Trotsky could draw upon experience of revolution established in 1917 - has proved guide to action for the newlyfounded FI and its sections.
CIALIST monument, the strength of the Transitional Programme is that its method of approach gives today's marxists the basis to expand and develop a programme for action today.
Among the huge upheavals and political changes since 1938, perhaps the biggest has been the collapse since the late 1980s of the apparatus of Stalinist rule across much of Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union itself, which in turn has led to a prolonged crisis of the Communist Parties around the world.
Trotsky had mercilessly attacked the reactionary politics of the Kremlin bureaucracy, and insisted in the Transitional Programme that "Each day added to its domination helps STOL the foundations of the socialist elements of the and increases the chances for capitalist restoration."
Indeed the extension of Stalinist rule in the grotesquely deformed "workers' states" which were created in post-war Eastern Europe served also to discredit the ideas of Marxism among millions more workers.
The collapse of these unloved and repressive regimes has exposed the lack of any developed socialist opposition: unforTTL YEARS the Trotskyist movement. Plenary speeches and workshop discussion with * CHARLIE van GELDEREN * BILL HUNTER * HARRY RATNER * LIVIO MAITAN * JOHN ARCHER London N7 DK IV NTERNATIONAL FIVE veteran members of the Fourth International discuss the early years of (registration, bookstalls and meet speakers from 12 noon)