By 1935 he claimed that the Comintern had fallen irredeemably into the hands of the Stalinist bureaucracy.

Instead they argued that "unconscious Trotskyists" would come to power in colonized countries as well as within the Stalinist bureaucracies.

He argued that if the working class did not take power away from the Stalinist bureaucracy, the bureaucracy would restore capitalism in order to enrich itself.

Economist Michael Hudson, interview: "Instead of getting rid of the old Stalinist bureaucracy the neo-liberals simply privatized it and the result of course is corruption.

As the head of the Fourth International, Trotsky continued in exile in Mexico to oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union.

In fact, it turned the Polish church into a set-up that was, at times, not easy to distinguish from the Stalinist bureaucracy.

And in a Stalinist bureaucracy that is a double-edged sword, of course - it's not just bourgeois stuffed shirts being satirized.

The Stalinist bureaucracy led an assault on democratic socialism and Communism to feed their coffers at the expense of the majority.

As an organisation, it represents everything rotten about a Stalinist bureaucracy.

What has been seen in these countries however, does not conform with Communist views on art and artistic expression before the international Communist movement came to be under the rule of Stalinist bureaucracy.