Subject: M-G: Ted Grant's "Unbroken Thread" on-line
Date: Tue, 5 May 98 17:50:30 +0000
From: <socappeal-AT-easynet.co.uk>


What's New at Socialist Appeal's "In Defence of Marxism" web site
April 29th,1998
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/IDOM.html

THE UNBROKEN THREAD
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~socappeal/TUT/

FOR OVER 60 years, TED GRANT has been the foremost figure of Trotskyism 
in Britain and internationally. In the post-war period, the effects of 
world boom, the policies of right wing Labour Party reformism and the 
degeneracy of Stalinism combined to make a massive onslaught against the 
ideas of Marxism. While Grant's contemporaries now stand on the right of 
the movement, in dusty academic circles or have sunk into obscurity, the 
articles in this collection show the clarity of Grant's understanding and 
his ability to deepen and expand the ideas of Leon Trotsky. No one 
involved in the struggle to change society and end the rule of capitalism 
and Stalinism can afford to be without this book. Nor can any serious 
student of the past 60 years, or of current affairs, afford to ignore its 
contents.

CONTENTS
(Articles marked* are major extracts from the original document.)

Section One - The War Years
Introduction
Lessons of Spain (1938)
A Reply to the RSL - Chauvinism and Revolutionary Defeatism* (June 1943)
Preparing for Power* (June 1942)
The Rise and Fall of the Communist International* (June 1943)
Why Hitler Came to Power (December 1944)

Section Two - Western Europe after the War
Introduction
The Changed Relation of Forces in Europe and the Role of the Fourth 
International (March 1945)
Democracy or Bonapartism in Europe - A Reply to Pierre Frank (August 1946)
National Democratic Revolution or Proletarian Revolution: The Tasks in 
Germany* (January 1947)
Socialism and German Rearmament* (1953)
The Rise of De Gaulle and the Class Struggle in France* (May 1958)

Section Three - Eastern Europe
Czechoslovakia - The Issues Involved (April 1948)
Against the Theory of State Capitalism (1949)
Stalinism in the Post War World (June 1951)

Section Four - The Colonial Revolution and Proletarian Bonapartism
The Chinese Revolution (January 1949)
Reply to David James* (Spring 1949)
The Colonial Revolution and the Sino-Soviet Split* (August 1964)
The Colonial Revolution and the Deformed Workers' States* (July 1978)

Section Five - The Post War Boom: Origins, Effects and Decline
Economic Perspectives 1946 (April 1946)
Marxism versus New Fabianism - Part One (November 1952)
Will There be a Slump? (1960)
World Perspectives* (1977)
World Perspectives* (1979)

Section Six - The Special Crisis of British Captitalism
Perspectives in Britain* (July 1946)
The Menace of Fascism - What it is and how to fight it* (1948)
Britain in Crisis* (September 1977)

Section Seven - The Method of Marxism
Marxism versus New Fabianism - Part Two (May 1953)
A Reply to Comrade Clifford* (1966)
Appeal against Expulsion, Labour Party Conference (September 1983)
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