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- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Transforming State Power
- Social Democratic Routes in Europe
- Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas, and Asia
- Worldwide Connections
- Southern Trajectories
- Left Socialisms
- 23 The London Bureau
- 24 European Left Socialist Parties since the 1950s
- 25 The New Left as a Global Current since the Late 1950s
- Part II Transversal Perspectives
- Index
- References
23 - The London Bureau
from Left Socialisms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2022
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Transforming State Power
- Social Democratic Routes in Europe
- Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas, and Asia
- Worldwide Connections
- Southern Trajectories
- Left Socialisms
- 23 The London Bureau
- 24 European Left Socialist Parties since the 1950s
- 25 The New Left as a Global Current since the Late 1950s
- Part II Transversal Perspectives
- Index
- References
Summary
The Bolshevik revolutionary Leo Trotsky had an entirely negative judgement about the London Bureau: ‘A very deceptive community of interests without any content, without any perspective, without any future’.1 The Black Caribbean revolutionary George Padmore came to a very different opinion: the London Bureau meant ‘hope and courage to the oppressed coloured races’.2 The London Bureau was the short name used for an international organization of independent socialist parties existing between 1930 and 1939. Its secretariat was located most of the time in London, hence the name London Bureau. Founded August 1930 as the International Association, in 1933 it became the International Committee of Independent, Left Socialist Revolutionary Parties. In 1935 it changed its name to the International Bureau for Revolutionary Socialist Unity. The Bureau dissolved in 1939 to be succeeded by the International Revolutionary Marxist Centre (IRMC).
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- The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 542 - 560Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022