David North

Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where...

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Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where...

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The claim made by Beatty that Healy told lies about his childhood experiences is decisively refuted. But beyond exposing Beatty's malicious hack work, Tom Scripps' historical essay is a fascinating and moving exploration of the fate of one family in a period of violent political upheavals.

Thomas Scripps of the WSWS Inter'l Editorial Board, has written a detailed and carefully sourced account [posted below] of Gerry Healy's family and the political situation during his childhood. Scripps' work exposes Beatty's falsification of the historical record. 1/

Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where...

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

YouTube video by World Socialist Web Site Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books

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YouTube video by World Socialist Web Site Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state

The November 20th webinar sponsored by the World Socialist Web Site (@WSWS_Updates) analyzed the cabinet being assembled by Trump. The selection of extreme right-wingers, including outright fascists, marks a new stage in the collapse of US democracy.
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Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s <em>The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism</em> Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.

This is my review of Aidan Beatty's hack biography of Gerry Healy. Beatty's exercise in political slander was commissioned by the DSA, of which he is a member, and financed by pro-Zionist institutions. From the standpoint of historical scholarship, the book is worthless.
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Aidan Beatty’s hackwork: The Israel-Zionist connection The academic career of prominent DSA member Aidan Beatty, the author of a slanderous trash biography of long-time Trotskyist leader Gerry Healy, has been funded by Zionist institutions and Israeli-sta...

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"Aidan Beatty's hackwork: The Israel-Zionist connection", posted on the WSWS, is a devastating exposure of the political origin and purpose of his slanderous pseudo-biography of long-time Trotskyist leader Gerry Healy. This essay is critical reading.