Notes on the Situation in Britain, 1925-1926¶
This section is a set of chronologically ordered fragments by Leon Trotsky, written between December 1925 and January 1926, intended as notes on the British labour movement in the lead-up to the General Strike. It functions as a critical commentary on the political situation, focusing on the role of the Labour Party, the trade unions, and the Communist Party. Notable figures discussed include MacDonald, Thomas, Wheatley, Purcell, and Cook. The text analyses the Liverpool Conference and the Scarborough Trades Union Congress, contrasting the left and right wings of the labour movement. It serves as a polemical apparatus, not a finished work, offering a Marxist assessment of centrism and revolutionary strategy.