Description
The Transitional Programme by Leon Trotsky is, essentially, a handbook on how to build socialist consciousness, how to go about getting support not just for individual campaigns against issues that make us all angry, but how to link that with the bigger fight.
This pamphlet comes with an introduction by Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, written in 2010.
The Transitional Programme was written in 1938. Details in the pamphlet are inevitably dated, but what Trotsky offers us in the Transitional Programme is an indispensable tool kit, a method of how to approach issues affecting the working class.
This is why today, after the second world war, after the fall of Stalinism, in a world that seems very different to the one that Trotsky was writing in, the Transitional Programme is still vital reading.
