Trotskyism

A brief account of Unison's national conference, 2008

Ed — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:55:42 +0000

I recently attended Unison's national delegate conference in Bournemouth as a delegate from a London local government branch. It was an eye opening experience with respect to the machinations of political groupings within the union.

In particular some of the ways in which the new Labour-linked bureaucracy maintained control over the supposedly lay lead organisation became clear.

Communism - Story of the Communist Party - Guy A. Aldred

Ret Marut — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:41:47 +0000

[b]Published during World War II, it illustrates how Russian political intervention in China and Europe served Russian foreign policy interests and so worked against the possibilities of proletarian revolution.

Revolution betrayed - the Workers Revolutionary Party and Iraq

catch — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:01:58 +0000

THE REVOLUTION BETRAYED

A review of Joe Jacob's 'Out of the Ghetto' - Al Richardson

Ret Marut — Sun, 20 May 2007 00:04:39 +0000

Originally published in Vol. 5, No. 1 of the Trotskyist journal Revolutionary History.
Reprinted in Echanges et Mouvement no 80/81, 1996.

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Joe Jacobs - Out of the Ghetto; Phoenix Press, London, 1991

(Reviewed by Al Richardson)

Bolshevism and Stalinism - Paul Mattick

Ret Marut — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:09:00 +0000

Article source: The Council Communist Archive - www.kurasje.org

The largest collection of Mattick's work is at the Paul Mattick homepage - http://www.home.no/mattick/

'Bolshevism and Stalinism' was originally published in Politics Vol. 4 - no. 2 - Mar/Apr 1947.

Stalinism’s loyal opposition - The counter-revolutionary politics of Trotsky

Kevin Keating — Mon, 07 May 2007 03:01:20 +0000

This article was originally written to refute lies about the history of 20th century revolutionary movements peddled by the comically obnoxious Trotskyoids of the Spartacus League, in their newspaper Workers Vanguard (sic).

Listen, Marxist! - Murray Bookchin

libcom — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:41:37 +0000

From Post Scarcity Anarchism, 1971

Trotskyism: Product and agent of counterrevolution

redtwister — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:28:37 +0000

Why Leninism is not Red Fascism - Appendix to Contra State and Revolution

redtwister — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:35:25 +0000

APPENDIX: Why Leninism is Not 'Red Fascism

Militancy - Highest stage of Alienation

libcom — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:49:40 +0000

Since the occupation movement of May '68, we have seen a whole collection of small organisations which claim to follow Trotskyism, Maoism or anarchism, developing to the left of the Communist Party and the C.G.T [1].