Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Arguments for Socialists
By Daniel Randall
If we are unable to confront reactionary ideas in our own movement, we will always be inhibited in pursuing our ultimate aim: the socialist transformation of society.’
Daniel Randall’s book is a socialist analysis of left antisemitism, which asks: ‘How did the political left, a movement apparently committed to equality, become a site of antisemitism, and how can antisemitism on the left be overcome?
Randall traces left antisemitism’s origins to primitive critiques of capitalism that conflated Jews with capital; Stalinism’s “anti-cosmopolitan” and “anti-Zionist” campaigns of the 1950s onwards; and a form of “anti-imperialism” which designates any opposition to western imperialism, including Israel, as necessarily progressive.
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About Daniel Randall
Daniel Randall is a railway worker, trade union representative, and socialist activist based in London. He is a member of the Labour Party, and a supporter of the revolutionary socialist group Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL).
He has written extensively about antisemitism on the left, and edited the pamphlet Left Antisemitism: What it is and How to Fight it.
This is the second original title published by No Pasaran Media and comes as debates about the response to antisemitism in the Labour Party continue, and after a spike in antisemitic incidents following an escalation of violence in Israel/Palestine in May 2021.
This is the second original title published by No Pasaran Media and comes as debates about the response to antisemitism in the Labour Party continue, and after a spike in antisemitic incidents following an escalation of violence in Israel/Palestine in May 2021.