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Trotskyism

Year Zero 1989: two Trotskyisms and the workers’ movement in Brazil

Posted on 23rd October 2021 by International Socialism

Could the workers’ movement of Brazil have become a global epicentre for resistance to the intensification of the neoliberal onslaught on trade unions, pay, jobs and hard won welfare, pensions and health rights in the 1990s?1 Neoliberalism thrived on the… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Brazil, Latin America, Reformism, Trotskyism

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 →

Feedback Leon Trotsky, Trotskyism

The consolation of familiar ideas: a reply to Christian Høgsbjerg

Posted on 2nd January 2019 by Camilla

In his critical but not hostile review of my book Contemporary Trotskyism, Christian Høgsbjerg notes, on the positive side, that it is “generally well-informed”, based on “painstaking empirical research” and is “thought-provoking”.1 He agrees that the social movement activity of… Continue Reading →

Feedback Trotskyism

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

1956 and after

Posted on 22nd June 2016 by Camilla

A review of Evan Smith and Matthew Worley (eds), Against the Grain: The British far left from 1956 (Manchester University Press, 2014), £75 The need for a genuine left alternative to cuts, privatisation, racism, war and climate change is urgent.… Continue Reading →

Book reviews 1956, Trotskyism

From deflected permanent revolution to the law of uneven and combined development

Posted on 14th October 2010 by ISJ

“Trotsky is the one for whom there is no room either in pre-1990 Really Existing Socialism or in post-1990 Really Existing Capitalism, in which even those who are nostalgic for Communism do not know what to do with Trotsky’s permanent… Continue Reading →

Analysis Tony Cliff, Trotskyism
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