| Henryk Grossman Henryk Grossmanalternative spellingHenryk Grossmann (April 14 1881 - November 24 1950), was a Polish-German economist and historian of Jewish descent. Born Kraków, Grossman studied economics and law in Kraków and Vienna. In 1925 he joined the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. He left Germany in the 1930s and returned to become Professor of Political Economy at Leipzig University in 1949. Henryk_Grossman
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| Daniel Bensaïd Daniel Bensaïd (born 1946 in Toulouse) is philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He became a leading figure in the student revolt of 1968, while studying at the University of Paris X: Nanterre.Alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, Bensaïd is now a leading theorist of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire and the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, and a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. Daniel_Bensaïd
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| Michael Kidron Michael Kidron (1930-2003) was a revolutionary thinker and cartographer. He was part of the leadership of the International Socialists (forerunners of the SWP) through the 1960s and 1970s. He is perhaps best remembered for his visually arresting The State Of The World Atlas. Michael_Kidron
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| Alex Callinicos Alexander Theodore Callinicos (born 24 July 1950 in Southern Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe) is a Trotskyist political theorist, a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party, and is Director of the Centre for European Studies at King's College London. Alex_Callinicos
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| C. L. R. James Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. He was influential in the United Kingdom and the United States in socialist parties and Marxist thought, as well as leading ideas about the end of colonialism. C._L._R._James
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| Respect – The Unity Coalition Respect – The Unity Coalition is a left wing political party in England and Wales founded on 25 January 2004 in London. Its name is an acronym standing for Respect, Equality, Socialism, Peace, Environmentalism, Community, and Trade Unionism. It is often referred to simply as Respect or as the Respect Party. Respect_–_The_Unity_Coalition
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| Mulk Raj Anand Mulk Raj Anand (December 12, 1905 – September 28, 2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R.K. Narayan, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an international readership.Born in Peshawar, he studied at Khalsa College, Amritsar, before moving to England where he attended University College London as an undergraduate and later Cambridge University, graduating with a PhD in 1929. Mulk_Raj_Anand
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| New Left Review The New Left Review is a political journal, founded in 1960 in the UK after the editors of the New Reasoner and the Universities and Left Review merged their boards. The Universities and Left Review had expressed opposition to the Suez War in 1956; it rejected the dominant 'revisionism' within the Labour Party, and developed a cultural critique of consumer capitalism. New_Left_Review
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| Chris Harman Chris Harman is the editor of International Socialism, a former editor of Socialist Worker and a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party.From a working class background, Harman attended the London School of Economics where he joined the International Socialists. Chris_Harman
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| Imagined communities The imagined community is a concept coined by Benedict Anderson which states that a nation is a community socially constructed, which is to say imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of that group. Anderson's book, Imagined Communities, in which he explains the concept in depth, was published in 1983. Imagined_communities
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| Lindsey German Lindsey German (born 1951) is the convenor of the British anti-war organisation Stop the War Coalition and a former member of the central committee of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party. She was editor of Socialist Review for twenty years until 2004. She has twice stood as a left wing candidate for Mayor of London, coming fifth in 2004 and most recently standing as the Left List mayoral candidate in the May 2008 elections. She has written several books, including two on women. Lindsey_German
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| Chris Bambery Chris Bambery is the editor of Socialist Worker and a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party. Originally from Edinburgh he began his political career as a member of the International Marxist Group in 1972. After leaving Edinburgh University, where he had been Vice President of the Students Representative Council, he became a full time organiser for the IMG in Glasgow in 1978-79 but left that organisation in May 1979 joining the Socialist Workers Party seven months later. Chris_Bambery
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| International Socialism (journal) International Socialism (ISJ) is a quarterly journal of socialist theory published by the British Socialist Workers Party and currently edited by Chris Harman.The current journal is the second series following an earlier series which ran from 1960 to 1977 publishing a total of 104 issues. International_Socialism_(journal)
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| Marxist historiography Marxist or historical materialist historiography is a school of historiography influenced by Marxism. The chief tenets of Marxist historiography are the centrality of social class and economic constraints in determining historical outcomes. Marxist historiography has made contributions to the history of the working class, oppressed nationalities, and the methodology of history from below. Marxist_historiography
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| Mike Davis (scholar) Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. Mike_Davis_(scholar)
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| Nick Cohen Nick Cohen is a British journalist, author, and political commentator. He is currently a columnist for The Observer and the TV critic for the magazine Standpoint. He used to write for the Evening Standard and the New Statesman, until he departed and sued the magazine. Nick_Cohen
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| LGBT history LGBT history refers to the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender peoples and cultures around the world, dating back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love and sexuality of ancient civilizations. What survives of many centuries' persecution resulting in shame, suppression, and secrecy has only recently been pursued and interwoven into historical narrative. A handful of countries, the first in 1994, have regularly celebrated an LGBT History Month. LGBT_history
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| Marxists Internet Archive Marxists Internet Archive (also known as MIA or Marxists.org) is a volunteer based non-profit organization that maintains a multi-lingual Internet archive of Marxist writers and other similar authors (socialists, anarchists, etc.). Marxists_Internet_Archive
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| José Carlos Mariátegui José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira (14 June 1894 16 April 1930) was a Peruvian journalist, political philosopher, and activist. A prolific writer before his early death at age 35, he is considered one of the most influential Latin American socialists of the 20th century. José_Carlos_Mariátegui
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