Rick Turner: A Biographical Introduction

Rick Turner

Rick Turner

Rick Turner was a South African philosopher and trade unionist who was assassinated in Durban in 1978. He had a significant influence on a generation of activists introducing ideas around participatory democracy and charting a democratic course independent of both the Stalinist and Trotskyist left at the time.

The attached text is a biographical introduction to Turner written by Tony Morphet. It was first published as a new introduction to Turner's book The Eye of the Needle

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