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The political cul-de-sac of Trotskyism
JOHN GREEN recommends an insightful analysis of a movement driven by dogmatism and a personality cult
Leon Trotsky in 1918 [Public Domain]

The Twilight of World Trotskyism
By John Kelly
(Routledge, £44.99)

JOHN KELLY’S new book on Trotskyism could not appear at a more opportune moment.

Faced with an economic and political system struggling to maintain its global hegemony, the left has rarely been offered such an opportunity to present an alternative.

However, since the Bolshevik Revolution, the left has been divided on how best to build a socialist alternative.

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