New demands and concepts should be introduced in a logical and relevant manner " A group of member who were uncomfortable with this distancing from Trotskyist ideology broke away in 1973 and formed the Revolutionary Socialist League in 1973, taking about a third of the membership.

Stalin countered Trotskyist criticism by making a secret speech in which he said that Chiang's right wing Kuomintang were the only ones capable of defeating the imperialists, that Chiang Kai-shek had funding from the rich merchants, and that his forces were to be utilized until squeezed for all usefulness like a lemon before being discarded.

However this was countered with the argument that the clear determination of the Labour leadership under Neil Kinnock to destroy Trotskyist influence in the party, as well as Labour's move away from socialist policies, had changed the situation in the party.

The details of his meeting with Kamenev, to whom he confided that Stalin was “ Genghis Khan ” and changed policies to get rid of rivals, were leaked by Trotskyist press and subjected him to accusation of factionalism.

Even after the Soviet repudiation of Stalin and de-stalinization, Trotskyism continued to be regarded as politically discredited and there was very little renewed support for Trotskyist ideas, particularly when it came to those already committed to another form of communism.

Deutscher was still a committed Trotskyist, but in the book Deutscher gave Stalin what he saw as his due for building a form of socialism in the Soviet Union, even if it was, in Deutscher's view, a perversion of the vision of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky.

He supported his father in the struggle against Joseph Stalin and became a leader of the Trotskyist movement in his own right.

In that year Dimitrov had noted in his diary of a private conversation with Stalin regarding Münzenberg, in which Stalin had exclaimed that " Münzenberg is a Trotskyist.

According to its website, " he Stalin Society was formed in 1991 to defend Stalin and his work on the basis of fact and to refute capitalist, revisionist, opportunist and Trotskyist propaganda directed against him.

Dissidents in the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, witnessing the collaboration of Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler in the invasion and partition of Poland and Soviet invasion of the Baltic states, argued that the Soviet Union had actually emerged as a new social formation, neither capitalist nor socialist.

Historian Robert V. Daniels holds that " neo-Stalinism prevailed politically for more than a quarter of a century after Stalin himself left the scene ," Following the Trotskyist comprehension of Stalin's policies as a deviation from the path of Marxism-Leninism, George Novack described Khrushchev's politics as guided by a " neo-Stalinist line ," its principle being that " the socialist forces can conquer all opposition even in the imperialist centers, not by the example of internal class power, but by the external power of Soviet example ," explaining that " Khrushchev ’ s innovations at the Twentieth Congress.

Historian Geoff Andrews ' explains ‘ it was the role of the shop stewards in organising the Broad Lefts and influencing trade union leaders that was the key rather than organising the rank and file in defiance of leaderships ’ and so the party withdrew from rank-and-file organisations like the Building Workers Charter, and attacked " Trotskyist " tactics at the Pilkington Glass dispute in 1970.

Max Shachtman and his supporters then considered themselves Trotskyists, though they had broken with Trotsky ’ s Fourth International in 1940, abandoning the Trotskyist program of unconditional military defense of the USSR as World War II began.

During his youth as a medical student at the University of São Paulo ’ s Ribeirão Preto Medical School, Palocci took part in several radical left wing movements, notably in Libelu, a Brazilian Trotskyist organization.

By the middle of June the political situation in Barcelona had deteriorated and the POUM — painted by the pro-Soviet Communists as a Trotskyist organisation — was outlawed and under attack.

In Trotskyist parties, the Politburo is a bureau of the Central Committee tasked with making day-to-day political decisions, which must later be ratified by the Central Committee.

Isolated from each other, and faced with political developments quite unlike those anticipated by Trotsky, some Trotskyist organizations decided that the Soviet Union no longer could be called a degenerated workers state and withdrew from the Fourth International.

Trotskyists ' response to that situation has been in the form of its broad array of Trotskyist Internationals, almost all of whom are bitterly divided over which organisation represents the " true " Fourth Internationalist political continuity.

Category: Trotskyist political internationals

As editor of the Trotskyist movement's ongoing theoretical magazine, The New International, Max Shachtman delivered the first official report to the gathering, dealing with the political situation in the United States.

In 1954 Lyotard became a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie, a French political organisation formed in 1948 around the inadequacy of the Trotskyist analysis to explain the new forms of domination in the Soviet Union.

Its political history is complex and sometimes baffling even to insiders: for instance, the politics of the Coloured communities of the Cape Flats have included Trotskyist activism in earlier years, and mobilization for the United Democratic Front in the 80s ; and then, widespread support for the historically white National Party ( which had presided over apartheid ) in the early post-apartheid elections.

While their conclusions differ, works by mainstream Trotskyist theoreticians such as Robert Chester, Joseph Hansen, Michael Löwy and Livio Maitan related it to post-war political developments in Algeria, Cuba and elsewhere.

A radical activist in the 1930s and an important factional leader of the American Trotskyist movement, in later years Burnham left Marxism and turned to the political Right, serving as a public intellectual of the American conservative movement, and producing the work for which he is best known, The Managerial Revolution, published in 1941.

* Internationalist Communist Union, an international grouping of Trotskyist political parties

The Socialist Party is a Trotskyist political party in England and Wales.

In accordance with a perceived need for internationalism, the Socialist Party is a member of the Committee for a Workers ' International, an organisation of Trotskyist political parties from across the globe.

This party, along with a number of small Trotskyist groups, maintains the Communist tradition in Australia, but none of these groups is of any political significance.

Workers ' Struggle ( ) is the usual name under which the Communist Union (), a French Trotskyist political party, is known, after the name of its weekly paper.

The Revolutionary Communist League ( Ligue communiste révolutionnaire ) ( LCR ) was a Trotskyist political party in France.

A number of political organizations have emerged from the Trotskyist movement which have considered themselves to be Marxist.

*" Radicalism in the thirties: the Trotskyist view " in As we saw the thirties: essays on social and political movements of a decade Edited by Rita James Simon.

Scottish Militant Labour ( SML ) was a minor Trotskyist political party operating in Scotland in the 1990s and was part of the Committee for a Workers ' International.

A series of influential parties in the Brazilian political scene emerged from the PC-SBIC, such as the Brazilian Communist Party ( PCB ), the Revolutionary Communist Party ( PCR ), in addition to all Trotskyist and Stalinist groups that have been organized ever since.

* The Trotskyist Dissence ( 1928 ): In mid-1928, PC-SBIC suffered its first schism, when a small group of Marxist intellectuals broke with the political theses of PC-SBIC influenced by Leon Trotsky's Left Opposition, and its criticism to Stalinism prevailing as the official ideology of the Communist International and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Category: Trotskyist political internationals

The International Communist League can refer to several Trotskyist political parties:

Category: Trotskyist political internationals

Observing events from French Morocco Orwell wrote that they were "— only a by-product of the Russian Trotskyist trials and from the start every kind of lie, including flagrant absurdities, has been circulated in the Communist press.

James, Russian expatriate Raya Dunayevskaya, and Chinese-American Grace Lee Boggs, all of whom were members of a US based Trotskyist intellectual cohort.

Debate still continues as to whether he had been forced to write it, and it is known that some years beforehand he had seen many of his Trotskyist friends arrested and killed by the Russian secret police.

American Trotskyist leader James P. Cannon, in his 1942 book History of American Trotskyism, wrote that " Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.

In Trotskyist political theory, deformed workers ' states are states where the bourgeoisie has been overthrown through social revolution, the industrial means of production have been largely nationalized bringing benefits to the working class, but where the working class has never held political power ( as it did in Russia shortly after the Russian Revolution ).