Revolution Follow

Leon Trotsky led the struggle against Joseph Stalin’s counter-revolution. This battle began in 1923, six years after the Russian Revolution.

As resistance to the cuts grows, more people are involved in activity and experiences that make them open to the idea that we need a completely different kind of society.

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was murdered 70 years ago by an agent of Russian dictator Joseph Stalin.

Can students challenge the state? Jack Farmer explores the issues.

I want a velvet school revolution My name is Red Justice (yep, it is actually Red Justice). I am a socialist as well as a 12‑year old schoolboy. I detest my school as it is a complete dictatorship.

The root of the coalition’s attacks on education is a desire to make workers pay for the bankers’ and bosses’ crisis.

We need a fightback—and we need socialism The revolutionary socialist James Connolly died fighting for Irish independence—but throughout his life he taught that Ireland could not be free under capitalism.

Harold Pinter revolutionised British drama at the end of the 1950s.

How should we relate to supporters of the idea that gradual change, reforms to benefit workers, and eventually socialism, comes through parliament?

Those who want to defend class society, and some on the left who oppose revolution, argue that revolutions merely set up new hierarchies, not the freedom and equality their participants dream of.

In the middle of the Great Depression of the 1930s, revolutionaries sparked and led mass strikes and factory occupations in the US. In 1934, more than 1.5 million workers took part in over 2,000 strikes—and they often won.

The Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin wrote this book in the midst of the extreme violence of the First World War, and the revolutionary upheaval taking place in Russia in 1917.