Quite right mr trotsky biography
Some Trotsky Myths Debunked and How Trotskyists Today Hamper the Fight for Peace and Socialism....
Trotsky, born into a wealthy landowning family in , had initially supported the semi-anarchist.
Quite Right, Mr Trotsky!
April 15,
Recently, there was a local march against Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s expensive decision in favour of completely re-locating its HQ. Imagining the hidden hand of ex-Militant as well as former fascist BNP members in its organisation, a local Labour councillor (who should have known better) called it a march of Trotskyists and racists.
One of the real organisers – she was actually politically unaligned - said to a friend of mine, “I’m certainly not a racist… and I don’t know what a Trotskyist is!”
The world was very different in , when this book was published.
The great Miners’ Strike – 85 was still raging; the Soviet Union still existed; and the Cold War’s nuclear stand off was in its fourth decade. Thatcher polarised the country and leading Trotskyists such as Derek Hatton were front-page news.
Anyone involved with the left-wing politics of the era had to rub shoulders with activists from a multitude of (often tiny) sects, each claiming inspira