Revolutionary History: Back Issues (original) (raw)

A list of contents of all previous issues

Compiled by John Plant, with assistance from Ted Crawford, latterly updated by Ian Donovan (including links to documents and covers) and then Jim Jepps. All the articles in the issues that are unavailable (nos. 1–8, 10 & 11) are now on-line and are in the public domain. When issues are sold out they too will be placed on-line. We would be very pleased to hear from you if you notice errors, whether typograpghical or more substantial. Please email Ted Crawford who will see to the corrections however minor.

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Vol. 1 No. 1, Spring 1988

Editorial
Albert Glotzer: British Trotskyism in 1931
Harry Ratner: With the Molinier Group
Harry Selby: Brief Notes on the History of the Left Fraction
Reg Groves: The Socialist League
Sam Bornstein & Al Richardson: For the Record (Corrections to their War & The International)
Pierre Broué: Rudolf Klement
Rudolf Klement: Principles & Tactics in War
Sam Gordon: Paul Lafargue
Ernest Rogers: Two false oppositions (On Trotskyists in the Socialist League)
Workers International League: The WIL view (On relations with the RSL)
Charles Sumner: The case against Fenner Brockway
Karl Kautsky: The intellectuals and the workers
Mike Howgate: Readers Notes (Listings of relevant press items)
Spartacist statement (Their usual line on ‘ostensibly revolutionary groups’)

Vol. 1 No. 2, Summer 1988

The hidden history of the Spanish Civil War

Editorial
Baruch Hirson and Prometheus Research Library on Li Fu-Jen
Paul Flewers: Stalinism & Spain (with Spartacist statement)
Pierre Broué: Walter Held
Nils Kaare Dahl: Some memories of Walter Held
Walter Held: Stalinism and the POUM in the Spanish Revolution
Keith Hassell: Trotsky and the POUM
Pierre Broué: The ‘May Days’ of 1937 in Barcelona
Hugo Oehler: Barricades in Barcelona, with preface by Ernest Rogers
The Spanish Left in its own words (includes the following):
- The Spanish Revolution in Practice: Why we make this invitation
- The programme of the POUM in 1936
- The Communist Party denounces the POUM
- The Communist Party calls for a professional army
- The POUM attacks the nationalism of the Spanish Stalinists
- The Anarchists defend the gains of the Spanish Revolution against the ‘communists’
- Negrete and Oehler report from Barcelona
- Manifesto of the POUM during the Barcelona May Days
- POUM policy during the May events
- Manifesto of the National Committee of the CNT regarding the May Days in Barcelona
- Counter-theses for the conference of the POUM
- The programme of the Spanish Bolshevik-Leninists
Katia Landau: Stalinism in Spain (with preface by Alfred Rosmer)

Letters

Ellis Hillman on the Marxian League
Baruch Hirson on Searchlight South Africa
Ken Tarbuck and Ted Crawford on Harry Selby

Mike Howgate: Readers’ Notes

Vol. 1 No. 3, Autumn 1988

War and Revolution in Europe: 1939–1945

Editorial
Dissenting statement by international Spartacist tendency on the 3rd International
Jean-Paul Joubert: Revolutionary Defeatism
Sam Levy: The Proletarian Military Policy Revisited
Rodolphe Prager: The Fourth International During the Second World War
Voix Ouvrière: A Constant Opportunism
Lutte Ouvrière / Daniel Guerin: Trotsky and the Second World War
Errata for Vol. 1 No. 2
Martin Upham: The Aylesbury By-election of 1938

Reviews

Letters

Reader’s Notes

Vol. 1 No. 4, Winter 1988–89

Against All Odds: Dutch, French and Indian Trotskyism during the Second World War

Reviews

Letters

Vol. 2 No. 1, Spring 1989

Strikes & Leadership: Trotskyists and Major Class Battles

Editorial

The Renault Strike of 1947

The 1934 Minneapolis Strike

Reviews

Letters

Readers’ notes

Vol. 2 No. 2, Summer 1989

Nationalism, resistance and imperialist war: Trotskyism in Argentina and Scandinavia

Editorial
Osvaldo Coggiola: The History of Argentine Trotskyism
John Sullivan: Liborio Justo and Argentinian Trotskyism
Nils Khaare Dahl: With Trotsky in Norway
Borge Trolle: Danish Trotskyism in World War Two (with illegal wartime documents)
Grandizo Munis (1912–1989), Obituary and documents, recollection by Ernest Rogers
Judith Shapiro: The Prophet Returned? A survey of recent works by/about Trotsky in the Soviet Union
Errata to Vol. 1 No. 4 and Vol. 2 No. 1
Bob Archer: Work in Progress in German

Obituaries

Harry Wicks/C.L.R. James

Reviews

Letters

Reader’s Notes

Vol. 2 No. 3, Autumn 1989

Germany: the key The German Left 1919 to 1935

Obituary

Anna Grimshaw: C.L.R. James (1901–1989)

Reviews

Letters

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 2 No. 4, Spring 1990

The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution

Editorial
Paul Collin: The Tragedy of the Chinese revolution
“The Awakening of the Chinese workers’ movement”
Damien Durand: The birth of the Chinese Left Opposition
Pierre Broué: Chen Duxiu and the Fourth International
International Communist League: The peasant war in China
Frank Glass: The Communist League of China
Zheng Chaolin: On the nature of revolution
Peng Shuzi: Trotskyism in China
Wang Fanxi: Problems of Chinese Trotskyism

Obituaries

Work in Progress

The Centro Studi Pietro Tresso, Italy

Reviews

Letters

Vol. 3 No. 1, Summer 1990

Stalinism & Communism in Eastern Europe

Editorial
Out of the Shadows (Notes on Moscow meeting about Trotsky)
Fred Kissin: My Political Experiences in the Trotskyist Movement
Fred Kissin: A Visit to Trotsky
International Communists of Germany: Nazis Send Arms to Spanish Fascists
Lutte Ouvrière: When Tito was a Revolutionary, according to Pierre Frank and Gerard Bloch
W. Jedlicki: Ludwick Hass
Ludwick Hass: The Bolshevik-Leninist (Fourth International) Movement in Poland up to 1945
Ludwick Hass: Trotsky’s Writings in Polish during the Inter-War Years
Barta: How the Bolshevik-Leninist Group of Romania was Founded
Sadik Premtaj: Stalinism and Communism in Albania
Balacz Nagy: The Present Day Relevance of the Transitional Programme (from 1966)
Szabo Laszlo Zsolt: The History of the Publication of Trotsky’s Works in Hungarian
The Political Legacy of Gerry Healy; Comments and statements by ICL (Spartacists), John Archer, WIL, Workers Power, Workers Revolutionary Party (Workers Press)
Oskar Hippe (1900–1990) – Obituary by Bob Archer and extract from ... and Red is the Colour of Our Flag

Work in Progress

Report by Ted Crawford on the Wuppertal Trotsky Colloquium

Reviews

Letters

Ken Tarbuck on Mandel
Mike Jones on Germany
Paul Flewers on popular fronts
Richard Whyte on Ted Grant
Richard Abernethy on Raya Dunayevskaya
David Cotterill on Victor Serge Centenary Group
Errata for Vol. 2 No. 4
Books and Magazines Wanted

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 3 No. 2, Autumn 1990

Vietnam: Workers’ Revolution and National Independence

Obituaries

Joe Thomas

Work in Progress

Bryony Dixon on the Victor Serge Centenary Group

Reviews

Roman Rosdolsky: Engels and the ‘Non-historic’ Peoples
Victor Serge: Notes d’Allemagne (1923)
A. Belden Fields: Trotskyism and Maoism
Erratum to Vol. 3 No. 1

Letters

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 3 No. 3, Spring 1991

Trotskyism and Stalinism in Greece

Editorial
Loukas Karliaftis: Stalinism and Trotskyism in Greece (1924–1949)
P. Pouliopoulos & P. Giatsopoulos: Open Letter to the KKE
Raymond Molinier & Pavel Okun: The Left Opposition in Greece
Archeiomarxist Congress Resolution (Sept 1930)
Open Letter to the ECCI (from the Archeiomarxists, July 1933)
Loukas Karliaftis: From Acronauplia to Nezero
Loukas Karliaftis: On War and Revolution
ICL: Statement of reservations about the content of this issue

Obituaries

Work in Progress

Report on a symposium at Aberdeen to mark 50 years since the death of Trotsky

Reviews

Letters

3 letters on the Ukraine dispute within the Revolutionary History Editorial Board (from the ICL representatives, from Al Richardson, and from Chris Ford)
Bruce Robinson on East Europe
Ludwik Hass on Polish Trotskyism

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 3 No. 4, Autumn 1991

Imperialist War and National Resistance

Editorial
Pierre Broué: How Trotsky and the Trotskyists Confronted the Second World War
Daniel Guerin’s preface to Trotsky on WWII
Andre Frankin’s review of the above
Information Ouvrière’s attack on Guerin
Guerin’s postscript
The KPD and the solidarity of the illegals (Statement by German exiles in London)

Work in Progress

Ian Birchall and Paul Flewers on the Serge Centenary
The Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements Trotskyste et Revolutionnaires internationaux, Paris

Reviews

Obituaries

Dave Hughes
Frank Ward

Letters

Stephen Schwarz on the POUM, with replies by Al Richardson and Ernie Rogers
Robin Blick on the Canton Commune of 1927
John Spencer on Vietnam
Terry Liddle and Tom Cowan on Joe Thomas, with reply by Ernie Rogers
Ellis Hillman on Hersh Mendel
Ludwick Hass on Polish Trotskyism
Bob Pitt on ICL inaccuracies
Charles Pottins on ICL Factionalism
Editorial Statement on the ICL’s departure from Revolutionary History, and some corrections to Vol. 3 No. 3
Errata to Vol. 3 No. 3

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 4 Nos. 1 & 2

The Spanish Civil War: The View from the Left

(Dedicated to the Memory of Sam Bornstein)

Introduction

Part 1: Causation

Part 2: Eyewitness

Part 3: Analysis

(This is a book-size and format issue, and does not carry the usual reviews and letters sections)

Vol. 4 No. 3, Summer 1992

Bolivia. The Revolution Derailed? The Crisis of 1952 and the Trotskyist Movement

Work in Progress

Mike Jones on the Schafranek controversy
Walter Kendall on Bruno Rizzi
Ted Crawford on the Sao Paulo Colloquium
Errata to Vol. 4 Nos. 1/2

Reviews

Tony Cliff, Trotsky 1917–1923. The Sword of Revolution
Harriett Crawford: Sumer and the Sumerians and C.N. Reeves: The Valley of the Kings. The Decline of a Royal Necropolis
Michael Lees: The Rape of Serbia
Paul LeBlanc: Lenin and the Revolutionary Party
Mario Vargas Llosa: The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
Karel Kaplan: Report on the Murder of the General Secretary
Jack Gale: Class Struggle in the Second World War: The 1944 Police Raid on the RCP
Leon Trotsky: Fascism, Stalinism and the United Front
Dick Freney: A Map of Days: Life on the Left
Harpal Brar: Perestroika: The Complete Collapse of Revisionism

Obituaries

Edmond Samarakoddy (1914–1992)
Martha Phillips (1948–1992)

Letters

Reiner Tosstorff on Spain, with reply by Al Richardson
Werner Cohn on Trotsky and the Jews, with reply by Al Richardson
Fred Purdy on the Spartacists

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 4 No. 4, Spring 1993

‘Colour and Class’; The origins of South African Trotskyism

Editorial

Narrative

Documents

Preliminary correspondence (On the founding of the first group in SA, Thibedi, Trotsky)
The land question: Race and class (Items by Burlak, Ruth Fischer and the WPSA)
The Trade Unions (Burlak, Max Gordon)
Party and Class (Burlak)
The Coming War (Averbach, Burlak)

Work in Progress

Reviews

Letters

Stop Press !

Information from Robert Conquest on Mercader

Readers’ notes

Vol. 5 No. 1, Autumn 1993

‘Eyewitness to Disaster’: The German Labour Movement and the Rise of Hitler, 1929–33

Editorial
Mildred Gordon: Sam Gordon (1910–1982) – Scientific Socialist
Sam Gordon: Reports from Germany, 1929–1930
Mike Jones: A Comment on Sam Gordon’s Reports
Mika Etchebehere: Hyppolite Etchebehere, called Juan Rustico
Hyppolite Etchebehere: The Tragedy of the German Proletariat
Hyppolite Etchebehere: Letters to an Argentine Comrade
Ernest Rogers: Etchebehere’s Assessment Confirmed
Mike Jones: Jan Valtin – A False Witness

Work in Progress

Note by Andy Durgan on a conference about Andreu Nin
Note by Crawford & Richardson on current research and studies
Announcement of the first issue of Journal of Trotsky Studies

Obituaries

Prins Rajasooriya
Louis Bondy

Reviews

James P. Cannon and the Early Years of American Communism: Selected Writings and Speeches, 1920–1928
Robert Service (ed.): Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution
C.N. Reeves (ed.): After Tut’ankhamun: Research and Excavation in the Royal Necropolis at Thebes
Victor Serge: Year One of the Russian Revolution
Arthur Ransome: Six Weeks in Russia 1919, and The Crisis in Russia 1920
Jeff Fellow: Revolting Scotland
Raymond Challinor: A Radical Lawyer in Victorian England: W.P. Roberts and the Struggle for Workers Rights
Fritz Keller: In den Gulag von Ost und West
Terry Brotherstone and Paul Dukes (eds.): The Trotsky Reappraisal
Joe Jacobs: Out of the Ghetto
Frank Furedi: Mythical Past, Elusive Future: History and Society in an Anxious Age
Raya Dunayevskaya: The Marxist Humanist Theory of State Capitalism

Letters

Hillel Ticktin
Baruch Hirson replies to Ticktin
Jose Villa on Nationalism in Bolivia
Anibal Robles on Sendero Luminosa terrorism against Trotskyist workers leaders in Peru

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 5 No. 2, Spring 1994

Germany 1918–23: From the November Revolution to the Failed October

Work in Progress

Note from Conquest on information in Volkogonov on the assassination of Trotsky
Note on a video on the murder of Nin
Brief notes on recent German publications from Decaton Verlag
Announcement of a new historical review from the Socialist Labor Party
Announcement of the London Socialist Historians Group
Note on recent Hungarian publications from the Soviet archives
Announcement of Socialist History

Reviews

Willie Thompson: The Good Old Cause: British Communism 1920–1991, by Al Richardson
Alan McKinlay & R.J. Morris (eds.): The ILP on Clydeside 1893–1932, by Sheila Lahr
Tom Buchanan: The Spanish Civil War and the British Labour Movement, by John Sullivan
John Graham (ed.): Yours for the Revolution: The Appeal to Reason 1895–1922, by Walter Kendall
Tom Winnifrith (ed.): Perspectives on Albania, by Al Richardson
Jose Iriarte ‘Bikilia’: Do the workers have a country?, by John Sullivan
Frank Girard & Ben Perry: The Socialist Labour Party 1876–1991, by Walter Kendall
Michael Löwy: On changing the world, by Esther Leslie
Wolfgang and Petra Lubitz (eds.): Trotskyist Serials Bibliography, by Al Richardson
Robert J. Alexander: International Trotskyism 1929–1985 (Paolo Casciola’s comments on Romania)
Alan Wald: The Responsibility of Intellectuals, by Sheila Lahr
Eugene Strouhal: Life in Ancient Egypt, by Al Richardson

Letters

Hillel Ticktin on South African Trotskyism
Paolo Casciola on the Wuppertal symposium (See Vol. 4 No. 4, Work in Progress)
Paul Buhle on C.L.R. James, with reply from Al Richardson
Bob Archer on Sam Gordon and Brandler
Peter & Cyril on Prins Rajasooriya
Albert Glotzer on Sam Gordon
Tim Wohlforth on Bolivia, with reply from the editors
Announcement of availability of supplementary documents

Vol. 5 No. 3

Victor Serge. The Century of the Unexpected: Essays on Revolution and Counter-Revolution

Obituaries

Tom Kemp (1921–1993), by Cyril Smith
Frank Rowe (1928–1994), by Sheila Lahr, with additional comment by Ted Crawford
Betty Hamilton (1904–1994), by Harry Ratner

Work in Progress

Letters

Edward Crawford on Henry Sara and A.J.P. Taylor

Reviews

John Cowley: The Victorian Encounter with Marx: A study of Ernest Belfort Bax, by Al Richardson
John Callaghan: Rajani Palme Dutt: A study in British Stalinism & Kevin Morgan: Harry Pollitt, by Cyril Smith
Monty Johnstone: Trotsky Reassessed & Tony Cliff: Trotsky: The darker the night the brighter the star, by Al Richardson
Robert J. Alexander: International Trotskyism 1929–1985. A Documented Analysis of the Movement, by José Villa (continues the reviews commenced in earlier volumes)
Patricia Cayo Sexton: The war on labor and the left, by Walter Kendall
Donald Filtzer: The Kruschev Era, by Paul Flewers
Anita Burdman Feferman: Politics, Logic and Love: The life of Jean Van Heijenoort, by Al Richardson
Klaus Gietinger: Eine Leiche im Landwehrkanal: Die Ermordung der Rosa L, by Mike Jones
Theodor Bergmann and Mario Kessler (eds.): Ketzer im Kommunismus: Alternativen zum Stalinismus, by Ian Birchall
Wladislaw Hedeler and Ruth Stoljarowa: Nikolai Bucharin: Leben und Werk, by Donny Gluckstein
Scott McLemee and Paul LeBlanc (eds.): CLR James and Revolutionary Marxism: Selected writings of C.L.R. James 1939–1949, by Al Richardson
David Cotterill (ed.): The Serge-Trotsky papers, by Ian Birchall

Letters

Ted Crawford on the German revolution
Mike Jones replies to Bob Archer (Vol. 5 No. 2)
Horst Lauscher on Trotsky and the Guomindang (with editorial reply)
Steve Parsons on Jan Valtin
Robin Blick on Poland and the Red Army (with reply from the editor and from Paul Flewers)
John Plant on a translation, (with comment from the editor)
Willie Thompson criticises the review of his book in an earlier volume (with editorial reply)

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 5 No. 4

THE ITALIAN LEFT Through Fascism, War and Revolution: Trotskyism and Left Communism in Italy

Obituaries

Margaret Dewar (1901–1995), by Logie Barrow
William Campbell Tait (1910/11–1994), by Mark Shipway
Adam Westoby (1944–1994), by Karen Blick

Reviews

International Communist Current: The Italian Communist Left, 1927–1945, by Al Richardson
Robin Blick: The Seeds of Evil: Lenin and the Origins of Bolshevik Elitism, by David Bruce
Peter Drucker: Max Shachtman and His Left, by Jim Higgins
Richard Pipes: Russia under the Bolshevik Regime, by Simon Pirani
Keith Bradley: Slavery and Society at Rome, by Al Richardson
Frederick Engels, International Socialism Special Issue, by Al Richardson
Irwin Silber: Socialism: What Went Wrong?, by Walter Kendall
Ngo Van: Revolutionaries They Could Not Break, by Al Richardson

Letters

Baruch Hirson on Victor Serge and China
Curtis Price on Left Communism in France (with reply from editor)
Mike Jones on Jan Valtin
Ian Birchall on Al Richardson’s review of Cliff’s book on Trotsky (with reply from the editor)
An Exchange on Bolivia between Masas, No. 1345, the paper of the Bolivian POR and José Villa on the Bolivian issue of Revolutionary History, Vol. 4 No. 3

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 6 No. 1, Winter 1995–96

Trotskyism in Poland

Editorial
Ludwik Hass, Trotskyism in Poland up to 1945
Ludwik Hass, Against all odds – true to the ideals of his youth
B. Drobner, W. Kielecki & H. Swoboda, Draft Programme of the Polish Socialist Party
Leon Trotsky, Entry into the Socialist in Poland
Bolshevik-Leninists of Poland, Open Letter to Members of the Polish Communist Party
Notes on the Life of Ludwik Hass
Grzegorz Soltysiak, The Hass Group
S. Trepczynski, Amnesty International and the case of Ludwik Hass
Ludwik Hass, Open Letter to Ozjask Szechter
Solidarity’s Tragedy is its Advisers – An interview with Ludwik Hass
Ludwik Hass, Breaking with the Old Version of the History of the CPSU and the USSR (review article)

Obituaries

Ernest Mandel (1923–1995), by Al Richardson, Sean Matgamna, Charles Van Gelderen
Kenneth John Tarbuck (1930–1995), by Al Richardson
Bernard Dix (1925–1995), by Ellis Hillman

Work in Progress

Reviews

Vladimir Brovkin: Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War Sheila Fitzpatrick: The Russian Revolution Gennady Shkliarevsky: Labor in the Russian Revolution, by Paul Flewers
Jens-Peter Steffen: Militant Tendency, by Mike Jones and Esther Leslie
Gregor Benton: Interviews with Wang Fanxi, by Baruch Hirson
Marilyn Vogt-Downey: The USSR 1987–1991, by Al Richardson
John Kautsky: Karl Kautsky John Kautsky: Marxism & Leninism, by Paul Flewers
Karen Olsen Bruhns: Ancient South America, by Al Richardson
Al Richardson (ed.): In Defence of the Russian Revolution, by Ian Birchall
Harry Ratner: Reluctant Revolutionary, by Ellis Hillman
Tim Wohlforth: The Prophet’s Children, by Jim Higgins
Dmitri Volkogonov: Lenin – Life and Legacy, Ernest Rogers

Letters

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 6 No. 2/3, Summer 1996

Essays on Revolutionary Marxism in Britain and Ireland from the 1930s to the 1960s

Editorial
Ciaran Crossey & James Monaghan: The Origins of Trotskyism in Ireland
John Archer: C.L.R. James in Britain, 1932–38
Paul Flewers: Cornering the Chameleons, Stalinism & Trotskyism in Britain 1939–41
John McIlroy: ‘The First Great Battle in the March to Socialism’, Dockers, Stalinists and Trotskyists in 1945
Alan Christianson: The Revolutionary Communist Party and the Shop Stewards
Sam Levy: A Footnote for Historians
Ellis Hillman and the Fourth International
Anon: The Disunity of Theory and Practice
Mike Jones: Some Recently Discovered Material on Rosa Luxemburg and Leo Jogiches
Rosa Luxemburg: Letters on Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution
A Tribute to Ryan Worrall (Probably the first British supporter of the ‘state capitalism’ theory)

Two letters from Trotsky to Ryan Worrall

A Statement on John Archer’s C.L.R. James in Britain, 1932–38, by Ted Crawford

Obituaries

Ellis Hillman (1928–1996), by Al Richardson
Ellis Hillman and the Socialist Review Group, by Jim Higgins
Michel Pablo (1911–1996), by Al Richardson

Work in Progress

Harry Constable’s memoirs, by John McIlroy
New findings from the Moscow Archives, by Bruce Robinson
Jack Jones & Land and Freedom, by Paul Flewers
Robert Conquest and the Soviet Archives, by Ted Crawford
George Orwell and the left, by Paul Flewers

Reviews

Hillel Ticktin & Mick Cox: The Ideas of Leon Trotsky
Enzo Traverso: The Marxists and the Jewish Question, by Al Richardson
Francois Moreau: Combats et debats de la Quatrieme Internationale, by Al Richardson
Ken Loach: Land and Freedom, by Wilebaldo Solano
Arkadi Valksberg: Stalin against the Jews, by Paul Flewers
Recent pamphlets on the dockers and the ‘blue union’, by John Archer and Keith Sinclair, by Tom Cowan
Richard Raack: Stalin’s Drive to the West 1938–1945, by Paul Flewers
Baruch Hirson: Revolutions in my Life Baruch Hirson & Gwyn Williams: The Delegate For Africa, David Ivon Jones 1883–1924, by Ian Hunter
Workers Fight (ICU): A Tradition to Rebuild, by Al Richardson
Les Foster: Rocking the Boat, Memoirs of a Glasgow Socialist & Whistleblower, by Raymond Challinor
Inga Clendinnen: Aztecs, An Interpretation, by Al Richardson
Paul M. Buhle: A Dreamer’s Paradise Lost. Louis Fraina and the Decline of Radicalism in the US, by Graham Barnfield
J.N. Postgate: Early Mesopotamia Paul-Alain Beaulieu: The Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon, by Al Richardson

Work in Progress Extra

Letters

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 6 No. 4, 1997

Blows Against the Empire: Trotskyism in Ceylon – the Lanka Sama Samaja Party 1935–1964

Editorial
The Origins of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party and Manifesto of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, Jayawardene Politics of the LSSP, Gunawardene
The Defence of Mark Bracegirdle, Jayawardene
Interview with Bracegirdle, conducted by Bob Pitt
The LSSP turns to Trotskyism 1939–41, Perera, Goonewardene, de Silva & anon.
The LSSP 1939–60, Fernando
The LSSP Against Imperialist War, Perera, Gunawardena
The 1945 Split in the LSSP, Amarasinghe, Gunawardena, N.M. Perera, De Silva
The Dispute over Independence, 1948, De Silva, Perera, Dissanayake
The Unification of the LSSP in 1950: interview with Rajasooriya, articles by Gunawardene etc.
The Great Hartal of 1953, Tampoe, Samarakoddy, Goonewardene, Rajasooriya
Tamil Rights: The LSSP Against Sinhala Only, 1955–56, Goonewardene
LSSP Declaration, Perera
The LSSP Against the People’;s Front (1956–1960), Grannum, Samarakoddy
Years of Crisis, 1960–64, Amerasinghe, Karalasingham
Charles Wesley Ervin, Trotskyism in India (Part 2, 1942–48)

Obituaries

Alec Acheson (1912–1996), by Al Richardson
Nils Kaare Dahl (1909–1996), by Ted Crawford

Nils Kaare Dahl, The Norwegian Tragedy, summarised by Mike Jones

Work in Progress

Comintern Archives on Microfiche, by Gary Tennant

Reviews

George Breitman, Paul LeBlanc, Alan Wald: Trotskyism in the United States: Historical Essays and Reconsiderations, by Jim Higgins
Workers Fight pamphlet, When the Proletariat rose to change the World (on Spanish Civil War), by Al Richardson
Richard Pipes: The Unknown Lenin, by Paul Flewers
Bob Pitt, John MacLean and the CPGB, by John McHugh
Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, by Al Richardson
Two Spanish-language books produced by the Argentinian MAS (followers of Nahuel Moreno), by John Sullivan
Conor Kostick, Revolution in Ireland: Popular Militancy 1917–1923, by Chris Gray
Oleg Dubrovski/Simon Pirani, Fighting Back in Ukraine, by John Plant
Hal Draper, The Adventures of the Communist Manifesto, by Chris Mathews
Jesús Hernández, How the NKVD Framed the POUM, by Chris Ealham
Alastair MacLachlan, The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary England, by Peter Swingler
Two Italian language books by the followers of Nahuel Moreno, byBarbara Rossi
Nadezhda A. Joffe, Back in Time: My Life, My Fate, My Epoch, by John Plant
Mikhail Baitalsky, Notebooks for the Grandchildren, Recollections of a Trotskyist who survived the Stalin Terror, by Sheila Lahr

Letters

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 7 No. 1

A Paradise for Capitalism? Class and Leadership in Twentieth Century Belgium

Catherine Leghien, A Contribution to the History of the Belgian Trotskyists
Pierre Broué, The Parti Socialiste Révolutionnaire
Leon Trotsky, Letters on Belgium (never previously in English)
Harry Ratner, Report on the PCR
Some Historical Vignettes
Serge Simon, The Belgium General Strike 1960–61
John McIlroy, Adrift in the Rapids of Racism (Syd Bidwell 1917–1997)

Obituaries

David Rousset (1912–1997), Ian Birchall
Bernard Soysa (1914–1997), by Meryl Fernando
Fred Bunby, by Sheila Lahr
Georg Scheuer (1914–1996), by Fritz Keller & Kurt Lhotzky
Carl Cowl (1900–1997), by Ernie Rogers
Michael Tippett (1905–1998), by J.J. Plant

RSL internal document by Michael Tippett

Work in Progress

Summer on the Continent, by Al Richardson
Babeuf Bicentenary Conference, by Ian Birchall
The Wheeldon Case, by Harry Ratner
History on the Internet, by J.J. Plant

Reviews

Caliban’s Freedom: Early Political Thought of CLR James by Bogues (Higgins)
More Years for the Locusts by Higgins (Birchall)
Rosa Luxemburg by Rienzi & Bisceglie (Rossi)
Essays in Memory of Tom Kemp by Brotherstone & Pilling (Arthur)
Marx at the Millennium by Cyril Smith (Machover)
Russia from Revolution to Counter-Revolution by Ted Grant (Richardson)
Reason in Revolt: Modern Philosophy and Modern Science by Ted Grant & Alan Woods (Thompson)
Friends of the Durruti Group & Documentacion historica del troquismo in espanol by Augustin Guillamon (Sullivan)
Assassinii nel maquis; la tragica morte del Pietro Tresso by Broué & Vacheron (Casciola & Salucci)
Meutre au maquis by Broué, Vacheron & Dugrand (Birchall)
The Spectre of Babeuf by Ian Birchall (Schiappa)
Morgan Phillips Price by Tania Rose (Richardson)
BOC 1930–36; El Bloque Obrero y Campesino by Andrew Durgan (Ealham)
The Left in History by Willie Thompson (Sullivan)
We The Anarchists! a Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927–1937 by Stuart Christie (Sullivan)

Letters

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 7 No. 2, Spring 1999

Culture and Revolution in the Thought of Leon Trotsky

Editorial

The Culture of the Old World

Leon Trotsky, Ibsen
Leon Trotsky, Two Literary Souls at the Mercy of the Metaphysical Demon
Leon Trotsky, Poetry, the Machine, and the Poetry of the Machine
Leon Trotsky, On the Novel in General and on The Three of Them in Particular
Leon Trotsky, Culture and the Little White Bull
Paul Flewers, Vekhi and the Retreat from Reason

Impressionism: Trotsky in Vienna

Fritz Keller, Trotsky in Vienna
Leon Trotsky, On Death and Eros
Leon Trotsky, A New Year’s Conversation about Art
Leon Trotsky, The Vienna Secession of 1909
Leon Trotsky, Two Viennese Exhibitions
Leon Trotsky, On the Intelligentsia
Leon Trotsky, Vienna Secession 1913

The Culture of the Transition Period

John Plant, Trotsky, Art and the Revolution
Antonio Gramsci, A Letter to Leon Trotsky on Futurism
Leon Trotsky, For Quality – For Culture!

Culture Under the Dictators

Pierre Naville, Trotsky on Art and Literature
Richard Greeman, Did Trotsky Read Serge?
Esther Leslie, Elective Affinities
James T. Farrell, A Memoir of Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky, Marcel Martinet
Leon Trotsky, The Attitude of Men of Letters
An Interview with Jean Malaquais
Fritz Keller, Stalinism versus Hedonism

The International Federation of Independent Revolutionary Artists

Maurice Nadeau, Trotsky and Breton
Leon Trotsky, You Must Not Whisper
Leon Trotsky, Difficulties With Diego

Obituaries

Tom Cowan (1929–1998), by Ernie Rogers
Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), by Alex Economou
Morris Lewit (1903–1998), by Alan Wald
Sal Santen (1915–1998): Gentle Trotskyist, by Elspeth Etty
Bob Wilsker (1919–1998), by Al Richardson (with addendum by Karl Thierl)

Work in Progress

Argentine Trotsky Study Centre
Marxism on the Internet, by Ted Crawford
Other Websites
Marx and Engels on CD-ROM
Spanish Anarchist Shenanigans, by John Sullivan
Publications from CERMTRI
Cahiers Léon Trotsky
Russian Archive Collections, by Simon Pirani

Reviews

André Liebich, From the Other Shore, by Paul Flewers
Noreen Branson, History of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1941–1951, by Paul Flewers
David King, The Commissar Vanishes, by Paul Flewers
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh (ed.), James Connolly: The Lost Writings, by Chris Gray
F.A. Ridley, Socialism and Religion, by Chris Gray
Richard Brenner, Trotsky: An Introduction, by Al Richardson
International Communist Union, Hungary 1956, by Al Richardson
Jane Rowlandson (ed.), Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt, by Al Richardson
Marilyn Vogt-Downey (ed.), The Ideological Legacy of L.D. Trotsky, by Al Richardson
Hall Greenland, Red Hot, by Al Richardson
Ralph Darlington, The Political Trajectory of J.T. Murphy & Molly Murphy, Molly Murphy, by John McIlroy
Ben Watson, Art, Class and Cleavage, by Ian Birchall
Pierre Broué, Histoire de l’Internationale Communiste, by Ian Birchall
Sean Matgamna (ed.), The Fate of the Russian Revolution, by Barry Finger & Jim Higgins
Alison McLeod, The Death of Uncle Joe, by Ron Heisler
Sam Deaderick & Tamara Turner, Gay Resistance, by John Plant
Riccardo Anfossi, La Resistenza Spezzata, Carlo Fuerriero & Fausto Rondinelli, La Volante Rossa, Tom Behan, The Long Awaited Moment & Elena Aga-Rossi & Victor Zaslavsky, Togliatti e Stalin, by Barbara Rossi

Letters

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 7 No. 3, Spring 2000

The Hidden Pearl of the Carribean: Trotskyism in Cuba

Editorial
Gary Tennant, An Introduction to the History of Trotskyism in Cuba
Gary Tennant, The Background: Nationalism and Communism in Cuba
Gary Tennant, Julio Antonio Mella and the Roots of Dissension in the Partido Comunista de Cuba
Gary Tennant, The Birth of Dissident Cuban Communism and the Oposición Comunista de Cuba, 1930–33
Gary Tennant, The Partido Bolchevique Leninista and the Revolution of the 1930s
Gary Tennant, Trotskyism in Cuba Between the Revolutions
Gary Tennant, The Reorganised Partido Obrero Revolucionario (Trotskista) and the 1959 Revolution
To the Cuban Workers and Peasants
Letter from the Workers Party of the United States to the Cuban Trotskyists
Gary Tennant, Historical Vignettes
An Interview with Roberto Acosta Hechavarría
The International Secretariat and the Cuban Trotskyists
Thirty Years Since the Death of Ernesto Guevara

Obituaries

Work in Progress

Reviews

Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive, Part 1: The KGB in Europe and the West, by J.J. Plant
Paul Flewers, “I Know How, But I Don’t Know Why”: George Orwell’s Conception of Totalitarianism, by John Newsinger
John Newsinger, Orwell’s Politics, by Paul Flewers
Susan Weissman (ed.), The Ideas of Victor Serge: A Life as a Work of Art, by Bill Marshall
Leon Trotsky, The Transitional Programme, by Al Richardson
Morgan Philips Price, Dispatches from the Weimar Republic, by Al Richardson
John Reed, Shaking the World: John Reed’s Revolutionary Journalism, by Al Richardson
John H. Kautsky, The Politics of Aristocratic Empires, by Al Richardson
Susan Pollock, Ancient Mesopotamia, by Al Richardson
Dave Renton, Fascism: Theory and Practice, by Tobias Abse
Donny Gluckstein, The Nazis, Capitalism and the Working Class, by Tobias Abse
Enzo Traverso, Understanding the Nazi Genocide: Marxism After Auschwitz, by Tobias Abse
Bill Hunter, Lifelong Apprenticeship: The Life and Times of a Revolutionary, by Sheila Lahr
Leon Trotsky, Escritos Latinoamericanos, by John Sullivan
Anton Dannat, Auf dem Floss der Medusa?, by Ian Birchall
Philippe Gottraux, Socialisme ou Barbarie, by Ian Birchall
Eric Cavaterra, La Banque de France et la Commune de Paris, by Jean Marc Schiappa
Nicole Bossut, Chaumette, porte-parole des sans-culottes, by Jean Marc Schiappa
Zheng Chaolin, An Oppositionist for Life, by Simon Pirani
Gregor Benton, China’s Urban Revolutionaries: Explorations in the History of Chinese Trotskyism 1921–1952, by Simon Pirani
Robert Louzon, China: Three Thousand Years of History, Fifty Years of Revolution, by Charlie Hore

Letters

Reader’s Notes

Vol. 7 No. 4, Winter 2000–2001

From Syndicalism to Trotskyism: Writings of Alfred and Marguerite Rosmer

Editorial

Writings of Alfred and Marguerite Rosmer

I: Overviews
II: Syndicalism
III: War
IV: Comintern
V: Transition
VI: Trotskyism
VII: After Trotsky
Biographies

Obituaries

Tony Cliff: Three Appraisals

Work in Progress

New York Trotskyism History Conference, by Ted Crawford
Internet Report, by Ted Crawford
Tony Cliff’s Works and Baruch Hirson’s Paper, by Ted Crawford
News from Spain, by John Sullivan
English-Language Reprints, by Al Richardson
News from Italy, by Al Richardson
News from France, by Al Richardson

Reviews

Yodage Ranjith Amarasinghe, A Study of Trotskyism in Sri Lanka & Regi Siriwardena, Working Underground: The LSSP In Wartime, A Memoir of Happenings and Personalities, by Al Richardson
Colette Chambelland, Pierre Monatte, un autre voix syndicaliste, by Ian Birchall
Tony Cliff, A World To Win: Life of a Revolutionary, by Jim Higgins (with addendum by Sheila Lahr)
Stephane Courtois, Nicholas Werth, Jean Louis Panné, Andrej Paczkowski, Karol Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror. Repression, by Paul Flewers
Yvan Craipeau, Memoires d’un dinosaure trotskyste, by Ian Birchall
Neil Davidson, The Origins of Scottish Nationhood, by John Sullivan
Chris Harman, A People’s History of the World, by Al Richardson
Eamonn McCann, Dear God: The Price of Religion in Ireland, by Beelzebub
José Manuel Márquez Rodriguez and Juan José Gallardo Romero, Ortiz: General sin Dios ni Amo, by John Sullivan

Letters

Reader’s Notes

Vol. 8 No. 1, Summer 2001

The Comintern and its Critics

Editorial

I: Those Against

John McIlroy, New Light on Arthur Reade: Tracking Down Britain’s First Trotskyist
Fritz Keller, Trotskyism in Austria
Charles Wesley Ervin, Philip Gunawardena: The Making of a Revolutionary

II: All Change

Walter Kendall, The Communist International and the Turn from “Social-Fascism” to the Popular Front
Jean-Jacques Marie, The Journal of Georgi Dimitrov

III: Family Quarrels

Ante Ciliga, How Tito Took Over the Yugoslav Communist Party
John McIlroy, Rehabilitating Communist History: The Communist International, the Communist Party of Great Britain and Some Historians

IV: Objections Overruled: Spain

Grandizo Munis and Jaime Fernández, Corrections to the Cahiers Léon Trotsky, no. 227
Augustin Guillamón, The Investigation of the Spanish Bolshevik-Leninists (1938)

John McIlroy, John Archer (1909–2000)

Obituaries

Frank Maitland (1909–2001), by Al Richardson
Sean Hallahan (1946–2000), by Mike Sheridan
Professor Stuart Kirby (1909–1998), by Ted Crawford

Work in Progress, by Ted Crawford, Mike Jones & Al Richardson

Reviews

Albert Archar (ed.), The Legacy of Ernest Mandel, by Brian Green
Communist Workers Organisation, Trotsky, Trotskyism, Trotskyists, by Al Richardson
Georg Lukács, A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic, by Cyril Smith
Dave Renton, Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Britain in the 1940s, by Sheila Lahr
Janet Richards and Mary Van Buren, Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States, by Al Richardson
Victor Serge, Witness to the German Revolution, by Mike Jones
Wilebaldo Solano, El POUM en la historia: Andreu Nin y la revolución española, by John Sullivan
Ian D. Thatcher, Leon Trotsky and World War One, August 1914–February 1917, by Al Richardson
Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution, by Paul Flewers
Barry Lee Woolley, Adherents of Permanent Revolution: A History of the Fourth (Trotskyist) International, by Al Richardson

Letters

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 8 No. 2, Summer 2002

Mutiny: Disaffection and Unrest in the Armed Forces

Editorial

I: Mutiny and the Cohesion of the Armed Forces

II: Marxists and Military Thinking

III: Mutinies in Eastern Europe

IV: Disaffection and Dissent in the British Armed Forces

V: Comintern Work in Western Armed Forces in the 1930s

Communist International, Work in the Army (Introduction by David McKnight)

VI: Disaffection in the Army in the Second World War

Work in Progress

New Historical Material, by Al Richardson
Major Updating of Trotsky Websiteby Andrea Polaco

Obituaries

Brian Crookes (1919–2002), by John McIlroy
Sol Dollinger (1920–2001), by Lou Proyect
Ray Gibbon (1929–2001), by Terry Liddle (with comment by the editor)
Jean-Pierre Hirou (1948–2001), by Ted Crawford
Ann Keen (1915–2001), by John McIlroy
Albert Masó (1918–2001): Executioner of ‘Captain Narvich’, by Agustín Guillamón
Arturo Peregalli (1948–2001), by Sandro Saggioro
Oscar Pereira (1926–2001), by Meryl Fernando
Bill Turner (1926–2001), by Terry Liddle (with comment by the editor)
Charlie Van Gelderen (1913–2001), by Alan Thornett (with note by editor)

Reviews

Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, John McIlroy, British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics, Volume 1: The Postwar Compromise 1945–64; Volume 2: The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1964–79, by Harry Ratner
Tony Cliff, International Struggle and the Marxist Tradition: Selected Writings, Volume One, by John Sullivan
William Doyle, The Ancien Regime Moira Donald and Tim Rees (eds.), Reinterpreting Revolution in Twentieth-Century Europe, by Ian Birchall
Eros Francescangeli, Arditi del Popolo – Argo Secondari e la prima organizzazione antifascista (1917–1922), by Barbara Rossi
Manuel Grossi, The Asturian Uprising: Fifteen Days of Socialist Revolution Zygmunt Zaremba, The Warsaw Commune: Betrayed by Stalin, Massacred by Hitler, by Jim Higgins
Bill Hunter, Lifelong Apprenticeship: Life and Times of a Revolutionary, Volume 1: 1920–1959, by J.J. Plant
Ronald Radosh, Mary R. Habeck and Grigory Sevostianov, Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War, by John Sullivan
Alexander Pantsov, The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution, 1919–1927, by Al Richardson
Paul Le Blanc and Thomas Barrett, Revolutionary Labor Socialist: The Life, Ideas and Comrades of Frank Lovell, by Al Richardson
G. Munis, Teoría y práctica de la lucha de clases, Volume 2, by John Sullivan
Ngo Van, Au Pays de la Cloche Fêléé: tribulations d’un Cochinchinois à l’époque coloniale, by Hilary Horrocks
Paul T. Nicholson and Ian Shaw (eds.), Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology Grant D. Jones, The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom, by Al Richardson
Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth, On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left, by Geoff Barr
Susan Weissman, Victor Serge: The Course is Set on Hope, by Paul Flewers
Andy Wood, Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England, by David Renton
Alan Woods, Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution, by Alejandra Ríos

Letters

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 8 No. 3, 2003

The Balkan Socialist Tradition: Balkan Socialism and the Balkan Federation, 1871–1915

Editorial

General Introduction, by Andreja Živković

I. The Origins of the Balkan Socialist Tradition: Between Populism and Marxism

Dragan Plavšić, Introduction
Svetomir Marković, Serbia in the East
Svetomir Marković, Slav Austria and Serb Unity
Hristo Botev, On Discord Among the Balkan Peoples

II. Marxism and the Eastern Question: Challenging the Orthodoxy 1896–97

Dragan Plavšić, Introduction
Rosa Luxemburg, Social Democracy and the National Struggles in Turkey
Wilhelm Liebknecht, Statement
Karl Kautsky, The Eastern Question and Social Democracy
Wilhelm Liebknecht, Crete and Social Democracy
Eduard Bernstein, Crete and the Russian Danger
Christian Rakovsky, The Eastern Question and the International Socialist Party

III. Bulgarian Socialism and the Macedonian National Liberation Movement, 1903–08

Andreja Živković, Introduction
Dimo Hadzhi Dimov and Dimitûr Mirazchiev, After Ilinden
Dimitûr Blagoev, On the Macedonian Question
A. Gorov, Once Again on the Macedonian Question

IV. The Revolution in Turkey and the Balkan Federation

Andreja Živković, Introduction
Christian Rakovsky, The Turkish Revolution
Dimitûr Blagoev, The Revolution in Turkey and Social Democracy
Dimo Hadzhi Dimov, Our Political Standpoint
The Balkan Federation and the Workers
The Nationalist Struggles and Socialism

V. The Annexation of Bosnia by Austria-Hungary in 1908

Dragan Plavšić, Introduction
Otto Bauer, Austria’s Foreign Policy and Social Democracy
Dimitrije Tucović, Austria-Hungary in the Balkans
Dimitrije Tucović, German Socialism and the German Danger
Arbeiter-Zeitung, War?
Dimitrije Tucović, What We Say
Dimitrije Tucović and Karl Renner, Debate on Bosnia

VI. The Balkan Federation and Balkan Social Democracy

Andreja Živković, Introduction
Karl Kautsky, The National Tasks of Socialists Among the Balkan Slavs
Resolution of the First Balkan Social Democratic Conference
Dimitrije Tucović, The First Balkan Social Democratic Conference
Christian Rakovsky, Towards a Balkan Entente
Dimitûr Blagoev, Political Prospects
Christian Rakovsky, The Balkan Confederation and the Turkish-Bulgarian Defensive Alliance
Dimitûr Blagoev, The Balkan Conference and the Balkan Federation

VII. The Balkan Wars of 1912–13 and the Balkan Federation

Dragan Plavšić, Introduction
Christian Rakovsky, Manifesto of the Socialists of Turkey and the Balkans
Triša Kaclerović, Memoirs of the First Balkan War
Hristo Kabakchiev, From Victory to Defeat
Dimitrije Tucović, Serbia and Albania

VIII. The First World War and the Balkan Federation

Dragan Plavšić, Introduction
Dragiša Lapćević, Against War
Dušan Popović, Serbian Social Democracy in the War
The Second Balkan Social Democratic Conference – Manifesto
The Second Balkan Social Democratic Conference – Discussion

Glossary and Maps

Remembering Giulio Seniga

Obituaries

Pierre Bois (1922–2002), by Ted Crawford
Jimmy Deane (1921–2002), by John McIlroy
Pat Jordan (1928–2001), by Steve Cohen
Michael Kidron (1930–2003), by Ian Birchall
John Lawrence (1915–2002), by John McIlroy
Silvio Paolicchi (1921–2002), by Yurii Colombo

Work in Progress

Trotsky in Norway
News from Italy, by Yurii Colombo

Reviews

Martin Amis, Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million, by Dave Renton
Tom Behan, The Resistible Rise of Benito Mussolini, by William Gambetta
Daniel Bensaïd, Les Trotskysmes, by Chris Gray
Marjorie Chibnall, The Debate on the Norman Conquest, by Dave Renton
Tony Cliff, In the Thick of Workers’ Struggles: Selected Writings, by Harry Ratner
James Eaden & David Renton, The Communist Party of Great Britain Since 1920, by John McIlroy
Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che
Israel Getzler, Nikolai Sukhanov: Chronicler of the Russian Revolution, by Al Richardson
Ted Grant, History of British Trotskyism, by John McIllroy (with addendum by Sheila Lahr)
Michael Hopkinson, The Irish War of Independence Joost Augusteijn, The Irish Revolution 1913–1923, by John Newsinger
Bill Hunter, Forgotten Hero: The Life and Times Of Edward Rushton: Liverpool’s Blind Poet: Revolutionary Republican and Anti-Slavery Fighter, by Sheila Lahr
Fritz Keller (ed.), Paul Lafargue, Essays zur Geschichte, Kultur and Politik, by Mike Jones
La Teoría de la Revolución Permanente, by John Sullivan
John McIlroy, Kevin Morgan and Alan Campbell (eds.), Party People, Communist Lives: Explorations in Biography, by Stefan Cholewka (with addendum by Sheila Lahr)
Jean-Jacques Marie, Staline, by Ian Birchall
Wesley S. Muthiah and Sydney Wanasinghe (eds.), We Were Making History: Saga of the Hartal of August 1953, by Charles Wesley Ervin
Christophe Nick, Les Trotskistes, by Al Richardson
Archie Potts, Zilliacus: A Life for Peace and Socialism, by Paul Flewers
William M. Reddy, The Navigation of Feeling, by Ian Birchall
Al Richardson (ed.), What Became of the Revolution: Selected Writings of Boris Souvarine, by Ian Donovan
Alfred Rosmer, Boris Souvarine, Emile Fabrol, Antoine Clavez, Trotsky and the Origins of Trotskyism, by Mike Jones
Eli Sagan, Citizens and Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity and the Origins of Ideological Terror, by Tobias Abse
Louise Grace Shaw, The British Political Élite and the Soviet Union, by Paul Flewers
States of Illusion: Soviet Graphics, by Glyn Beagley

Letters

Readers’ Notes

Vol. 8 No. 4, 2004

August Thalheimer and German Communism

Editorial
John McIlroy, Al Richardson (1941–2003): An Appreciation
Ottokar Luban, Rosa at a Loss: The KPD Leadership and the Berlin Uprising of January 1919: Legend and Reality
Karl Retzlaw, From the Kapp Putsch to the March Action
August Thalheimer, 1923: A Missed Opportunity?: The Legend of the German October and the Real History of 1923
August Thalheimer, The Fifth Congress of the Communist International and Its Results
August Thalheimer, The Strategy and Tactics of the Communist International
Alexander Vatlin, The Programme Discussion in the Communist International
Paolo Sensini, Beyond Marxism, Anarchism and Liberalism: Bruno Rizzi’s Scientific and Revolutionary Path

Work in Progress

Obituaries

Duncan Hallas – Death of a Trotskyist, by Nigel Harris (with response by Ian Birchall)
Fred Jackson (1916–2004), by John McIlroy
Walter Kendall (1929–2003)
Paul Siegel (1916–2004): Marxist Scholar and Activist, by Jeff Mackler & Cliff Conner

Reviews

James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman, Leon Trotsky and Others, Dog Days: James P. Cannon vs. Max Shachtman in the Communist League of America, 1931-1933, by Al Richardson
Jean-Pierre Hirou, Du trotskysme au communisme libertaire, by Ian Birchall
Martyn Housden, Hans Frank, Lebensraum and the Holocaust, by Dave Renton
Robert Morrell, The Gentle Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Frank Ridley: Socialist and Secularist, by Sheila Lahr
Michael Parenti, The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome, by Chris Gray
Sylvain Pattieu, Les camarades des frères: trotskistes et libertaires dans la guerre d’Algérie, by Ian Birchall
Georg Scheuer, Seuls les fous n’ont pas peur, by Esther Leslie
Jean Marc Schiappa, Les babouvistes, by Ian Birchall
W.G. Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction, by Sheila Lahr
David Stack, The First Darwinian Left: Socialism and Darwinism 1859–1914 Anne Kerr and Tom Shakespeare, Genetic Politics: From Eugenics To Genome, by Andrew West
Ian D. Thatcher, Trotsky, by Al Richardson

Letters

John McIlroy on Left-wing Communism (with comment by editor)

Vol. 9 No. 1, 2005

The Russian Revolution of 1905: Change Through Struggle

Editorial
Pete Glatter, Introduction
The Road to Bloody Sunday (Introduced by Pete Glatter)
A Revolution Takes Shape (Introduced by Pete Glatter)
The Decisive Days (Introduced by Pete Glatter and Philip Ruff)
Rosa Luxemburg and the 1905 Revolution (Introduced by Mark Thomas)
Mike Haynes, Patterns of Conflict in the 1905 Revolution

Obituaries

Saul Bellow (1915–2005), by Louis Proyect
Brian Manning (1927–2004), by David Renton
Ernest Rogers (1914–2004): The Last Oehlerite Takes His Final Bow, by Ron Heisler
Ngo Van: The Vietnamese Revolutionary Who Bridged Generations, by Hilary Horrocks & Simon Pirani

Work in Progress

Daniel Guérin Conference, by Ian Birchall
Peter Sedgwick Commemoration, by Ian Birchall
Left-Wing Conference Venues

Reviews

David Black, Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England, by Keith Flett
Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman (eds.), Wobblies: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World, by Louis Proyect
William Fishman, East End Jewish Radicals 1875–1914, by Sheila Lahr
Norman Harding, Staying Red: Why I Remain a Socialist, by Harry Ratner
Jim Higgins, Speak One More Time: Selected Writings, by Ian Birchall (with addendum by Ted Crawford)
Jean-Jacques Marie, Lénine, by Ian Birchall
John Newsinger, Rebel City: Larkin, Connolly and the Dublin Labour Movement, by Chris Gray
Rudolf Rocker, The London Years, by Sheila Lahr
Robert Shoemaker, The London Mob, by David Renton
J.J. Plant, Art as the Cognition of Life

Letters

Vol. 9 No. 2

Stalinism, Revolution and Counter Revolution

Editorial
Alexander Vatlin, ‘Comrade Thomas’ and the Secret Activity of the Comintern in Germany 1919–1925
Andy Durgan, Marxism, War and Revolution: Trotsky and the POUM
Tobias Abse, Palmiro Togliatti: Loyal Servant of Stalin
Charles Wesley Ervin, Two Pages From Indian Trotskyist History
John McIlroy, The Revolutionary Odyssey of John Lawrence
Ian Birchall, Daniel Guerin’s Dialogue with Leninism
Clara Zetkin, Letter to Lenin
Alan Woodward, Russia 1905: Revolutionary History or Debatable Politics?

Obituary

Farewell to a Friend: Vlady Kibalchich, by Richard Greeman

Work in Progress

Historical Studies Websites, by Ted Crawford
Many Thanks
The Anti-Totalitarian Left, by Richard Greeman

Reviews

Ian Angus, Canadian Bolsheviks: The Early Years of the Communist Party of Canada, by J.J. Plant
Francis Beckett, Stalin’s British Victims, by Alison MacLeod
Nikolai Bukharin, Philosophical Arabesques, by Louis Proyect
Robert Edgar, The Making of an African Communist: Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana and the Communist Party of South Africa 1927–1939, by Paul Trewhela
Paul Flewers (ed.), George Orwell: Enigmatic Socialist, by David Renton
Moshe Lewin, The Soviet Century, by Ian D. Thatcher

Vol. 9 No. 3, 2006

Remembering 1956

John McIlroy, On the Fiftieth Anniversary of 1956
Paul Flewers, The Unexpected Denunciation: The Reception of Khrushchev’s ‘Secret Speech’ in Britain
Steve Parsons, Nineteen Fifty-Six: What Happened in the Communist Party of Great Britain?
John McIlroy, A Communist Historian in 1956: Brian Pearce and the Crisis of British Stalinism
Christian Hogsbjerg, Beyond the Boundary of Leninism? C.L.R. James and 1956
Ian Birchall, Nineteen Fifty-Six and the French Left
Tobias Abse, Palmiro Togliatti and the Italian Communist Party in 1956
Harry Ratner, Remembering 1956
Ernest Mandel, Poznan and its Aftermath
Shane Mage, The Discussion of the Crisis of Stalinism at the Recent NEC Meeting
The Marxist-Leninist’s Song

Obituary

From Zionism to Revolutionary Marxism: Rudolf Segall (1911–2006), by Wolfgang Alles

Work in Progress

Many Thanks
News From France, by J.J. Plant
The Marxist Internet Archive, by Ted Crawford

Reviews:

Pierre Broué, The German Revolution, 1917–1923, by Mike Jones
Patrick Hutt, Confronting an Ill Society: David Widgery, General Practice, Idealism and the Chase for Change, by David Renton
Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery, by Harry Ratner
Bettany Hughes, Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore, by Chris Gray
Loren Goldner, Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man: Race, Class and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in an American Renaissance Writer, by Christian Hogsbjerg
Barry Sheppard, The Sixties: A Political Memoir, by Louis Proyect

Vol. 9 No. 4, 2007

Pierre Broué: Revolutionary Historian

Editorial
Vincent Présumey, Pierre Broué (1926–2005) (with Translator’ Introduction, by Richard Kirkwood)

Pierre Broué:

Obituaries

Ted Grant (1913–2006), by Tony Aitman
John Archer, As to how Militant developed
Meryl Fernando (1923–2007), by J.J. Plant
Peter Fryer (1929–2006), by Ken Coates
Peter Fryer, by J.J. Plant
Mary Stanley Low (1912–2007), by J.J. Plant
Sydney Wanasinghe (1932–2007), by J.J. Plant
Wesley Muttiah (1930–2007), by J.J. Plant
Yves Dechezelles (1912–2007), by J.J. Plant

Work in Progress

Reprints
Archives
Internet Wars
New Material
Interesting Websites, by Ted Crawford
The PCF & 1956, by Ian Birchall
Founding Conference – Ukrainian Labour History
The Historiography of German Trotskyism, by Reiner Tosstorff
Karim Landais, by Ian Birchall
Notes on Hugh Esson and the Glasgow Leninist League, by Ron Heisler

Reviews

Charles Wesley Ervin, Tomorrow is Ours: The Trotskyist Movement in India and Ceylon, 1935–48, by Chris Gray
Jean-René Chauvin, Un Trotskiste dans l’enfer nazi, by Ian Birchall
Guy Debord, Panegyric, by J.J. Plant
Sobhanial Datta Cupta, Comintern and the Destiny of Communism in India 1919–1943, by Mike Jones
Julien Papp, La Hongrie liberée; État, pouvoir et societé apres la defaite du Nazisme, by Balazs Nagy
Rick Kuhn, Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism, by David Renton
Alter Litvin and John Keep, Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millenium, by Ian D. Thatcher
Jean-François Fayet, Karl Radek (1885–1939), Biographie politique, by Reiner Tosstorff
Eros Francescangeli, L’incudine e il Martello. Aspetti pubblici e privati del trockismo italiano tra antifascismo e antistalinismo (1929–1939), by Tom Behan

Vol. 10 No. 1

Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Political and Literary Writings

Editorial

Selected Writings of Rosa Luxemburg:

Part I: Biographical and Literary Comments

On the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz
Review: Mehring on Schiller
Tolstoy as a Social Thinker
Lassalle After Fifty Years

Part II: Current Politics

In Defence of Nationality
The Proletarian Woman
Peace, the Triple Alliance and ourselves

Part III: Problems of Party Organisation

Russian Party Conflicts
On the Split in the Russian Social Democratic Duma Group
Observations on the International Socialist Bureau session, 13–14 December 1913
On the Situation in the Russian Social Democracy
After the Jena Congress
Open Letter on Splitting, Unity and Resigning,

Charles Wesley Ervin, Selena Perera: The ‘Rosa Luxemburg of Sri Lanka’

Vincent Présumey, Pierre Lambert (1920–2008)

Obituaries

Karuppiah Appanraj (1923–2007), by Charles Wesley Ervin
Peter ‘Pedro’ Miguel Camejo (1939–2008), by Bridget St Ruth
Pete Glatter (1949–2008), by Ian Birchall
Jorge Guidobono (1944–2007)
Celia Hart Santamaría (1963–2008)
Ludwik Hass (1918–2008), by Ted Crawford
Sy Landy (1931–2007)
Brian Pearce (1915–2008), by J.J. Plant
Recalling Brian Pearce, by Alison MacLeod
Dov Shas
B.J. Widick (1910–2008), by Alan Wald

Work in Progress

Simon Pirani, Review Article: Communist Dissidence and Its Context

Julien Papp, Review Article: Defending the Heritage of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

Reviews

Patricia Collier, Secrets of the Tottenham Outrage (J.J. Plant)
Noel Crusz, The Cocos Islands Mutiny (Ted Crawford)
André Farkas, Budapest 1956, la tragédie telle que je l’ai vue et vecue and others (Jean-Jacques Marie)
W.J. Fishman, Into the Abyss: The Life and Work of G.R. Sims (J.J. Plant)
David Goodway, Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward (Christian Høgsbjerg)
David Goodway (ed.), For Workers’ Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton (Chris Gray)
Nigel Harris, The Terrorist (J.J. Plant)
Boris Hessen, Les Racines sociales et économiques des Principia de Newton. Une rencontre entre Newton et Marx à Londres en 1931 (Jean-Jacques Marie)
Gabriel García Higueras, Trotsky en el espejo de la historia (Andrea Robles)
Vladimir Léon (Director), Le Brahmane du Komintern (Ian Birchall)
Harry Ratner, A Socialist at War: With the Pioneer Corps (J.J. Plant)
James Sheehan, The Monopoly of violence: Why Europeans Hate Going to War (Ted Crawford)
Marcel van der Linden, Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917 (Paul Flewers)
Vasilis Vopurkoutiotis, Making Common Cause: German-Soviet Secret Relations, 1919–1922 (Brian Pearce)

Letters

Jean-Jacques Marie on Pierre Broué and Vincent Présumey
Alan Wood on Pierre Broué and Ted Grant (with interview with Pierre Broué and response from J.J. Plant)
Mike Jones on Vincent Présumey and Pierre Broué (with editorial note)

Vol. 10 No. 2

The Left in IRAN, 1905–1940

Editor: Cosroe Chaqueri

Editorial

The Left in Iran, 1905–1940

Cosroe Chaqueri, The Left in Iran, 1905–1940
Cosroe Chaqueri, Chronology of the Left in Iran, 1905–1940
Archavir Tchilinkirian, Constitutional Persia and Its Needs
Cosroe Chaqueri, Communism in Persia, 1920–1941
Cosroe Chaqueri, Taqi Arani and the Comintern: The Revolutionary Republican Party of Persia: The ICP’s ‘Surrogate’ or its Alternative
Reginald Bridgman, The Rise of Persia

Documents

Social-Democrats’ Declaration on the Occasion of the Grant of the Constitution by the Shah, August 1906)
Social-Democratic Manifesto, 1908
Archavir Tchilinkirian to Karl Kautsky, July 1908
Karl Kautsky to Archavir Tchilinkirian, August 1908
Protocol No. 1 of the Social-Democratic Conference, October 1908
Vasso A. Khachaturian to Georgi V. Plekhanov, November 1908
Tigran Derviche to Georgi V. Plekhanov, December 1908
The Awakening of Asia: An Appeal of the Persian People Regarding the Loan Project, 1909
T. Tria, The Caucasus and the Persian Revolution, February 1911
Appeal of Iranian Social Democrats to the International Proletariat, August 1911
Jean Longuet, A Great Meeting for Persia, December 1911
Avetis Sultanzade, Perspective of Socialist Revolution in the East: Thesis, March 1920
The First Congress of the Iranian Communist Party, June 1920
Jangali Declarations, June 1920
The Revolutionary Committee of Persia: Proclamation Addressed to Our Deceived Jangali and Cossack Brothers, August 1920
Pro-Communist Jangalis Last Attempt to Obtain Assistance from Soviet Russia, December 1920
Negotiations by Ekhsan-allah Khan’s Government with Kuchek Khan, February–March 1921
Theodor Rothstein to Nariman Narimanov, March 1921
Theodor Rothstein to Georgi Chicherin, July 1921
Programme of the Ranjbaran (Workmen’s) Party, 1921
Proclamation of the Revival of the Republic with the Second Central Committee of the Iranian Communist Party, August 1921
Report by the Central Committee of the ICP to the ECCI (Extracts), December 1921
A British Report on the Persian Party Kaunik (Communist), October 1922
The Ishtamayun (Ijtima‛iyoun/Socialist) Party in Tehran, January 1923
A Buried Interview: Persia: An English Semi-Colony, February 1927
Brief Report on the Proceedings of the Second Congress of the ICP, October 1927
Sultanadze’s Request for Transfer to the Comintern, November 1927
Address of the Iranian Communist Party to the Toilers of Iran, 1928
Action Programme of the Iranian Communist Party, 1929
The Anti-Socialist Law, June 1931
Reginald Bridgman, Persia and British Labour, July 1931
Sultanadze’s Letter of Resignation

Documents with Specific Reference to Britain

Taghi-Zada and Moazid-Es-Saltana, Persia’s Appeal to England
The Persia Committee, _Anglo-Russian Convention of 190_7
Maxim Gorki, The Persia Committee
Persia, Finland and the Russian Alliance
K. Malik, Grabbing Persia
F.L. Kerran, From Brixton Jail to Enzeli
The British and the Reds at Enzeli
George Horwill, Oil and Finance

Other Material

Ron Heisler, The Thaxted Tales: Trotskyist Versus Stalinist Pilgrims on the Anglo-Catholic Path

Obituaries

Robert Barltrop
Bill Banta
Roy Berkeley
Frank Cieciorka
Max Clémenceau
Stephen William Cohen
Upali Cooray
Angel Fanjul
Terry Fields
Ruth Frow
Ernesto Gonzales
Dona Caroline Rupasinghe Gunawardena
Chris Harman
Anatol Kagan
Khoa Hoàng Khôi
Ernest Millington
Adrian Mitchell
Bernie Moss
Harold Pinter
Eduardo Pons Prades
William A. Price
Antonio Roca
Rowland Sheret
Cyril Smith
Jack Sprung
Alan Walter

Work in Progress

Paul Le Blanc, Trotsky Lives

Reviews

William Fishman, East End 1888 (J.J. Plant)
José Ramón Garmabella, El Grito de Trotsky: Ramón Mercader, El hombre que mató al líder revolucionario (Gabriel García Higueras)
John Green, Engels: A Revolutionary Life (Keith Flett)
Tristram Hunt, Engels: The Frock-Coated Communist (Keith Flett)
Frank Henderson, Life on the Track, Memoirs of a Socialist Worker (J.J. Plant)
David King, Red Star Over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin (Corula Star)
Simon Pirani, The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920–24: Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite (Geoff Barr)
Andrew Roberts (ed.), Postcards from the Russian Revolution (Bridget St Ruth)
Antonella Saqlomoni, L’Union soviétique et la shoah (Jean-Jacques Marie)
Jan Willem Stutje, Ernest Mandel: A Rebel’s Dream Deferred (Mike Belbin)
Tim Tzouliadis, The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s Russia (Paul Flewers)

Letters

Ian Birchall on Dov Shas
Alun Morgan asks: Where is Ted Grant?

Vol. 10 No. 3

The Left in IRAN 1941–1957

The foundation of the Tudeh Party of Iran in 1941
Moscow’s attempt to set up a pro-Soviet autonomous republic in Iranian Azerbaijan in 1945
The fake assassination attempt on the Shah and the ensuing banning of the Tudeh Party in 1949
The mass campaign to Nationalise the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
The Tudeh Party’s hostility to Mohammed Mosaddeq and the national-democratic movement
The Tudeh Party’s failure to prevent the Anglo-American coup against Mosaddeq in 1953
The SAKA, an attempt to build a communist organisation based on workers’ councils
The ideas of Mostafa Sho’a’iyan, a maverick Iranian marxist
The continued influence of Stalinism upon the historiograhy of the Iranian Left
The course of the Iranian Left as reported in documents from the British, Soviet and US official archives

http://www.revolutionaryhistory.co.uk/backissu.htm – Updated by ETOL: 31 July 2023