Trotsky’s key 1938 work shows rich application of the method of Marxism
On the 70th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky, on 21 August 1940, Peter Taaffe examines one of the great revolutionary key texts, ’The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth Intenational’, also known as the Transitional Programme, and its [...]

Hundredth anniversary of International Women’s Day
At its very beginning, in the early 20th century, International Women’s Day – the 8th of March - was a day of struggle for working women. Nowadays it has largely been hijacked by the capitalist establishment as a ceremonial and sometimes highly commercial affair. Much has happened over time, providing [...]

Introduction to new Urdu edition of ‘Permanent Revolution’ by Leon Trotsky
We publish below a new introduction by Peter Taaffe to Leon Trotsky’s ‘Permanent Revolution’, which our comrades in the Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI) are publishing in Urdu.
What relevance does Trotsky’s Theory of the Permanent Revolution have to the problems of the workers’ cause or the [...]

Interview with Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today and member of the International Secretariat of the CWI (Committee for a Workers’ International): Economy - Is the worst over?

150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin’s theory of ‘natural selection’ changed the way that we look at ourselves. It contradicted the idea of an outside ‘intelligent designer’, so it met a reaction from the religious establishment that still exists in part today. Some schools, particularly in the US, are [...]

On the 20th anniversary of 1989…
When the Berlin wall was dismantled in 1989 and Stalinist regimes came crashing down, capitalism declared itself victorious. The collapse of Stalinism was used in a global ideological offensive against socialism, which was unjustly equated with that dictatorial, bureaucratic system, to drive through brutal, neo-liberal capitalist policies worldwide. In this [...]

A ‘dis-Service’ to Leon Trotsky
This book is very thick – running to 600 pages – but is very thin when it comes to an honest political examination and analysis of the ideas of Leon Trotsky, the subject of Service’s tome. His justification? That this book is, allegedly, the first “full-length biography of Trotsky written by [...]

What steps has humanity taken?
“That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong’s famous phrase marked the first human footstep on the moon. It is now 40 years since the historic achievement of Apollo 11 in 1969, but his words are still instantly recognisable to people of all generations.
By [...]

Seventy years ago, the major powers plunged humanity into the horror of world war.
By Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party England and Wales

This pamphlet by James Connolly has introduced millions of workers to the basic ideas of socialism. We are reprinting it so that workers and young people today can continue to read it and learn from its arguments. It is also available from in hard copy for only $2 from the SP National Office.