Socialism or barbarism More than a decade ago, with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the strategists of Capital launched an unprecedented ideological offensive against socialism and Marxism. For them, capitalism had won. However, what had collapsed was not socialism, but a system of bureaucratic rule, i.e., Stalinism. Nevertheless, this ferocious offensive had the effect of starting an ideological stampede to the right within the working class movement internationally.
On the 65th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky, a 1988 reminiscence from Jake Cooper Following our previous article on the 65th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky we publish this interview with Jake Cooper. He was one of Trotsky’s guards in Mexico who was present in the house at the time of the assassination.
Sixty-five years since Trotsky's Death Yesterday marked the 65th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky. He had been brutally struck down on August 20, 1940 by the hand of an assassin, an agent of Joseph Stalin, and rushed to hospital where he died at 7.25 p.m. the following day. He was sixty years old. On this commemoration, Rob Sewell takes a look at Trotsky’s life.
