Despite the dances and music at its headquarters in the Lacandon Jungle, the guerrilla group once glorified as a new beacon of hope by prominent pseudo-lefts manifests all the symptoms of an approaching breakdown.
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Nancy Hanover, a writer and editor for the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> and a member of the Trotskyist movement in the US for more than four decades.
The Declaration of the 46 is considered the founding document of the Left Opposition, which led the struggle by the Marxist and internationalist wing of the Russian Communist Party and the Communist International against the Stalinist betrayal of the October Revolution.
This letter, sent by Leon Trotsky on October 8, 1923, to members of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission, was one of the most important documents that led to the emergence of the Left Opposition.
To initiate its commemoration of the centenary of the founding of the Left Opposition on October 15, 1923, the WSWS is re-publishing an editorial by David North on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Left Opposition.