Fourth International

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Trotsky’s supporters found the Fourth International

📅 3 September 1938

Delegates founded a new international organization, arguing that the Comintern had ceased to lead revolutionary opposition to fascism and imperialism. The initiative expressed Trotsky’s...

The Fourth International adopts Trotsky’s Transitional Program

📅 3 September 1938

The founding conference adopted a program of transitional demands intended to connect immediate struggles with socialist transformation. It addressed workers, peasants, women, youth, and colonized...

Trotsky debates the defense of the USSR as war begins

📅 1 September 1939

As war began in Europe, Trotsky defended the Soviet Union against imperialist attack while criticizing its bureaucracy and the invasion of Finland. His position exposed a tension between defending a...

Trotsky debates the class character of the Soviet state

📅 25 September 1939

In exchanges with members of the US Socialist Workers Party, Trotsky defended the analysis of the USSR as a degenerated workers’ state and argued that bureaucracy had not transformed its...

Trotsky writes on Stalin’s campaign to kill him

📅 1 Juni 1940

After the May raid, Trotsky publicly argued that Soviet state agents were organizing his assassination. The essay was both a warning and a political intervention written under immediate threat....

Leon Trotsky is attacked in Mexico City

📅 20 Augustus 1940

An agent linked to Soviet security killed Trotsky, who died the next day. The assassination removed Stalin’s most prominent revolutionary rival abroad and extended Soviet political violence beyond its...