seventeen was assassinated by an undercover agent trotsky spend his last days in mexico after being deported for opposing joseph stalin policies but his socialist ideas are finding more support among those hit by europe's financial downturn as lower amateur reports. go on but not forgotten to many the ideas of leon trotsky embody genuine socialism revolution an international coalition of the working classes and bureaucracy they might seem like outdated ideas but across europe they're alive and well trotsky's murder at the hands of an undercover and cave agent took place seventy years ago and five and a half thousand miles away from here in mexico but here as in many other places around europe his theories live on through organizations like this one which calls for the working classes to seize power from the capital lists and start the permanent revolution work his power is a movement active in twelve countries from the united states to sri lanka the organization simon hardy says it's relevant today more than ever as ordinary people feel their suffering most common economic crisis br

it's seventy years since leon trotsky a leader of the nine hundred seventeen bolshevik revolution was assassinated by an undercover soviet agent he'd been sent into exile for strongly opposing stalin and but continued to develop his own views and today his socialist ideas are still finding support on the fertile ground of those hit by europe's financial downturn nor emmett's has more. gone but not forgotten to many the ideas of leon trotsky embody genuine socialism revolution an international coalition of the working classes and fighting bureaucracy they might seem like outdated ideas but across europe they're alive and well trotsky's murder at the hands of an undercover. agent took place seventy years ago five and a half thousand miles away from here in mexico but here as in many other places around europe his theories live on through organizations like this one which calls for the working classes to seize power from the capitalists and start the permanent revolution workers' power is a movement active in twelve countries from the united states to sri lanka the organization simon har

trotsky's murder at the hands of an undercover. agent took place seventy years ago in a whole thousand miles away from here in mexico but here as in many other places around europe his theories live on through organizations like this one which calls for the working classes to seize power from the capitalists and start the permanent revolution workers' power is a movement active in twelve countries from the united states to sri lanka the organization simon hardy says it's relevant today more than ever as ordinary people feel they're suffering most from an economic crisis post about which a lot of work now is focusing on talking to working people about how they're suffering under the recession and engaging in the political arguments and ideas which will help them fight a back against the governments against the capitalist class that they don't have to bear the brunt of the crisis may discontent in europe about cuts in public spending and job losses this summer has seen violent protests most notably in greece socialists around europe

a point. >> rose: but it was more trotsky than... >> trotsky because trotsky had great literary talent and flare. but once... the obligation, as he said, to raised his scarred old fists to defend these, in many ways, beautiful ideals, although as we saw, sort of horribly travestied in the end. >> rose: never to become. >> no. and actually, you know, what sort of a utopia would it be? it would be hideous, the marxist you open the kwrarbgs it's an appalling vision. utopias are always hells. but once he'd start needing to do that, it was almost instantaneous that his literary gifts were suddenly free. writing is free... >> rose: liberated and enhanced. >> yeah. writing is freedom. if you've got some commissar staring over your shoulder, you're not free. if you have some consensus that you're loyal to, you're not free. >> rose: the power of reference. is that a learned thing? i mean... >> the power of reference is very close to what is so extraordinary about christopher. >> rose: yeah, exactly. >> that, you know, it's like a lawyer who can marshall dozens of precedents and counterexamples