Leon Trotsky

On Internationalism: A Response to the Partido Obrero
Claudia Cinatti of the PTS engages Pablo Heller’s arguments, published in the Partido Obrero press following the Trotskyist Fraction’s Tenth International Conference. The following is a discussion on Gramsci’s concept of ‘organic crisis,’ the concept of revolutionary internationalism, and what it looks like in practice.
Claudia Cinatti
January 2, 2017Fidel, Che and Socialism in Cuba
Ernesto “Che” Guevara highlighted in his article “Socialism and Man in Cuba” a series of problems related to the “transition to socialism” on the island that are still relevant 60 years after the triumph of the Cuban revolution.
Juan Dal Maso
December 13, 2016Trotsky and Gramsci on Revolutionary Strategy
“Whereas other writers often see these two Marxists in conflict, Albamonte and Maiello view them not as adversaries, but as comrades-in-arms who have points of convergence alongside their differences.” Marxist historian Doug Greene discusses the main topics presented in a new book by two national leaders of the Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas (PTS).
Doug Enaa Greene
September 15, 2016Inheritance and Situation: Interview with New Generation of Revolutionary Marxists in China
Left Voice spoke with Stone Song and Ji Hengge, Trotskyists in China who translated and published the first Chinese edition of The History of American Trotskyism by James P. Cannon
Left Voice
April 6, 2016A Trotskyist in North Korea
Our author visited the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as a tourist. His question: How does this society function? Is it the Stone Age? Or a cult? Or Dadaist art? A historical-materialist research trip.
Nathaniel Flakin
December 14, 2015What Would Happen if Marx Met Trotsky?
Marx is Back is an Argentine mini-series about Karl Marx’s ideas. In this YouTube show, a worker is reading The Communist Manifesto while organizing his co-workers against their boss. In this, the last episode in the series, the workers begin to discuss socialism. One of the workers brings up the commonly held view that “Socialism […]
Left Voice
December 12, 2015A ‘Trotsky Day’ took place last Saturday in Berlin
Photo: Klassegegenklasse.org “Trotskyism, more than any other political tendency, transports the heritage, the thinking and the strategic perspectives of revolutionary Marxism, the October Revolution and the early third International into the present.” With these words, Florian Wilde, an activist and former member of the leadership of the German Left Party “Die Linke”, praised the ideas […]
Nathaniel Flakin
October 22, 2015Trotsky Day in Berlin: workshops and a panel discussion on the 75th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky
"Trotsky Day", a public event on October 17 in Berlin, will bring together fighters from the workers' and youth movements, activists from different political tendencies and historians and academics. We reproduce the invitation from the Revolutionary Internationalist Organization (RIO), German section of the FT-CI.
Nathaniel Flakin
September 17, 2015