The Central Committee of the United Communists of Europe presents here the result of an internal discussion about Trotskyism. As we show in this article, we do not call ourselves Trotskyists, but take the best elements of Trotskyism and integrate it into revolutionary Marxism. We wish to uphold Leon Trotsky as a revolutionary communist who has much to teach communists today. Leon Trotsky was a revolutionary communist whose contributions to socialist revolution are unmeasurable. From his early days as a militant in the Petrograd Soviet during the 1905 Revolution, to his principled opposition to Stalinism in the twenties and thirties, Trotsky was present at each stage in the revolutionary movements of the early twentieth century. As a theorist in works like Results and Prospects and the Permanent Revolution , he produced some important interventions that provided clarity to a confusing situation. Although he was not free of mistakes and theoretical weaknesses at times, Trotsky must be