In answer to the question “What is socialism?”, James P. Cannon, a pioneer of the revolutionary workers’ movement in North America, famously said: “Socialism is both a political program and a political movement to achieve it.”
So, what then is Trotskyism? Simply put, Trotskyism is modern-day revolutionary socialism. My aim here is to summarize its main component parts.
Thursday, Oct. 21 at 7:00 p.m. EDT, watch the next live webcast, "A Class Struggle History: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381," with Gary Porter, a leading member of Socialist Action. Watch it live on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/__9jx9ueRpA
To quote Yogi Berra, “It’s deja-vu all over again.”
The 2021 federal election, which Justin Trudeau called just to gain a majority of seats, looks much like the 2019 election result. The same parties are in place, each with nearly the same number of MPs as before.* But something has changed. All the leaders are skating on thin ice. One has resigned; another will soon be forced to do so. And Justin Trudeau is considerably weakened as Prime Minister. With zero appetite for another election, the Liberal minority government will have to lean heavily on the labour-based New Democratic Party to pass legislation. That means working class organizations have a great opportunity to extract concessions from the ruling class.
Thursday, September 23, 7 p.m. Eastern Time, Election 2021: Results and Prospects, with Leah Gazan, NDP MP for Winnipeg Centre, Barry Weisleder, Socialist Action federal secretary, and Christopher Thompson of the New Brunswick NDP Socialist Caucus. Link: https://youtu.be/lvpyJUqcg2c
Thursday, September 16 7 p.m. Eastern Time,Trotsky, Krupskaya and the Bolshevik Tradition, featuring Paul LeBlanc, historian at La Roche University in Pittsburgh, a labor and socialist activist who has written or edited more than 30 books on topics such as Leon Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg, and…
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