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                                                        The Hots For Trotsky

It was in 1936 that Trotsky founded the Fourth International.

The International Bolsheviks met secretly at a summit in Geneva. The secret was, it turned out later, that they actually met in Paris, since by this time the long arm of Stalin’s terror could reach anywhere.

One of the Fourth International’s aims was to defend workers against globalisation. In 1848, Marx and Engels accurately predicted that Capitalism would need to eliminate national borders. Therefore, ‘workers of the world’ would need to unite to continue their struggle effectively.

Well, 70 years on, we have the EU and multinationals but not much of a struggle. Should all that cheap Polish labour being exploited by the UK be given little red leaflets? A check on the net didn’t find any but it seems that the Fourth International isn’t entirely dead. It has just morphed a little from Trotsky’s original concept.

Here’s a poster from the French division, ASQIN. The illustration is loosely based on the old Soviet collective farm posters, though it isn’t clear why French skinheads have hair or would be harvesting spaghetti.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This for me is a more successful poster. If you look closely, the girl is wearing ANTIFA or ‘anti fascist’ knickers. A few of these girls could soon break-up those nauseating rallies of Putin’s bourgeois revisionist youth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brazil has many 4th International cells and Lenin still rocks. This is from the PunkCommunistas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile, in Colombia there is SHARP, who are actually SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice and therefore completely out of boot with their Russian counterparts - as indeed were the Trotskyites.

All these groups appear to echo Trotsky’s call for organisation. As Brazil’s Redskins explain, “We can have riots and petrol bombs and revolutions all day long, but if we fail to organise we’ll waste our lives in protest songs.’

 

 

 

 

 

What has kept Trotsky current? Certainly he has received a cult boost from the recent bout of ‘Fridamania‘. The Mexican surrealist painter, Frida Kahlo, did indeed have the hots for Trotsky and was briefly his mistress until the great man was slain by Stalin’s agent icepick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frida Kahlo

 


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