A list of contents of all previous issues

Compiled by John Plant, with assistance from Ted Crawford, latterly updated by Ian Donovan (including links to documents and covers) and then Jim Jepps. All the articles in the issues that are unavailable (nos 1-8, 10 & 11) are now on-line and are in the public domain. When issues are sold out they too will be placed on-line. We would be very pleased to hear from you if you notice errors, whether typograpghical or more substantial. Please email Ted Crawford who will see to the corrections however minor.

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Vol.1 No.1, Spring 1988

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Vol.1 No.2, Summer 1988
The hidden history of the Spanish Civil War

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Letters

Mike Howgate: Readers’ Notes

Vol.1 No.3, Autumn 1988
War and Revolution in Europe: 1939-1945

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Reviews

Letters

Reader’s Notes

Vol.1 No.4, Winter 1988-89
Against All Odds: Dutch, French and Indian Trotskyism during the Second World War

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Reviews

Letters

Vol.2 No.1, Spring 1988
Strikes & Leadership: Trotskyists and Major Class Battles

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The Renault Strike of 1947

The 1934 Minneapolis Strike

 

Reviews

Letters

Vol.2 No.2, Summer 1989
Nationalism, resistance and imperialist war
Trotskyism in Argentina and Scandinavia

Covedr RH Vol.2 No.2

Obituaries

Reviews

Letters

Reader’s Notes

Vol.2 No.3, Autumn 1989
Germany: the key
The German Left 1919 to 1935

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Obituary

Reviews

Letters

 

  • Readers’ Notes

Vol.2 No.4, Spring 1990
The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution

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Obituaries

Work in Progress

Reviews

Letters

Vol.3 No.1, Summer 1990
Stalinism & Communism in Eastern Europe

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Work in Progress

Reviews

Letters

  • Errata for Vol.2 No.4
  • Books and Magazines Wanted
  • Readers’ Notes

Vol.3 No.2, Autumn 1990
Vietnam. Workers’ Revolution and National Independence

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Obituaries

Work in Progress

Reviews

  • Erratum to Vol.3 No.1

Letters

 

  • Readers’ Notes

Vol.3 No.3, Spring 1991
Trotskyism and Stalinism in Greece

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Obituaries

Work in Progress

Reviews

Letters

 

  • Readers’ Notes

Vol.3 No.4, Autumn 1991
Imperialist War and National Resistance

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Work in Progress

  • Ian Birchall and Paul Flewers on the Serge Centenary
  • The Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements Trotskyste et Revolutionnaires internationaux, Paris

Reviews

Obituaries

  • Dave Hughes
  • Frank Ward

Letters

 

  • Errata to Vol.3 No.3
  • Readers’ Notes

Vol.4 Nos.1 & 2
The Spanish Civil War. The View from the Left

(Dedicated to the Memory of Sam Bornstein)

Introduction

Part 1: Causation

Part 2: Eyewitness

Part 3: Analysis

(This is a book size and format issue, and does not carry the usual reviews and letters sections)

Vol.4 No.3, Summer 1992
Bolivia. The Revolution Derailed? The Crisis of 1952 and the Trotskyist Movement

  • Editorial
  • Juan Robles: Trotskyism in Bolivia
  • Guillermo Lora: The Bolivian revolution and the Activity of the POR
  • Pierre Broué: Bolivia, 9 April 1952: A Forgotten ‘February Revolution’?
  • International Executive Committee: Draft Resolution
  • Liborio Justo: Bolivia. The Revolution Defeated
  • Jean Lieven: Bolivia
  • Jose Villa: A Revolution Betrayed

Work in Progress

  • Mike Jones on the Schafranek controversy
  • Walter Kendall on Bruno Rizzi
  • Ted Crawford on the Sao Paulo Colloquium
  • Errata to Vol.4 Nos.1/2

Reviews

  • Tony Cliff, Trotsky 1917-1923. The Sword of Revolution
  • Harriett Crawford: Sumer and the Sumerians and CN Reeves: The Valley of the Kings. The Decline of a Royal Necropolis
  • Michael Lees: The Rape of Serbia
  • Paul LeBlanc: Lenin and the Revolutionary Party
  • Mario Vargas Llosa: The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
  • Karel Kaplan: Report on the Murder of the General Secretary
  • Jack Gale: Class Struggle in the Second World War. The 1944 Police Raid on the RCP
  • Leon Trotsky: Fascism, Stalinism and the United Front
  • Dick Freney: A Map of Days: Life on the Left
  • Harpal Brar: Perestroika. The Complete Collapse of Revisionism

Obituaries

  • Edmond Samarakoddy (1914-1992)
  • Martha Phillips (1948-1992)

Letters

  • Reiner Tosstorff on Spain with reply by Al Richardson
  • Werner Cohn on Trotsky and the Jews with reply by Al Richardson
  • Fred Purdy on the Spartacists

 

  • Readers’ Notes

Vol.4 No.4, Spring 1993
‘Colour and Class’; The origins of South African Trotskyism

  • Editorial

Narrative

  • Baruch Hirson: The economic background to South Africa
  • Baruch Hirson: Resistance and socialism in South Africa
  • Baruch Hirson: The Trotskyist groups in South Africa
  • Ian Hunter: Raff Lee and the pioneer Trotskyists of Johannesburg
  • Baruch Hirson: The Trotskyists and the trade unionists
  • Baruch Hirson: Profiles of some South African Trotskyists

Documents

  • Preliminary correspondence (On the founding of the first group in SA, Thibedi, Trotsky)
  • The land question: Race and class (Items by Burlak, Ruth Fischer and the WPSA)
  • The Trade Unions (Burlak, Max Gordon)
  • Party and Class (Burlak)
  • The Coming War (Averbach, Burlak)

Work in Progress

  • In memoriam Andreu Nin
  • In memoriam Wolfgang Waclav Salus
  • Note on Ian Thatcher’s reports on Russian developments
  • Note on recent publications in Germany

Reviews

  • Robert J. Alexander: International Trotskyism 1929-1985
  • Robert Fine: Beyond Apartheid
  • Hillel Ticktin: The politics of race
  • Bob Edgar: An african american in South Africa
  • Robert Tucker: Stalin in power
  • R.C. Elwood: Inessa Armand

Letters

  • James Robertson on Shachtman and the Bolivian revolution
  • Mike Jones on Bolivian problems
  • Harry Ratner on Spanish republicans and the French military
  • Walter Kendall on Marxism and the theory of the workers’ states
  • Paul LeBlanc on Richardson’s review of his book (Vol.4 no.3), with reply by Richardson
  • John Mathieson on the revolutionary movement
  • Paolo Casciola on Edmond Samarakoddy

Stop Press !

  • Information from Robert Conquest on Mercader

 

  • Readers’ notes

Vol.5 No.1, Autumn 1993
‘Eyewitness to Disaster’; The German Labour Movement and the Rise of Hitler, 1929-33

  • Editorial
  • Mildred Gordon: Sam Gordon (1910-1982) – Scientific Socialist
  • Sam Gordon: Reports from Germany, 1929-1930
  • Mike Jones: A Comment on Sam Gordon’s Reports
  • Mika Etchebehere: Hyppolite Etchebehere, called Juan Rustico
  • Hyppolite Etchebehere: The Tragedy of the German Proletariat
  • Hyppolite Etchebehere: Letters to an Argentine Comrade
  • Ernest Rogers: Etchebehere’s Assessment Confirmed
  • Mike Jones: Jan Valtin – A False Witness

Work in Progress

  • Note by Andy Durgan on a conference about Andreu Nin
  • Note by Crawford & Richardson on current research and studies
  • Announcement of the first issue of Journal of Trotsky Studies

Obituaries

  • Prins Rajasooriya
  • Louis Bondy

Reviews

  • James P. Cannon and the Early Years of American Communism: Selected Writings and Speeches, 1920-1928
  • Robert Service (ed.): Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution
  • C.N. Reeves (ed.): After Tut’ankhamun: Research and Excavation in the Royal Necropolis at Thebes
  • Victor Serge: Year One of the Russian Revolution
  • Arthur Ransome: Six Weeks in Russia 1919, and The Crisis in Russia 1920
  • Jeff Fellow: Revolting Scotland
  • Raymond Challinor: A Radical Lawyer in Victorian England. W.P. Roberts and the Struggle for Workers Rights
  • Fritz Keller: In den Gulag von Ost und West
  • Terry Brotherstone and Paul Dukes (eds.): The Trotsky Reappraisal
  • Joe Jacobs: Out of the Ghetto
  • Frank Furedi: Mythical Past, Elusive Future; History and Society in an Anxious Age
  • Raya Dunayevskaya: The Marxist Humanist Theory of State Capitalism

Letters

  • Hillel Ticktin
  • Baruch Hirson replies to Ticktin
  • Jose Villa on Nationalism in Bolivia
  • Anibal Robles on Sendero Luminosa terrorism against Trotskyist workers leaders in Peru

 

  • Readers’ Notes

Vol.5 No.2, Spring 1994
‘Germany 1918-23’ From the November Revolution to the Failed October

  • Editorial
  • Jakob Reich: The First Years of the Communist International
  • Arthur Rosenberg: The Kapp Putsch and the Working Class
  • Udo Winkel: Paul Levi and his significance for the communist movement in Germany
  • Paul Levi: Introduction to Trotsky’s The Lessons of October
  • Ernest Rogers: A comment on Paul Levi’s article
  • August Thalheimer: The struggle for the United Front in Germany
  • Jacob Walcher: Notes on the conversations between Trotsky and Walcher 17-20 August 1933
  • Mike Jones: Germany 1923
  • Victor Serge: Observations in Germany 1923
  • Bernard Reichenbach: The KAPD in retrospect

Work in Progress

  • Note from Conquest on information in Volkogonov on the assassination of Trotsky
  • Note on a video on the murder of Nin
  • Brief notes on recent German publications from Decaton Verlag
  • Announcement of a new historical review from the Socialist Labor Party
  • Announcement of the London Socialist Historians Group
  • Note on recent Hungarian publications from the Soviet archives
  • Announcement of Socialist History

Reviews

  • Willie Thompson: The Good Old Cause; British Communism 1920-1991
  • Alan McKinlay & R.J. Morris (eds.): The ILP on Clydeside 1893-1932
  • Tom Buchanan: The Spanish Civil War and the British Labour Movement
  • John Graham (ed.): Yours for the Revolution ; The Appeal to Reason 1895-1922
  • Tom Winnifrith (ed.): Perspectives on Albania
  • Jose Iriarte ‘Bikilia’: Do the workers have a country?
  • Frank Girard & Ben Perry: The Socialist Labour Party 1876-1991
  • Michael Lowy: On changing the world
  • Wolfgang and Petra Lubitz (eds.): Trotskyist Serials Bibliography
  • Robert J Alexander: International Trotskyism 1929-1985 (Casciola’s comments on Romania)
  • Alan Wald: The Responsibility of Intellectuals
  • Eugene Strouhal: Life in Ancient Egypt

Letters

  • Hillel Ticktin on South Africa
  • Casciola on the Wuppertal symposium (See Vol.4 No.4 Work in Progress)
  • Paul Buhle, with reply from Al Richardson on C.L.R. James
  • Bob Archer on Sam Gordon and Brandler
  • Peter & Cyril on Prins Rajasooriya
  • Albert Glotzer on Sam Gordon
  • Tim Wohlforth on Bolivia

 

  • Announcement of availability of supplementary documents

Vol.5 No.3
Victor Serge. The Century of the Unexpected. Essays on Revolution and Counter-Revolution

  • Editorial
  • Victor Serge: Lenin in 1917
  • Victor Serge: The Class Struggle in the Chinese Revolution
  • Richard Greeman: The Victor Serge Affair and the French Literary Left
  • Ernest Rogers: Serge, Poretsky, Etienne. A Paris hotel 1937
  • Victor Serge: Planned Economies and Democracy, 1941-1947
  • Julian Gorkin: The Last Years of Victor Serge, 1941-1947
  • F.A. Ridley (1897-1994) An Appreciation

Work in Progress

  • Richard Greeman report on the Moscow Victor Serge Colloquium
  • John Plant on recent Russian publications
  • Announcement of 1994 Moscow Trotsky conference
  • Note on recent Hungarian publications based on Moscow archives
  • Note on the Socialist Scholars Conference in New York

Letters

  • Edward Crawford on Henry Sara and A.J.P. Taylor

Reviews

  • John Cowley: The Victorian Encounter with Marx. A study of Ernest Belfort Bax
  • John Callaghan: Rajani Palme Dutt. A study in British Stalinism
  • Kevin Morgan: Harry Pollitt
  • Monty Johnstone: Trotsky Reassessed
  • Tony Cliff: Trotsky. The darker the night the brighter the star
  • Robert J. Alexander: International Trotskyism 1929-1985. A documented analysis of the movement (continues the reviews commenced in earlier volumes)
  • Patricia Cayo Sexton: The war on labor and the left
  • Donald Filtzer: The Kruschev Era
  • Anita Burdman Feferman: Politics, Logic and Love. The life of Jean Van Heijenoort
  • Klaus Gietinger: Eine Leiche im Landwehrkanal. Die Ermordung der Rosa L
  • Theodor Bergmann and Mario Kessler (eds.): Ketzer im Kommunismus. Alternativen zum Stalinismus
  • Wladislaw Hedeler and Ruth Stoljarowa: Nikolai Bucharin. Leben und Werk
  • Scott McLemee and Paul LeBlanc (eds.): CLR James and Revolutionary Marxism. Selected writings of CLR James 1939-1949
  • David Cotterill: The Serge-Trotsky papers

Letters

  • Ted Crawford on the German revolution
  • Mike Jones replies to Bob Archer (Vol.5 No.2)
  • Horst Lauscher on Trotsky and the Guomindang (with editorial reply)
  • Steve Parsons on Jan Valtin
  • Robin Blick on Poland and the Red Army (with reply from the editor and from Paul Flewers)
  • John Plant on a translation
  • Willie Thompson criticises the review of his book in an earlier volume (with editorial reply)
  • Readers’ Notes

Vol.5 No.4
THE ITALIAN LEFT
Through Fascism, War and Revolution: Trotskyism and Left Communism in Italy

  • Editorial
  • Paulo Casciola: Alfonso Leonetti: a Turncoat Trotskyist
  • Alfonso Leonetti: Why I Am Rejoining the Italian Communist Party
  • Paulo Casciola: Nicolo do Bartolomeo (1901-1946)
  • Paulo Casciola: Pietro Tresso and the early years of Italian Trotskyism.
  • Paulo Casciola: Blasco’s people.
  • Paulo Casciola: Some Historical Vignettes.
  • Pierre Broue: The Italian Communist Party, the War and the Revolution.
  • Arturo Peregalli: The Left Wing Opposition in Italy during the Period of Resistance.
  • Paulo Casciola: Trotskyism and the Revolution in Italy (1943-44)
  • Provisional European Secretariat of the Fourth International: Manifesto to the Italian Workers, Peasants and Soldiers.
  • Paulo Casciola: The Troubled Relations Between the Communist Workers Party and the Fourth International.

Obituaries

  • Margaret Dewar (Logie Barrow)
  • William Campbell Tait (Mark Shipway)
  • Adam Westoby (Karen Blick)

Reviews

  • The ICC’s The Italian Communist Current (Al Richardson);
  • Robin Blick’s The Seeds of Evil: Lenin and the Origins of Bolshevik Elitism (Dave Bruce);
  • Drucker’s Max Shachtman and His Left (Jim Higgins);
  • Pipes’ Russia under the Bolshevik Regime (Simon Pirani);
  • Bradley’s Slavery and Society at Rome (Al Richardson);
  • Frederick Engels, International Socialism Special Issue (Al Richardson);
  • Silber’s Socialism: What went Wrong (Walter Kendall);
  • Ngo Van’s Revolutionaries They Could Not Break (Al Richardson).

Letters

  • Baruch Hirson on Victor Serge and China,
  • Curtis Price on Left Communism in France
  • Mike Jones on Jan Valtin
  • Ian Birchall on Al Richardson’s review of Cliff’s book on Trotsky
  • an Exchange on Bolivia between Masas, no.1345, the paper of the Bolivian POR and Jose Villa on the Bolivian issue of Revolutionary History, Vol.4 No.3

Vol.6 No.1, Winter 1995-96
Trotskyism in Poland

  • Editorial
  • Ludwik Hass: Trotskyism in Poland up to 1945
  • Ludwik Hass: Against all odds – true to the ideals of his youth
  • B. Drobner, W. Kielecki & H. Swoboda: Draft Programme of the Polish Socialist Party
  • Leon Trotsky: Entry into the Socialist in Poland
  • Bolshevik-Leninists of Poland: Open Letter to Members of the Polish Communist Party
  • Notes on the Life of Ludwik Hass
  • Grzegorz Soltysiak: The Hass Group
  • Amnesty International and the case of Ludwik Hass
  • Ludwik Hass: Open Letter to Ozjask Szechter
  • Solidarity’s Tragedy is its Advisers – An interview with Ludwik Hass
  • Ludwik Hass: Breaking with the Old Version of the History of the CPSU and the USSR

Obituaries

  • Ernest Mandel
  • Kenneth John Tarbuck
  • Bernard Dix

Work in Progress

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

Reviews

  • Vladimir Brovkin: Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick: The Russian Revolution
  • Gennady Shkliarevsky: Labor in the Russian Revolution
  • Jens-Peter Steffen: Militant tendency
  • Gregor Benton: Interviews with Wang Fanxi
  • Marilyn Vogt-Downey: The USSR 1987-1991
  • John Kautsky: Karl Kautsky
  • John Kautsky: Marxism & Leninism
  • Karen Olsen Bruhns: Ancient South America
  • Al Richardson (ed.): In Defence of the Russian Revolution
  • Harry Ratner: Reluctant Revolutionary
  • Tim Wohlforth: The Prophet’s Children
  • Dmitri Volkogonov: Lenin. Life and Legacy

Letters

  • Baruch Hirson on entrism and national movements
  • Anton McCabe on Trotskyism in Ireland
  • Martin Tomlinson on left communism
  • Charlie van Gelderen on Trotskyism in Italy
  • Yurii Colombo on Trotskyism in Italy today
  • Steve Parsons on Jan Valtin
  • James D. Young on Red Clydeside

Readers’ Notes

Vol.6 No.2/3, Summer 1996
Essays on Revolutionary Marxism in Britain and Ireland from the 1930s to the 1960s

  • Editorial
  • Ciaran Crossey & James Monaghan: The Origins of Trotskyism in Ireland
  • John Archer: C.L.R. 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
  • J.N. Postgate: Early Mesopotamia
  • Paul-Alain Beaulieu: The Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon

Letters

  • Ray Challinor on Bernard Dix
  • D.R. 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 Broué on Trotskyism in Poland

Readers’ Notes

Vol.6 No.4, 1997
Blows Against the Empire. Trotskyism in Ceylon – the Lanka Sama Samaja Party 1935-1964

  • Editorial
  • 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
  • Interview with Bracegirdle, conducted by Bob Pitt
  • The LSSP turns to Trotskyism 1939-41, Perera, Goonewardene, de Silva & anon.
  • 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

  • Mike Jones on Nils Kaare Dahl, The Norwegian Tragedy
  • 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

Letters

  • 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

 

  • Readers’ Notes

Vol.7 No.1
A Paradise for Capitalism? Class and Leadership in Twentieth Century Belgium

 

  • A Contribution to the History of the Belgian Trotskyists, Catherine Leghien
  • The Parti Socialiste Révolutionnaire, Pierre Broué
  • Letters on Belgium (never previously in English), Leon Trotsky
  • Report on the PCR, Harry Ratner
  • Some Historical Vignettes
  • The Belgium General Strike 1960-61, Serge Simon
  • Adrift in the Rapids of Racism (Syd Bidwell 1917-1997), John McIlroy

Obituaries

  • David Rousset
  • Bernard Soysa.
  • Fred Burnby,
  • Georgh Scheuer
  • Michael Tippett (plus internal document from the RSL by Tippett)

Reviews

  • Caliban’s Freedom: Early Political Thought of CLR James by Bogues (Higgins)
  • More Years for the Locusts by Higgins (Birchall)
  • Rosa Luxemburg by Rienzi & Bisceglie (Rossi)
  • Essays in Memory of Tom Kemp by Brotherstone & Pilling (Arthur)
  • Marx at the Millennium by Cyril Smith (Machover)
  • Russia from Revolution to Counter-Revolution by Ted Grant (Richardson)
  • Reason in Revolt: Modern Philosophy and Modern Science by Ted Grant & Alan Woods (Thompson)
  • Friends of the Durruti Group & Documentacion historica del troquismo in espanol by Augustin Guillamon (Sullivan)
  • Assassinii nel maquis; la tragica morte del Pietro Tresso by Broué & Vacheron (Casciola & Salucci)
  • Meutre au maquis by Broué, Vacheron & Dugrand (Birchall)
  • The Spectre of Babeuf by Ian Birchall (Schiappa)
  • Morgan Phillips Price by Tania Rose (Richardson)
  • BOC 1930-36; El Bloque Obrero y Campesino by Andrew Durgan (Ealham)
  • The Left in History by Willie Thompson (Sullivan)
  • We The Anarchists! a Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937 by Stuart Christie (Sullivan)

 

  • Letters by Clifton Bocks, John Archer, Harry Ratner, John Lawrence

Vol.7 No. 2, Spring 1999
Culture and Revolution in the Thought of Leon Trotsky

  • Editorial

The Culture of the Old World

  • Leon Trotsky, Ibsen
  • Leon Trotsky, Two Literary Souls at the Mercy of the Metaphysical Demon
  • Leon Trotsky, Poetry, the Machine, and the Poetry of the Machine
  • Leon Trotsky, On the Novel in General and on The Three of Them in Particular
  • Leon Trotsky, Culture and the Little White Bull
  • Paul Flewers, Vekhi and the Retreat from Reason

Impressionism: Trotsky in Vienna

  • Fritz Keller, Trotsky in Vienna
  • Leon Trotsky, On Death and Eros
  • Leon Trotsky, A New Year’s Conversation about Art
  • Leon Trotsky, The Vienna Secession of 1909
  • Leon Trotsky, Two Viennese Exhibitions
  • Leon Trotsky, On the Intelligentsia
  • Leon Trotsky, Vienna Secession 1913

The Culture of the Transition Period

  • John Plant, Trotsky, Art and the Revolution
  • Antonio Gramsci, A Letter to Leon Trotsky on Futurism
  • Leon Trotsky, For Quality – For Culture!

Culture Under the Dictators

  • Pierre Naville, Trotsky on Art and Literature
  • Richard Greeman, Did Trotsky Read Serge?
  • Esther Leslie, Elective Affinities
  • James T. Farrell, A Memoir of Leon Trotsky
  • Leon Trotsky, Marcel Martinet
  • Leon Trotsky, The Attitude of Men of Letters
  • An Interview with Jean Malaquais
  • Fritz Keller, Stalinism versus Hedonism

The International Federation of Independent Revolutionary Artists

  • Maurice Nadeau, Trotsky and Breton
  • Leon Trotsky, You Must Not Whisper
  • Leon Trotsky, Difficulties With Diego

 

  • Plus reviews, obituaries, letters

Vol.7 No.3, Spring 2000
The Hidden Pearl of the Carribean: Trotskyism in Cuba

  • Editorial
  • Gary Tennant, An Introduction to the History of Trotskyism in Cuba
  • Gary Tennant, The Background: Nationalism and Communism in Cuba
  • Gary Tennant, Julio Antonio Mella and the Roots of Dissension in the Partido Comunista de Cuba
  • Gary Tennant, The Birth of Dissident Cuban Communism and the Oposición Comunista de Cuba, 1930-33
  • Gary Tennant, The Partido Bolchevique Leninista and the Revolution of the 1930s
  • Gary Tennant, Trotskyism in Cuba Between the Revolutions
  • Gary Tennant, The Reorganised Partido Obrero Revolucionario (Trotskista) and the 1959 Revolution
  • To the Cuban Workers and Peasants
  • Letter from the Workers Party of the United States to the Cuban Trotskyists
  • Gary Tennant, Historical Vignettes
  • An Interview with Roberto Acosta Hechavarría
  • The International Secretariat and the Cuban Trotskyists
  • Thirty Years Since the Death of Ernesto Guevara
  • Obituaries
  • Work in Progress

Reviews

  • Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive, Part 1: The KGB in Europe and the West (J.J. Plant)
  • Paul Flewers, “I Know How, But I Don’t Know Why”: George Orwell’s Conception of Totalitarianism (John Newsinger)
  • John Newsinger, Orwell’s Politics (Paul Flewers)
  • Susan Weissman (ed.), The Ideas of Victor Serge: A Life as a Work of Art (Bill Marshall)
  • Leon Trotsky, The Transitional Programme (Al Richardson)
  • Morgan Philips Price, Dispatches from the Weimar Republic (Al Richardson)
  • John Reed, Shaking the World: John Reed’s Revolutionary Journalism (Al Richardson)
  • John H. Kautsky, The Politics of Aristocratic Empires (Al Richardson )
  • Susan Pollock, Ancient Mesopotamia (Al Richardson)
  • Dave Renton, Fascism: Theory and Practice (Tobias Abse)
  • Donny Gluckstein, The Nazis, Capitalism and the Working Class (Tobias Abse)
  • Enzo Traverso, Understanding the Nazi Genocide: Marxism After Auschwitz (Tobias Abse)
  • Bill Hunter, Lifelong Apprenticeship: The Life and Times of a Revolutionary (Sheila Lahr)
  • Leon Trotsky, Escritos Latinoamericanos (John Sullivan)
  • Anton Dannat, Auf dem Floss der Medusa? (Ian Birchall)
  • Philippe Gottraux, Socialisme ou Barbarie (Ian Birchall)
  • Eric Cavaterra, La Banque de France et la Commune de Paris (Jean Marc Schiappa)
  • Nicole Bossut, Chaumette, porte-parole des sans-culottes (Jean Marc Schiappa)
  • Zheng Chaolin, An Oppositionist for Life (Simon Pirani)
  • Gregor Benton, China’s Urban Revolutionaries: Explorations in the History of Chinese Trotskyism 1921-1952 (Simon Pirani)
  • Robert Louzon, China: Three Thousand Years of History, Fifty Years of Revolution (Charlie Hore)

Letters

Reader’s Notes

Vol.7 No.4, Winter 2000-2001
From Syndicalism to Trotskyism - Writings of Alfred and Marguerite Rosmer.

  • Editorial

Writings of Alfred and Marguerite Rosmer

  • I: Overviews
  • II: Syndicalism
  • III: War
  • IV: Comintern
  • V: Transition
  • VI: Trotskyism
  • VII: After Trotsky
  • Biographies
  • Tony Cliff: Three Appraisals
  • Obituary
  • Work in Progress

Reviews

  • Yodage Ranjith Amarasinghe, A Study of Trotskyism in Sri Lanka (Al Richardson)
  • Regi Siriwardena, Working Underground: The LSSP In Wartime, A Memoir of Happenings and Personalities (Al Richardson)
  • Colette Chambelland, Pierre Monatte, un autre voix syndicaliste (Ian Birchall)
  • Tony Cliff, A World To Win: Life of a Revolutionary (Jim Higgins and Sheila Lahr)
  • Stephane Courtois, Nicholas Werth, Jean Louis Panné, Andrej Paczkowski, Karol Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror. Repression (Paul Flewers)
  • Yvan Craipeau, Memoires d’un dinosaure trotskyste (Ian Birchall)
  • Neil Davidson, The Origins of Scottish Nationhood (John Sullivan)
  • Chris Harman, A People’s History of the World (Al Richardson)
  • Eamonn McCann, Dear God: The Price of Religion in Ireland (“Beelzebub”)
  • José Manuel Márquez Rodriguez and Juan José Gallardo Romero, Ortiz: General sin Dios ni Amo (John Sullivan)

Letters

Reader’s Notes

Vol.8 No.1, Summer 2001
The Comintern and its Critics

  • Editorial

I: Those Against

  • John McIlroy, New Light on Arthur Reade: Tracking Down Britain’s First Trotskyist
  • Fritz Keller, Trotskyism in Austria
  • Charles Wesley Ervin, Philip Gunawardena: The Making of a Revolutionary

II: All Change

  • Walter Kendall, The Communist International and the Turn from “Social-Fascism” to the Popular Front
  • Jean-Jacques Marie, The Journal of Georgi Dimitrov

III: Family Quarrels

  • Ante Ciliga, How Tito Took Over the Yugoslav Communist Party
  • John McIlroy, Rehabilitating Communist History: The Communist International, the Communist Party of Great Britain and Some Historians

IV: Objections Overruled: Spain

  • Grandizo Munis and Jaime Fernández, Corrections to the Cahiers Léon Trotsky, no 227
  • Augustin Guillamón, The Investigation of the Spanish Bolshevik-Leninists (1938)

John McIlroy, John Archer (1909-2000)

Obituaries

Work in Progress

 

Reviews

  • Albert Archar (ed.), The Legacy of Ernest Mandel (Brian Green)
  • Communist Workers Organisation, Trotsky, Trotskyism, Trotskyists (Al Richardson)
  • Georg Lukács, A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic (Cyril Smith)
  • Dave Renton, Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Britain in the 1940s (Sheila Lahr)
  • Janet Richards and Mary Van Buren, Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States (Al Richardson)
  • Victor Serge, Witness to the German Revolution (Mike Jones)
  • Wilebaldo Solano, El POUM en la historia: Andreu Nin y la revolución española (John Sullivan)
  • Ian D. Thatcher, Leon Trotsky and World War One, August 1914-February 1917 (Al Richardson)
  • Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution (Paul Flewers)
  • Barry Lee Woolley, Adherents of Permanent Revolution: A History of the Fourth (Trotskyist) International (Al Richardson)

Letters

Readers’ Notes

Vol.8 No.2, Summer 2002
Mutiny: Disaffection and Unrest in the Armed Forces

  • Editorial

I: Mutiny and the Cohesion of the Armed Forces

  • Ted Crawford, Mutiny and the Cohesion of the Armed Forces
  • Julian Putkowski, Observations on Mutinies

II: Marxists and Military Thinking

  • Ian Birchall, The Enigma of Kersausie: Engels in June 1848
  • Karl Radek, Marxism and the Problems of War

III: Mutinies in Eastern Europe

  • Christian Rakovsky, The Origins of the Potemkin Mutiny (1905)
  • Rémi Adam, 1917: The Revolt of the Russian Soldiers in France
  • Rémi Adam, The Bolshevik Revolution As Seen Through the Eyes of the Soldiers of the Russian Expeditionary Corps in France
  • Tico Jossifort, The Revolt at Radomir
  • The Black Sea Revolt

IV: Disaffection and Dissent in the British Armed Forces

  • Julian Putkowski, Mutiny in India in 1919
  • Report on Revolutionary Organisations: Red Officer Course

V: Comintern Work in Western Armed Forces in the 1930s

  • Communist International, Work in the Army (Introduction by David McKnight)

VI: Disaffection in the Army in the Second World War

  • David Renton, Bread and Freedom
  • Julian Putkowski interviews Dave Wallis
  • Swimming Against the Tide: Duncan Hallas on his Experiences in Egypt

Work in Progress

Obituaries

 

Reviews

  • Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, John McIlroy, British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics, Volume 1: The Postwar Compromise 1945-64; Volume 2: The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1964-79 (Harry Ratner)
  • Tony Cliff, International Struggle and the Marxist Tradition: Selected Writings, Volume One (John Sullivan)
  • William Doyle, The Ancien Regime (Ian Birchall)
  • Moira Donald and Tim Rees (eds.), Reinterpreting Revolution in Twentieth-Century Europe (Ian Birchall)
  • Eros Francescangeli, Arditi del Popolo – Argo Secondari e la prima organizzazione antifascista (1917-1922) (Barbara Rossi)
  • Manuel Grossi, The Asturian Uprising: Fifteen Days of Socialist Revolution (Jim Higgins)
  • Zygmunt Zaremba, The Warsaw Commune: Betrayed by Stalin, Massacred by Hitler (Jim Higgins)
  • Bill Hunter, Lifelong Apprenticeship: Life and Times of a Revolutionary, Volume 1: 1920-1959 (J.J. Plant)
  • Ronald Radosh, Mary R. Habeck and Grigory Sevostianov, Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War (John Sullivan)
  • Alexander Pantsov, The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution, 1919-1927 (Al Richardson)
  • Paul Le Blanc and Thomas Barrett, Revolutionary Labor Socialist: The Life, Ideas and Comrades of Frank Lovell (Al Richardson)
  • G Munis, Teoría y práctica de la lucha de clases, Volume 2 (John Sullivan)
  • Ngo Van, Au Pays de la Cloche Fêléé: tribulations d’un Cochinchinois à l’époque coloniale (Hilary Horrocks)
  • Paul T. Nicholson and Ian Shaw (eds.), Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (Al Richardson)
  • Grant D. Jones, The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom (Al Richardson)
  • Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth, On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left (Geoff Barr)
  • Susan Weissman, Victor Serge: The Course is Set on Hope (Paul Flewers)
  • Andy Wood, Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England (David Renton)
  • Alan Woods, Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution (Alejandra Ríos)

Letters

Readers’ Notes

Vol.8 No.3
The Balkan Socialist Tradition – Balkan Socialism and the Balkan Federation, 1871-1915

  • Editorial
  1. The Origins of the Balkan Socialist Tradition: Between Populism and Marxism
  2. Marxism and the Eastern Question: Challenging the Orthodoxy 1896-97
  3. Bulgarian Socialism and the Macedonian National Liberation Movement, 1903-08
  4. The Revolution in Turkey and the Balkan Federation
  5. The Annexation of Bosnia by Austria-Hungary in 1908
  6. The Balkan Federation and Balkan Social Democracy
  7. The Balkan Wars of 1912-13 and the Balkan Federation
  8. The First World War and the Balkan Federation

There are also the usual items of Book Reviews, Work in Progress, Obituaries, Readers Notes and Letters

Vol.8 No.4
August Thalheimer and German Communism

  • Editorial
  • John McIlroy, Al Richardson (1941-2003): An Appreciation
  • Ottokar Luban, Rosa at a Loss: The KPD Leadership and the Berlin Uprising of January 1919: Legend and Reality
  • Karl Retzlaw, From the Kapp Putsch to the March Action
  • August Thalheimer, 1923: A Missed Opportunity?: The Legend of the German October and the Real History of 1923
  • August Thalheimer, The Fifth Congress of the Communist International and Its Results
  • August Thalheimer, The Strategy and Tactics of the Communist International
  • Alexander Vatlin, The Programme Discussion in the Communist International
  • Paolo Sensini, Beyond Marxism, Anarchism and Liberalism: Bruno Rizzi’s Scientific and Revolutionary Path

Reviews

  • James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman, Leon Trotsky and Others, Dog Days: James P. Cannon vs. Max Shachtman in the Communist League of America, 1931-1933 (Al Richardson)
  • Jean-Pierre Hirou, Du trotskysme au communisme libertaire (Ian Birchall)
  • Martyn Housden, Hans Frank, Lebensraum and the Holocaust (Dave Renton)
  • Robert Morrell, The Gentle Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Frank Ridley: Socialist and Secularist (Sheila Lahr)
  • Michael Parenti, The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome (Chris Gray)
  • Sylvain Pattieu, Les camarades des frères: trotskistes et libertaires dans la guerre d’Algérie (Ian Birchall)
  • Georg Scheuer, Seuls les fous n’ont pas peur (Esther Leslie)
  • Jean Marc Schiappa, Les babouvistes (Ian Birchall)
  • W.G. Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction (Sheila Lahr)
  • David Stack, The First Darwinian Left: Socialism and Darwinism 1859-1914 (Andrew West)
  • Anne Kerr and Tom Shakespeare, Genetic Politics: From Eugenics To Genome (Andrew West)
  • Ian D. Thatcher, Trotsky (Al Richardson)

Vol.9 No.1
The Russian Revolution of 1905: Change Through Struggle

  • Editorial
  • Pete Glatter, Introduction
  • The Road to Bloody Sunday (Introduced by Pete Glatter)
  • A Revolution Takes Shape (Introduced by Pete Glatter)
  • The Decisive Days (Introduced by Pete Glatter and Philip Ruff)
  • Rosa Luxemburg and the 1905 Revolution (Introduced by Mark Thomas)
  • Mike Haynes, Patterns of Conflict in the 1905 Revolution

Obituaries

Work in Progress

Reviews

  • David Black, Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England (Keith Flett)
  • Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman (eds.), Wobblies: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (Louis Proyect)
  • William Fishman, East End Jewish Radicals 1875-1914 (Sheila Lahr)
  • Norman Harding, Staying Red: Why I Remain a Socialist (Harry Ratner)
  • Jim Higgins, Speak One More Time: Selected Writings (Ian Birchall)
  • Jean-Jacques Marie, Lénine (Ian Birchall)
  • John Newsinger, Rebel City: Larkin, Connolly and the Dublin Labour Movement (Chris Gray)
  • Rudolf Rocker, The London Years (Sheila Lahr)

Vol.9 No.2
Stalinism, Revolution and Counter Revolution

RH Vol.9 No.2

  • Editorial
  • Alexander Vatlin, ‘Comrade Thomas’ and the Secret Activity of the Comintern in Germany 1919-1925
  • Andy Durgan, Marxism, War and Revolution: Trotsky and the POUM
  • Tobias Abse, Palmiro Togliatti: Loyal Servant of Stalin
  • Charles Wesley Ervin, Two Pages From Indian Trotskyist History
  • John Mcllroy, The Revolutionary Odyssey of John Lawrence
  • Ian Birchall, Daniel Guerin’s Dialogue with Leninism
  • Clara Zetkin, Letter to Lenin
  • Alan Woodward, Russia 1905: Revolutionary History or Debatable Politics?

Obituaries

 Work in Progress

Reviews

  • Ian Angus, Canadian Bolsheviks: The Early Years of the Communist Party of Canada (J.J. Plant)
  • Francis Beckett, Stalin’s British Victims (Alison MacLeod)
  • Nikolai Bukharin, Philosophical Arabesques (Louis Proyect)
  • Robert Edgar, The Making of an African Communist: Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana and the Communist Party of South Africa 1927-1939 (Paul Trewhela)
  • Paul Flewers (ed.), George Orwell: Enigmatic Socialist (David Renton)
  • Moshe Lewin, The Soviet Century (Ian D. Thatcher)

 

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