Third Camp Marxism

On 28 December 2013, West Bromwich Albion strike Nicolas Anelka made an anti-Semitic “quenelle” gesture. Anelka says the gesture was an “anti-establishment” tribute to his friend, the comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala. Describing himself primarily as an “anti-Zionist”, Dieudonné has become increasingly politically associated with the fascist far-right.

Trotsky was a warrior of internationalism. He did not conclude his analyses with the tired yawn of a dilettante who has just turned out a literary essay and has nothing further to do. The organisation of groups of intelligent, devoted, and zealous men of action to carry out a programme of struggle was not the least of his preoccupations.

If your school-age son is somewhat better than clever in any field
of science, you may have heard the expression: "He's an Einstein."
It is indeed unprecedented that the name of a scientist working in
highly specialized mathematical physics has become a by-word in the
homes of his adopted land. This unique status of Albtrt Einstein rests
not only on his scientific pre-eminence but also upon his keen interest
in social and political affairs.
Dr. Einstein's great scientific works—the Special Theory- of Rela-

The following account was written by Max Shachtman for the then-revolutionary US Communist Party’s “Little Red Library” in the early 1920's.

The experience of all ages and nations demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it may appear to cost only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any ... [The slave] can have no other interest but to eat as much and to labor as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own. (Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations)

The British Center of the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe, in its London conference, October 22-23, attended by delegates or observers from local Labor Parties, the Independent Labor Party, the Commonwealth and Fabian Societies, as well as several unions and
pence organizations, produced a series of resolutions which are of importance to the world socialist movement.

• Why Labor Needs its Own Party - Towards a basic realignment in US politics
• Trade Unions and Politics - The Giant in Short Pants
• Support the Fair-Dealers? Labor and the Democrats
• Pages from Labor's History

The outbreak of the Second World War has once more put prominently at the top of the order of the day the “Russian question”. The signing of the Hitler-Stalin Pact was followed by the joint invasion of Poland; by the reduction of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to the state of vassals of the Kremlin; by the invasion and seizure of part of Finland by the Red Army; and by speculation and prediction of coming events which, a year ago, would have been waved aside as preposterous.

After 15 years, the Fianna Fail party of de Valera
came to an inglorious end in Eire and its famous
leader was put out of office. Several of our friends and
comrades in Dublin and Belfast have written to us
about the recent general election in Ireland and its
significance. Here we have put together extracts from
these various letters to give our readers a clearer pic-
ture of precisely what did happen.
The policy of the Revolutionary Socialist Party,
Irish Section of the Fourth International, was to lend

An article by Matt Merrigan in the New York "Shachtmanite" weekly, Labor Action, 19 September 1955, vol.19 no.38. The original title was "Festering Sore: the Partition of Ireland", and it was datelined "Dublin, August 24".