet. The problem is that some workers, at various levels, actually resent being sacked and create a fuss. And that's not all: 'Of all the problems an executive is...

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