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Leon Trotsky: On the answer of the English Section
[Letter to the IS, my own translation of the German text, typewritten copy in Lev Davidovič Trockij / International Left Opposition Archives, inventory number 1006, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam]. I was only able to take a very cursory look at the document. It is, predictably, based entirely on the alleged expulsion of the…
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6th World Congress of the CWI: Racism, Fascism and the Future for Reaction
[First draft written in November 1993, presented by the International Secretariat, voted in December 1993] An important feature of the present world situation is a certain growth of the forces of reaction: racism, fascist and neo-fascist organisations in Europe; vicious ethnic and national conflict in the former Stalinist states of Eastern Europe and the former…
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Lynn Walsh: Deng’s Rise to Power
[Published in Militant, 17 October 1986, abbreviated reprint in the pamphlet China. The Tradition of Struggle, June 1989, p. 27] The Cultural Revolution began essentially as a purge launched by Mao against top leaders like Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, and the group which dominated the apparatus at that time. They had excluded Mao from direct…
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Jimmy Deane: Was ist los im Kreml? – Chruschtschows Sturz beweist die Wackeligkeit der sowjetischen Bürokrat*innen
[eigene Übersetzung aus: The Militant Nr. 2, November 1964] Der erfolgreiche Start einer Kapsel mit drei Männern in die Erdumlaufbahn durch die Sowjetunion hat die Welt durch seine technische und wissenschaftliche Leistung in Erstaunen versetzt. Zwei Tage nach diesem wichtigen und spektakulären Ereignis wurde die Welt durch die Nachricht erschüttert, dass Chruschtschow von seiner scheinbar…