Book Review: Inquisition Mode - Victor Serge’s Final Notebooks | Tariq Ali

by Tariq Ali

A defender of the Bolshevik revolution and a decades-long critic of Stalinism, Serge in his final notebook details the fight against fascism, capital and the Soviet bureaucracy by a not uncritical intimate of Trotsky who remained a lifelong Marxist.

Mexico City, Mexico City, 6 July 1946. Victor Serge had a year to live. He had spent the morning, as he sometimes did, with Trotsky