Here we republish an extract from the new introduction to Peter Fryer’s ‘Hungarian Tragedy’, by General Secretary of the RCP, Ben Gliniecki. This begins our series of articles to commemorate the Hungarian people’s noble and valiant struggle for genuine socialism.

For over 80 years, an entire industry distorted the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky. While Trump renews the charge against communism, the republication of Alan Woods and Ted Grant’s ‘Lenin and Trotsky: What They Really Stood For’ could not have come at a better time.

Alex Gordon, general secretary of the Stalinist ‘Communist’ Party of Britain (CPB), recently wrote a commemorative piece for the tenth anniversary of the Brexit vote – in which he argues that Brexit was a “revolutionary act”. Leading RCI member Jorge Martín responds.