John Riddell

Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir
Two reviews: ‘Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism’

Review by John Riddell
Luxemburg, Lenin, Levi: Rethinking revolutionary history
Part 1. John Riddell. Parts 2 and 3 below.
'Left reformism' and socialist strategy

Syriza supporters march. "Left reformists"?
John Riddell: Five precedents for understanding Egypt’s July coup

General L.G. Kornilov, Moscow, August 1917.
By John Riddell
Hugo Chávez: Tribune of world’s dispossessed/Tribuna de los desposeídos del mundo

April 15, 2013 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/America XXI -- Hugo Chávez was not only a great Bolivarian patriot; he was a tribune of the world’s dispossessed.
At an anti-imperialist conference in Cairo in 2007, I heard Chávez hailed for his solidarity with Palestinians as “a better Arab than the Arabs”; “closer to us than the Arabs that impose injustice”.
Chávez, the first Latin American president to declare himself of African descent, proclaimed in 2005, “Every day we are much more aware of the roots we have in Africa.”