Trotsky: The Transitional Programme. The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International

<body link="#000080" vlink="#800080" lang="EN-US" style="tab-interval:36.0pt"> <p class="blackcontents" style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 5; margin-top: 12; margin-bottom: 12">Trotsky</p> <p class="blackcontents" style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 5; margin-top: 12; margin-bottom: 12">The Transitional Program</p> <p class="blackcontents" style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 5; margin-top: 12; margin-bottom: 12">The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International</p> <p class="blackcontents" style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 5; margin-top: 12; margin-bottom: 12">The Mobilization of the Masses around Transitional Demands to Prepare the Conquest of Power</p> <p class="blackcontents" style="margin-top: 12; margin-bottom: 12">Written by Leon Trotsky in 1938. Originally published in the May-June 1938 edition of Bulletin of the Opposition as a discussion document for the Founding Congress of the Fourth International (World Party of Socialist Revolution). The following copy was based on the 1981 printing of the Transitional Program by Labor Publications, and checked against the original Russian by Martin Sayles. </p> <table border="0" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#D20025" cellspacing="0" height="86"> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#FF0000" height="24"> <h2 style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font color="#FFFFFF">The Transitional Programme</font></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <p class="blackcontents" style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" align="right"><a href="intro.htm"><b><i>Introduction</i></b></a></p> <p style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" class="blackcontents"><font color="#000000"><b><a href="revolution.htm">Death Agony of Capitalism</a></b></font></p> <p style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" class="blackcontents"><b><a href="leadership.htm">The Proletariat and its Leadership</a></b></p> <p style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" class="blackcontents"><b><a href="minimum.htm">The Transitional Program</a></b></p> <p style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" class="blackcontents"><b><a href="wages.htm">Wages and Hours</a></b></p> <p style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" class="blackcontents"><b><a href="unions.htm">Trade Unions</a></b></p> <p style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" class="blackcontents"><b><a href="expropriation.htm">Expropriation of Capitalists</a></b></p> <p style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" class="blackcontents"><b><a href="picket.htm">The Picket Line</a></b></p> <p style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" class="blackcontents"><b><a href="war.htm">The Struggle Against Imperialism and War</a></b></p> <p style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" class="blackcontents"><b><a href="soviet.htm">Soviets</a></b></p> <p style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" class="blackcontents"><b><a href="fascist.htm">Fascist Countries</a></b></p> <p style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" class="blackcontents"><b><a href="ussr.htm">The USSR</a></b></p> <p style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" class="blackcontents"><b><a href="opportunism.htm">Opportunism & Sectarianism</a></b></p> <p style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" class="blackcontents"><b><a href="women.htm">Woman and Youth</a></b></p> <p style="text-indent: -5; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 5; margin-bottom: 5" class="blackcontents"><b><a href="fourth.htm">The Fourth International</a></b></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> </body>