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Leon Trotsky

Book review

Book Review: ‘The Death of Trotsky’ – A driving narrative marred by political assassination

05/07/2026 Reviewed by Niall Mulholland

‘The death of Trotsky: The true story of the plot to kill Stalin’s greatest enemy’, by Josh Ireland deals with Stalin’s vilification and hunting down of his most formidable political opponent, Leon Trotsky, the co-leader […]

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Shi Yongqin – the Translator Making Trotsky’s Works Available to Chinese Readers

01/30/2026 Philip Stott

Shi Yongqin is China’s foremost translator of the works of Leon Trotsky into Chinese. Not only has he translated many of Trotsky’s most important works, including Trotsky’s writings on the Chinese revolution of 1926/27 but […]

Leon Trotsky

‘The Man Trotsky’

12/14/2025 By Rae Spiegel (Raya Dunayevskaya), Trotsky’s former secretary

We are pleased to publish this extraordinary article by Trotsky’s former secretary, Rae Spiegel, later known as Raya Dunayevskaya. With thanks to CWI comrade, Wayne Scott, this is the first time the article has been […]

Leon Trotsky

85 years since Leon Trotsky’s assassination – A Revolutionary Whose Ideas Couldn’t Be Killed

08/29/2025 Tony Saunois

The month marked the 85th anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s assassination on 21st of August 1940.  Trotsky, alongside Lenin, was a central figure in the October 1917 Russian Revolution. After Stalin’s counterrevolution destroyed the last vestiges […]

Leon Trotsky

Trotsky’s transitional method: How to win workers and youth for socialism?

02/24/2024 Callum Joyce

The last two years in Britain and internationally have seen a big increase in struggle, and 2024 will be no different. There has been the historic strike wave in response to the cost-of-living crisis and […]

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82nd anniversary of Trotsky’s murder: revolutionary socialist ideas still vital today

08/21/2023 CWI

21 August marks the anniversary of the death, in 1940, of the revolutionary socialist Leon Trotsky after being attacked the previous day by a Stalinist agent. Along with Lenin, Trotsky was the foremost leader of the […]

Leon Trotsky

Esteban Volkov, grandson of Leon Trotsky, sadly passes away

06/19/2023 CWI

Esteban Volkov, the grandson of Leon Trotsky, sadly passed away on 16 June 2023. For many decades, Volkov courageously defended the ideas and historic role of Leon Trotsky. “Our director, comrade, and friend Esteban Volkov […]

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky – A Revolutionary Whose Ideas Couldn’t Be Killed

08/23/2021 socialistworld.net

This year marks the 81st anniversary of the assassination of the outstanding socialist revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, by an agent of Stalin, on 21 August 1940. Last year, the CWI published a new book on his […]

Leon Trotsky

80th anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination: The revolutionary ideas of a Marxist giant

08/19/2020 Tony Saunois

On 21 August 1940, the revolutionary socialist Leon Trotsky died after being attacked by a Stalinist agent the previous day. Along with Lenin, Trotsky was the foremost leader of the October 1917 socialist revolution in […]

Leon Trotsky

79 years since the death of revolutionary socialist Leon Trotsky

08/21/2019 CWI

On 21 August 1940, Leon Trotsky, the Marxist thinker and fighter, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution (along with Lenin), was murdered by one of Stalin’s agents. The article ‘Trotsky’s Assassination’ originally appeared in the […]

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New introduction to Trotsky’s classic work, ‘In Defence of Marxism’

03/01/2019 Peter Taaffe

Leon Trotsky’s classic work, ‘In Defence of Marxism’, which recorded Trotsky’s struggle against a petty bourgeois opposition in the American Socialist Workers Party (a section of the Fourth International) in the late 1930s, on the […]

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‘Trotsky in 1917’ – New collection of Trotsky’s writings from year of the Russian revolution

12/24/2017 Niall Mulholland

Socialist Books new book, ‘Trotsky in 1917’, will be published at the end of January 2018 (for more information and to order see: http://www.socialistbooks.co.uk/pre-order-trotsky-1917-today/). The collection of  Leon Trotsky’s writings and speeches are all newly […]

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Anniversary: 77 years since Trotsky’s assassination

08/21/2017 Lynn Walsh

On 21 August 1940 Leon Trotsky, the Marxist thinker and fighter, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution, along with Lenin, was murdered by one of Stalin’s agents.’Trotsky’s Assassination’ originally appeared in the quarterly theoretical magazine […]

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