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From the Introduction:
“Leon Trotsky, along with Vladimir Lenin the key leader of the Russian revolution, wrote Where is Britain Going? to try and prepare the young British Communist Party for the epic class battles which he could see ahead. It has many lessons for a new generation drawing Marxist conclusions today in an era of increasingly stormy events… the foundations of British capitalism are massively weaker a century on, and the working class – today making up the overwhelming majority of the population – is potentially even more powerful…
At every stage of struggle in the hundred years since it was written this book has had huge value for Marxists. Nonetheless, it is more relevant in 2025 than at any time since the era in which it first appeared. The ailing character of capitalism worldwide and in Britain, and the increasing bitterness of the class struggle, have far more in common with the early 1920s than any period since 1945… The task we face in the coming period will fundamentally be the same as that posed by Trotsky, to build a Marxist party “with the strength and the links to the masses to be able to draw all the necessary conclusions”. Just as then it is on this, ultimately, that Britain’s fate will be determined.”
As well as Where is Britain Going?, there is additional material dealing with the 1926 General Strike and its aftermath. Trotsky denounces the British Labour leaders for their betrayal of the strike and the leaders of the Soviet Communist Party, then increasingly falling under the domination of the future dictator Joseph Stalin, for their complicity in this.
