Trotsky arrives in Mexico as a political exile

He concluded that the German Communist Party’s failure to stop Hitler could not be corrected through its existing leadership and called for building new parties and an international. This marked a...

Following far-right league demonstrations and political crisis, Trotsky advocated a workers’ united front against fascism. His writing treated fascism as a mass movement linked to capitalist crisis...

Trotsky challenged a draft that equated a Black republic with white supremacy, calling Black majority rule a step toward liberation. The intervention is notable in his anticolonial thought, but it...

He argued that Black majority rule was a necessary democratic step and rejected a draft line equating it with white supremacy. The intervention contested settler colonial assumptions, but South...

The book analyzed the Soviet bureaucracy as a privileged layer that had usurped political power while retaining state ownership. It is a major critique of Stalinism, but its categories and claims...

The commission held hearings after the Moscow Trials and found the charges against Trotsky unsubstantiated. The inquiry was convened by his supporters, a fact relevant to its evidentiary context;...

The independent commission heard Trotsky’s testimony and examined accusations made in the Moscow Trials. Its proceedings challenged the Soviet government’s case, but the inquiry was organized by...

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

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...