Lawrence Parker

Lawrence Parker is a Marxist historian. His area of expertise is the old CPGB (1920-91) and he has produced monographs on the CPGB’s post-1945 left oppositions and the National Left-Wing Movement of the 1920s.
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Reintroducing John Dos Passos

Lawrence Parker, March 2, 2022

Lawrence Parker introduces a 1938 New Masses article by Granville Hicks on US writer John Dos Passos and argues that the latter’s work is ripe for re-appropriation and re-examination by the revolutionary left. Read Article.

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Just Another Kautsky Fan: Understanding the Early Stalin

Lawrence Parker, November 24, 2020

Interpreting Stalin’s fledgling revolutionary career through his later status as a brutal labor dictator obscures an early whole-hearted admiration for the works of Kautsky and Lenin. By Lawrence Parker. Read Article.

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Workers and Writers: The Communist Novel in Britain

Lawrence Parker, August 14, 2020

The history of the British communist novel is ultimately the story of the political degeneration of the Communist Party of Great Britain. By Lawrence Parker. Reading: LC. Read Article.