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The
Trust was founded in 1980 by Norman Melburn and
named for his friend and fellow Marxist, the lawyer
Barry Amiel. Both men are now commemorated in
the name of the Trust, following Norman Melburn's
death in 1991.
The general objectives of the Trust are to advance
public education, learning and knowledge in all
aspects of
(a) the philosophy of Marxism
(b) the history of socialism, and
(c) the working class movement.
The trustees have adopted the following statement
as a working translation of the Trust's objectives:
Marxism is not a fixed interpretation of history
and society but a critical method which generates
a different critique in different periods and
situations.[more]
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My
father Barry Amiel and his friend Norman Melburn
were two ordinary men. The fact that there is
a Trust in their names is a tribute to them and
their combined one hundred years of political
activity. It also befits the Trust’s prime
objective of sharing a Marxian understanding of
the world with ordinary men and women everywhere,
as a prerequisite for changing it.
Both sons of Jewish shopkeepers in London’s
East End, Barry and Norman were – like many
thousands of others - brought to Marxism and communism
by the extraordinary events of the 1930s and 40s:
the rise of fascism; its thwarting on the streets
of London; its triumph in the Spanish Civil War;
and its eventual overthrow worldwide in 1945.[more]
Stephen Amiel September 2004 |
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