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Maurice Brinton was the pen name under which Christopher Agamemnon Pallis (2 December 1923, Bombay - 10 March 2005, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
) wrote and translated for the British libertarian socialist group Solidarity
Solidarity (UK)

Solidarity was a small libertarian socialist organisation and magazine of the same name in the United Kingdom. Solidarity was close to council communism in its prescriptions and was known for its emphasis on workers' self-organisation and for its radical anti-Leninism....
 from 1960 until the early 1980s.

According to David Goodway
David Goodway

David Goodway is a British historian and a respected international authority on anarchism and libertarian socialism. A student of Eric Hobsbawm, Goodway specialised in the history of Chartism in London and his work London Chartism is an acknowledged classic work on the subject....
's introduction to a recent collection of his work:

He then dropped out of politics for a decade while he pursued his medical career, but in 1957 joined the Trotskyist group led by Gerry Healy
Gerry Healy

Thomas Gerard Healy, known as Gerry Healy, was a Trotskyist activist....
, the Club, which in 1959 became the Socialist Labour League.






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Maurice Brinton was the pen name under which Christopher Agamemnon Pallis (2 December 1923, Bombay - 10 March 2005, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
) wrote and translated for the British libertarian socialist group Solidarity
Solidarity (UK)

Solidarity was a small libertarian socialist organisation and magazine of the same name in the United Kingdom. Solidarity was close to council communism in its prescriptions and was known for its emphasis on workers' self-organisation and for its radical anti-Leninism....
 from 1960 until the early 1980s.

According to David Goodway
David Goodway

David Goodway is a British historian and a respected international authority on anarchism and libertarian socialism. A student of Eric Hobsbawm, Goodway specialised in the history of Chartism in London and his work London Chartism is an acknowledged classic work on the subject....
's introduction to a recent collection of his work:

He then dropped out of politics for a decade while he pursued his medical career, but in 1957 joined the Trotskyist group led by Gerry Healy
Gerry Healy

Thomas Gerard Healy, known as Gerry Healy, was a Trotskyist activist....
, the Club, which in 1959 became the Socialist Labour League. He was expelled by Healy in 1960 and with a group of other ex-members of the SLL immediately set up Solidarity. Like a number of other former members of the SLL he was also involved with the journal International Socialism in the early 1960s.

For the next 20 years, he combined a distinguished medical career under his real name with pseudonymous revolutionary socialist writing and translation. His work includes several eyewitness accounts of key moments in European left politics (the Belgian general strike of 1960, Paris in May 1968, Portugal Carnation Revolution
Carnation Revolution

The Carnation Revolution , also referred to as the 25 de Abril, was a left-leaning military coup started on April 25, 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarianism dictatorship to a democracy after two years of a transitional period known as PREC , characterized by social turmoil and...
 in 1974-75), a substantial body of English translations of the work of Cornelius Castoriadis
Cornelius Castoriadis

Cornelius Castoriadis was a Greeks-France philosopher, economist and psychoanalyst. Author of the The Imaginary Institution of Society, co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group and 'philosopher of autonomy'....
, the main thinker of the French group Socialisme ou Barbarie
Socialisme ou Barbarie

Socialisme ou Barbarie was a French-based radical libertarian socialist group of the post-World War II period . It existed from 1948 until 1965....
, and two short books — one (The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control, 1970) on the aftermath of the Bolshevik revolution, and one (The Irrational in Politics, 1974) on sexual politics.

The publishers of a recent online edition of The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control describe it as follows:

Chris Pallis died in March 2005; an obituary can be read on Paul Anderson's blog.

Further reading


  • Brinton, Maurice (Goodway, David ed). For Workers' Power: the selected writings of Maurice Brinton. AK Press
    AK Press

    AK Press is a workers' self-management independent publisher and book distributor that specialises in radical and anarchist literature.AK was originally founded in Stirling, Scotland by Ramsey Kanaan in 1987 as a small mail order outlet, named after his mother Ann Kanaan....
    . 2004. ISBN 1-904859-07-0


External links


  • An irreverent critic of the Bolshevik revolution (by David Goodway
    David Goodway

    David Goodway is a British historian and a respected international authority on anarchism and libertarian socialism. A student of Eric Hobsbawm, Goodway specialised in the history of Chartism in London and his work London Chartism is an acknowledged classic work on the subject....
     and Paul Lewis)