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In October 1923, the German Communist Party prepared an insurrection and then cancelled it at the last minute, prompting Leon Trotsky to characterize it as “a classic demonstration of how it is possible to miss a perfectly exceptional revolutionary situation of world-historic importance.”

This is the first part of a three-part essay by David North from 1993 reviewing the origins of the Left Opposition.

A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity

A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity

They “incarnated an epoch,” wrote Victor Serge of the ¬revolutionary and working class militants of the Left Opposition

To initiate its commemoration of the centenary of the founding of the Left Opposition on October 15, 1923, the WSWS is re-publishing an editorial by David North on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Left Opposition.

A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity

Seiya Morita — The English translation of Leon Trotsky’s “1905” is brilliant as a whole, but it has a problem, in particular when it comes to the translation of his repeated used of the term “hegemony”.

A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity

In his 1995 novel Radek, published in English translation for the first time last year by Monthly Review Press, Stefan Heym portrays Karl Radek as not only a…