The resurgence of socialist ideas in the UK and around the world has led to a renewed interest in the ideas of Leon Trotsky. Although he was hounded, exiled and ultimately assassinated, Trotsky's ideas live on in a new generation. The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International is the full title of this work and it sets out the situation which faced the working class movement in 1938. It has many echoes in the present situation. Trotsky's work is continued by the Committee for a Workers' International.