Jean van Heijenoort and Revue internationale

Pierre Naville editor

In 1926 Naville joined to the French Communist Party, for which he managed the
publication Clarté. He was part of a delegation which visited Leon Trotsky in Moscow
in 1927. He returned convinced by Trotsky's arguments and was expelled from the
Communist Party in 1928 for deviationism. From this point onwards he participated in
the life of the French Trotskyist extreme left and notably its publications. However, he
became less and less convinced by Trotsky's position and broke with the group in 1939.
He then organised attempts to create a Marxist left, devoid of Communist and Trotskyist
trappings, whose publication was called Revue Internationale.
Appointed director of research at the CNRS in 1947
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Naville

Revue internationale 1 December 1945-June 1946

Maurice Faure [academic then mainstream socialist politician, member of ministery 1947]
Carl Landauer ‘From Marx to Menger: recent developments in Soviet economic theory’ reprinted
from American economic review 34 (2) June 1944 pp. 340-344
George Lefebvre ‘The parliamentary regime and the republicans’
A Leontiev ‘The teaching of political economy in the USSR’ reprinted from American economic
review 34 (3) September 1944 pp. 501-530 from Pod znamenem Marksisma 7-8 1943
Gilles Martinet [de 1945 à 1950, il dirige La Revue internationale, subsequently became a leader of
the Socialist Party]
Maurice Merleau-Ponty ‘Marxisme et philosophie’ in Sense and nonsense 1961 B 2430.M379 S43
Maurice Nadeau [Trot in 1930s and possibly beyond]
Pierre Naville
Tran Duc Thao ‘Marxisme et phenomenologie’ [student of Merleau-Ponty in early 1940s, Marxist]

Revue internationale 2 Aug-Dec 1946

Paul Baran ‘New tendencies in Russian economic thought’
Charles Bettleheim ‘The American trade union movement’ 2 parts
‘On “the double character of labour”’
‘Economic laws and use value’
Raya Dunayevskaya ‘A new revision of Marxist economic theory’ (on Leonitiev’s 1944 political
economy book) reprinted from American economic review 34 (3) September 1944 pp. 531-537
Daniel Guerin ‘View on the French revolution’ preface of Bourgeois et bras-nu
Gilles Martinet ‘Bonaparte in Italy: a revolution from above’ 2 parts
Pierre Naville

Revue internationale 3 Jan-Jun 1947

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CLR James ‘The independence war on Haiti’ [Les Jacobins Noirs, Gallimard, Paris, 1949, traduit de
l’langlais par Pierre Naville]
Pierre Naville on the war in Vietnam
Fritz Sternberg ‘The crisis of civilisation after WWII’

Revue internationale 3 July-December 1947

stuff on Vietnamese independence struggle
CLR James ‘The independence war on Haiti’
Gilles Martinet ‘From Trotsky to Burnham’ see
http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1948/08/trotsky.htm
Jacques Sadoul ‘Notes on the Bolshevik revolution’ [Sadoul a Stalinist in his Naissance de
l'U.R.S.S. De la Nuit Feodale a l'Aube Socialiste 1946]
Paul Sweezy ‘Les illusion de la “revolution directoriale”’ reprinted from Science & society 6 (1)
1942 ‘The illusion of the managerial revolution’