Spart history (was Re: Butler on Spivak (was SZ)

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Tue Nov 23 08:14:19 PST 1999


Peter van Heusden wrote:
>If you
>want to dirt on the IBT, read 'Revolution and Truth', which >is put out by
>one of their ex-members, and is on the WWW >somewhere.

For the definitive history of every Trotskyist group and paper find, "International Trotskyism," by Robert J. Alexander, published by Duke University Press, a few years back. (Bolerium Books in San Francisco has a couple of copies for $85 in their latest catalogue at http://www.bolerium.com/ . American Labor & Radical History )It is over 1000 pages +, and is one of those books, like Wallerstein's histories of the transition from feudalism to capitalism, where the abundent footnotes are just as meaty as the text. Alexander also has a Greenwood Press book on the Lovestoneites, which while it doesn't have the verve of the new biography of Jay Lovestone by Morgan, has the virtue of having a better feel for the history of the left and labor.

For "Revolution and Truth" here is a URL. I found it a while back when on the alt.politics.socialism.trotsky newsgroup the R &T leader, Ian, was accused of assaulting a member of another group at a march in London. Back during the anti-apartheid/divestment struggles at Cal. Berkeley, the local Sparts were accused of same on members of the Black Student Union.

Michael Pugliese,

who has spent way too much time in the fields of sectariana studies(but, it makes me laugh and cry so much..)



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