Trotskyism

10 December 1930 As part of our series of short archive posts we reproduce this letter by Leon Trotsky to Max Shachtman clarifying his stance over the so-called tactic whereby China’s unconsolidated fledgling Communist Party (CCP) was dissolved into...

The ideas of Leon Trotsky, and Trotskyism, have been much maligned and distorted through history. But who was Leon Trotsky, what is Trotskyism, and what is the relevance for the struggles we face today in the 2020s? Paul Hunt, Socialist Alternative ...

Trotsky’s analysis and struggle against capitalism and Stalinism provides vital lessons for the class struggle today (article is a reprint from August 2010, with some minor changes) Per-Åke Westerlund, Socialist Justice Party (ISA Sweden) On Aug...

The Stalinists in Indochina learned nothing from the Chinese experience International Socialist Alternative Most histories of the struggle against French colonial rule in Vietnam reflect the Stalinist traditions of the Hanoi regime, and ignore or s...

A minority of the CWI has bureaucratically forced through an unfortunate and damaging split in the worlds largest and most influential revolutionary socialist organisation, the Committee for a Workers’ International Those who follow the CWI, in its p...

1989 massacre apologists accuse Socialist Action (CWI) and radical legislator ‘Long Hair’ of ‘violence’ Dikang, Socialist Action in Hong Kong The pro-Beijing newspaper, Ta Kung Pao, ran a front-page attack on pro-democracy legislator Leung Kwok-h...