This was really interresting. I am tending to where you were thirty years ago. I'm certainly a Marxist-Leninist who agrees with Lev Davidovich but am quite weary about the myriad Trotskyist groups, splits, Schatmanites, sate capitalists.... It really seems almost impossible to find a place where I could contribute to the kind of radical work which my convictions and learning drive me to do. My theory is leading me to revolutionary practice.
PS I have a soft spot for Fidel also.
Can you post a link the the review - here or at Marxmail?
I have learned that the article will eventually be available online, but unfortunately not for a year according to this report on Marxmail:
The article by Ian Birchall that Louis was reviewing does actually mention Arlette L. On behalf of the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL) I've asked both Ian Birchall, the author, and Sebastien Budgen, editor of "Historical Materialism" (the journal in which it appears), for permission to put it on-line in ETOL. Ian has agreed, but Sebastien has asked us to wait for about 12 months, the expected sales life of the print version of the journal.
Einde O'Callaghan
Wonderful review.
Stora is an excellent historian, though I had no idea he was a one-time Lambertiste militant. I saw him at a talk on the 60th anniversary of the Setif massacres, and he gave the PCF-filled room a piece of his mind about the party's appropriation of that struggle--considering the PCF had voted for budget increases to fight the French war against Algerian Independence.
I'm not for sectarianism, but it had to be said.
Can't wait to read the book.
That final comment was dreadfully sectarian. Of course I support and admire Cuba's history of standing up to imperialism, but slavishly "hooking up with governments" is very far from a revolutionary attitude.
I believe Bensaïd was referring to a clampdown on dissidents and recourse to the death penalty a few years ago in Cuba - which was VERY distressing to many committed leftists including militants from the trade unions and various branches of the former Communist Party in Ialy. Since then, the situation has improved considerably in Cuba, for "Trotskyist" reasons - the expansion of anticapitalist movements to Venezuela and Bolivia etc, making Cuba much less isolated - and less Stalinist.
Sorry, the above was a bit unclear. I meant the final comment in Mr Proyect's posting, against Birchall and Bensaïd.
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