Stalin

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 War on Iran Is an Environmental Disaster

May 26, 2026 Tom Costello, Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative in England, Wales and Scotland   The devastation caused by US i...

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