Revolutionary History Volume 06


RH0604: LSSP

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Editorial

Contents

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

The LSSP turns to Trotskyism

The LSSP 1939-60, Fernando

The LSSP Against Imperialist War, Perera, Gunawardena

The 1945 Split in the LSSP, Amarasinghe, Gunawardena, NM 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

  • Alex Acheson
  • Nils Kaare Dahl
  • Work in Progress

  • Comintern Archives on Microfiche
  • Reviews

    • Jim Higgins on George Breitman, Paul LeBlanc, Alan Wald: "Trotskyism in the United States: Historical Essays and Reconsiderations"
    • Al Richardson on Workers Fight pamphlet, "When the Proletariat rose to change the World" (on Spanish Civil War)
    • Paul Flewers on Richard Pipes: "The Unknown Lenin"
    • John McHugh on Bob Pitt, "John MacLean and the CPGB"
    • Al Richardson on Israel Shahak, "Jewish History, Jewish Religion"
    • John Sullivan on two Spanish-language books produced by the Argentinian MAS (followers of Nahuel Moreno)
    • Chris Gray on Conor Kostick, "Revolution in Ireland: Popular Militancy 1917-1923"
    • John Plant on Oleg Dubrovski/Simon Pirani, "Fighting Back in Ukraine"
    • Chris Mathews on Hal Draper, "The Adventures of the Communist Manifesto"
    • Chris Ealham on Jesus Hernandez, "How the NKVD Framed the POUM"
    • Peter Swingler on Alastair MacLachlan, "The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary England
    • Barbara Rossi on two Italian language books by the followers of Nahuel Moreno
    • John Plant on Nadezhda A. Joffe, "Back in Time: My Life, My Fate, My Epoch"
    • Sheila Lahr on Mikhail Baitalsky, Notebooks for the Grandchildren, Recollections of a Trotskyist who survived the Stalin Terror"
    • Keith Sinclair on Hull and the Blue Union
    • Sheila Lahr on Apparachiks and Stewards Committees
    • Ian Birchall on Harry McShane
    • Ernie Rogers on French Trotskyism
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    RH0623 : Marxism in Britain and Ireland

     

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      Editorial
    • Ciaran Crossey & James Monaghan : The Origins of Trotskyism in Ireland
    • John Archer : CLR 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)

    Obituaries

    • Ellis Hillman
    • Michel Pablo

    Work in Progress

    • Harry Constable's memoirs
    • New findings from the Moscow Archives
    • Jack Jones & 'Land and Freedom'
    • Robert Conquest and the Soviet Archives
    • George Orwell and the left

    Reviews

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

    Letters

    • Ray Challinor on Bernard Dix
    • DR O'Connor Lysaght on Trotskyism in Ireland (with a snappy reply by Al Richardson)
    • Harry Ratner replies to Ian Birchall on Party, Class & State
    • Mike Jones replies to Ian Birchall on the gains of October
    • Pierre Broue on Trotskyism in Poland Readers Notes
     
    RH0601 : Poland
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    Obituaries

    Work in Progress

    • The Polish Left During the Second World War
    • International Communism and the Communist International

    Reviews

    Letters