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- 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
Letters
Mike Howgate: Readers’ Notes
Vol. 1 No. 3, Autumn 1988
War and Revolution in Europe: 1939–1945
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
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
Obituaries
Reviews
Letters
Reader’s Notes
Vol. 2 No. 3, Autumn 1989
Germany: the key
The German Left 1919 to 1935
Obituary
Reviews
Letters
Readers’ Notes
Vol. 2 No. 4, Spring 1990
The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution
Obituaries
Work in Progress
Reviews
Letters
Vol. 3 No. 1, Summer 1990
Stalinism & Communism in Eastern Europe
Work in Progress
Reviews
Letters
- 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
Work in Progress
Reviews
Letters
Readers’ Notes
Vol. 3 No. 3, Spring 1991
Trotskyism and Stalinism in Greece
Obituaries
Work in Progress
Reviews
Letters
Readers’ Notes
Vol. 3 No. 4, Autumn 1991
Imperialist War and National Resistance
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
Letters
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
Narrative
Documents
Work in Progress
Reviews
Letters
Stop Press !
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
- Announcement of availability of supplementary documents
Vol. 5 No. 3
Victor Serge. The Century of the Unexpected:
Essays on Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Obituaries
Work in Progress
Letters
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
Readers’ Notes
Vol. 5 No. 4
THE ITALIAN LEFT
Through Fascism, War and Revolution:
Trotskyism and Left Communism in Italy
Obituaries
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
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
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)
- 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
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
Work in Progress
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
Work in Progress
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
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
Work in Progress
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
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
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
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
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
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
VI: Disaffection in the Army in the Second World War
Work in Progress
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
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
Glossary and Maps
Remembering Giulio Seniga
Obituaries
Work in Progress
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
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
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
Work in Progress
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
Work in Progress
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
- 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
Work in Progress
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
Pierre Broué:
Obituaries
Work in Progress
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
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
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
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 1907
- 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
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
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