Trotskyism
Who Is the Trotskyist Fraction?
The international situation, the class struggle and the tasks of revolutionaries: A series of articles presenting the Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International.
Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International
May 13, 2019When 20,000 New Yorkers Attended a Nazi Rally—and 50,000 Joined the Trotskyist Counterprotest
Eighty years ago, American fascists filled Madison Square Garden. The short documentary film “A Night at the Garden” shows disturbing scenes from the Nazi rally. What it doesn’t show: The Trotskyists led a protest of 50,000 all around the arena.
Nathaniel Flakin
March 1, 2019On the Anniversary of the Fourth International’s Founding
80 years ago today, on September 3, 1938, a secret meeting took place in a house in Périgny, a small town outside of Paris. 26 delegates represented eleven revolutionary organizations from around the world. Two dozen more organizations supported the Congress even though they were unable to send representatives.
Nathaniel Flakin
September 3, 2018Why Trotskyism?
Why is Trotskyism still relevant today? We reflect on the anniversary of his assassination.
Jimena Vergara
August 25, 2018Martin Monath: A Jewish Trotskyist Among Nazi Soldiers
A secret history of resistance during World War II: Wladek Flakin just published a biography of Martin Monath (1913-44), the editor of a communist newspaper for German soldiers in occupied France.
Nathaniel Flakin
July 26, 2018Memories of the Future
The Russian revolution is not old and dead history; socialists can learn central lessons from the working class revolution 100 years ago. What are these lessons?
Christian Castillo
March 28, 2018Who was Nahuel Moreno?
Nahuel Moreno helped build one of the most important currents to claim the mantle of the Fourth International. Who was he and what what did he contribute to the left?
Gabriela Liszt
February 16, 2018Memories of Leon Trotsky, From His Grandson
Esteban Volkov was thirteen when assassins tried to murder him. Because his grandfather was Leon Trotsky. Now ninety-one, Volkov keeps Trotsky's memory alive at a museum in Mexico City where Trotsky spent the final years of his life.
Nathaniel Flakin
December 4, 2017Young Trotsky: The Making of a Revolutionary
Leon Trotsky was born on November 7, 1879 in the Russian village of Ianovka. This article focuses on Trotsky’s early life and his first major revolutionary experience in the failed 1905 revolution.
Jazmín Jiminez
November 9, 2017The Trotskyists’ Struggle Against Nazism in World War II
Today is the 72nd anniversary of V Day – the victory of the Allies in World War II. But the war wasn't fought between fascism and democracy. It was a war between imperialist powers for the redivision of the world. Trotskyists fought in many countries for the war to end with socialist revolution.
Gabriela Liszt
May 8, 2017