
Unity & Strategy
Ideas for Revolution / The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution and other writings
I.M.G.Publications (Publisher)
Published on 12. February 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-902869-66-0 (ISBN)
Description
One of the major challenges for socialists is to build an anti-capitalist movement that connects daily struggles to the goal of overthrowing capitalism. Leon Trotsky was a leading marxist strategic thinker. His answer to this challenge was that socialists should build movements which unite working people around their own needs. In such movements,
socialists should urge working people to trust in their own power and formulate goals that break with capitalism.
This book contains an updated translation of the founding document of the Fourth International organised by Trotsky, The Transitional Program. In this work, Trotsky lays out his strategy for socialist revolution. The book also contains classic and contemporary articles delving into different aspects of revolutionary strategy. Together with The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution, these documents make the book a valuable tool for activists thinking about how to defeat capitalism. Contributions by Daniel Bensaïd, Steve Bloom, James Burnham, Duncan
Hallas, Tom Kerry, Piers Mostyn, Michel Pablo, and John Riddell.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Resistance Books
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
344 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-902869-66-0 (9780902869660)
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Leon Trotsky was one of the most prominent leaders of the Russian Revolution in 1917. He was one of the primary contenders for the leadership of the Bolshevik Party in 1922 after the death of Lenin. When Stalin took this post, Trotsky swiftly concluded that the Revolution had been undermined. He was expelled from the Communist Party in 1927 and subsequently went into exile in Mexico, where he was assassinated by Soviet agents in 1940.