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An English translation of Garry Mickle's Esperanto language lecture on the history of the Internationale Sozialistische Kampfbund (ISK).

Share: Image: French President François Mitterrand (second from right), leader of the French socialist party, with Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Helmut Schmidt at the Versailles G7 Summit of 1982. Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained? Editors’ Note: This is an adapted chapter from a forthcoming book, Market Economies, Market Societies: Interviews and Essays on the Decline of Social Dem...