Socialist Historians Bibliography
Ian Birchall
Areas of interest include: Comintern, International Working Class, Communism and Trotskyism, France and Syndicalism, Babeuf, Sartre, Victor Serge, and Rosmer, Biography of Tony Cliff (Ygael Gluckstein)
Books
With T Cliff, France: The Struggle Goes On,(International Socialism, 1968)
Workers Against the Monolith, (Pluto, 1974)
Bailing Out the System, (Bookmarks, 1986)
The Spectre of Babeuf, (Macmillan, 1997)
Assistant Editor with Barbara Read, Flowers and Revolution: A Collection of Writings on Jean Genet(Middlesex University Press, 1997).
Sartre Against Stalinism, Berghahn, 2004.
Translations
Translated, edited and wrote introduction for:
Alfred Rosmer, Lenin's Moscow, (Pluto, 1971), (second edition, Bookmarks, 1987)
Victor Serge: Revolution in Danger,(Redwords, 1997)
Victor Serge, Witness to the German Revolution(Redwords, 2000)
Articles in Books
'Camus contre Sartre: quarante ans plus tard', in D Walker (ed.), Albert Camus: Les extremes et l'equilibre,(Rodopi, 1994)
When the Revolution Had to Stop', inThe French Experience from Republic to Monarchy, 1792-1824(Palgrave, 2000)
'The Success and Failure of the Comintern', in Renton D & Flett K (eds.), A Century of Wars and Revolutions: Essays in Twentieth Century History (Rivers Oram, 2000)
'The "reluctant Bolsheviks": Victor Serge's and Alfred's Rosmer's encounter with Leninism', in Barker C, Johnson A & Lavalette M (eds.), Leadership and social movements, (Manchester UP, 2001)
‘Alfred Rosmer and the Red International of Labour Unions’ in New Approaches to Socialist History, (ed. K Flett & D Renton), New Clarion Press, 2003
Articles in Journals
'Sartre and Gauchisme', Journal of European Studies XIX (1989)
'The Labourism of Sisyphus: Albert Camus and Revolutionary Syndicalism',Journal of European StudiesXX , (1990)
'Des Marteaux materiels', French Studies, XLIV/3, (1990)
'Voltaire and Brecht', British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 14/1, (1991)
'Sartre's Encounter with Daniel Guerin', Sartre Studies International, 2/1, (1996)
'The Babeuf Centenary: Conspiracy or Revolutionary Party?', International Socialism, 2/72 (1996)
'Morris, Bax and Babeuf, Journal of the William Morris Society, Mill, (1996)
'The Vendome Defence Strategy', British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 20/2 (1997)
'Babeuf and the Oppression of Women', British Journalfor Eighteenth-Century Studies,20/1, (1997)
'Prequel to the Heidegger Debate', Radical Philosophy,No 88 (March-April 1998)
'Socialism or Identity Politics', Sartre Studies International,4/2, (1998)
'Neither Washington nor Moscow? The Rise and Fall of the Rassemblement Democratique Revolutionnaire', Journal of European Studies,XXIX,(1999)
'Romain Rolland' Historical Materialism,No 6, (2000)
‘Zola for the Twentieth Century’, International Socialism 96, Autumn 2002
‘Morris, Bax et Babeuf’, Etudes Babouvistes, No. 1, 2002 (translation of item previously published in Journal of the William Morris Society, XII/I)
Review article on books by Le Goff and Filoche on the French left after 1968, Historical Materialism, 10/2, 2002
‘The Kiss of Death’ (review article on Bernard-Henri Lévy, Le Siècle de Sartre), Historical Materialism, 10/3, 2002
‘Zola and the War Against Terrorism’, Bulletin of the Emile Zola Society, No 25, April 2002
‘The Enigma of Kersausie: Engels in June 1848’, Revolutionary History, 8/2, 2002
‘Michael Kidron (1930-2003)’, International Socialism 99, Summer 2003
Review article on books by Maillard, Riviale and Soublin on Babeuf and neo-Babouvism, Historical Materialism, 11/1, 2003
Review article on Susan Weissman, Victor Serge, Historical Materialism, 11/3, 2003
‘Can a Communist Write a Novel? The Case of Jean Kanapa’, Sartre Studies International, 9/1, 2003.
‘When Rosmer reviewed Cliff’, International Socialism 103, Summer 2004
Many of the publications listed in this bibliography can be obtained from Bookmarks, the TUC and Socialist online book service