Occupation: Journalist Birth: January 4, 1901 Death: May 19, 1989
In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as mu….
After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private cap….
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among hi….
The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich..
The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism ….
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships..
My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictl….
Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard tho….
Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that happiness is my tail. Theref….
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now ….
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance..
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resen….
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international rep….
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage wh….
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated..
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known..
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitali….
I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speak….
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation..
When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity..
I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I w….