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Join Mike Taber, Eric Blanc, Lars Lih, and Anne McShane for a book launch celebrating the release of Under the Socialist Banner: Resolutions of the Second International, 1889\u20131912, edited by Taber.\n\nRecent years have seen a massive growth of interest in socialism, particularly among young people. But few are fully aware of socialism\u2019s revolutionary history. For this reason, an appreciation of the Second International\u2014often called the \u201cSocialist International\u201d\u2014during its Marxist years is particularly relevant.\n\nWhat is the record of the Second International in its Marxist years? What is its legacy, and what lessons does it offer for today? These and other questions will be discussed.\n ---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOrder a Copy of Under the Socialist Banner: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1649-under-the-socialist-banner\n ---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nEric Blanc is the author of Red State Revolt: The Teachers\u2019 Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics and Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire, 1882-1917.\n\nLars T. Lih is an independent scholar who lives in Montreal. He is the author of Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914-1921, co-author of Stalin\u2019s Letters to Molotov , author of Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context , and co-editor, with Ben Lewis, of Zinoviev and Martov: Head to Head in Halle . He has also authored a short biography entitled Lenin . At present, he is working on a study of the 1917 revolution that brings out the overlooked role of consensus and continuity in the Bolshevik outlook.\n\nMike Taber is the editor of Under the Socialist Banner: Resolutions of the Second International, 1889\u20131912. He has edited and prepared a number of other books related to the history of revolutionary and working-class movements\u2014from collections of documents of the Communist International under Lenin to works by figures such as Leon Trotsky, Malcolm X, and Che Guevara.\n\nAnne McShane has been involved in Marxist politics for over 30 years. She has a particular interest in the struggle for women\u2019s emancipation within socialist projects and has completed a PhD on the role of the Zhenotdel (Women\u2019s Department of the CPSU) in Soviet Central Asia. She works as a human rights lawyer in Ireland.\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books and Verso Books.\n\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/wcdUfdo2C_w\n\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\n\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks