Workers take political power or face ‘Iron Heel’ of capitalist rule
![Leon Trotsky in exile in 1931. Jack London’s daughter, Joan London, sent Trotsky his book The Iron Heel. Trotsky was impressed, saying the American novelist correctly describes the “abyss the bourgeoisie will hurl you down,” if a proletarian revolution doesn’t “finish with them.”](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/BOM01-300x212.jpg)
…pictures of civil war develop in powerful frescoes. Nevertheless, this is not the main feature. The book surprised me with the audacity and independence of its historical foresight. The world…