Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BASU Anjan
Seventy-eight years ago on August 21, an assassin’s hatchet snuffed out the life of Leon Trotsky in his last refuge on the planet.
[The publication of this article in The Wire is important for the Indian militant left. ESSF]
While convalescing in an Oslo hospital in September-October, 1935 (…)
, by McLEMEE Scott
Every so often, one scholar will assess another’s book so harshly that it becomes legendary. The most durable example must be A.E. Housman, whose anti-blurbs retain their sting after a century and more. Housman is best-known for the verse in his collection A Shropeshire Lad (1896). But (…)
, by ALI Tariq, KIRSTY Jane
Today’s guest contributor, Tariq Ali, is a writer, activist and political commentator. A leading figure of the Trotskyist movement in the sixties and seventies, Ali’s engagement with Trotsky goes far beyond party politics. I met up with him at the Edinburgh Book Festival, where he was (…)
, by BENJAMIN Alan
July 24, 2010
Dear Friends:
I am writing this letter to ask for your support for the “International Friends of the Leon Trotsky Museum” in Mexico City.
I — along with many others around the world — was asked by the Museum’s new director, Olivia Gall, and by Trotsky’s grandson, Esteban (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
A review of: Robert Service. Trotsky: A Biography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. 600 pages, including end notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.
Robert Service has written, to great acclaim, a new biography of Leon Trotsky. “Trotsky moved like a bright comet across the (…)
, by ALI Tariq
Tariq Ali on Trotsky by Robert Service and Stalin’s Nemesis by Bertrand M Patenaude.
Trotsky: A Biography, by Robert Service 600pp, Macmillan, £25
Stalin’s Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky, by Bertrand M Patenaude 352pp, Faber, £20
For over half a century, Isaac Deutscher’s (…)
, by WEISSMAN Susan
IN THE MOTHER of all factional struggles within the Soviet elite, during the “glasnost” of the 1980s, none other than Boris Yeltsin recruited the memory of Leon Trotsky in his anti-privilege campaign against corrupt party apparatchiks. Gorbachev, the wiser, neutralized Trotsky and undercut the (…)
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