Trotsky writes on Stalin’s campaign to kill him

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...

An armed group led by David Alfaro Siqueiros attacked the house where Trotsky lived with Natalia Sedova. The failed assault was part of the political violence surrounding his exile; Mexican...

Ramón Mercader, acting for Soviet intelligence, struck Trotsky with an ice axe the previous day; Trotsky died on 21 August. His life joined revolutionary internationalism and anticolonial analysis...