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Jack Barnes (1940– ) is national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. He joined the SWP in May 1961 and has been a member of the party’s National Committee since 1963 and a national officer since 1968. Since the mid-1970s Barnes has led the political course of the SWP and...
Jack Barnes (1940– ) is national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. He joined the SWP in May 1961 and has been a member of the party’s National Committee since 1963 and a national officer since 1968.
Since the mid-1970s Barnes has led the political course of the SWP and its sister parties worldwide to build communist parties whose members and leaders in their large majority are workers and unionists organizing workers to forge and strengthen trade unions and lead the working class and its allies toward a successful socialist revolution.
Barnes is a contributing editor of New International magazine and author of numerous books and articles on revolutionary working-class politics and the communist movement. His writings include:
The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party (2019)
Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power (2009)
Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? Class, Privilege, and Learning Under Capitalism (2016)
The Clintons’ Anti-Working-Class Record: Why Washington Fears Working People (2016)
"The Stewardship of Nature Also Falls to the Working Class: In Defense of Land and Labor," in New International no. 14 (2008, coauthor)
Cuba and the Coming American Revolution (2007)
Their Trotsky and Ours (2002)
"US Imperialism Has Lost the Cold War" in New International no. 11 (1998)
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