Ten highlights from “Sylvia Ageloff and the Assassination of Leon Trotsky”
On Sunday, February 14, the
World Socialist Web Site hosted a live Q&A discussion with David North and Eric London reviewing the recent four-part series by Eric London exposing the role of Sylvia Ageloff in the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City on August 20, 1940.
Below are 10 key moments from the discussion.
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Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Joseph Kishore opened the event by providing a review of Trotsky’s struggle against the Stalinist bureaucracy.
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David North reviewed the background of
Security and the Fourth International and why the Trotskyist movement in the 1970s had to uncover the circumstances surrounding Trotsky’s death 35 years prior.