Ted Grant: The Permanent Revolutionary

Ted Grant, born Isaac Blank, was an important figure in the international Marxist movement who made a significant impact on British politics. When he died all the main dailies carried extensive obituaries in recognition of this fact. This remarkable political biography by Alan Woods comprehensively covers the main events in Ted’s life and the development of his ideas, from his early family background in Johannesburg up to his death in London in 2006 at the age of 93. From his earliest youth in South Africa, Ted Grant dedicated his life to the struggle for the emancipation of the working class. Just a decade after moving to Britain in 1934 to seek broader horizons he became a leading theoretician of the Trotskyist movement, picking up where Trotsky left off after being struck down by a Stalinist assassin. Woods recounts the early days of the Fourth International and Ted’s battle to defend the ideas of Trotsky which brought him into conflict with the leaders of the International after th