Josh Ireland re-examines the assassination of Leon Trotsky in 1940, exploring the characters and motivations behind one of ...

The city of Almaty in Kazakhstan is currently demolishing the house where Leon Trotsky spent several weeks in exile from the Stalinist bureaucracy.

This is the author's preface to the newly-published Turkish edition of In Defense of Leon Trotsky by David North. The english edition is available from Mehring Books. There is a certain historical ...

There’s a useful concept in understanding how societies deteriorate into dictatorship that was most famously developed by Leon Trotsky, although it reaches a lot further back in history. This notion ...

His rival within Russian communism was Josef Stalin; the two leaders had a visceral dislike for one another. When Stalin consolidated his power, Trotsky was obliged to flee, eventually settling in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chapter One Armored Train On the night of January 1, 1937, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the Norwegian oil tanker Ruth greeted the New Year by blaring ...

No matter what your political orientation, if you believe — or ever did believe — in the potential betterment of humanity, then you’ve got something to learn from the strange and tragic story of Leon ...

Who says young people aren’t politically motivated? From New York to Oakland, the men and women of the Occupy movement have put their comfort and their safety on the line to demand, um, a whole lot of ...

Leon Trotsky’s Istanbul villa is on the market. Located on Büyükada island, a short trip by ferry from the city center, the three-story, 38,750-square-foot mansion was home to the Marxist ...