Crisis of the French Section [1935-36]

In the mid-1930s workers in France were heading toward a showdown with the capitalist class and their government, including organised rightist forces emboldened by Hitler's victory.

In letters and articles to a group of several hundred revolutionary fighters in France, Leon Trotsky discusses a range of political, tactical, and practical questions central to the building of a communist party. He explains how even a small proletarian organisation - armed with a revolutionary programme and tested in the class battles of the day - could grow and win the leadership of the working-class movement as the struggles unfolded.