Following the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917, communists from around the globe came together to form the Communist International. At its Fourth Congress in 1922, the Comintern resolved to support all struggles of Black people for liberation. This is part of our collection on Marxism and Black Struggle.

C.L.R. James wrote this essay in 1939 for Socialist Appeal, the newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party. The Second World War had begun a month earlier. James predicted that Black workers would be in the front lines of the revolutionary struggle for socialism. This is part of our collection on Marxism and Black Struggle.

C.L.R. James wrote this essay in 1939 for New International, the theoretical magazine of the Socialist Workers Party. This short history of Black struggle — from the Haitian Revolution to the Flint Sit-Down Strike — retains all of its power today. This is part of our collection on Marxism and Black Struggle.

For Black August, Left Voice will be presenting a collection of classic Marxist texts about Black liberation. This includes writing by C.L.R. James, Leon Trotsky, T.W. Thibedi, George Breitman, and the Communist International.

In early 2018, workers repairing a prison in Russia discovered under one cell’s floorboards a number of documents that had been written by members of the Trotskyist Left Opposition (they called themselves “Bolshevist-Leninists”) imprisoned there in 1932–3. At that time, the prison was run by Stalin’s political police. These “Notebooks of the Verkhneuralsk Political Prison” […]

75 years ago, the prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald in central Germany liberated themselves. Trotskyists from different countries who had been imprisoned in the camp published a declaration calling for a Germany based on workers' councils.

Tactics are how a battle is won. Strategy is the art of winning a war. How can the working class win political power?

On this day 80 years ago, while in exile in Coyoacán, Mexico, Trotsky penned his last Testament, well aware that he might soon be killed or will die because of his deteriorating health. This short text was written a few months before his assassination by Ramón Mercader, a Stalinist agent. In it, Trotsky reflects on his life and his hope for future revolutionary generations.

In the current cycle of the class struggle, revolts are taking place all over the world. But how can these become revolutions? Revolutionary theory is central.