Name Ian Birchall | Role Author | |
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Books Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Ti, A Rebel's Guide to Lenin, Sartre Against Stalinism, The spectre of Babeuf, Bailing out the system | ||
Lessons of the german revolution john rose and ian birchall
Ian Birchall (born 1939) is a British Marxist historian and translator, a former member of the Socialist Workers Party and author of numerous articles and books, particularly relating to the French Left. Formerly Senior Lecturer in French at Middlesex University, his research interests include the Comintern, the International Working Class, Communism and Trotskyism, France and Syndicalism, Babeuf, Sartre, Victor Serge and Alfred Rosmer. He is on the editorial board of Revolutionary History, a member of the London Socialist Historians Group and has completed a biography of Tony Cliff.
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- Lessons of the german revolution john rose and ian birchall
- Debating the german revolution 1918 23 ian birchall tony phillips and john rose
- Selected articlesworks
- Works translatededited
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In 2013, Birchall joined opposition to the SWP Central Committee during the internal crisis over allegations of rape and resigned from the organisation in December.
In August 2015, Birchall was one of 20 authors of Poets for Corbyn, an anthology of poems endorsing Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.