The last volume of the late Tony Cliff's Selected Works deals with the major themes of Trotskyism after Trotsky, extending the study of state capitalism to the political developments of Russia and China and addressing issues of oppression in relation to Marxist theory. Areas covered include the nature of Stalinist Russia, reformism, the permanent war economy, and why socialists must fight for gay liberation and against the oppression of women, all by a committed socialist activist and the world's most renowned critic of the political system in Stalinist Russia.