Nearly 70 years after his assassination by an agent of the Soviet government Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) remains the most controversial and misrepresented of all the major figures of the 1917 October Revolution. His historical role and ideas - and even the basic facts of his biography - have been for decades subject to relentless and unscrupluous falsification.

David North, Marxist writer and editorial board chairman of the World Socialist Web site (wsws.org) will explain the political motivations underlying the falsifications of Trotsky's life and ideas, and, more generally, examine the function and the contemporary implications of the lie in historical writing.

At: 2 p.m.
Room 513, Lecture Theatre D
Boyd Orr Building
The University of Glasgow
University Avenue
Glasgow
Scotland
UK
G12 8QQ