On August 21, 1940, Leon Trotsky, coleader of the October 1917 Revolution in Russia and founder of the Fourth International, died of a wound inflicted by the Stalinist assassin, Ramon Mercader, the ...

A section of the audience at the Third International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky in Prinkipo, August 16, 2025. The World Socialist Web Site and Mehring Yayıncılık (Books), in collaboration with the ...

In the summer of 1937 Leon Despres, then 29 years old, went with his wife, Marian, on a three-week vacation to Mexico. A lawyer friend, Albert Goldman, had asked them to deliver a letter and some ...

Who says young people aren’t politically motivated? From New York to Oakland, the men and women of the Occupy movement have put their comfort and their safety on the line to demand, um, a whole lot of ...

It was 5 o’clock in the afternoon of Aug. 20, 1940. Leon Trotsky finished his tea and strolled through a door of his house into a grass-grown, flower-strewn patio. He wandered about, pausing now & ...

The National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has released a classified report detailing how Soviet intelligence monitored Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky during his exile on Büyükada, one of İstanbul’s ...

In 1917, Lev Bronshtein – also known as Leon Trotsky – spent 10 weeks in exile in New York City. The Russian revolutionary hoped to spark a socialist revolution in the United States, but found ...

Katherine Connelly looks at the life and legacy of the revolutionary Leon Trotsky at Counterfire's Revolution!

In January 1917, a few weeks before the overthrow of Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, Leon Trotsky came to New York. The socialist revolutionary was then in his late 30s and for the previous ...

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