I have just read and reviewed your new book, The Well-Dressed Revolutionary: The Odyssey of Michel Pablo in an Age of Uprisings. The most notable aspect of this book, which is supposed to be a critical look at Michel Pablo, is the fact that you book contains nothing from the orthodox Trotskyists who are members of the International Committee of the Fourth International.
From even a cursory look at your endnotes, it is clear that
you have done considerable research on your subject matter. Yet you have ignored
not only David North’s The Heritage We Defend and the journals produced by the
ICFI during the 1985 split with the Workers Revolutionary Party, but also none
of the members of the Socialist Labour League, such as Gerry Healy, are
mentioned in the book.
You have also chosen to ignore the substantial writings on Pablo
and the 1953 split in the Fourth International contained in the pages of the
wsws.org
I will list a few
1.
The Origins of Pabloite Revisionism, the Split
Within the Fourth International and the Founding of the International Committee-https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/08/19/fvfj-a19.html
2.
The continuing struggle against Pabloism, the
centrism of the OCI and the emerging crisis within the ICFI-.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/06/ohpu-s06.html
3. Wohlforth’s renegacy, the renewal of the struggle against Pabloism in the Workers League, and the turn to the working class-https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/13/wohl-s13.html
I found these three articles after three minutes of
searching the wsws.org. I doubt you are a lazy person, so I will attribute your lack of interest to a political blindness you have when it comes to studying
orthodox Trotskyism.
