I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.