Dave Renton: Socialism From Below - Writings From an Unfinished Tradition
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Argumentative, contentious and thought-provoking, these collected articles
invite us to critically reconnect as a diaspora to the IS tradition – not only
of Cliff or Harman, but also Hallas, Kidron, Sedgwick, MacIntyre, Harris,
Widgery, Higgins and many others, many unsung. This is the extension of an
invitation to reconnect not as a lifeless antiquarian exercise or arrogant exclusivism
but in the spirit of the critical slogan ‘the IS tradition is dead! Long
Live the IS tradition!’
Jules Alford
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