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By Jorgelina do Rosario LONDON (Reuters) - In 1918, Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky told Western creditors aghast at the Bolsheviks' repudiation of ...

The June 19 decision followed extensive discussions with representatives of the International Committee in Istanbul on the development of the fight for Trotskyism in Turkey and the Aegean and Black Sea regions.

Moscow missed the deadline to pay $100 million (£81.4m) in interest on two Eurobonds, one denominated in U.S. dollars and another euros, which had originally been due on May 27.

More than a century later, Russia stands on the brink of another default but this time there was no warning

Daniel Hoffman, an ex-senior officer who served as Moscow station chief, said the Russian leaders comrades could try to oust him due to the botched invasion of Ukraine.

Leon Trotsky was murdered by a Stalinist agent 80 years ago. He was attacked with an ice-pick on 20 August 1940, and died in hospital the day after, 21 August 1940. Trotsky was one of the chief leaders of the Russian workers' revolution of October 1917, and the foremost leader of the revolutionary socialist resistance to the Stalinist reaction and counter-revolution which followed that revolution and eventually killed it. His legacy is still central to the fight for working-class socialism,...

The World Socialist Web Site is republishing a lecture delivered in August 2007 by Chris Marsden, the National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party, “Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike”.

It is well known that Haiti has been looted by foreign governments, banks and comprador leaders since its birth. However, the <em>Times</em> cannot even pose the question why, let alone answer it, because this leads in a revolutionary direction.

This weeks Historically Speaking column is Carolyn Krause’s second and final column in the series on Ann Hagedorn’s “Sleeper Agent."

Another blockbuster interview with Michael Hudson.