In Defense of Leon Trotsky
Netflix’s Trotsky: A toxic combination of historical fabrication and blatant anti-Semitism
By David North and Clara Weiss, 8 March 2019
Netflix is currently presenting to its worldwide audience the virulently anti-Semitic television series, Trotsky, which was originally produced by the Russian state in 2017.
Twenty years since the death of Marxist historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin
By David North, 18 September 2018
On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Vadim Rogovin, we republish two tributes to the greatest Soviet and Russian Marxist sociologist and historian of the second half of the twentieth century.
Seventy-eight years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
By Eric London and David North, 21 August 2018
On August 21, 1940, Leon Trotsky, the founder of the Fourth International and the co-leader of the Russian Revolution, died from wounds inflicted the day before by an assassin, the Stalinist GPU agent Ramon Mercader.
An “Exemplary Comrade”: The Socialist Workers Party’s 40-year-long cover-up of Stalinist spy Sylvia Callen: Part four
By Eric London, 17 August 2018
This is the final part in a four-part series examining the cover-up by the Socialist Workers Party, beginning in 1947, of information exposing the role of Sylvia Callen, the personal secretary of long-time party leader James P. Cannon, as a Stalinist agent.
An “Exemplary Comrade”: The Socialist Workers Party’s 40-year-long cover-up of Stalinist spy Sylvia Callen: Part three
By Eric London, 16 August 2018
This is the third part in a four-part series examining the cover-up by the Socialist Workers Party beginning in 1947 of information exposing the role of Sylvia Callen, the personal secretary of long-time party leader James P. Cannon, as a Stalinist agent.
An “Exemplary Comrade”: The Socialist Workers Party’s 40-year-long cover-up of Stalinist spy Sylvia Callen: Part two
By Eric London, 15 August 2018
This is the second part in a four-part series examining the cover-up by the Socialist Workers Party, beginning in 1947, of information exposing the role of Sylvia Callen, the personal secretary of long-time party leader James P. Cannon, as a Stalinist agent.
An “Exemplary Comrade”: The Socialist Workers Party’s 40-year-long cover-up of Stalinist spy Sylvia Callen: Part one
By Eric London, 14 August 2018
This is the first part in a four-part series examining the cover-up by the Socialist Workers Party beginning in 1947 of information exposing the role of Sylvia Callen, the personal secretary of long-time party leader James P. Cannon, as a Stalinist agent.
Public meetings in Australia mark 75th anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s murder
By our correspondents, 23 December 2015
There was intense interest as speakers explained the significance of Trotsky’s life and work, and why and how he was assassinated by Stalin’s secret police, the GPU.
Workers and youth speak on Trotsky’s life and death
By our correspondents, 23 December 2015
WSWS correspondents interviewed some of those who attended the meetings last week in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne on “How and Why the GPU Murdered Trotsky” [link]. Members of the audience were asked about why they had come to the meetings and what they thought were the most significant aspects of the reports delivered on Trotsky’s life, his assassination and the Security and the Fourth International investigation, conducted by the International Committee of the Fourth International, into the circumstances surrounding Trotsky’s murder.
David North to speak at public meetings in UK and US: Why and How the GPU Murdered Leon Trotsky
21 October 2015
A public meeting in London on Sunday November 22 has been added to a series of US meetings that will review the significance of Trotsky’s murder at the hands of the Stalinist GPU and the origins and findings of the Security and the Fourth International investigation.
World Socialist Web Site online interview commemorates 75 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
5 October 2015
The second part of the interview series will take place Saturday, October 10, at 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time.
Seventy-five years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
By David North, 30 September 2015
The assassination of the greatest leader of the 1917 October Revolution marked the climax of the Stalinist regime’s eradication of the socialist workers and intellectuals who had secured the victory of the Bolshevik revolution.
75 years since the assassination of Trotsky: 1940-2015
Leon Trotsky’s place in history
By David North, 21 August 2015
Published here is a section of a lecture delivered on the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky. The full lecture is included in David North’s book, In Defense of Leon Trotsky.
Leading German historian Hermann Weber dies
By Wolfgang Weber, 10 January 2015
The World Socialist Web Site is reposting an interview it conducted with the noted German historian Hermann Weber in November of 2011.
Foreword to The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
By David North, 1 August 2014
This essay by David North is the foreword to The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century, now available at Mehring Books.
Berlin IYSSE protests Professor Jörg Baberowski’s suppression of democratic discussion at Humboldt University
22 February 2014
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality have sent an open letter calling upon the University Board of the Humboldt University to censure Professor Jörg Baberowski for his undemocratic behavior.
Appearance of Robert Service in Berlin ends in fiasco
By Peter Schwarz, 14 February 2014
Service’s public lecture was canceled and moved to a secret location from which all critics were barred.
The philosophical and political foundations of historical falsification
IYSSE meeting at the Humboldt University in Berlin
By our correspondents, 12 February 2014
Around one hundred participants discussed the invitation extended by Professor Jörg Baberowski to Robert Service, the author of a discredited biography of Leon Trotsky, at a meeting last Saturday at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Nine questions for Robert Service
By the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party of Germany), 11 February 2014
On February 12, British author Robert Service will speak at Berlin’s Humboldt University about his internationally discredited biography of Leon Trotsky. The Partei für Soziale Gleichheit has formulated nine questions for Service.
February 8 meeting in Berlin
Baberowski’s invitation to Service: The philosophical and political foundations of historical falsification
4 February 2014
Wolfgang Weber of the Socialist Equality Party of Germany will elaborate the critique of Robert Service’s Trotsky biography and discuss the philosophical and political foundations of the post-Soviet school of historical falsification.
Socialist Equality Party of Germany publishes open letter to Professor Jörg Baberowski
24 January 2014
We publish here a letter sent by the Socialist Equality Party of Germany to Professor Jörg Baberowski, head of the Department of Eastern European History at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
eBook versions of second edition of In Defense of Leon Trotsky now available
29 October 2013
The new expanded edition is now available in epub and pdf formats.
In Defense of Leon Trotsky published in Greek
9 October 2012
The World Socialist Web Site is proud to publish for the first time in the Greek language, In Defense of Leon Trotsky by David North.
Lecture at Historians’ Convention: In Defense of Leon Trotsky
By David North, 4 October 2012
We publish here the text of a lecture given at the Historians’ Convention at the University of Mainz in Germany by David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site.
Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag publishes Robert Service’s diatribe against Leon Trotsky
By Wolfgang Weber, 2 August 2012
The circumstances surrounding Suhrkamp Verlag’s release of the German edition of Robert Service’s denunciatory biography of Leon Trotsky can only be assessed as a scandal that has tarnished the reputation of the publishing house.
In Defense of Leon Trotsky published in French
25 June 2012
The World Socialist Web Site is pleased to announce the publication of the French-language edition of In Defense of Leon Trotsky, written by David North, chairman of the WSWS’s International Editorial Board.
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