Workers’ industrial struggle has revived in recent months on a scale not seen for decades. That is cause for great hopes. Left-wing political mobilisation, though, has failed to match it. On issues like the NHS, new anti-strike laws, asylum rights, and the environment, activity on the streets has been small in proportion to the number of people opposed to official policies.
Zheng Chaolin (1901-98), the veteran leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Trotskyist movement, devoted his entire life to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese workers and peasants. Now at last Zheng Chaolin’s Selected Writings have been translated and published. Gregor Benton, who translated and edited these texts andProphets Unarmed (2015), deserves huge praise for making the writings available in English.
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Through a critical examination of the limits of SWP guru Tony Cliff's analysis, Marot demolishes the popular myth that Trotsky and his Left Opposition within the Bolshevik Party in Russia were, during the 1920s, a heroic attempt to defend working class interests against a Stalinist 'socialist construction' and repression that they disagreed with. An effective factual antidote to leftist and ICC-type left-communist apologetics for Trotsky and Trotskyism's anti-working class character in Soviet Russia.