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.
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