This weekend marks the 76 anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky, who was brutally attacked by a Stalinist agent on 20th August 1940. To celebrate the life of the heroic Russian revolutionary, the launch of his great unfinished work Stalin will be launched in Mexico tomorrow by Alan Woods and Trotsky’s grandson, Esteban Volkov.

The capitalist press has been busy stirring up a hullaballoo about Trotskyist infiltration into the Labour Party. Tom Watson, Labour’s Deputy Leader, has raised his concerns about Trotskyist “entryists”, and even produced a dodgy dossier. But who was Trotsky? And what is Trotskyism?

Wellred Books proudly presents a work eighty years in the making: Leon Trotsky’s unfinished biography of Stalin. We publish here the story behind the publication of this book – the most extensive edition of the book ever, completed from the original archive material – as told by Rob Sewell, editor of Socialist Appeal. Make a pledge today and help raise the money needed to finish this project!