David North (socialist)

David North
Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party
Assumed office
August 2008
National SecretaryJoseph Kishore
Preceded byPosition established
Personal details
Born
David Green

1950 (age 73–74)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation
  • Lecturer
  • Author
  • Activist

David North (born 1950)[1] is an American Marxist, who has been active in the international Trotskyist movement since 1971. He is currently the National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States (SEP),[2] formerly the Workers League. He served as the National Secretary of the SEP until the party's congress in 2008.[3]

North is the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site,[4] the publication of the International Committee of the Fourth International. The author of several books and articles on the history of the Socialist movement, North lectures in politics[5] and the history of Marxism[6] both in the United States and internationally.[7][8]

  1. ^ Vesper, Karlen (January 2, 2018). "Socialism is coming back". Neues Deutschland. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
  2. ^ Saccarelli, Emanuele (2017). "Book review: The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left: A Marxist Critique by David North". Critical Sociology. 43 (4–5): 799–802. doi:10.1177/0896920517699161. S2CID 151862205.
  3. ^ Socialist Equality Party holds founding Congress
  4. ^ Wakabayashi, Daisuke (September 26, 2017). "As Google Fights Fake News, Voices on the Margins Raise Alarm". New York Times. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
  5. ^ "The Crisis in American Democracy..."
  6. ^ Preface to a D. North lecture "Marxism and the Trade Unions"
  7. ^ Woutas, Aidan (October 23, 2018). "Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party talks future of ideology, populism". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved September 12, 2023.
  8. ^ Ltd, TheGridNet. "Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo receives widespread responses at wsws.org". The İstanbul Grid. Retrieved September 12, 2023.

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