The Bensaïd Reader
Party, Strategy, International: Writings 1970–1989
Strategies of Resistance (Resistance Books, 2026) and the forthcoming Politics as a Strategic Art (Haymarket Books) present Bensaïd's work on resistance to capitalism. This reader does the same for his writing on the party, on strategy and on the International: thirteen texts, about 86,000 words, none of them yet translated into English.
They come from Critique communiste, Quatrième Internationale and Inprecor, and were chosen for their use to the sections of the Fourth International today. Five also exist in Castilian, a sign that the sections were already reading them. Each title links to the work's page, where every version and the scan of the original can be found.
I. The party
~6,300 words
~10,200 words
From the 1987 LCR cadre-school course, published in full in French in Stratégie et parti (La Brèche, 1987). The strategy lecture of that course is in English as IIRE NSR 4; this one is not.
- FRCritique communiste (1re série), n° 11-12, décembre 1976 - janvier 1977 · p. 183-191 · 5,756 words
~5,800 words
II. Building a broad workers' party: Brazil's PT
~4,500 words
- FRInprecor n° 91, 15 décembre 1980 · p. 36-43 · 7,088 words · as Daniel Jebrac
- ES Brasil: Las estrechas puertas de la "liberalización" y la construcción del Partido de los Trabajadores · Inprecor n.º 19, febrero de 1981 · pp. 31-35 · 6,209 words · as Daniel Jebrac
~6,200 words
- FRInprecor n° 112, 9 novembre 1981 · p. 31-35 · 6,054 words · as Daniel Jebrac
~5,800 words
III. Permanent revolution in the South
~6,100 words
~6,800 words
- FRCritique communiste, n° 87, juillet 1989 · p. 22-30 · 5,841 words · with Sergio Rodriguez
- ES América latina: Las tormentas del Tercer Mundo · Inprecor n.º 73, diciembre de 1989 · pp. 11-18 · 6,111 words · with Sergio Rodríguez
~5,800 words
IV. Internationalism and the International
- FRCritique communiste (1re série), n° 14-15, mars-avril 1977 · p. 103-129 · 9,512 words · with Jean-Marie Freyssat
~9,500 words
~10,400 words
V. Self-organisation and new generations
~5,100 words
- FRCritique communiste, n° 59, janvier 1987 · p. 17-21 · 3,649 words
- ES La aparición de una nueva generación política · Inprecor n.º 53, abril de 1987 · pp. 24-29 · 3,864 words
~3,600 words