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Leon Trotsky was murdered by a Stalinist agent 80 years ago. He was attacked with an ice-pick on 20 August 1940, and died in hospital the day after, 21 August 1940. Trotsky was one of the chief leaders of the Russian workers' revolution of October 1917, and the foremost leader of the revolutionary socialist resistance to the Stalinist reaction and counter-revolution which followed that revolution and eventually killed it. His legacy is still central to the fight for working-class socialism, and against Stalinism of all shades. ....
Sixty five years ago, on 20 August 1940 Leon Trotsky was struck with a fatal blow from an ice-pick by an agent sent by the CPU, Stalin’s secret police in the USSR. Here, Trotsky’s partner for four decades Natalia Sedov Trotsky tells the story of Trotsky’s death. The article was first published in the Fourth International in May 1947. ....
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Ex-wife of billionaire bond king Bill Gross puts her four-bedroom Beverly Hills estate on the market for $38M - three years after buying it from Ellen DeGeneres for $35M Sue Gross, the ex-wife of billionaire bond king Bill Gross, is selling her Beverly Hills estate for $38million She purchased the home from Ellen DeGeneres and Portia di Rossi three years ago for $35million and has made several renovations since then Gross added a custom hand-raked limestone fireplace surround in the living room, upgraded to smart home systems and had two additional bathrooms built She is selling the property because she has another house nearby that is almost done with construction ....
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. ....