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Today’s Trotskyites claim to be the ‘true inheritors’ of VI Lenin, faithful upholders of revolutionary Leninist ideology and of the Bolshevik organising tradition which brought us the world’s first socialist state in 1917. But in reality their organisations and leaders play the role of agent provocateur in the working-class movement, just as Leon Trotsky himself did throughout his lifetime.
By consistently denigrating and opposing the forces that actually fight imperialism, whether at home or abroad, Trotskyism works to mislead potential revolutionaries and prevent them from making any meaningful contribution to the struggle for socialism. Despite their constant calls for strikes and uprisings ‘now’, no Trotskyist group has ever led a successful movement against capitalism in over a century of revolutionary posturing.
More than that: Trotskyism has actively impeded all such struggles. By re-packaging imperialist lies in ‘Leninist’ phrases, Trotskyists promote ‘analyses’ and slogans that mislead and confuse rather than educating, and they engage in activities that are designed to prevent any advance of the working class.
In Britain today, their practical programme amounts to support for the imperialist Labour party, support for imperialist wars, and implacable hostility toward genuine revolutionaries. A plethora of Trotskyist organisations are funded by the British state and promoted by British corporate media: one of many strategies used by the capitalist class to sabotage the efforts of the workers to fulfil their historic mission of rising to the position of ruling class and building a bright socialist future.
This pamphlet contains an essential overview of Trotsky’s political activities and his warped ideology, which was first published as the preface to Harpal Brar’s seminal Trotskyism or Leninism? in 1993.
Alongside this is our party’s analysis of the newly-branded Trotskyite Trojan horse, the so-called ‘Revolutionary Communist Party’ (RCP), an exposure of the Trotskyite myths contained in Ken Loach’s Orwellian Land and Freedom movie, and Josef Stalin’s brilliant ideological demolition of Trotskyism. There are also some useful recommendations for further reading on the topic and a small selection of letters and quotations from the provocateur-in-chief himself.
Watching the role of Trotskyism in demobilising some of the most motivated of our workers and students, misdirecting their energies and ultimately imbuing them with passivity and cynicism, it is of primary importance that real socialists learn to understand just what it is that makes this ideology so dangerous, how we can recognise it in all its various guises, and why and how we can combat its influence in our movement.
