Chris Harman
Chris Harman ( born November 8, 1942 † November 7, 2009 in Cairo ) was a British journalist and political activist. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (SWP ) and editor of the magazine International Socialism and Socialist Worker.
Life
Harman's family belonged to the working class. Even as a high school student in Watford, he joined the Trotskyist Socialist Review Group, the predecessor of the International Socialists (IS). From 1962 to 1965 he attended the University of Leeds and then the London School of Economics (LSE ), where he held a unfinished doctoral thesis began with Ralph Miliband. He helped to publish the agitator, the journal of the Socialist Society of the LSE. In 1968, he was a leading member of the IS and involved in the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. This outraged many left-wing radicals, as Harman at a meeting in London's Conway Hall the South Place Ethical Society, the Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh accused the leader of the Vietnamese Trotskyist movement Ta Thu Thau in 1945 after the suppression of the uprising of the workers in Saigon to have murdered.
Harman had for the IS and SWP primarily as a theorist and created a number of books and articles on a wide range of topics. Nearly all his writings appeared in publications of the IS or SWP or related publishers such as bookmark. Harman was 1976-1977, the first editor of Socialist Worker and practiced this activity again from 1982 to 2004, when he began so that International Socialism Journal issue, the theoretical quarterly journal of the SWP.
His work The First Last Time on May 1968 in France and other uprisings of workers and students in the 1960s, has been commended by the rock band Rage Against the Machine in Cover Text their album Evil Empire reading.
Due to its cooperation with the established in the UK in 2004 Respect Party, with which he, Harman is the positive reception of the coup d'etat of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip Split has also been criticized by representatives of the Third Camp Trotskyist flow.
Harman died on November 7, 2009 following a cardiac arrest during a lecture on the Socialist Days conference of the Center for Socialist Studies in Cairo.
Works (selection)
- Education, capitalism and the student revolt in 1968
- Russia: How the Revolution Was Lost, 19671, 1974 German: Russia and the revolution failed 19771, 3rd Edition 1989
- German: 1968: A world in turmoil, from the English by Rosemarie Nünning, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 3-934536-13-1
- German: Revolutionary newspaper eV from the English by Stefan Bornost, Edited by Danijela Cenan, VGZA, Edition aurora, Frankfurt 1998
- German: The madness of the market economy, 1999
- German: This is Marxism, 19871, 4th edition 1998
- German: The Lost Revolution: Germany 1918-23, VGZA eV, Frankfurt 1998
- German: Islamic Fundamentalism, 2002