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November 29, 2010

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Leon Trotsky’s Analysis of the Emerging Global Role of US Capitalism

By Nick Beams, November 24, 2010

The WSWS organized a panel on “The Cultural, Economic and Geo-strategic Thought of Leon Trotsky: A Retrospective Analysis 70 years after His Assassination,” at the 42nd annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (formerly the American Association for the Advanceme

Assessing Leon Trotsky seventy years after his assassination

Report given at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies

By David North, November 23, 2010

Report given at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, November 21 2010.

This week in history: November 22-November 28

November 22, 2010

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: November 15-November 21

November 15, 2010

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: November 8-November 14

November 8, 2010

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: November 1-November 6

November 1, 2010

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

This week in history: October 25-November 1

October 25, 2010

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Seventy years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky

By David North, October 21, 2010

This report was delivered by David North, WSWS International Editorial Board chairman, to a meeting in Berlin on October 17.

This week in history: October 18-October 24

October 18, 2010

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Great interest in lecture by Professor Rabinowitch in Berlin

By our correspondent, October 16, 2010

The American historian Alexander Rabinowitch introduced his new book The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Bolshevik Rule in Petrograd at a meeting Thursday evening at Humboldt University in Berlin.

For Committees of Action―Not the People’s Front

November 26, 1935

By Leon Trotsky, October 14, 2010

In this article, written from exile in Norway in 1935, Leon Trotsky exposed the politics of the “People's Front” in France, a coalition comprising the bourgeois Radical Party, the Socialist Party and the Stalinist Communist Party.