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We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard from the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists, a Trotskyist youth organization in the former Soviet Union.

The antisemitic riot in Dagestan is a reactionary result of Israel's imperialist-backed genocide of the Palestinian people.

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

On October 15, 2023, the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists, a Trotskyist youth organization in the former Soviet Union, celebrated the centenary of the emergence of the Left Opposition with a meeting that was attended by David North, the chairperson of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site. 

In recent months, several of the few memorials to victims of the Terror have been vandalized in Russia, while busts and monuments to Stalin are being erected.

The meeting to celebrate the anniversary of the youth organization in Russia and the former Soviet Union was marked by a high level of consciousness of the historical and political tasks confronting workers and young people in the fight to build sections of the ICFI.

These remarks were given to an online meeting celebrating the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists, a Trotskyist organization in Russia and the former Soviet Union.

On August 21, the YGBL held meetings in Saint Petersburg and the western Siberian city Chelyabinsk to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination at the hands of a Stalinist agent.

In carrying out these trials, Joseph Stalin was launching an assault on the legacy and the leaders of the first successful socialist revolution.