Paul Le Blanc

Paul Le Blanc, Professor of History at La Roche College, has been active in various movements for social change since 1965. He is co-author with Michael Yates of A Freedom Budget for All Americans: Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement for Economic Justice Today (Monthly Review Press, 2013), which won a Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Text. His most recent books are a biography, Leon Trotsky (Reaktion Books, 2015), hailed by Choice as "a unique biography . . . a highly educated treatise . . . Highly recommended," and a study of the Russian Revolution entitled October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy 1917-1924 (Haymarket Books, 2017), which has been widely recognized as providing an important new synthesis. From 1990 to 2005 he was the editor of the Humanities Press/Humanity Books series “Revolutionary Studies,” which produced twenty-five volumes. Among his own more than thirty books are Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism (Routledge, 2011); Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience: Studies of Communism and Radicalism in the Age of Globalization (Routledge, 2006); A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Humanity, 1999); From Marx to Gramsci (Humanities Press, 1996); and Lenin and the Revolutionary Party (Humanities Press, 1990). Le Blanc is currently the general editor of a massive six-volume documentary collection "Dissident Marxism in the United States" for Brill, of which four volumes have already been published (all being due to appear in paperback through Haymarket Books). He was an editor of the eight-volume International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest (Wiley, 2009) and is on the editorial board of the Verso project to publish the complete works of Rosa Luxemburg, serving as co-editor of two of its projected 14 volumes. He has also edited volumes of writings by Lenin, Luxemburg and Trotsky for Pluto Press, for which he also serves as co-editor of the “Revolutionary Lives” series.