An Unrepentant '68er's Life
Book Review
Mann, Keith
http://solidarity-us.org/atc/196/review-daniel-bensad/
Date Written: 2018-09-01
Publisher: Against the Current
Year Published: 2018
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX23412
Review of an autobiographical book by May 1968 figure Daniel Bensaïd.
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An Impatient Life
By Daniel Bensaïd
Translated by David Fernbach
Foreword by Tariq Ali
Verso Books, 2013 and 2015, 392 pages, $19.95 paperback.
Bensaïd was an early leader of what would become the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), French section of the Fourth International. He became widely known in France as one of the leaders of the student revolt of May 1968 that preceded the June general strike in which over seven million workers participated.
This book was first published in French in 2004 by Editions Stock under the title Une lente Impatience.
The political center of the book (and of his life) is Bensaïd’s experiences as an activist and leader of the LCR and the Fourth International and his deep involvement with the Latin American Left, particularly the Argentinian, Brazilian and Mexican from the 1970s on.
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