* 26 July-Pierre Broué, historian and Trotskyist ( born 1926 ).

Pierre Broué ( 1926, Privas, Ardèche – July 26, 2005, Grenoble ) was a French historian and Trotskyist.

The leaders of the majority of the Trotskyist organisation in France, Marcel Bleibtreu and Pierre Lambert, refused to follow the line of the International.

After attempts to revive the Trotskyist Group, Voix Ouvrière was founded in 1956 by Robert Barcia, known as Hardy and the group's pre-eminent leader, and by Pierre Bois, a leading activist in the Renault plant.

It was formed by the Trotskyist Internationalist Communist Party ( PCI ) led by Pierre Boussel, better known under his pseudonym Pierre Lambert, together with a number of other socialists with whom they worked in the Force Ouvrière union confederation.

Most Trotskyist organisations joined forces to defend the SWP leadership, including the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, Pierre Lambert's OCI, Nahuel Moreno's PST, Robertson's Spartacist League, the Chinese RCP, Lutte Ouvrière, the Revolutionary Workers Party in Sri Lanka and the SWP united to brand it " a Shameless Frame-up ".

Pierre Lambert ( June 9, 1920 – January 16, 2008 ) ( real name Pierre Boussel ) was a French Trotskyist leader, who, for many years acted as the central leader of the French Courant Communiste Internationaliste ( CCI ) which founded the Parti des Travailleurs.

Lajoinie was faced with competition for the far-left vote by a " reforming Communist ", Pierre Juquin and a Trotskyist, Arlette Laguiller.

They noted that Joseph Hansen had met FBI agents numerous times over a number of months in 1940 to give them information about Stalinists in the US alleged to have participated in the assassination of Trotsky, and claimed that this was done without the knowledge of the Trotskyist movement.

Others disputed the label and noted LaRouche's background as a Marxist / Trotskyist from the 1940s until the early 1970s.

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.

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.

The list of Trotskyist internationals shows that there are a large number of other multinational tendencies that stand in the tradition of Leon Trotsky.

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.

Bordiga throughout his life called himself a Leninist and never polemicized against Lenin directly, but his totally different appreciation of the 1921 conjuncture, its consequences for the Comintern, and his opposition to Lenin and Trotsky on the united front issue illuminates a turning point that is generally obscured by the heirs of the Trotskyist wing of the international left opposition of the 1920s.

This tactic of " entering " the larger social democratic parties of each country, endorsed by Trotsky himself, became known as the " French Turn " and was replicated by various Trotskyist parties around the world.

There was no action to expel the Trotskyist Appeal faction, but pressure continued to build along these lines, egged on by the CPUSA's increasingly hysterical denunciations of Trotsky and his followers as wreckers and agents of international fascism.

The Socialist Workers Party broke formally with the Fourth International in 1990 though it had been increasingly inactive in the Trotskyist movement since National Secretary Jack Barnes ' 1982 speech, " Their Trotsky and Ours ", which some view as signaling a break with Trotskyism.

Since the assassination of Leon Trotsky in 1940, the theory of Permanent Revolution has been maintained by the various Trotskyist groups which have developed since then.

It was formed by the fusion of the Trotskyist Communist Left of Spain ( Izquierda Comunista de España, ICE ) and the Workers and Peasants ' Bloc ( BOC, affiliated with the Right Opposition ) against the will of Leon Trotsky, with whom the former broke.

It resulted from the merging of the Trotskyist Communist Left of Spain and the Workers and Peasants ' Bloc against the wishes of Trotsky, with whom the former broke.

In the same period Shachtman worked with Trotsky on international issues, arranging Trotsky's move from Norway to Mexico and playing a prominent role at several Trotskyist conferences that Trotsky could not attend.

While the party originally considered itself Trotskyist, is soon began to cease referring to Trotsky in their organ or to carry much, if any, Trotskyist literature.

The ICFI thought this reaction was surprising, given the role that state infiltration had played in the Trotskyist movement, including in the assassination of Trotsky.

The call for a Fifth International expressed the League's view that the Fourth International, founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938, had degenerated into non-revolutionary fragments since the end of the Second World War and now a new international must be built, with new forces, but one that expressed continuity with the Trotskyist tradition.

However, Trotskyist currents that have departed the Fourth International tend to present the Program as a work authored by Trotsky individually.

Those Trotskyist currents that split from the Fourth International before 1948 over differences with Trotsky on the Soviet Union tend to disagree with this interpretation and have adopted theories describing the post-war Stalinist states as being state capitalist or bureaucratic collectivist.

The Dewey Commission ( officially the " Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials ") was initiated in March 1937 by the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, a Trotskyist front organization.

Taaffe argues that " There is a long tradition going right back to the 1930s and Trotsky himself, of Trotskyist groups and organisations which endeavoured to find a base within the labour movement and working class.

Barnes ' article Their Trotsky and Ours also underpinned the party's decisions in the 1980s to abandon its support for Leon Trotsky's theory of Permanent Revolution, and its withdrawal from the world Trotskyist movement and the reunified Fourth International.

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.

They also believed that Labour had become too left-wing, and had been infiltrated at constituency level by Trotskyist factions whose views and behaviour they considered to be at odds with the Parliamentary Labour Party and Labour voters.

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.

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.

These included such significant groups as the Revolutionary Workers ' Party of Bolivia and the Lanka Sama Samaja Party in what was then Ceylon, but the previously large Vietnamese Trotskyist groups had mostly been eliminated or absorbed by the supporters of Ho Chi Minh.

Albert Houghton, originally a founding member of the Communist Party in Merseyside, had drawn Trotskyist conclusions and by 1939 had " long battled with the Stalinists " in the Labour Party in Merseyside.

Gradually, those members of the SSL who had not been associated with the IMG drifted out, and the SSL was reabsorbed into the Trotskyist Fourth International.

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.

He argued that the SWP had more in common with these organizations than with many groups calling themselves Trotskyist.

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.

The SWP included socialists like James Burnham which had come from A. J. Muste's party rather than from the Trotskyist tradition.

Alongside the WP's paper Labor Action, Shachtman continued to edit New International, the Trotskyist magazine which his supporters had taken with them on resigning from the SWP.

It ended with a minutes silence to salute three Trotskyist leaders and eight Provisional IRA volunteers who had died in the preceding year.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the Trotskyist Militant tendency had been a significant force within the British Labour Party.

The Trotskyist Militant tendency, working in the Labour Party, had gradually increased their support.

By the mid 1980s the only trace of Trotskyist ideology still espoused by the WWP was the idea of the USSR and other Communist controlled countries as degenerated workers ' states who had to be defended against imperialism even if their leaderships needed to be criticized.

Trotskyist parties had a large influence in Sri Lanka and Bolivia.

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 Australian section of the Spartacist League, which had previously been involved in IBT events, split again in 2005, with one member leaving to found the Trotskyist Platform.