The withdrawal of Russian troops from Afghanistan must be perplexing for those on the left who supported their invasion or did not oppose their presence.
The attempt in Czechoslovakia in 1968 to create a "Socialism With a Human Face" was snuffed out by an invasion by the armies of the USSR and its other East European satellites. Where did the reforming regime come from? Two articles from Workers Fight, 1968
Between the two world wars Marxists considered Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Poland
to be imperialist powers, because in these states there were oppressed national minorities
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.
In Mid-1939 Trotsky came out for Ukrainian national independence from the oppressive Stalinist Russian state. His proposal was rejected both by the Russian bourgeois-democratic exile press and Trotskyist sectarians who accused him of abandoning the defence of the USSR. He replies to his critics.
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
Inessa Armand (1874-1920) was a pioneering socialist feminist who played a key role in promoting the emancipation of women in the international socialist movement, and after the Russian revolution.
"The question of the relationship of tradition and party policy is far from simple." One of Trotsky's opening salvos against the Stalinist bureaucracy, at the end of 1923.
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