R.I. EDITORIAL COMMENT: The following statement from the MLM organization in Britain, ‘Revolutionary Praxis’, bears so much in common with the role and function of Trotskyism in Canada that we are reproducing it below with our own additions in parentheses, so as to illustrate the identical function of Trotskyism in Canada. Everything that appears in [ ] parentheses is an addition from Revolutionary Initiative.

It is no accident that the imperialist centres have served as headquarters for the Trotskyists, one species of reformist and revisionist ‘Marxism’. It is also no accident that the semi-colonial countries, like Peru, Turkey, India, Philippines, Nepal, have played a leading role in keeping a revolutionary Marxism alive, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and in deed, developing it.

A component of our work as revolutionary communists, as a basis for the refoundation of a proletarian revolutionary Party, is to expose all revisionist ideas, be they borne out of Trotskyism or the revisionist CPs. That said, thanks to Revolutionary Praxis for this statement.

In Britain [and Canada], today there are a number of political organizations which base themselves on the teachings of Leon Trotsky, the counter-revolutionary renegade who defected from and opposed the Soviet Union. These include the Socialist Workers Party [International Socialists in Canada], the Socialist Party, the Alliance for Workers Liberty and a multitude of splinters from these organizations [Socialist Action, the ‘Socialist Caucus’ of the New Democratic Party; Fightback, also trying to transform the NDP into a true ‘workers’ party’; etc.]. Continue reading “‘The Trouble With Trotskyites’”