On Sunday, February 14, 2021, the World Socialist Web Site held a live Q&A with David North and Eric London, entitled, “Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky.”
Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
The meeting followed the publication of a four-part WSWS article series, exposing the role played by Sylvia Ageloff, a former member of the Socialist Workers Party of the United States, in the Stalinist assassination of Leon Trotsky. North and London discussed the significance of the latest revelations, in the context of the decades-long Security and the Fourth International investigation by the ICFI into Trotsky’s assassination.
The discussion was moderated by SEP (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore, and Thomas Mackaman, a historian at Kings College in Pennsylvania and a contributor to the WSWS.
The political witch-hunt has targeted several major universities across the state of Michigan, including the University of Michigan (U-M), where the federal government has revoked the visas of 22 current and former international students or otherwise terminated their right to remain in the country legally.
While denying plans to directly cut Social Security checks, the Trump administration is imposing job cuts, office closures and “identity-proofing” requirements designed to wreck the Social Security Administration and block seniors from applying for and receiving benefits.
The unions’ main concern is retaining the traditional state-regulated collective bargaining system, which underpins the privileges of the caste of union functionaries, and through which they suppress the class struggle in tri-partite collaboration with the bosses and government.
The US president seeks to exercise dictatorial powers against the working class, but he remains the servant of the financial markets and the billionaires.
