Leon Trotsky’s Writings On
Britain

Original editor for these works is Alan Clinton.
Forward by Allan Clinton. Most translation from the Russian by R. Chappell

Transcribers Note

I am very grateful to Alan Clinton for permission to transcribe this volume of Trotsky’s Works to make it available on the web and of course searchable. I have left the notes as they were even when I disagree with them

Ted Crawford, July 1999

CONTENTS

Editorial Note

Foreword to Volume 3 by Alan Clinton

HISTORY AND CULTURE

• The seventeenth-century revolution
• Britain and military strategy
• The working class in the nineteenth century
• British bourgeois ‘morality’
• The philosophy of British capitalism

THE DECLINE OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM 1908-1926 Part I

• Imperialist diplomacy in the Middle East
• The First World War
• Against the Russian Revolution

THE DECLINE OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM 1908-1926 Part II

• Fighting Soviet Russia
• Two Britains
• The Soviet-Polish war

THE DECLINE OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM 1908-1926 Part III

• The Soviet-Polish war (cont’d)
• The post-war crisis

THE DECLINE OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM 1908-1926 Part IV

• The post-war crisis (cont’d)
• Anglo-Soviet relations 1921-1923

THE DECLINE OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM 1908-1926 Part V

• Anglo-Soviet relations 1921-1923 (cont’d)
• The revolutionary crisis in Germany
• The foreign policy of the first Labour Government
• Anglo-American rivalry and the growth of militarism

THE LABOUR MOVEMENT 1906-1924

• The revival of the working class
• The British proletariat and the war
• Labour bureaucracy and the post-war class struggle
• The growth of the Labour Party
• The MacDonald government

FROM WORLD SLUMP TO WORLD WAR 1929-1940

• British Democratic’ traditions
• The Labour party and Britain’s decline
• The outbreak of war

TROTSKYISM VERSUS CENTRISM IN BRITAIN Part I

• Questions of perspective
• The First British Trotskyists
• The ILP After Disaffiliation
• Whither The ILP?
• The ‘Marxist Group’ in the ILP

TROTSKYISM VERSUS CENTRISM IN BRITAIN Part II

• The Middle of the Road
• Once Again the ILP The ‘Marxist Group’ in the ILP

TROTSKYISM VERSUS CENTRISM IN BRITAIN Part III

• The Decline of the ILP
• Stalinism and Centrism

BRITISH IMPERIALISM AND NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLES

• The principles involved
• Ireland, 1916
• Afghanistan
• India
• Britain and Mexico, 1938
• Biographical Glossary

EDITORIAL NOTE

These volumes contain all known material on Britain contained in Trotsky’s writings and speeches. They include all the relevant extracts from his published works and all items mentioned in Louis Sinclair’s comprehensive bibliography (Leon Trotsky: A Bibliography, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, California, 1972). In this volume the following extracts are newly translated from the Russian by R. Chappell: extracts 6, 8, 10, 11, 19, 21, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 104, 107 The source given at the end of each extract refers to the earliest known appearance of the original. The biographical notes at the end of the volume refer to all British persons for whom there is not sufficient explanation in the text. 1974.

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