Militancy: highest stage of alienation - Organisation des Jeunes Travailleurs Révolutionnaires
A critique of the role of the political militant, its misery and arrogance; written by Dominique Blanc and published by the OJTR in France, 1972.
The Trotsky question (1925) - Amadeo Bordiga
1925 article by Amadeo Bordiga in solidarity with Trotsky who, at that time, was under attack from the Russian party leadership.
The SPEW and me
Submitted by Reddebrek on May 15 2016 03:57
A brief catalogue of my encounters with the lesser spotted subspecies of the British Trot in the wild. Careful it may bite you.
How Lenin led to Stalin - Workers Solidarity Movement
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 5 2016 11:13
Good short account of how the foundations of Stalinist terror were laid by the policies of Lenin and Trotsky in the early days of the Russian Revolution.
Did Trotsky point the way to socialism?
Transcript of the opening remarks from a debate between Adam Buick arguing No (for the Socialist Party of Great Britain) and Hillel Ticktin arguing Yes, (Critique Journal) taking place on 24th January 2009 at Hillhead Library in Glasgow. Full video recording also available online.
The Alternative to the Micro-Sect - Hal Draper
The first of two papers arguing for the need to break from the 'sect' form of organisation.
The Anatomy of the Micro-Sect - Hal Draper
The second of two papers arguing for the need to break from the 'sect' form of political membership organisations.
20 June: the beginning of what?
Submitted by Phil on Jun 22 2015 16:35
Saturday 20 June saw up to 250,000 people march in London under the banner ‘End Austerity Now.’ But four years on from the first ‘March for the Alternative’ back in 2011, how far have we actually travelled?
A workerist response to Mid Atlantic Revolutionary Socialists on the union question and the ultra left
This short article is a response to an essay written by the Mid Atlantic Revolutionary Socialists. I found the essay thought provoking and agreed with parts. Certainly an essay outlining a Trotskyist rank and file strategy in as open and honest a way as it does is very welcome, and I would recommend elements of it as a useful critique of anti-union dogmatism. The purpose of this article, is to discuss the parts I found interesting and respond to the parts I found lacking.
A hundred year war - Ngo Van Xuyet
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Jun 4 2015 01:24
In this two-part talk given in 2001 in Paris, Ngo Van Xuyet introduces his two books about Vietnam (Viêt-nam 1920-1945: révolution et contre-révolution sous la domination coloniale [1997] and Au pays de la Cloche fêlée: Tribulations d’un Cochinchinois à l’époque coloniale [2000]), starting with a critical chronology of the 1920s, and concluding with a first-person account of the period between 1930 and 1945, when Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh seized power after the Japanese surrender and immediately proceeded to exterminate the Vietnamese Trotskyists, while workers and peasants formed councils that were suppressed by the Stalinist government’s military forces.
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