On June 3, <em>Tempest</em> published an article titled “Solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance!” by Ashley Smith, a prominent member of the DSA. An investigation of the political background of this Ukrainian "resistance" reveals it is a creation of US imperialism.
The SEP is based on the strategy of permanent revolution that animated the 1917 October Revolution. Only through the revolutionary mobilization of the working class, leading the rural and urban toilers, can the democratic and social aspirations of the oppressed masses be realized as part of the world socialist revolution.
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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.
Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky on February 6.
On August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by Stalinist agent Ramón Mercader in the Mexico City suburb of Coyoacán. Mercader’s access to the great revolutionary was made possible through his relationship with Sylvia Ageloff, a member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). In the aftermath of the assassination, Ageloff presented herself as an innocent victim of Mercader’s duplicity, a claim that was never challenged by the SWP.
This series of articles constitutes the first systematic investigation by the Trotskyist movement of Ageloff’s role and continues the work of the International Committee of the Fourth International’s Security and the Fourth International investigation. It is published in four parts.