22 August 2010
Yorkshire Socialist Party Trotsky Picnic
22 August 2010: Socialist Party members across Yorkshire are marking 70 years since the assination of Leon Trotsky. Join us in Hyde Park, Leeds on Sunday 22nd August at 12noon where we will hold a commemorative family...
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Leon Trotsky |
18 August 2010
The legacy of Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky, a revolutionary leader of the Russian revolution, was murdered on 20 August 1940 by an agent of Stalin. His role in the 1917 revolution, the greatest single event in human history, alone makes his writings worthy of study.
The ideas and methods of the Socialist Party and the socialist international to which it is affiliated, the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), are based on Trotsky's, alongside those of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin.
70 years after his death Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, assesses the contribution of Trotsky's ideas to the struggle for socialism in the 21st century.
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4 August 2010
The howlers' world and ours
Review: The Lacuna: THE LACUNA is written as the diary of a solitary young man, Harrison Shepherd, who ends up working as a cook for the Mexican artist Diego Rivera and then the exiled Leon Trotsky, one of the leaders of the 1917 Russian revolution, writes Hannah Sell.
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Peter Taaffe answers the Hoover institute video debate on Robert Service's book on Trotsky |
29 July 2010
In defence of Leon Trotsky
In defence of Leon Trotsky: Five part video discussion with general secretary Peter Taaffe
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30 June 2010
Trotsky admirer copies his idol
"ONE, TWO, three, four, five, we deserve to unionise!' sing the red pom-pommed cheerleaders outside the warehouse...
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18 June 2010
Sessions
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Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution by Harold Isaacs |
19 May 2010
The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution by Harold Isaacs
Review: The Chinese revolution of 1925-27 represented one of the most gigantic and splendid movements in human history. This book, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, evokes with great literary brush strokes the magnificent panorama of the heroism, self-sacrifice and determination to change the world of the terribly exploited Chinese workers and peasants...
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Onay Kasab addressed lobby of Unison HQ to protest against banning from office of Socialist Party members, photo Alison Hill |
10 February 2010
Trotskyism on trial
Unison witch-hunt: Employment Tribunal: Trade union activists expect class bias in the courts and employment tribunals. But rarely has a tribunal delivered such a blatantly biased judgment based on class interest. The employment tribunal judge...
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6 January 2010
Videos of Socialism 2009: In defence of Leon Trotsky
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, replies to the latest attacks on Leon Trotsky, leader with Vladimir Lenin of the Russian revolution and Stalin's foremost opponent.
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27 November 2009
British Marxist debates Stalin and Trotsky
CWI represented in Moscow debate: It's certainly the first time that the first speaker at a meeting in which the CWI participated was a Russian orthodox priest in full robe speaking through video link from St Petersburg...
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