Ian Birchall
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Ian Birchall (born 1939) is a British Marxist historian and translator, a former member of the
Sartre, Victor Serge and Alfred Rosmer. He was on the editorial board of Revolutionary History, a member of the London Socialist Historians Group and has completed a biography of Tony Cliff
.
In 2013, Birchall joined opposition to the SWP Central Committee during the internal crisis over allegations of rape[2] and resigned from the organisation in December.[3]
In August 2015, Birchall was one of 20 authors of Poets for Corbyn, an anthology of poems endorsing
Selected articles/works
- France : the struggle goes on (with Tony Cliff) (1968)
- Workers against the monolith : the Communist parties since 1943 (1974)
- The smallest mass party in the world : building the Socialist Workers Party, 1951-1979 (1981)
- Eric Hobsbawm and the working class (with Norah Carlin) (1983)
- Bailing out the system : reformist socialism in Western Europe, 1944-1985 (1986)
- Morris, Bax and Babeuf (1996)
- The spectre of Babeuf (1997)
- Sartre against Stalinism (2004)
- A Rebel's Guide to Lenin (2005)
- Sartre's Century (2005)
- Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time (2011)
Works translated/edited
- Lenin's Moscow, by Alfred Rosmer (translated from the French) (1971)
- Flowers and revolution : a collection of writings on Jean Genet (edited with Barbara Read)(1997)
- Witness to the German Revolution / by Victor Serge (translated from the French) (1999)
- The German Revolution, 1917-1923 / by Pierre Broué; translated by John Archer (edited with Brian Pearce) (2005)
- Revolution in Danger – Writings from Russia 1919-20 by Victor Serge (translated from the French) London: Redwords.(1997)
References
- ^ Birchall, Ian (25 July 2007). "Sartre was an Optimist, not a Nihilist". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
- ^ "SWP crisis: Twilight of the idols - Communist Party of Great Britain". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
- ^ Ian Birchall "2013: Letter of Resignation", Grim and Dim, 15 December 2013
- ISBN 978-0-9928034-5-2.
- ^ Bennetts, Russell (25 August 2015). "Yes we scan: Poets line up for Jeremy Corbyn". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
External links
- Articles in the Marxists Internet Archive
- Profile at Comment is Free
- Tony Cliff Bibliography - the writings and works of Tony Cliff by Ian Birchall on Modkraft.dk/tidsskriftcentret
- "Grim and Dim", The website of Ian Birchall