Charlie Van Gelderen, the last person alive of those who attended the founding Conference of the Fourth International in September 1938, was a Trotskyist for 70 years.He died in 2001
The Memory of the Dead, better known as Ninety Eight, one of the best-known of Irish Republican songs, was first published in Thomas Davis’ paper, The Nation in 1842.
Russian and East European Stalinism collapsed in 1989-91. The battle sketched in here, between despair and nihilism on one side and, on the other, understanding and the sense of sharp responsibility, was fought out then in the minds of many socialists.
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