Leon Trotsky
Socialist politics and revolutionary compromise
Raju J Das — As fascist movements get stronger, the question of revolutionary compromise by socialist organisations assumes greater urgency.
Making sense of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
A momentous development has drawn my attention away from the unfolding climate catastrophe on which I have been riveted.
‘Hegemony’ in the English translation of Trotsky’s ‘1905’
Seiya Morita — The English translation of Leon Trotsky’s “1905” is brilliant as a whole, but it has a problem, in particular when it comes to the translation of his repeated used of the term “hegemony”.
Leon Trotsky supported an independent Ukraine
Gavin Gatenby — In the months before his assassination by a Stalinist agent, Leon Trotsky wrote three important articles on the issue of Ukraine. So resolutely did Trotsky support Ukraine’s right to independence that these articles probably gave an added impetus to Josef Stalin’s determination to murder his old rival.
Trotsky, Krupskaya and the Bolshevik tradition
By Paul Le Blanc