Page 143 - Leon Trotsky News Today

Trotsky’s description of the world on the very eve of World War II acquires extraordinary relevance in the present situation. All the governments are behaving with staggering recklessness.

There are a lot of conflicting stories when it comes to the origins of International Womens Day and where it all came from, some sources claim it was in 1917 Russia as women protested food shortages, others claim it was earlier in 1910 the International Conference of Working Women in Denmark.

Leon Trotsky once said: "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." The will to prevent war is what started European integration. And it is still what propels it forward.

Museum workers risked their lives trying to keep precious relics from being taken out of the country.

Until Russia’s invasion, Zelenskyy's Jewish roots seemed almost incidental. But now, his Jewishness has become hugely powerful and symbolic, not only for Ukraine but for contemporary Jewish identity and history

ANNA MIKHAILOVA: An incensed Pannick penned a letter to The Times saying oligarchs, like alleged murderers, are entitled to legal representation.

Simone Weil died at 34 but her ideas still feel fresh and urgent.

The IYSSE (Australia) meeting at 4 p.m. (AEDT) Saturday, March 12 will discuss the urgent need to build an international anti-war movement of youth, students and workers as the danger of nuclear war heightens amid the escalating crisis in Ukraine.

Not only must social-imperialists and social-pacifists be denounced: Jack Conrad calls for absolute clarity, when it comes to war and peace

Joseph Stalin, secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–53) and premier of the Soviet state (1941–53), who for a quarter of a century dictatorially ruled the Soviet Union and transformed it into a major world power. Learn more about Stalin in this article.