Socialist Appeal
The British section of the International Marxist Tendency
Today marks the centenary of Lenin’s ‘Testament’, in which he took up the struggle against Stalin and the bureaucratisation of the Soviet state. His Testament – suppressed for decades – dispels the slander that Stalinism was the continuation of Leninism.
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR. The most powerful deformed workers’ state was collapsing into chaos as supposed communists were looting the state and its assets. The workers of the Soviet Union had to pay the price.
We publish here extracts from Alan Woods' introduction to the new Wellred Books' edition of Ted Grant's Russia: from Revolution to Counter-revolution, republished this year to celebrate the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution. In this intro, Alan discusses the enormous gains of the revolution - and how they were destroyed by Stalinist degeneration.
Alan Woods discusses Trotsky’s great unfinished work, Stalin: a unique piece of Marxist literature that attempts to explain some of the most decisive events of the 20th century, not just in terms of epoch-making economic and social transformations, but in the individual psychology of those who appear as protagonists in a great historical drama. Support the publication of Trotsky's Stalin by Wellred Books by making a pledge today.
Continuing our commemoration marking the 75th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky, we publish here an introduction by Alan Woods to Trotsky's masterpiece: the Revolution Betrayed.