Peter Sedgwick
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Peter Sedgwick (1934-1983) was a translator of Victor Serge, author of a number of books including PsychoPolitics and a revolutionary socialist activist.
[edit] Life
Peter Sedgwick grew up in Liverpool, and won a scholarship to Balliol College Oxford where he became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1956, after the Hungarian Revolution he left and joined the Socialist Review Group, later the International Socialists (forerunner to the Socialist Workers Party) He wrote for the group’s press whilst also involved himself in the activities of rank-and-file members. He was opposed to the International Socialism group renaming itself as the Socialist Workers Party in 1976, refusing to join the new organisation while always remaining a man dedicated to the far left. He was editing the works of Victor Serge at the time of his death.
[edit] Selected articles/works
- Introduction to Victor Serge Memoirs of a Revolutionary (1963)
- George Orwell: International Socialist? (1969)
- PsychoPolitics (1982)
- The Unhappy Elitist: Victor Serge’s Early Bolshevism (1984)
