Ted Grant
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Ted Grant
Ted Grant was born in South Africa in 1913. Travelling to Britain in search of broader horizons, he stopped off in Paris to talk with Leon Sedov, Trotsky's son. With Ralph Lee he formed the Workers' International League (WIL), which subsequently fused with the Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) to become the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) in 1944.
After the war, he defended Trotsky's analysis of the Soviet Union in that it was a deformed workers' state – one in which private property and capitalism had been abolished, yet where the workers did not hold political power. He argued that the so-called 'communist' countries of Eastern Europe were in fact run on the same lines as the Soviet Union, and he used the term Proletarian Bonapartism to describe them.
During the 1960s he extended the analysis to the colonial countries that had become 'communist'. He argued that the intelligentsia of these countries looked towards Stalinism as a way to develop their economies and alleviate the desperate conditions; but since the masses had not been roused on a socialist programme, the bureaucratic nature of these regimes was inevitable.
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Richard Westra
Richard Westra is Associate Professor at Pukyong National Univeristy, South Korea. He is author of Political Economy and Globalization (London: Routledge, 2009), and has published numerous articles
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Brahma Prakash
Brahma Prakash teaches at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India (
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A. B. Bardhan
Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan was a trade union leader and the former general secretary of the Communist Party of India, one of the oldest political parties in India.
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Abhishek Majumdar is the founder and artistic director of Indian Ensemble. He is a playwright and theatre director and educator with numerous plays and accolades to his credit. His playwr
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Margreet Zwarteveen
Dr. Margreet Z. Zwarteveen (born 1964) is a professor of Water Governance at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. The chair was established on behalf of the UNE
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M.K. Bhadrakumar
M.K. BHADRAKUMAR served as a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service for 3 decades, with postings including India's ambassador to Uzbekistan (1995–98) and to Turkey (1998–2001). He was al
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