MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
What is it with Trotsky and Trotskyism?
The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY explains the importance of distinguishing Leon Trotsky from Trotskyism
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) and Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Leon Trotsky) among Soviet leaders in Red Square, Moscow celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the October Revolution on November 7 1919
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A 1936 confrontation with Mosley’s BUF became part of a wider international struggle, with local activists later joining the fight against fascism in the Spanish civil war. TONY FOX tells the story ahead of a 90th anniversary commemoration event
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A LETTER in the Morning Star last year asked: “What is it with Trotsky?”
Other readers joined in, one pointing out that there is now more information available on Trotsky himself, another referring to reassessments of Trotsky and his legacy among left and labour movement historians.
One letter asked for something to “get us sorted out” in relation to the person and to the politics which bears his name. That could be a tall order in a single page, but here’s a start.
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