The Well-Dressed Revolutionary

Michel Pablo was a twentieth century revolutionary whose life and ideas remain relevant and inspirational. He spent his life involved in revolutions around the globe - in Greece, France, Algeria, Chile, Palestine and Portugal, to name the most important - everywhere pursuing a genuinely democratic socialism. He was a hands-on participant and advocated and worked for what he called 'generalised self-management or direct democracy' - on a local, regional, national and planetary scale. For Pablo, this was utopian but realisable. He had his faults - he was reluctant to admit to error and could be blindly loyal. But his strengths - his insistence on full democracy, pluralism, a principled life, his sympathy for the 'wretched of the Earth' and an early recognition of the ecological crisis - make him vitally relevant in this new century.