John Riddell is the editor of a number of books publishing the key documents and resolutions of the international revolutionary socialist movement from 1907 to 1923. Six volumes were published by Pathfinder Press under the title The Communist International in Lenin’s Time. A seventh volume, on the fourth Comintern Congress (1922), was published in the fall of 2011 as part of Brill Academic Publisher’s Historical Materialism Book Series. The eighth volume, on the Third Congress (1921), is appearing this year. This blog contains information on this project and my writings on related topics.

In this session, he addresses Communist University 2020 on the origins of the united front policy. CU is taking place live on Zoom between August 14 and August 22 2020. It is co-sponsored by the Communist Party of Great Britain (http://cpgb.org.uk) and Labour Party Marxists (http://www.labourpartymarxists.org.uk). For more information, see communistuniversity.uk. The views in these videos do not necessarily represent the views of either organisation.