John Molyneux (politician)

John Molyneux (politician)

John Molyneux is a British Trotskyist and a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party. He is a senior lecturer in Historical and Theoretical Studies at the School of Art, Design and Media, University of Portsmouth.

He has been noted for writing a bulletin headed "Democracy in the SWP", which argued that, though the SWP is democratic, it needs to be more so, prompting the Communist Party of Great Britain to call him a "loyal rebel". [http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/553/swpdemocracy.htm] . In 2006 he set up a [http://johnmolyneux.blogspot.com/ "blog"] where he 'writes mainly about Marxist theory and art'.

elected bibliography

* [http://www.marxisme.dk/arkiv/molyneux/realmarx/index.htm "What is the real Marxist tradition?"]
* [http://www.swp.ie/resources/national%20lib%20movements.htm 'National Oppression and National Liberation Movements']
* Leon Trotsky's theory of revolution
* Rembrandt and Revolution - ISBN 1-872208-15-0
* The Future Socialist Society - ISBN 0-905998-60-X
* Marxism and the Party - ISBN 0-906224-28-4
* [http://www.marxists.de/theory/whatis/terror1.htm "Terrorism"]
* [http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr282/molyneux.htm "The necessity of Respect"] (2004)


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