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Eighty years since Leon Trotsky’s assassination

Arming a New Generation with Revolutionary Method. Lynn Walsh On 20 August, 1940, Trotsky was struck a fatal blow with an ice-pick by Ramon Mercader, an agent sent to Mexico by Stalin’s secret police, the GPU, to murder the exiled revolutionary, ...

Trotsky in Norway

In the 1930s Trotsky and his family were finding it impossible to secure safe refuge. Deported from France, refused entry into Britain, they moved to Norway. This article describes how an alliance of Stalinists, fascists and 'democrats' ensured th...

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The First Palestinian Intifada: Lessons For Today

December 29, 2025. Zuhair Al-Anhar, Socialist Alternative US In December 1987, after 20 years of horrific occupation, the movement for Palestinian li...

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