R.I.P. or Long Live Trotskyism?
Shamus Cooke responds to John Kelly’s new work on the world Trotskyist movement, ‘Twilight of World Trotskyism,’ arguing that the core elements of Trotskyism remain …
Trotskyism
Two Souls Within His Breast: Georg Lukács, 1925-29
Lawrence Parker argues that existing Trotskyist schemas around the revolutionary career of Georg Lukács in the mid-to-late 1920s are fallacious in the extreme. Introduction In …
Letter: Bryan Palmer, Trotskyism, and James Cannon
I’m not going to spend the money on a thousand-page book by Palmer. I caught him falsifying a reference in another book and wrote him …
The Comics vs. the Communists: The Left During the Comic Book Scare
Hank Kennedy presents and assesses the many reactions to comic books by different strata of the socialist Left during the Comic Book Scare of the …
Obscured Accomplishments: Comments on James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38
Brendan Campisi reviews historian Bryan D. Palmer’s most recent work on the life of U.S. left-wing stalwart and founding figure of the U.S. Trotskyist movement …
Setting the Record Straight: On the Trotskyist-led 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike, the Teamsters Bureaucracy & its Aftermath
Trotskyist Teamsters took a leading role in a historic labor upsurge and clashed with a corrupt leadership under Dan Tobin. Twenty-four-year Teamster Edgar Esquivel tells …