Paul LeBlanc, author of Lenin and the Revolutionary Party, one of the best studies of the Russian Revolution, visited Sydney to speak at the organising for 21st Century Socialism Seminar organised by Socialist Alliance and held at the Resistance Centre in Ultimo on June 8, 2013. Text of this talk is at: http://links.org.au/node/3394

Daniel Singer & Ernest Mandel Ph.D (05-22-91). About Daniel Singer. Daniel Singer was born on September 26, 1926, in Warsaw, was educated in France, Switzerland and England and died on December 2, 2000, in Paris. He was a contributor to The Economist, The New Statesman, the Tribune and The Nation (where he was Europe correspondent for twenty years), and appeared as a commentator on NPR, "Monitor Radio" and the BBC, as well as Canadian and Australian broadcasting. (These credits are for his English-language work; he was also fluent in French, Polish, Russian and Italian.) He was the author of Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968 (Hill & Wang, 1970) (recently reissued), The Road to Gdansk: Eastern Europe on the Move (Monthly Review Press, 1981), Is Socialism Doomed?: The Meaning of Mitterrand (Oxford, 1988) and Whose Millennium? Theirs or Ours? (Monthly Review Press, 1999). The Introduction to Whose Millennium? includes additional words penned only days before the author's passing. Whose Millennium? is available in several translations, with more to come. A specialist on the Western European left as well as the former Communist nations, Singer ranged across the Continent in his dispatches to The Nation. Singer sharply critiqued Western-imposed economic "shock therapy" in the former Eastern Bloc and US support for Boris Yeltsin, sounded early warnings about the re-emergence of Fascist politics into the Italian mainstream and, across the Mediterranean, reported on an Algeria sliding into civil war. & Ernest Ezra Mandel, also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter etc. (April 5, 1923 - July 20, 1995) was a democratic Marxist theorist. Born in Frankfurt, Mandel was recruited to the Belgian section of the international Trotskyist movement, the Fourth International, in his youth in Antwerp. His parents, Henri and Rosa Mandel, were Jewish emigres from Poland, the former a member of Rosa Luxemburg's and Karl Liebknecht's Spartacist League. Ernest's entrance to university studies was cut short when the German occupying forces closed the university down. During World War II, he escaped twice after being arrested in the course of resistance activities, and survived imprisonment in the German concentration camp at Dora. After the war, he became a leader of both the Belgian Trotskyists and the youngest member of the Fourth International secretariat, alongside Michel Pablo and others. He gained respect as a prolific journalist with a clear and lively style, as an orthodox Marxist theoretician, and as a talented debater. He wrote for numerous media outlets in the 1940s and 1950s including Het Parool, Le Peuple, l'Observateur and Agence France-Presse. At the height of the Cold War he publicly defended the merits of Marxism in debate with the social democrat and future Dutch premier Joop den Uyl.

Ernest Mandel Speaks! A Man Called Ernest Mandel (1972) an interview with Frans Buyens with English subtitles. Revolutionary Marxist and leading intellectual and activist of post-WWII Trotskyism, Ernest Mandel is interviewed on a wide range of practical and theoretical considerations on the prospects of working-class revolutionary transformations.

A documentary by Chris Den Hond (90 minutes, 2005). Ernest Mandel was one of the most innovative Marxist thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century. He was a "professional revolutionary" who invested all his energy, knowledge and vast personal culture in the struggle for socialism and in the building of a revolutionary party and the Fourth International. This documentary looks back at Mandel's life and 60 years of struggles: from the Civil War in Spain to the fall of the Berlin Wall, with segments on Algeria, Che Guevara, Vietnam, the 1960-1961 Belgian general strike, May 68, Portugal, Chile, feminism, workers control, the Sandinistas and more.

Entrevista con Josep Maria Antentas, profesor de sociología en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, sobre la figura de Daniel Bensaïd, reconocido pensador y activista de la izquierda. Entrevista realizada el 20 de enero de 2011 por Oriol Sabata.

Daniel Bensaid | Filme homenagem | Parte 1/2 Nascido em Toulouse em 1946, Daniel Bensaïd foi um teórico e militante do movimento trotskista que ajudou a fundar a Liga Comunista Revolucionária, após o movimento de Maio 68 no qual participou activamente. Publicou várias obras, colaborou nas revistas Critique Communiste e ContreTemps, participou na criação da Fundação Louise Michel e foi professor de filosofia na universidade de Paris. Faleceu a 12 de Janeiro de 2010.