Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.
Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.
The event “An Island at the Centre of World History: Leon Trotsky on Prinkipo” on August 20 attracted a lot of interest and raised Trotsky as a living figure in the debates on history and politics in recent weeks.
Last Wednesday, a delegation led by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North visited the Prinkipo Municipality in Istanbul to organize an event to commemorate Leon Trotsky's life and his stay on the island from 1929-33 while in exile.
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