June 28: the trigger for World War I.
On June 28, 1914, an attack carried out in Sarajevo (capital of Bosnia, the Balkans), by Gavrilo Princip (young member of a Bosnian nationalist organization) ended the lives of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand (heir to the throne of the Austro -Hungarian Empire) and his wife. It was the triggering...
The Red Guard
The Red Guard was built by the working class during the process of the Russian Revolution. It has its origins in the revolution of 1905. It reappears during the revolution of 1917 and becomes semi-clandestine for a short period, after the uprisings in July; it returns to the scene...
30 Years Anniversary of Moreno’s Death
Today, January 25, it is the 30 anniversary of the Argentinian Trotskyist, Nahuel Moreno. In 1944 he founded, in Argentina, the political tendency that would later be known as Morenism, and in 1982 he founded the International Workers’ League – Fourth International (IWL-FI), of which he was the main...
200 years of Marx birth
On May 5, today, it is 200 years of Karl Marx’s birth, in Tréveris, Germany. He was, without a doubt, one of the man with most influence in the history of the XIX, XX and XXI centuries. Together with Frederich Engels, his friend and comrade of theoretical, political elaboration...
Myths about the colonization of Spanish America
The arrival of Christopher Columbus and the colonization gave rise to statements that have little to do with the reality, from which the conquerors and their descendants sought to justify themselves.
That, if it were not for Columbus' feat, we would not be here today. That European weapons’ superiority...
The Third International and Its Place in History
Written: 15 April, 1919
First Published: Published in May 1919; Published according to the manuscript.
Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972 Volume 29, pages 305-313
Written: V. I. Lenin
Translated: George Hanna
The imperialists of the Entente countries are blockading Russia in an effort to cut off the Soviet Republic, as a...
75 years after the end of World War II and the post-war revolutionary wave
On 8 May 1945, the bloodiest military conflict in human history ended in Europe. The War in the Pacific would continue until August, when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, Hiroshima (6 August) and Nagasaki (9 August).
Jeferson Choma, PSTU-Brazil
At the end of the conflict, the...
October 12: Day of Pillage of America
524 years after Colombus arrived, our continent is facing a new colonization process. On the contrary of what has been told to us for generations, the European powers did not came to bring progress to the continent but to take its wealth. So the technological, scientific and life quality...
77 years later: to continue Trotsky’s battle is to reconstruct the IV International
On the 100-years anniversary of the Russian Revolution, and the 77th anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s murder by a Stalinist agent, Trotsky’s legacy is more current than ever. The financial crisis of capitalism, similar or worst to that of 1929, and with the current social situation of the masses in...
Who Led the February Insurrection?
Chapter 8. The History of the Russian Revolution - Leon Trotsky.
Lawyers and journalists belonging to the classes damaged by the revolution wasted a good deal of ink subsequently trying to prove that what happened in February was essentially a petticoat rebellion, backed up afterwards by a soldiers’ mutiny and given out...
