Trotskyist confessionalism

"The Trotskyist Manifesto" isn't a book by Leon Trotsky, as erroneously stated by Amazon at this product page. Rather, it's "a new transitional programme for world socialist revolution" (neither more nor less), published by the League for a Revolutionary Communist International (LRCI) in 1989.

To be honest, however, the thing could have been written by The Old Man himself. Essentially, this little book is a kind of Trotskyist "repristination theology", as if little or nothing has changed since 1938, when Trotsky edited the original Transitional Program.

Is it interesting? Perhaps to Trotskyists or people interested in the revolutionary left, but hardly otherwise. The sections have titles like "Defend the environment through workers' control", "The workers' and peasants' government and proletarian dictatorship", "The struggle against women's oppression in the semi-colonies" and "Stalinism, petit bourgeois nationalism and bourgeois democratic tasks". All pretty stale stuff. We're dealing with very serious, intellectual Trotskyists here!

Apparently, the LRCI has re-christened itself the League for the Fifth International (LFI) and adopted a new program, strikingly similar to "The Trotskyist Manifesto". It doesn't seem to be available from Amazon at the present time.

What a pity.