Leon Trotsky

A reply to Edward Luce of the Financial Times on youth radicalization

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:09:07 GMT

David North replies on X to Financial Times columnist Edward Luce on the radicalization of youth and the rediscovery of Trotsky.

Public Lecture: Trotsky, Stalin and the 1926 British General Strike

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:25:25 GMT

This lecture marking the centenary of the 1926 general strike was delivered by Socialist Equality Party (UK) National Secretary Chris Marsden to public meetings in Sheffield, Manchester, Inverness, London and Glasgow,

Trotsky’s My Life: An imperishable contribution to Marxism and world literature

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:48:22 GMT

Mehring Verlag, the publishing house of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party) in Germany, will soon release a new German-language edition of Leon Trotsky’s My Life. Written from exile in 1929, the autobiography is at once a literary masterpiece and an essential document of revolutionary history.

The reality of US-Israel relations—Part 2

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:11:26 GMT

Reducing the origins of the war to the manoeuvres of the Israel lobby or the decisions of Israel’s government sidelines the historical, geopolitical, socio‑economic and class dynamics that have shaped the conflict.

Socialist Equality Party (UK) public meetings on 1926 General Strike: Attend this weekend in London and Glasgow

Fri, 29 May 2026 17:00:34 GMT

The final two public meetings being held by the Socialist Equality Party (UK) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 General Strike are being held this weekend in London (Saturday May 30) and Glasgow (Sunday May 31). We urge SEP supporters and WSWS readers to attend these important events.

Communist Party Marxist - Kenya defends counter-revolutionary Maoist strategy against Trotskyism—Part 5

Thu, 28 May 2026 18:43:36 GMT

This five-part series examines the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, its defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.

Communist Party Marxist - Kenya defends counter-revolutionary Maoist strategy against Trotskyism—Part 4

Wed, 27 May 2026 18:06:01 GMT

This five-part series examines the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, its defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.

Communist Party Marxist - Kenya defends counter-revolutionary Maoist strategy against Trotskyism—Part 2

Mon, 25 May 2026 18:11:40 GMT

This five-part series examines the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, its defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.

Communist Party Marxist - Kenya defends counter-revolutionary Maoist strategy against Trotskyism—Part 1

Sun, 24 May 2026 18:25:54 GMT

Part one of a five-part series examining the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, this article exposes the party’s defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Revolution and its opposition to Trotskyism.

Trotsky and the British General Strike of 1926

Wed, 13 May 2026 12:43:04 GMT

To mark 100 years since the end of the 1926 General Strike (on May 12, 1926), the WSWS is republishing a lecture by Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK). The lecture, "Trotsky and the British General Strike of 1926" was delivered at the SEP (US) International Summer School, held August 2-9, 2025.

Mehring Yayıncılık holds first cinema screening of Tsar to Lenin in Türkiye

Wed, 06 May 2026 00:21:43 GMT

Mehring Yayıncılık successfully held the first cinema screening in Türkiye of the unique documentary Tsar to Lenin.

Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British General Strike

Tue, 05 May 2026 17:00:41 GMT

May 4 marked 100 years since the beginning of the 1926 British General Strike. The strike, defeated after nine days, was a pivotal experience for the working class in Britain and internationally.

Campaign begins for meetings on 100 years since British General Strike

Fri, 01 May 2026 16:48:03 GMT

Reports from SEP branches in London, Sheffield and Inverness are featured.

Spain’s Workers’ Revolutionary Current channels anti-war sentiment behind social democrats, pseudo-left parties and union bureaucracy

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:07:58 GMT

The CRT advances the “unity of left” with the trade union bureaucracy to contain and prevent workers from breaking with the pro-war parties of the capitalist state.

VIDEO: London meeting marks a milestone in the history of the Fourth International

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:20:00 GMT

The public meeting was addressed by a panel of speakers, including David North, chairperson of the World Socialist Web Site and of the Socialist Equality Party of the United States. As the leader of the US Workers League, forerunner of the US SEP, North played the leading role in the struggle against the political degeneration of the WRP leadership.

London meeting marks 40 years since the expulsion of the Workers Revolutionary Party

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:03:19 GMT

The Workers Revolutionary Party’s expulsion from the International Committee of the Fourth International in the mid-1980s was a defining moment in the history of the international socialist movement. At stake was the survival of Trotskyism, of revolutionary Marxism as an organised political tendency.

Emergency Exits: Britain’s brutal counterinsurgency wars, retreat from empire and historical memory

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:27:33 GMT

The “Emergencies” in Kenya, Malaya and Cyprus that are the subject of the Imperial War Museum’s current exhibition were fought to preserve the advantages of empire at a moment when Britain’s global position was collapsing.

Turkish parliamentary committee overwhelmingly approves report on negotiations with Kurdish Workers Party

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:54:27 GMT

The parliamentary commission established as part of Turkey’s negotiations with the PKK mainly advances the outlook of the Erdoğan government while receiving the support of the Kurdish DEM Party.

World Socialist Revolution is the answer to imperialist war and fascism

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:18:59 GMT

David North delivered lectures online at the invitation of Social Democracy clubs at Bilkent University and Middle East Technical University, both located in Ankara, Turkey. The lectures were delivered on February 17 and 19.

David North to speak at two universities in Ankara, Turkey: “The American volcano and the global tsunami”

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:18:17 GMT

David North, Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (United States), will deliver lectures via video conferences.

Comrades in Art: How Stalinism ruined the Artists’ International Association

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:34:28 GMT

In its early phase many members genuinely looked to revolutionary change—an orientation that was later crushed by the rise of Stalinism and the Popular Front policies it imposed on the communist parties and their periphery.

Mehring Yayıncılık publishes The Historical and International Foundations of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:08:25 GMT

The Foundations, like its counterparts around the world, shows that the outcome of modern Türkiye’s history requires the working class to secure its political and organizational independence from all representatives of the ruling class and to mobilize on the basis of an international socialist programme in the struggle for democracy and social equality.

The Artamonov Business (1925): Maxim Gorky and the Russian Revolution

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:39:27 GMT

Gorky’s novel, chronicling the vast social changes and processes that led to the 1917 October Revolution, deserves the widest possible rediscovery and recognition today, a century after being published.

Public Meeting: Trotskyism and the fight for revolutionary leadership

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:06:03 GMT

At stake was the survival of Trotskyism, of revolutionary Marxism, as an organised political tendency. The ICFI’s victory over the WRP, and expulsion of those who refused to accept its socialist internationalist principles, was an event of global, historic significance.

Attacking the WSWS, the Communist Party Marxist–Kenya salutes the gravedigger of the revolution, Stalin

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:25:08 GMT

The CPM-K proudly proclaims its unrestrained backing for the monstrous crimes of Stalinism that destroyed the Bolshevik Party, annihilated workers’ democracy, liquidated revolutionary Marxism through terror, and subordinated the international working class to the interests of a privileged bureaucratic caste.

The interests of US imperialism in Syria and the Middle East and the bankruptcy of the nationalist perspective

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:23:19 GMT

With protests in Iran raising the prospect of regime change and US military intervention, Washington opted to rely on HTS to cut the Gordian knot in Syria.

Introduction: Ukraine as the Object of World Counterrevolution, by Mikhail Pavlovich

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:55:59 GMT

We hope that the publication of this translation and the rediscovery of Mikhail Pavlovich will contribute to the political education of the working class, now confronted, once again, with imperialist war and fascist barbarism.

Mehring Yayıncılık holds screenings of Tsar to Lenin in Istanbul and Izmir

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:03:16 GMT

At events held by Trotskyist publisher Mehring Yayıncılık to screen the documentary film Tsar to Lenin, Ulaş Sevinç, chairman of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, gave a speech on the relevance of the October Revolution of 1917.

Attendees speak on London public lecture by David North, and announcement of Socialism AI

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:08:50 GMT

World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to some of those who attended the Socialist Equality Party event held in London on November 22,“The American Volcano: Towards Fascism or Socialism”.

The December 9 protest in Tanzania, Nyerere’s “African Socialism” and the struggle for Permanent Revolution—Part One

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:46:26 GMT

CCM’s bloody crackdown after the fraudulent October 29 vote flows from the class foundations of Julius Nyerere’s African Socialism and Pan-Africanism, whose rise was paved by Stalinism and Pabloism.

The Barnes group and the decline and fall of the Socialist Workers Party

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:02:11 GMT

This lecture examines the steady degeneration of the SWP in the aftermath of the ICFI's launching of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.

The artistry and revolutionary spirit of Soviet Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:16:50 GMT

Born in 1897 and executed in 1937, Charents' life spanned the decisive events of the 20th century’s first half. He was a revolutionist, a socialist and a master of the written form.

The Carleton Twelve

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 02:29:37 GMT

This lecture addresses the discovery that 12 prominent leaders of the Socialist Workers Party all came from the same small Midwestern college.

The CPM-K’s “Letter to the Kenyan Left”: An attempt to inherit Odinga’s pro-capitalist legacy

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:05:36 GMT

Whatever form such regroupments take, the Permanent Revolutionary Congress and Kongomano la Mapinduzi share with the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya a fundamental orientation toward the capitalist state. These projects are designed to steer the Gen-Z revolt and the emerging strike movement against low wages and austerity back into safe parliamentary channels.

The Security and the Fourth International investigation deepens

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 03:00:42 GMT

This lecture reviews in detail the key developments in the Security and the Fourth International investigation in 1976-77, as the ICFI relentlessly pursued the truth behind the GPU conspiracy to murder Leon Trotsky.

Joseph Hansen’s reply to Security and the Fourth International

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:15:10 GMT

This lecture examines Joseph Hansen’s initial attack on the Security and the Fourth International investigation and the International Committee’s principled reply, documenting the evidence at issue, the political stakes for revolutionary security, and the IC’s demand for an impartial inquiry.

Orwell: 2+2=5–Raoul Peck’s film about George Orwell and contemporary events

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 03:51:53 GMT

What is one to make of the events referenced to in 2+2=5, many of them disturbing or even horrifying? And what is to be done about them?

Dmitry Barinov’s “Zinoviev, Trotsky, University”: An important contribution to the history of the Left Opposition

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 04:33:30 GMT

Barinov has produced the most extensive account yet of the work of the Opposition in Leningrad, its structure, leading figures and activities among students and the working class.

How the GPU Murdered Trotsky

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:41:38 GMT

This volume presents the documents published during the first year of the Security and the Fourth International investigation, launched by the ICFI in May 1975.

Revisionism, spies and cover-ups: The origins of the Security and the Fourth International investigation

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:29:10 GMT

A political understanding of the significance of security is inseparable from the fight for Trotskyism. Diminishing the security question is a product of revisionism.

The Historical and International Foundations of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International)

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:59:27 GMT

This document traces the central historical experiences of the working class and Marxist movement in the 20th and 21st centuries, and establishes the principled foundations for the building of the Trotskyist movement in Turkey and throughout the region.

Child dies amid far-right anti-immigrant campaign cultivated by South Africa’s ANC

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:51:45 GMT

The African National Congress’s scapegoating of foreigners has paved the way for a wave of far-right vigilantism in South Africa.

How the GPU Murdered Leon Trotsky

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 01:26:33 GMT

This lecture examines Stalin’s campaign to murder Leon Trotsky—tracing the GPU’s infiltration, the failed Siqueiros raid, and Ramon Mercader’s successful 1940 assassination—while situating Trotsky’s final theoretical battles and enduring revolutionary legacy amid the approach of world war.

How the GPU murdered Leon Sedov and other Trotskyists

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:41:20 GMT

This lecture focuses on the infiltration of the Trotskyist movement by the Stalinist agent Mark Zborowski during the 1930s, and the assassination of key leaders including Trotsky's son Leon Sedov.

The Stalinist counterrevolution during the Spanish Civil War

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:41:36 GMT

The Stalinist counter-revolution during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) crushed one of the twentieth century’s greatest revolutionary uprisings, when millions of workers and peasants fought to overthrow capitalism and fascism.

Treason trial of South Sudan’s Vice President threatens to reignite civil war

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:01:27 GMT

The SPLM-IO, formed after the December 2013 massacres of Nuer civilians in Juba, is the armed and political movement representing Machar’s core power base. President Salva Kiir has relied heavily on fighters from his Dinka base, the country’s largest ethnic group. These forces formed the backbone of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and, after independence, the national army.

Political genocide in the USSR (1936-1940): The Moscow Trials and the Dewey Commission

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:41:34 GMT

This is the first part of the lecture “Political Genocide in the USSR (1936-1940)” delivered by Fred Williams, Katja Rippert, and Alejandro Lopez to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.

Greetings to the Founding Congress of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:39:07 GMT

These greetings from Socialist Equality Party (US) national chairman David North were sent to the founding congress of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, held on June 13–15, 2025.

Opening Report to the Founding Congress of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:04:07 GMT

This report explains the historical and international foundations and political perspectives of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, placing them in the context of the deepening crisis of the global capitalist system and the struggle for socialist revolution today.

Trotsky’s The Revolution Betrayed, the counter-revolutionary Stalinist bureaucracy and the call for a political revolution in the Soviet Union

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 01:16:14 GMT

The following report was delivered by Jordan Shilton to the 2025 Summer School of the Socialist Equality Party (US) on the history of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.