British Trot honcho Gerry Healy's mad outfit, the grossly misnamed Workers Revolutionary Party, *did* publish some interesting titles of a mostly Bolshevik persuasion. Yes, really! Unfortunately, this short pamphlet is nothing of the kind. It contains three relatively uninteresting texts by Russian Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky (the guy with the funny beard and even funnier Russian accent).
"Young People Study Politics", "The Significance of Anti-Religious Propaganda" and "The Fifth Anniversary of Soviet Georgia" are so unimportant that no other Trotsky-loving fragment of the Once and Future Fourth International has seen fit to translate and publish any of them. But sure, I could have missed something. "Trotwatch" has ceased publication. Still, it *is* fascinating that Bronstein could deliver an entire speech about "Soviet" Georgia without once mentioning the little detail of the Soviet invasion of Georgia in 1921...
But perhaps I'm being unfair. After all, Lev Davidovich had previously published an entire book justifying the invasion. That too is published by New Park and the Workers Revolutionary Party.
Well, at least somebody is brutally honest around here.
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