Trotsky testifies before the Dewey Commission

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...

President Lázaro Cárdenas granted Trotsky asylum after European governments restricted his residence. Mexican labor, socialist, and anti-imperialist currents shaped the context of his final years;...

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...

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...