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08/02/2012: General strike on 7 February opposes “mediaeval labour conditions!"
08/02/2012: No trust in Arab League and imperialist powers
08/02/2012: A big protest rally in freezing temperatures greeted the Kazakhstan
president as he attended a meeting to strengthen relations with the
German government and big business.
05/02/2012: 74 killed in horrific scenes
04/02/2012: Joe Higgins argues in Cork, 26 January, to resist the household tax:
"Yes, we have a choice!"
03/02/2012: A strike corresponding to the level of anger over austerity programme
03/02/2012: The capitalist classes of Europe are all adopting the same policy of
attempting to make the working class pay for the capitalist economic
crisis.
02/02/2012: A socialist view on recent showdown between government and people
01/02/2012: The repression will not stop the movement!
01/02/2012: CWI – a socialist analysis
31/01/2012: Frequently asked questions
31/01/2012: Urgent solidarity needed
31/01/2012: The lessons of the first waves of revolutionary movements
31/01/2012: Worldwide solidarity campaign means the Kazakhstan regime can no longer
deny 16 December massacre
31/01/2012: Interview with two Tunisian socialists, one year after the fall of Ben
Ali
30/01/2012: Fight Against Corporate Politics
30/01/2012: Bryan Koulouris explains how the USA is being transformed by the occupy
movements which have arisen in anger at the growing inequality between
the 1% and the 99% in the United States
30/01/2012: Once again, a United Nations-sponsored climate change conference has
completely failed to address the issue of global warming.
29/01/2012: December’s industrial action against austerity just the beginning of the
fight-back!
29/01/2012: Whole continent on the verge of major social convulsions and political
shocks
28/01/2012: The illusory appearance of a peculiar isolation from the international
picture of stagnation, recession and economic crisis is fragile - a new
period of turbulent class conflict lays ahead
27/01/2012: CWI’s Zhang Shujie speaks out at hearing in Sweden’s parliament
26/01/2012: Euro-zone crisis deepens
26/01/2012: Masses in Cairo and other cities demand end to military rule
26/01/2012: LSD legislator from Hong Kong to speak in support of young socialist
Zhang Shujie, forced to flee China
25/01/2012: Contradictions and new struggles define situation in region
25/01/2012: 3 year old child killed in fatal repression
25/01/2012: Release Vadim Kuramshin and all those arrested – End harassment of
opposition activists!
25/01/2012: 16 December underlined the need for the workers’ movement to link
economic demands to the struggle to bring down the regime
24/01/2012: Key Battle for the Labour and Occupy Movements
22/01/2012: As world economy worsens, inter-imperialist relations intensify
21/01/2012: How socialists and the local community fought back against racism and
the BNP
20/01/2012: Scottish National Party’s version of indepdendence a nightmare for
workers
18/01/2012: As economic crisis worsens, new class conflicts loom
17/01/2012: Struggle forces Jonathan back a bit, but could have won far more with a
more resolute leadership - We Condemn Repression by Police and Army
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TrotskyLeon Trotsky was, next to Lenin, the main leader of the Russian Revolution
of 1917 and one of the greatest theoreticians of the workers’ movement.
His theory of the permanent revolution brilliantly anticipated the class
forces involved in the outcome of the Russian revolution, and still
conserves its clear validity for the struggle against capitalism and
landlordism in the neo-colonial world today. After the bureaucratic
degeneration of the Russian Revolution following the isolation of the 1917
revolution, Trotsky became the leading figure of the international Left
opposition, which organised the political struggle against Stalinism, and
upheld the methods of Marxism and internationalism. He was assassinated by
an agent of Stalin in 1940, just two years after having completed his
famous work, “Transitional Programme”, which served as the central
document for the founding conference of the 4th International, and from
which crucial lessons must be drawn for today’s worldwide struggle of the
working class against the capitalist crisis. |
|  20/08/2010, 70 years on from his asasination, is it “Springtime for Trotsky?”
Three articles from The Moscow News
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|  16/08/2010, Coming mass revolts will see workers and youth look to Trotsky’s ideas
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)
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|  18/02/2010, Introduction to new Urdu edition of ‘Permanent Revolution’ by Leon
Trotsky
Peter Taaffe
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|  16/02/2010, Unison union witch-hunt - employment tribunal
Lynn Walsh, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)
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|  13/02/2010, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) general secretary, Peter Taaffe
replies to historian, Robert Service
socialistworld.net
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| 02/11/2009, Robert Service declines invitation to debate the life of Leon Trotsky
Socialistworld.net |
|  19/10/2009, On the 20th anniversary of 1989…
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party (CWI in England &
Wales). Article from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party.
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| 14/10/2009, Review of Trotsky, a Biography by Robert Service
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) general secretary |
| 04/03/2003, The death of Joseph Stalin, took place half a century ago this month.
However the anniversary has been largely covered in a superficial manner
in the international media. Although the press has spent much time
recording the terrible crimes of Stalinism and providing psychological
profiles of the absolute ruler, little or no attempt is made to
seriously analyse the reasons for the rise of the phenomena of the
totalitarian system he headed. Furthermore an attempt is being made with
the anniversary to once again besmirch the banner of genuine socialism
as commentators try to paint a direct link between Stalinism and
socialism. As we saw after the collapse of the Stalinist states in the
early 1990s, the capitalist class and their spokespeople will strive to
use the horrors of Stalinism to convince the working class that there is
no point in struggling to change society as all efforts to build
socialism ’end up’ with tyranny and economic collapse.
Niall Mulholland and Robert Bechert, CWI online |
| 05/05/2000, To commemorate the contribution of Leon Trotsky in building the workers’
movement internationally, we print here three articles which look at
different aspects of his political work. Their publication mark the
sixtieth anniversary of the murder of Leon Trotsky by an assassin hired
by Stalin in Mexico in August 1940. All three articles are reprinted
from Socialism Today , the
theoretical journal of the Socialist Party, the CWI’s section in Britain.
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| 05/05/2000, Sixty years ago, the dictator Stalin orchestrated the murder of Leon
Trotsky, exiled and isolated in Mexico. Stalin was motivated not merely
by personal rivalry and malice but by the ruling bureaucracy’s need to
crush the Fourth International, which continued to fight for
internationalism and workers’ democracy.
Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today, journal of the Socialist Party,
CWI in England and Wales. |
| 05/05/2000, In the 1930s Trotsky and his family were finding it impossible to secure
safe refuge. Deported from France, refused entry into Britain, they
moved to Norway. LAURENCE COATES describes how an alliance of
Stalinists, fascists and ’democrats’ ensured that Trotsky’s days of
living on a planet without a visa were not over.
Laurence Coates |
| 05/05/2000, SIXTY YEARS AGO this August, Stalin’s hit man, Raymond Mercader,
murdered the greatest living revolutionary of that time, Leon Trotsky.
It was not just the Trotskyists who felt the terrible blow of his death
but the working class and labour movement of the whole world. This brain
- in a sense, the brain of the working class at that stage - would no
longer illuminate and clarify the problems confronting working class
movements internationally.
This article is based on a speech made by Peter Taaffe in Belgium in
April 2000. |
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