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The Left was on the rise—and under threat—in the mid-1960s. Hank Kennedy tells the story of a hometown comrade who was a target of anti-communist violence.
It was dangerous to be a dissenter in 1966. In April, the headquarters of the San Francisco-based, anti-Vietnam War, Vietnam Day Committee (...)
What follows are Bryan Palmer’s notes for his presentation to the May 6th-8th, three-day conference in Havana, Cuba, organized to commemorate the centennial of the founding of the Third International, with a discussion of the topic, “Leon Trotsky and Trotskyism”.
Max Schachtman and James Cannon. (...)
Review of The Two Trotskyisms Confront Stalinism. The Fate of the Russian Revolution, Volume 2. Edited & with an introduction by Sean Matgamna. London, UK: Workers’ Liberty, 2015, 790 pages, $30 paperback..
ON JULY 23, 1939 the foreign ministers of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed (...)
FRANK FRIED, AMONG the most remarkable U.S. revolutionary socialists in the second half of the 20th century, passed away in Alameda, CA on January 13, 2015 at the age of 87. He is survived by his wife of 27 years, the novelist Alice Wilson-Fried.
Frank was attracted to the political views of (...)
At its peak in the 1960s and early 1970s the Socialist Workers Party in the United States was the largest group to the left of the Communist Party and a major pole of attraction for radicalising youth. It was also the most dynamic and creative Marxist organisation in the USA.
The SWP of today (...)
The case of the Bloomington Three began at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis with updates on the case appearing in the state and national press for several years. Alan Wald assesses the case as a foreshadowing of the mass radicalization of the late 1960s.
This essay is dedicated to Ralph (...)
The Party: The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988. A Political Memoir. Volume 2: Interregnum, Decline and Collapse, 1973-1988 by Barry Sheppard. London: Resistance Books, 2012, 336 pages + index. $18 paperback.
THE GENERAL POLITICAL and organizational principles of the “revolutionary vanguard” (...)
The Party: The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988. A Political Memoir. Volume 2: Interregnum, Decline and Collapse, 1973-1988 by Barry Sheppard. London: Resistance Books, 2012, 336 pages + index. $18 paperback.
I’VE KNOWN BARRY Sheppard as a comrade and friend for more than 40 years. I joined (...)
Alan Wald traces the history of several “Cannonite bohemians” active in the Socialist Workers Party during the post-World War II period. His essay features the artist Laura Slobe, Peter Bloch, an authority on Puerto Rican music and art, and George Perle, a musical revolutionary associated with (...)
Presentation
This essay was originally written a few years ago as part of the concluding section of the memoirs of my time in the SWP. But since the memoirs are only partially completed at this point, I have decided to release this essay now as a standalone piece.
In the earlier part of my (...)
Barry Sheppard, The Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, Volume I: The Sixties, A Political Memoir (Chippendale, Australia: Resistance Books, 2005), 354 pages including index. This volume also includes a rich collection of photographs.
Barry Sheppard, The Party, The Socialist (...)
THIS ESSAY IS dedicated to the memory of George Breitman (1916-86), who taught me never to take anyone’s word for it.
THE SOCIALIST WORKERS (SWP), now a curious sidebar in the history of radicalism, is a linear descendant of the political movement initiated in the United States by pro-Bolshevik (...)
Review-essqay: Peter Camejo, North Star, A Memoir (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2010), 364 pages with index. $18.00
Leslie Evans, Outsider’s Reverie, A Memoir (Los Angeles: Boryana Books, 2010), 438 pages with index. $18.95 ----------------------------
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) of the (...)
The following is a talk presented by Gus Horowitz to a Conference on the Legacy of Leon Trotsky and U.S. Trotskyism, held at Fordham University in New York City July 25-27, 2008.
This talk was part of a panel discussing “Lessons of the SWP Experience: 1960 - 1980.” The three panelists each had (...)
Bryan D. Palmer, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890–1928 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007).
This is a long book about a relatively short span of time, the decade 1928–38. In the history of United States class relations, in general, as (...)
Caroline Lund, a long time socialist and union activist, died on October 14, 2006 from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. She was 62 years old. Jennifer Biddle met Caroline in 1995 when they did solidarity work together in San Francisco for striking Staley workers. (...)
Caroline Lund, a lifelong fighter for socialism, workers’ rights and women’s liberation, died at her home in Oakland, California, on October 14, aged 62. She will be sorely missed by her friends and comrades in the US and around the world, especially her lifelong partner and comrade Barry (...)
Barry Sheppard’s book is a sustained exercise in retrieving memories of experiences associated with left-wing radicalism prevalent in the 1960s. This is done especially for the benefit of younger activists who have become engaged in the struggle for global justice in opposition to the (...)
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