Ted Grant Writings Volume Two Trotskyism And The Second World War 1943 1945

Author : Ted Grant
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ted Grant Writings: Volume Two – Trotskyism and the Second World War (1943-1945) by Ted Grant Pdf

Continuing the theme of Trotskyism and the Second World War, this volume covers the period 1943-45. The articles and documents contained within this book cover the period of the emergence of the WIL and the setting up of the Revolutionary Communist Party. The book is divided into three sections. The first deals with the situation in Europe as the war moved towards its conclusion and the Fascist regimes in Italy and Germany collapsed into chaos. The second section deals with events at home and the tasks facing the labour and trade union movement. The final section contains key documents and letters relating to the build up to the formation of the RCP. As in Volume one, Ted's writings are supplemented by other documents to provide a full picture of the situation.

Author : Ted Grant,Francesco Merli,Rob Sewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Communism
ISBN : 1900007428

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Ted Grant Writings by Ted Grant,Francesco Merli,Rob Sewell Pdf

A collection of the writings of Ted Grant (1913-2006) covering the period from the 1943 to 1945 together with other relevant documents relating to the issues raised.

Author : Ted Grant
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ted Grant Writings: Volume One – Trotskyism and the Second World War (1938-1942) by Ted Grant Pdf

This is the first volume of Ted Grant’s Writings. It covers the period from 1938 to 1942, when he was involved in building up the forces of Trotskyism in Britain. During the early years of the Second World War, Ted became editor of the Socialist Appeal and political secretary of the Workers’ International League. In this role Ted emerged as the principal theoretician of the British Trotskyist movement. His participation in the revolutionary movement was to span a period from 1928, when he was introduced to Marxism, through to his death in 2006. For all those who knew him, he was a truly remarkable and inspiring figure. The articles and documents contained in this first volume of his Writings coincided with the emergence of the WIL as one of the most successful Trotskyist groups in the world. This present volume covers a decisive time in history. It was the most testing time for British and world Trotskyism. As Hitler occupied Europe, the WIL was alone on the continent in applying the proletarian military policy that had been outlined by Trotsky. This it managed to do in the most successful fashion, allowing the WIL to establish an important proletarian base. We publish here only the articles that were either signed by Ted or that he drafted in his role as the WIL’s political secretary. He would have certainly written the vast bulk of the editorials of Socialist Appeal, but these have not been included. These writings constitute an essential and rich part of the theoretical heritage of Marxism, which can serve to educate the new generation of workers and youth who are entering into political activity at this time of deep capitalist crisis.

Author : Ted Grant,Rob Sewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Communism
ISBN : 1900007355

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Ted Grant Writings by Ted Grant,Rob Sewell Pdf

A collection of the writings of Ted Grant (1913-2006) covering the period from the 1930s up to the middle of the Second World War.

Author : Ted Grant
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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History of British Trotskyism by Ted Grant Pdf

This book by Ted Grant is a unique contribution to the history of British Trotskyism. It begins with the debate on Trotskyism in the British Communist Party in 1924 and ends with the break-up of the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1949 and the beginning of more than thirty years of work within the Labour Party. Ted Grant was the founder and political leader of the “Militant Tendency”, which haunted the Labour leadership, and was eventually expelled along with the Militant editorial board in 1983. A postscript by Rob Sewell, who was the national organiser for the Militant throughout the 1980s, brings this unique history up to date.

Author : Alan Woods
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The History of Philosophy by Alan Woods Pdf

Alan Woods outlines the development of philosophy from the ancient Greeks, all the way through to Marx and Engels who brought together the best of previous thinking to produce the Marxist philosophical outlook, which looks at the real material world, not as a static immovable reality, but one that is constantly changing and moving according to laws that can be discovered. It is this method which allows Marxists to look at how things were, how they have become and how they are most likely going to be in the future, in a long process which started with the early primitive humans in their struggles for survival, through to the emergence of class societies, all as part of a process towards greater and greater knowledge of the world we live in. This long historical process eventually created the material conditions which allow for an end to class divisions and the flowering of a new society where humans will achieve true freedom, where no human will exploit another, no human will oppress another. Here we see how philosophy becomes an indispensable tool in the struggle for the revolutionary transformation of society.

Author : Alan Woods
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781900007481

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Ted Grant: The Permanent Revolutionary by Alan Woods Pdf

Ted Grant was a well-known figure in the international Marxist movement. He had a significant impact on British politics. When he died all the most important newspapers carried extensive obituaries that recognised this fact. This is a remarkable work that comprehensively covers the development of Ted's life and ideas, starting from his early family background in Johannesburg right up to his death in London in 2006 at the age of 93. From his earliest youth in South Africa Ted Grant dedicated his life to the struggle for the emancipation of the working class. Moving to Britain in 1934 to seek new horizons, within a decade he had become the leading theoretician of the Trotskyist movement. The book deals with the launch of the Fourth International and Ted's battle to defend the ideas of Trotsky, which brought him into conflict with the leaders of the International after the Second World War. It explains the important theoretical questions and debates of this period and it outlines Ted Grant's important theoretical contribution to Marxism. Ted was the founder and theoretical inspirer of the Militant Tendency, which Michael Crick once described as the fifth political party in Britain. The book traces the rise and fall of Militant. It provides a fascinating insight into a subject that remains a closed book to most political analysts even now.

Author : Tamiment Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : UOM:39015082976070

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Catalog of the Tamiment Institute Library of New York University: Pamphlet catalog, indexes and lists by Tamiment Library Pdf

Author : Alan Woods,Ted Grant
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lenin and Trotsky – What they really stood for by Alan Woods,Ted Grant Pdf

The ideas of Lenin and Trotsky are without doubt the most distorted and slandered ideas in history. For more than 100 years, they have been subjected to an onslaught from the apologists of capitalism, who have attempted to present their ideas – Bolshevism – as both totalitarian and utopian. An entire industry was developed in an attempt to equate the crimes of Stalinism with the regime of workers' democracy that existed under Lenin and Trotsky. It is now more than fifty years since the publication of the first edition of this work. It was written as a reply to Monty Johnstone, who was a leading theoretician of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Johnstone had published a reappraisal of Leon Trotsky in the Young Communist League's journal Cogito at the end of 1968. Alan Woods and Ted Grant used the opportunity to write a detailed reply explaining the real relationship between the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky. This was no academic exercise. It was written as an appeal to the ranks of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League to rediscover the truth about Trotsky and return to the original revolutionary programme of Lenin. Also included in this new edition is Monty Johnstone's original Cogito article, as well as further material on Lenin's struggle with Stalin in the last month of his political life. The foreword is written by Trotsky's grandson, Vsievolod Volkov.

Author : Roger Silverman,Ted Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Communism
ISBN : 0950491500

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Bureaucratism Or Workers' Power? by Roger Silverman,Ted Grant Pdf

Author : Pierre Frank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035737928

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QUATRIEME INTERNATIONALE ENGL. by Pierre Frank Pdf

Author : Stefan J. Link
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691207971

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Forging Global Fordism by Stefan J. Link Pdf

A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar era As the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to emulate and challenge America, engineers from across the world flocked to Detroit. Chief among them were Nazi and Soviet specialists who sought to study, copy, and sometimes steal the techniques of American automotive mass production, or Fordism. Forging Global Fordism traces how Germany and the Soviet Union embraced Fordism amid widespread economic crisis and ideological turmoil. This incisive book recovers the crucial role of activist states in global industrial transformations and reconceives the global thirties as an era of intense competitive development, providing a new genealogy of the postwar industrial order. Stefan Link uncovers the forgotten origins of Fordism in Midwestern populism, and shows how Henry Ford's antiliberal vision of society appealed to both the Soviet and Nazi regimes. He explores how they positioned themselves as America's antagonists in reaction to growing American hegemony and seismic shifts in the global economy during the interwar years, and shows how Detroit visitors like William Werner, Ferdinand Porsche, and Stepan Dybets helped spread versions of Fordism abroad and mobilize them in total war. Forging Global Fordism challenges the notion that global mass production was a product of post–World War II liberal internationalism, demonstrating how it first began in the global thirties, and how the spread of Fordism had a distinctly illiberal trajectory.

Author : Pepe Karmel
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870700375

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Jackson Pollock by Pepe Karmel Pdf

Published to accompany the exhibition Jackson Pollock held the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1 November 1998 to 2 February 1999.

Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674256521

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The Last Utopia by Samuel Moyn Pdf

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.

Author : Ted Grant
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781900007757

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Russia: From Revolution To Counter-Revolution by Ted Grant Pdf

The October Russian Revolution, led by Lenin and Trotsky, swept away landlordism and capitalism and placed the working class in power for the first time. It transformed the idea of socialism from theory into practice. From this point of view, the Bolshevik revolution can be considered the greatest event in history. The revolution changed the course of world history and the last century has been dominated by its consequences. Ted Grant’s book traces the evolution of Soviet Russia from the Bolshevik victory of 1917, through the rise of Stalinism and the political counter-revolution, its emergence as a super-power after the Second World War, and the crisis of Stalinism and its eventual collapse. The book, which was first published in 1997, has been updated and edited in the light of new developments and the subsequent re-establishment of capitalism in Russia. Grant based his analysis on that of Leon Trotsky, who first analysed Stalinism in his Revolution Betrayed. While the counter-revolution has attempted to bury the memory of October, the new crisis of world capitalism has led to a revival of interest in Marxism and the significance of Bolshevism. The republication of Ted Grant’s book in this centenary year of the revolution therefore comes at a fitting time.