In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the life and thought of Leon Trotsky, particularly among the youth. In response, a number of deplorable biographies have appeared, including those ...

A couple of weeks ago an Australian friend and fellow Marxist raised some interesting questions about film: I have just moved to the capital city of the state and attended my first film festival. I ...

Mehring Books continues its Winter Recommended Reading Series, in which writers for the World Socialist Web Site are asked to share their thoughts about works of Marxist literature that have ...

AS the Jacobin magazine website's series of articles commemorating the Russian Revolution draws to its close, we should consider the single most compelling account of that moment. Written by one of ...

It isn’t every day you have lunch with the weapon that killed Leon Trotsky. Or that you find yourself seated next to Jonna Mendez, the former CIA Intelligence Officer, who with her husband, Tony (of ...

Leon Trotsky's life spanned the inspiring highs and tragic lows of the international socialist movement in the 20th century--a leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution that gave us our first and best ...

Trotsky, reading a copy of The Militant newspaper, date unknown. (Wikimedia Commons) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...

It's 75 years since Trotsky, already expelled from the Soviet Communist Party and exiled, went to start a new life in Mexico. But he was hunted down in Mexico City by Stalinist assassins, as his ...

Tony Blair has disclosed how he was inspired to enter politics by the example of the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. The former prime minister, who remains a hate figure for many on the left, said ...