David North (socialist)

David North
Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party
Assumed office
August 2008
National SecretaryJoseph Kishore
Preceded byPosition established
Personal details
Born1950 (age 73–74)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation
  • Lecturer
  • Author
  • Activist
  • Businessman

David North (born in 1950)[1] is an American Marxist, who has been active in the international Trotskyist movement since 1971. He is currently the National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States (SEP),[2] formerly the Workers League. He served as the National Secretary of the SEP until the party's congress in 2008.[3]

North is the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site,[4] the publication of the International Committee of the Fourth International. The author of several books and articles on the history of the Socialist movement, North lectures in politics[5] and the history of Marxism[6] both in the United States and internationally.[7][8] During his professional career, he was also CEO of the Metro Detroit-based Grand River Printing and Imaging Inc., winning the "Best Places to Work" award from Crain's Detroit Business magazine in 2003.[9][10]

  1. ^ Vesper, Karlen (January 2, 2018). "Socialism is coming back". Neues Deutschland. Retrieved September 19, 2024.
  2. ^ Saccarelli, Emanuele (2017). "Book review: The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left: A Marxist Critique by David North". Critical Sociology. 43 (4–5): 799–802. doi:10.1177/0896920517699161. S2CID 151862205.
  3. ^ Socialist Equality Party holds founding Congress
  4. ^ Wakabayashi, Daisuke (September 26, 2017). "As Google Fights Fake News, Voices on the Margins Raise Alarm". New York Times. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
  5. ^ "The Crisis in American Democracy..."
  6. ^ Preface to a D. North lecture "Marxism and the Trade Unions"
  7. ^ Woutas, Aidan (October 23, 2018). "Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party talks future of ideology, populism". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved September 12, 2023.
  8. ^ Ltd, TheGridNet. "Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo receives widespread responses at wsws.org". The İstanbul Grid. Retrieved September 12, 2023.
  9. ^ Crain's Detroit Business, 01/09/2003, págs. 26-27 https://www.crainsdetroit.com/node/524221/printable/print
  10. ^ WSWS, 08/12/2024 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/08/13/dxgf-a13.html