Daniel Bensaid - Socialist Resistance

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He was one of the founders of the JCR (Revolutionary Communist Youth) and ... (Revolutionary Communist League), and beca
Daniel Bensaid (1946 – 2010)

Memorial meeting Tuesday 9 February 7.30 – ULU, Malet St, WC1 Speakers: Gilbert Achcar, Terry Conway SR, Alex Callinicos SWP, Stathis Kouvelakis NPA Daniel Bensaid was one of the leaders of the May 68 movement. He was one of those people who had an inherent sense for political initiatives. He grasped the dynamic of the link between the student movement and general strike, and understood the necessity for a revolutionary socialist organization. He was one of the founders of the JCR (Revolutionary Communist Youth) and the LCR (Revolutionary Communist League), and became part of its leadership and that of the Fourth International until the early 1990s. In the struggle, Daniel combined political principles with openness and a rejection of sectarianism. A good part of his theoretical and political work was focused on questions of strategy, and the lessons of the main historical revolutionary experiences. From the 1990s, he concentrated on theoretical work: the history of political ideas, Marx’s Capital, the balance sheet of the twentieth century and its revolutions starting with the Russian revolution, ecology, feminism, identity politics and the Jewish question. He developed new policies and strategies for the revolutionary left faced with capitalist globalisation. Daniel developed the historical continuity of open, non-dogmatic, revolutionary Marxism and adaptated to the changes of the new era, with always the perspective of revolutionary transformation of society in his sights. Although many “68ers” abandoned the ideals of their youth, Daniel abandoned none of them. He didn’t change. He is still with us. www.socialistresistance.org - [email protected] - PO box 62732, London, SW2 9GQ