Editing Trotskyism (section)

=== Africa ===
{{See also|Trotskyism in South Africa}}
Trotsky had advocated for national self-determination for the black population in [[South Africa]]. In response to the programmatic document of the South African Left Opposition, he wrote in 1935:<ref name="Trotsky as Alternative">{{cite book |last1=Mandel |first1=Ernst |author1-link=Ernst Mandel |title=Trotsky as Alternative |date=5 May 2020 |publisher=[[Verso Books]] |isbn=978-1-78960-701-7 |page=141 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVmcEAAAQBAJ&q=ernest+mandel+trotsky+as+alternative |language=en}}</ref>

<blockquote>"We must accept decisively and without any reservation the complete and unconditional right of the blacks to independence. Only on the basis of a mutual struggle against the domination of the white exploiters can the solidarity of black and white toilers be cultivated and strengthened".<ref name="Trotsky as Alternative"/></blockquote>

The Left Opposition in South Africa had criticised the Stalinist [[Comintern]] for advocating a [[Two-stage theory|two-stage]] theory in which a bourgeois-democratic republic would precede a socialist transformation of the society. Through the 1930s, the first viable black trade unions in [[Transvaal (province)|Transvaal]] were established by Trotskyists.{{sfn|Hirson|1992|pp=177–181}}

The [[Democratic Socialist Movement (Nigeria)]] exists in [[Nigeria]], it was founded in 1986 among a confederation of labour and student socialists. It is affiliated to the [[Committee for a Workers' International (2019)|Committee for a Workers' International]], of which it is the second largest section.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.socialistworld.net/pubs/history2/p24.html |title=A Socialist World is Possible: the History of the CWI |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052337/http://www.socialistworld.net/pubs/history2/p24.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |website=[[Committee for a Workers' International (2019)|Committee for a Workers' International]]}}</ref>