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Paul Le Blanc has been one of the most prolific revolutionary socialist authors in recent decades, publishing scores of books, articles and reviews, in large part devoted to the early twentieth century Marxist tradition.

The powerlessness in which one finds oneself at a given moment, a powerlessness which must never be considered as definitive, cannot dispense one (...)

Proposing that “We find their contributions inseparable from (the) quality of revolutionary collectivity,” Paul Le Blanc has compiled a number of essays on revolutionary and even ex-revolutionary thinkers. (vii)

I am very conscious of the great honour of being invited to participate in this seminar (2012) as someone who did not belong to the same international current as Daniel Bensaïd and only got to know him in the last decade of his life. But as soon as we met, what drew me towards Daniel was not simply his immense personal qualities—his strength of character, warmth and kindness, and a dry sense of humour congenial to an Anglo-Saxon sensibility (although inflected by Daniel's strong ...

Alain Krivine died on 12 March 2022 at the age of 80. He was maybe the first Trotskyist since Trotsky himself to be a "household name", at least in France

Alain Krivine died on 12 March 2022 at the age of 80. He was maybe the first Trotskyist since Trotsky himself to be a "household name", at least in France

“Thus, although the idea of socialism has today been undermined by a series of defeats, making it credible again as a libertarian, egalitarian and democratic alternative; offering a vision of an emancipated future where people govern themselves; making desirable a society where everyone would work less and benefit from more time to realize themselves... this is an indispensable element of revolutionary strategy.”

The death of Alain Krivine on 12 March, aged eighty, saw the passing of the last of the leading ‘68ers who had remained faithful to the revolts of his youth, mixing anti-imperialism, anti-Stalinism and anti-capitalism. He combined his fidelity to his cause with a clear integrity, at odds with sectarianism or the lust for power.

Alain Krivine, a French revolutionary socialist, died today March 12 at the age of eighty.

According to my understanding and analysis of the current appropriate Chinese confrontation mechanisms in the face of American boycott