Schlagwort: Leon Trotsky
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Monty Johnstone: Letter – Monty Johnstone Replies
[Militant No. 354, 6th May 1977, p. 9] Dear Comrade. The Marxist theory of the state is far more complex than is understood by G Selva (15th April), who assumes that Republican Spain (1936-39) could only have been either a bourgeois or a workers’ state. Marx and Engels saw the state “as a rule (as)…
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Lynn Walsh: Trotsky and the Chinese Revolution 1925-1927
[Militant No. 343, 18 February 1977, p. 6-7] An answer to the letter from Monty Johnstone , of the British Communist Party, by Lynn Walsh Last week [‘Militant’ No 342] we printed a letter from Monty Johnstone of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Comrade Johnstone took up a number of points, particularly on the…
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Militant: Militant Gives Opponent a Hearing
[Militant No. 342, 11th February 1977] ‘Militant’ 335 [17 December 1976] carried a letter from Ian Findlay, National Education Officer of the Young Communist League, chiding us for not producing a reply to Monty Johnstone’s “Trotsky and World Revolution”, published in ‘Cogito’ as the second part of a “major critique” of the ideas and activities…
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Militant: Trotsky and Revolution
[Militant No. 335, 17th December 1976, p. 9] Dear Comrades, Will ‘Militant’ be making any reply to, or a review of the recent Young Communist League publication COGITO entitled “Trotsky and World Revolution” (published May 1976 and now reprinted). This represents the second part of a major critique by the YCL of the ideas of…
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Lynn Walsh: Nearly 40 years late, the French communist party has admitted that Stalin ordered Trotsky’s assassination
[Militant No. 426, 6th October 1978, p. 8-9] The PCF leadership has touched on a subject which threatens to have explosive repercussions within their own ranks. In mentioning the historical personality of Trotsky, however tentatively, the CP leaders cannot but foster interest among CP-influenced workers, for whom Trotsky’s ideas were previously official anathema. Nearly forty…
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Leon Trotsky: What are the Tasks of the ‘Peasant Newspaper’?1
[Published on 17 November 1924 in ,Крестьянская Газета‘ [Krest’yanskaya Gazeta, Peasant Newspaper] No. 51. My own translation of the Russian reprint, published in Сочинения. Том 21. Москва-Ленинград, 1927. Проблемы культуры. Культура переходного периода {Sochineniya, Tom 21, Moskva-Leningrad, 1927. Problemy kul’tury. Kul’tura perekhodnogo perioda, Works, Volume 21, Moscow-Leningrad 1927. Problems of culture. Culture of the transition…
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Leon Trotsky: Objections and Answers: The People’s Militia
[Published in La Vérité on 2 November 1934. My own translation of the French text. Corrections by English native speakers would be extremely welcome] No workers‘ pacifism. To be able to struggle, we must preserve and strengthen the instruments and means of struggle: organisations, the press, meetings, etc. Fascism threatens all this directly and immediately.…
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Leon Trotsky: Introduction to the Tatar-Language Edition of Problems of Everyday Life
[October 29, 1924, A letter to the Central Publishing House of the Peoples of the East. English translation in: Problems of Everyday Life and Other Writings on Culture & Science. New York, London, Sydney 1973, p. 79] Dear Comrades: I will, of course, be very pleased by the appearance of my book Problems of Everyday…
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The victorious city
[My own translation of the Russian text, published in Krasnaya Gazeta [Red Newspaper], No. 245, 26 October 1924, reprinted in Сочинения. Том 17, Советская Республика и капиталистический мир. Часть II. Гражданская война. Москва-Ленинград, 1926 {Sochineniya Tom 17, Sovietskaya Respublika i kapitalisticheskiy mir. Chast‘ II Grashdanskaya voyna. Moskva-Leningrad 1926, Works, Volume 17, The Soviet Republic and…
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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…