Genesis of Trotskyism: The first ten years of the Left Opposition

by Max Shachtman

52 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1973

About the author

A major figure in the American Trotskyist movement beginning in the 1930s. Leader of the minority section of the Socialist Workers Party that split with Trotsky over the analysis of Russia and formed, in 1940, the Workers Party (eventually the Independent Socialist League). Later, in the late 1950s, the ISL merged with the Socialist Party. Editor or contributor to The Young Worker (1923), Labor Defender (1925), The Militant (1929–34), The New International (1934–1958) and Labor Action.