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Fourth International

Origins of Trotskyism

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Rob Sewell
06 September 2018

"The development of the International Left Opposition is proceeding amidst sharp crises that cast the fainthearted and the short-sighted into pessimism. In reality these crises are completely unavoidable. One has only to read the correspondence of Marx and Engels attentively, or to preoccupy oneself seriously with the history of the development of the Bolshevik Party to realise how complicated, how difficult, how full of contradictions the process of developing revolutionary cadres is."

Leon Trotsky on Organisational Problems

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Fred Zeller
05 June 2018

The following are new translations of excerpts from Trois points c’est tout by Fred Zeller (1912-2003). Zeller, who, at the time, was the secretary of the Seine (Paris) Young Socialists and a sympathiser of the Trotskyist movement in the mid-1930s, visited Trotsky in Norway at the end of October 1935. This was at the time when the Socialist Party leaders were expelling the left from the Young Socialists as well as dissolving the Bolshevik Leninist tendency, whose members had joined the SFIO in late 1934.

Keeping the International alive: a history of the Fourth International

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Ted Sprague
16 April 2012
Trotsky, Lenin and Kamenev in 1919.

This article was originally written for an Indonesian audience, but we believe it is of value for all our readers. It points out the conditions in which the Fourth International came into being and its subsequent demise, but also points to the future when a new and powerful Marxist international organisation must be formed out of the revolutionary events that impend.

More Articles ...

  1. Introduction to "Ted Grant Selected Works Vol. 2"
  2. Trotsky and the struggle for a Revolutionary International (1933-1946)
  3. Esteban Volkov: Return to Prinkipo
  4. Into the Whirlwind: Trotskyism in the 1930s
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