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Leon Trotsky

From uneven and combined development to revolution: the roots of Algeria’s crisis

Posted on 28th March 2020 by International Socialism

On 2 April 2019, Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced to resign.1 In scarcely more than one month, a massive popular movement that had emerged for the first time on 22 February managed to get rid of the ageing and… Continue Reading →

Article Algeria, Arab revolution, development, Leon Trotsky, Middle East, neoliberalism

Trotskyism: a rejoinder to John Kelly

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

I am grateful to John Kelly for taking the time to respond to some of the issues raised by my review of his history of the British Trotskyist movement, Contemporary Trotskyism.1 I will here just aim to reply briefly to… Continue Reading →

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Trotskyology

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A review of John Kelly, Contemporary Trotskyism: Parties, Sects and Social Movements in Britain (Routledge, 2018), £29.99 Leon Trotsky, the organiser of the October 1917 insurrection and founder of the Red Army, cannot be dismissed by anyone lightly. However, amid… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Leon Trotsky, Trotskyism

Trotsky and the New Stalinism

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

In 1967 New Left Review (NLR) published an article called “Trotsky’s Marxism” by Nicolas Krassó.1 A former pupil of the great Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács, Krassó (1930-86) played an active role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and helped to… Continue Reading →

Article Chris Harman, Leon Trotsky

Trotsky on the Labour Party

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

“In passing across a narrow and unreliable bridge, a small but reliable prop may prove one’s salvation. But woe to him who clutches at a rotten prop that crumbles at a touch—for, in that case, a plunge into the abyss… Continue Reading →

Article Labour Party, Leon Trotsky

State, power and bureaucracy

Posted on 22nd June 2016 by Camilla

A review of Thomas M Twiss, Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy (Brill/Haymarket, 2015), £25.99 The theory of bureaucratic state capitalism in Russia and elsewhere characterises the International Socialist Tendency and distinguishes us from most other Marxist parties worldwide.… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Leon Trotsky, Soviet Union

Letter: John Rose’s review of Leon Trotsky

Posted on 4th April 2016 by Camilla

Dear friends, I very much appreciate John Rose’s thoughtful review of my book Leon Trotsky (“Half socialist? Leon Trotsky and the Soviet Union”, in International Socialism 149) including his positive comments and the gratifying endorsement: “Buy this book!” Yet his… Continue Reading →

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Half socialist? Leon Trotsky and the Soviet Union

Posted on 6th January 2016 by Camilla

A review of Paul Le Blanc, Leon Trotsky (Reaktion Books, Critical Lives series, 2015), £11.99 Paul Le Blanc faced a daunting challenge when he agreed to write a book about Leon Trotsky and his life in exile for the Critical… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Leon Trotsky, state capitalism

Trotsky and the POUM

Posted on 6th July 2015 by Camilla

A review of Alan Sennett, Revolutionary Marxism in Spain, 1930-1937 (Brill, 2014/Haymarket, 2015), £98/£18   Historical debate about the outcome of the Spanish Revolution (1936-37) has often centred on the dissident communist Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM). For the… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Leon Trotsky, Spain, Spanish Revolution
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