David North

A Provocateur Attacks Trotskyism: An Analysis of SWP Leader Jack Barnes’ Speech of December 31, 1982 to the National Convention of the YSA

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An analysis of Socialist Workers Party leader Jack Barnes’ 1982 speech to the convention of the Young Socialist Alliance which repudiated Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution.

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An analysis of Socialist Workers Party leader Jack Barnes’ 1982 speech to the convention of the Young Socialist Alliance which repudiated Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution.

The SWP’s explicit repudiation of the Theory of Permanent Revolution — proclaimed by Barnes in late 1982 — vindicated the ICFI’s fight against Pabloite revisionism. In place of the struggle for the political independence of the working class, the SWP promoted bourgeois nationalist and petty-bourgeois movements such as the New Jewel movement in Grenada, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and the Farabundo Marti of El Salvador.

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David North has played a leading role in the international socialist movement for forty-five years, and is presently the chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party (US). His many published works include The Heritage We Defend; The Crisis of American Democracy; In Defense of Leon Trotsky; The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century; The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left and A Quarter Century of War.

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