13 Facts About Michel Pablo

Michel Pablo was the pseudonym of Michalis N Raptis, a Trotskyist leader of Greek origin.

Michel Pablo played a key role in re-unifying, re-centralising and re-orienting the International.

In 1946 Michel Pablo visited Greece to successfully reunify the four separate Trotskyist parties.

Michel Pablo argued that a Third World War, which was believed by many people to be imminent, would be characterised by revolutionary outbreaks during the actual war.

Michel Pablo used the weight of the international secretariat to back tendencies that were closest to mainstream views inside the International.

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Michel Pablo continued with the European International Secretariat of the Fourth International, operating from Amsterdam and Paris.

Michel Pablo wrote a prophetic essay anticipating the women's liberation movement.

Michel Pablo was personally closely involved in supporting the Algerian national liberation struggle against France, which led to imprisonment in the Netherlands in connection with counterfeit money and gun-smuggling activities.

In 1961, Michel Pablo was finally sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, and liberated at the end of his trial.

Michel Pablo was regarded by the SWP as a barrier to that unification.

Michel Pablo moved a counter-resolution at the 1963 reunification congress, as well as the main resolution on Algeria, and was elected to the international executive committee.

The central theme of Michel Pablo's thought in the later 1960s and 1970s was that of "workers' self-management".

Michel Pablo continued with his revolutionary politics, and organized the Revolutionary Marxist Tendency and the International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency based in France.