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Charlie Van Gelderen (1913-2001)
Charlie van Gelderen (1913-2001) https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article546 Obituary Charlie van Gelderen (1913-2001) - IV Online magazine - 2001 - IV336 - December 2001 - Publication date: Monday 10 December 2001 Copyright © International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine - All rights reserved Copyright © International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine Page 1/3 Charlie van Gelderen (1913-2001) Charlie van Gelderen was the last survivor of those who attended the 1938 Founding Conference of the Fourth International in Paris. He attended as an observer on behalf of South African Trotskyists, though he was already living in Britain by that time. He died peacefully at home in Cambridge on October 26 after a short illness at the age of 88, still a fully paid up and until very recently an active member of the International Socialist Group (British section of the Fourth International). Charlie was born in August 1913 in the small town of Wellington, 40 miles from Cape Town, South Africa. He became politically active as a young man, initially joining the Fabian Society, but in 1931 he became an enthusiastic supporter of the ideas of Leon Trotsky. Together with his twin brother, Herman, he was instrumental in setting up the first Trotskyist organisation in South Africa, the International Marxist League. Charlie was also involved in setting up the Commercial Workers Union in the Cape and for a time became its full time secretary. The South African Trotskyist movement split in 1932 in response to the "French turn", the position put forward by Trotsky at the time urging his French supporters to enter the French Socialist Party. -
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22REVIEWS (Composite)_REVIEWS (Composite).qxd 2/11/2019 11:39 AM Page 123 123 Reviews Latin America Grace Livingstone, Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile 19731982, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 292 pages, ISBN 9783319782911, £16 During the twentieth century, Latin America was the scene of numerous military coups which established oppressive dictatorships notorious for their abuse of democratic and human rights. This book is a detailed study of the policies adopted by Britain towards two of them – in Chile and Argentina. On 11 September 1973, Augusto Pinochet, the head of Chilean armed forces, launched a coup against the democratically elected socialist president, Salvador Allende. He bombed the presidential palace, fired on and arrested thousands of Allende supporters and other leftwingers, and shut down all democratic institutions. In Argentina on 26 March 1976, the widowed third wife of former dictator Juan Peron, Isabella Peron, who had been elected president, was overthrown by the army, which closed down the Congress, banned political parties, dissolved the Supreme Court, and arrested thousands of political activists including former ministers. In the cases of both Chile and Argentina, the British Foreign Office and leading ambassadorial staff – despite theoretical commitments to democracy – recommended recognition of the military juntas established and downplayed reports of human rights infringements. Grace Livingstone attributes this to the class basis of the personnel involved. She states that, in 1950, 83% of Foreign Office recruits attended private schools and the figure was still 68% ten years later. In 1980, 80% of ambassadors and top Foreign Office officials had attended feepaying schools. -
Capital and Culture
Capital and Culture An Investigation into New Labour cultural policy and the European Capital of Culture 2008. Mark Connolly Presented in fulfilment o f the requirements for the degree o f Doctor o f Philosophy at the University of Wales, Cardiff. December 2007 UMI Number: U584278 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dissertation Publishing UMI U584278 Published by ProQuest LLC 2013. Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 Statements of Declaration This work has not previously been accepted in substance for any degree and is not concurrently submitted in candidature for any degree. Signed .. ...............(candidate) Date ........... STATEMENT 1 This thesis is being submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of PhD (insert MCh, MD, MPhil, PhD etc, as appropriate) Signed .. (candidate) Date M .U/L/.firk. STATEMENT 2 This thesis is the result of my own independent work/investigation, except where otherwise stated. Other sourcesurces are acknowledged by explicit references. Signed (candidate) Date ....?. 9. /. I A./.^. STATEMENT 3 I hereby give consent for my thesis, if accepted, to be available for photocopying and for inter-library loan, and for the title and summary to be made available to outside organisations. -
A Critical and Comparative Analysis of Organisational Forms of Selected Marxist Parties, in Theory and in Practice, with Special Reference to the Last Half Century
Rahimi, M. (2009) A critical and comparative analysis of organisational forms of selected Marxist parties, in theory and in practice, with special reference to the last half century. PhD thesis. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/688/ Copyright and moral rights for this thesis are retained by the author A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the Author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the Author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Glasgow Theses Service http://theses.gla.ac.uk/ [email protected] A critical and comparative analysis of organisational forms of selected Marxist parties, in theory and in practice, with special reference to the last half century Mohammad Rahimi, BA, MSc Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of PhD Centre for the Study of Socialist Theory and Movement Faculty of Law, Business and Social Science University of Glasgow September 2008 The diversity of the proletariat during the final two decades of the 20 th century reached a point where traditional socialist and communist parties could not represent all sections of the working class. Moreover, the development of social movements other than the working class after the 1960s further sidelined traditional parties. The anti-capitalist movements in the 1970s and 1980s were looking for new political formations. -
WP5 – Global Activists. Conceptions and Practices of Democracy in The
WP5 – Integrated Report. GLOBAL ACTIVISTS. CONCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES OF DEMOCRACY IN THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUMS Edited by Donatella della Porta and Massimiliano Andretta European University Institute Florence, March 2007 WP5 Report for “Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of Society”, a project funded by the European Commission, Contract n. CIT2-CT2004-506026, and (for the Swiss case) by the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science, Contract no. 03.0482. CHAPTER 1 WHY A RESEARCH ON DEMOCRACY AND THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM? AN INTRODUCTION BY DONATELLA DELLA PORTA ..................................................................................................................................1 1. DEMOCRACY AND/IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: WHERE IS THE CHALLENGE...........................................1 The research on democracy and movements.............................................................................................................4 The research on individual activists..........................................................................................................................5 2. DEMOCRACY IN THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM: A CRITICAL CASE STUDY...............................................................9 3. THE RESEARCH: METHODS AND CAVEATS .................................................................................................................14 REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................................................21 -
The Politics of the Militant Tendency
18 August 1982 Marxism Today Witch-hunts are the last thing the Labour Party needs: yet the politics of Militant are a blind alley for the Left. John Callaghan The Politics of the Militant Tendency The recent decision by the Labour Party open debate. If the ideology and political Socialist Fight was replaced by The Militant National Executive Committee to establish practice of the Militant Tendency are char in 1963; but, more fundamentally, from a register of organised groups within the acterised by major shortcomings they will being an integrated group of entrists in ranks of the party is generally acknowledged not be any less significant merely because 1955, the Revolutionary Socialist League to be a move against the Militant Tendency. the Labour Right draws attention to them gradually gave way to the much looser form It is possible that this decision may, by Sep while the Left remains silent. which is today's Militant Tendency. This tember, result in the expulsion of leading consists of a small centralised leadership figures from the group. The Labour Party Origins and nature echelon around Ted Grant, who control and has on many previous occasions taken such of the Militant Tendency1 own The Militant, supported by the bulk of repressive action against dissident — espe The Militant Tendency originated with a the Labour Party Young Socialist organ- cially Marxist — factions within the party tiny group of Trotskyists led by Ted Grant. istion and those who are prepared to sell the and its youth section. But the extraordinary From the mid-50s this group — known as newspaper in the parent organisation. -
Reconstructing Public Housing Liverpool’S Hidden History of Collective Alternatives
Reconstructing Public Housing Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives Reconstructing Public Housing Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives Reconstructing Public Housing Matthew Thompson LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS First published 2020 by Liverpool University Press 4 Cambridge Street Liverpool L69 7ZU Copyright © 2020 Matthew Thompson The right of Matthew Thompson to be identified as the author of this book has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication data A British Library CIP record is available ISBN 978-1-78962-108-2 paperback eISBN 978-1-78962-740-4 Typeset by Carnegie Book Production, Lancaster An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Contents Contents List of Figures ix List of Abbreviations x Acknowledgements xi Prologue xv Part I Introduction 1 Introducing Collective Housing Alternatives 3 Why Collective Housing Alternatives? 9 Articulating Our Housing Commons 14 Bringing the State Back In 21 2 Why Liverpool of All Places? 27 A City of Radicals and Reformists 29 A City on (the) Edge? 34 A City Playing the Urban Regeneration Game 36 Structure of the Book 39 Part II The Housing Question 3 Revisiting -
Genesis of Pabloism
The Road from the SWP to Trotskyism . .. page 2 The Faces of Economism ... page 24 NUMBER 21 FALL 1972 25 CENTS I Tile SWP tint! tile Fourtll Interntltiontl/, 1946-54: Genesis of Pabloism The American Socialist Workers Party and the European Military Policy" which called for military training under, Pabloists travelled at different rates along different paths to trade union control, implicitly posing the utopian idea that revisionism, to converge in uneasy alliance in the early 1960's U.S. workers could fight German fascism without the in an unprincipled "reunification," which has now broken existence of a workers state in the U.S., through "control down as the American SWP has completed the transition ling" U.S. imperialism's army. British Trotskyist Ted Grant from Pabloist centrism to outright reformism. The "United went even further, in one speech referring to British Secretariat" which issued out of the 1963 "reunification" imperialism's armed forces as "our Eighth Army." The teeters on the edge of an open split; the "anti-revisionist" German IKD returned to outright Menshevism with the "International Committee" fractured last year. The collapse the'ory that fascism had brought about the need for "an of the various competing pretenders to the mantle of the intermediate stage fundamentally equivalent to a democratic Fourth International provides a crucial opportunity for the revolution." ("Three Theses;' 19 October 1941) reemergence of an authentic Trotskyist international tenden The French Trotskyist movement, fragmented during the cy. Key to the task of reconstructing the Fourth Internation course of the war, was the best example of the contradiction. -
What Happened to the Workers' Socialist League?
What Happened to the Workers’ Socialist League? By Tony Gard (as amended by Chris Edwards and others), September 1993 Note by Gerry D, October 2019: This is the only version I have of Tony Gard’s docu- ment, which contains the unauthorised amendments as explained in the rather tetchy note by Chris Edwards below. [Note by Chris Edwards (May 2002). War is the sternest possible test for any Trot- skyist organisation. While many British organisations failed this test in the case of the Malvinas/Falklands War (e.g. the Militant group with its “workers war” against Argen- tina position), the British proto-ITO comrades did attempt to defend a principled posi- tion against the bankrupt positions of the leadership of their own organisation, the British Workers Socialist League (WSL). This is an account of the tendency struggle over the Malvinas war and many other is- sues to do with British imperialism. This document was written with the stated purpose of being a “balance sheet” of the tendency struggle. It was somewhat ironic that, Tony G, the author of most of this document, and the person who had played the least part in the WSL tendency struggle during 1982-3, felt himself most qualified to sit in judge- ment on the efforts of those who had been centrally involved in the tendency struggle. This was despite his insistence that he did not wish to do so at the beginning of this ac- count (see below). In fact, one of the barely disguised purposes of this “balance sheet” was to rubbish and belittle the efforts of the comrades who had been centrally involved in the tendency struggle. -
Ted Grant (1913-2006)
Ted Grant (1913-2006). Avec la mort d'Isaac Blank, connu dans le mouvement ouvrier international sous le nom de Ted Grant, c'est l'une des dernières grandes figures du combat révolutionnaire ayant traversé le XX° siècle qui s'en va. C'est aussi le "père" de l'un des "vieux" courants historiques du trotskysme qui disparaît (parmi les derniers survivants dont on peut en dire autant, restent Guillermo Lora et Pierre Lambert). Le chauvinisme conscient ou inconscient qui sévit en France fait que pour beaucoup, ce nom ne dit rien, et qu'apprendre qu'il s'agit du fondateur d'un courant trotskyste risque de ne pas être très encourageant. Il est vrai qu'avant même d'être un militant ouvrier révolutionnaire, ce qu'il fut de sa quinzième année (1928) à sa mort, Ted Grant avait l'avantage d'être issu d'une famille cosmopolite, un père juif russe et une mère française, installée en Afrique du Sud, ce qui l'aura sans doute aidé à penser à l'échelle de la planète. Afrique du Sud. Isaac Blank fut gagné au marxisme par un militant du Parti communiste sud-africain que logeait sa mère, Ralph Lee, en 1928. L'année suivante c'est ensemble qu'ils lisaient le journal des trotskystes américains, The Militant, et se ralliaient aux idées qu'il contenait, fondant un petit groupe trotskyste à Johannesburg, qui devait gagner des militants et construire des syndicats dans les milieux noirs et indiens de la blanchisserie et du nettoyage, d'où des liens ultérieurs de Ted Grant avec des militants indiens et ceylanais. -
Joseph Hansen Papers
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf78700585 No online items Register of the Joseph Hansen papers Finding aid prepared by Joseph Hansen Hoover Institution Archives 434 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA, 94305-6003 (650) 723-3563 [email protected] © 1998, 2006, 2012 Register of the Joseph Hansen 92035 1 papers Title: Joseph Hansen papers Date (inclusive): 1887-1980 Collection Number: 92035 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Archives Language of Material: English Physical Description: 109 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 envelopes, 1 audio cassette(46.2 linear feet) Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, minutes, reports, internal bulletins, resolutions, theses, printed matter, sound recording, and photographs relating to Leon Trotsky, activities of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States, and activities of the Fourth International in Latin America, Western Europe and elsewhere. Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives Creator: Hansen, Joseph, Access The collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Joseph Hansen papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1992. Accruals Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at http://searchworks.stanford.edu . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid. -
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So& Wloirkdersa’ Lirbeirtty y No 214 24 August 2011 30p/80p For a workers’ government Ban the EDL? 1911: Liverpool The religion of the page 3 on strike page 8-9 Socialist Party pages 11-12 Post-riot clampdown on working-class youth OPPOSE THIS CLASS-HATE BLITZ See page 5 More socialist ideas and labour movement news online: www.workersliberty.org NEWS What is the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty? Libya: the return of hope Today one class, the working class, lives by selling From back page workers’ rights. gogue on the British left and its annihilation, it is its labour power to another, the capitalist class, But in fact the funda - will ever have to face. irresponsible and morally which owns the means of production. Society Outright support for Qaddafi is confined to a mental lesson of Libya — Workers’ Liberty be - degenerate to simply de - is shaped by the capitalists’ relentless drive to marginal fringe of sects,. as with all the heroic and lieves that a people staring mand that it ceases, or to increase their wealth. Capitalism causes inspiring uprisings we down the wrong end of a oppose it ever taking poverty, unemployment, the blighting of lives by For most of the far-left, have see in the Middle state-sanctioned massacre place. We believe that the overwork, imperialism, the destruction of the the intervention of NATO East and North Africa this have the right to call for gains of the uprising vin - environment and much else. in Libya cancelled out the year — is that no ruling assistance, even from im - dicate that view.