This text, part of the discussion on Ireland in IS (now called SWP) in 1968–69, attempted to expound the basic Marxist principles on national questions, as the Trotskyist Tendency (forerunner of AWL) understood them.
The survival and expansion of Russian Stalinism threw all the political compass points of Trotsky's pre-World War "Trotskyism" into seismic confusion. Years of political ferment produced two "Trotskyisms" - Shachtmanites and Cannonites. The tiny Irish Group in this document declared for Shachtman.
An attempt to anticipate the anatomy of a working class ruled democratic socialist society in Ireland and, with modifications to fit different circumstances, everywhere.
Replying to criticism of his support for Ukranian independence, in Alexander Kerensky's journal "Novaya Rossia", Trotsky discusses the democratic principle that underlies Marxist support for the right of self-determination of nations.
Ante Ciliga survived Stalin's Concentration camps. This is a response to his conclusion that Leninism produced Stalinism. Ciliga's book, "The Russian Enigma" was published in Britain by the Labour Party book club in 1940.
Article in defence of Workers Control in the Russian Revolution. Written in Feb 1918, it was published in The Revolutionary Age, an American Communist paper, in November 1918
The Russian Marxists opposed the tactic of individual assassinations of tzarist state dignitaries, counter-posing to it the education and mobilisation of the working class. Trotsky explains their reasoning in this 1909 article.
A series of articles written in 2004 that analyse in detail the record of the Weekly Worker Group as ardent supporters of Russia's bloody attempt to annex Afghanistan to the Stalinist Empire.
A series of articles written in 2004 that analyse in detail the record of the Weekly Worker Group as ardent supporters of Russia's bloody attempt to annex Afghanistan to the Stalinist Empirempire.
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