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.
Trotsky spent the critical years of his exile on Prinkipo writing masterpieces and organizing the Left Opposition in the Communist International all over the world.
Trotsky’s assassination was the most consequential political assassination of the 20th century. It was the culmination of the Stalinist Great Terror and the product of one of world history’s bleakest and bloodiest conspiracies.
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.