Socialist Appeal was the British section of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT),founded in 1992 alongside the IMT by supporters of Ted Grant and Alan Woods after they were expelled from the Militant tendency of the Labour Party. In 2024 the Great Britain-based elements of the IMT were relaunched as the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Derek Anthony Hatton is a British former politician,later a broadcaster,property developer and businessman. He gained national prominence as deputy leader of Liverpool City Council in the 1980s and was a member of the Trotskyist Militant group.
Charles Patrick Wall was an English Trotskyist political activist who was the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford North from 1987 until his death. Wall was a long-standing member of the Militant group.
Jimmy Deane was a British Trotskyist who played a significant role in building the Revolutionary Socialist League. Along with Jock Haston and Ted Grant,he played a role during the Second World War in the Revolutionary Communist Party,the British section of the Fourth International.
The Marxist Group was an early Trotskyist group in the United Kingdom.
The Labour Party Young Socialists (LPYS) was the youth section of the Labour Party in Britain from 1965 until 1991. In the 1980s,it had around 600 branches,2,000 delegates at its national conferences and published a monthly newspaper,Left,later Socialist Youth. From the early 1970s,it was led by members of Militant.
The International Marxist Group (IMG) was a Trotskyist group in Britain between 1968 and 1982. It was the British Section of the Fourth International. It had around 1,000 members and supporters in the late 1970s. In 1980,it had 682 members;by 1982,when it changed its name to the Socialist League,membership had fallen to 534.
The Socialist Party is a Trotskyist political party in England and Wales. Founded in 1997,it had formerly been Militant,an entryist group in the Labour Party from 1964 to 1991,which became Militant Labour from 1991 until 1997. It is a member of the refounded Committee for a Workers' International,and the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition.
Entryism is a political strategy in which an organization or state encourages its members or supporters to join another,usually larger,organization in an attempt to expand influence and expand their ideas and program. If the organization being "entered" is hostile to entryism,the entryists may engage in a degree of subterfuge and subversion to hide the fact that they are an organization in their own right.
The Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) is a Trotskyist group in Britain once led by Gerry Healy. In the mid-1980s,it split into several smaller groups,one of which retains possession of the name.
The Militant tendency,or Militant,was a Trotskyist group in the British Labour Party,organised around the Militant newspaper,which launched in 1964.
The Alliance for Workers' Liberty (AWL),also known as Workers' Liberty,is a Trotskyist group in Britain and Australia,which has been identified with the theorist Sean Matgamna throughout its history. It publishes the newspaper Solidarity.
The Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) is a Trotskyist political international. It was founded as the Committee for a Marxist International by British-based South African political theorist Ted Grant and his supporters after they broke with the Committee for a Workers' International in 1992,and was subsequently renamed the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) in 2004 before adopting its current name in June 2024. The organization's website,Marxist.com or In Defence of Marxism,is edited by Alan Woods. The site is multilingual,and publishes international current affairs articles written from a Marxist perspective,as well as many historical and theoretical articles.
The Revolutionary Communist Party was a British Trotskyist group,formed in 1944 and active until 1949,which published the newspaper Socialist Appeal and a theoretical journal,Workers International News. The party was the ancestor of the three main currents of British Trotskyism:Gerry Healy's Workers Revolutionary Party,Ted Grant's Militant and Tony Cliff's Socialist Workers Party.
The Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) was an international association of Trotskyist political parties and organisations. Today,two groups claim to be the continuation of the CWI,the refounded Committee for a Workers' International and International Socialist Alternative.
Edward Grant was a South African Trotskyist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He was a founding member of the group Militant and later Socialist Appeal.
Alan Woods is a British Trotskyist political theorist and author. He is one of the leading members of the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) and was a founder of Socialist Appeal. He is political editor of the RCI's In Defence of Marxism website. Woods was a leading supporter within the Militant tendency within the Labour Party and its parent group the Committee for a Workers' International until the early 1990s. A series of disagreements on tactics and theory led to Woods and Ted Grant leaving the CWI,to found the Committee for a Marxist International in 1992. They continued with the policy of entryism into the Labour Party. Woods has expressed particularly vocal support for the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela,and repeatedly met with the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez,leading to speculation that he was a close political adviser to the president.
Orthodox Trotskyism is a branch of Trotskyism which aims to adhere more closely to the philosophy,methods and positions of Leon Trotsky and the early Fourth International,Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx than other avowed Trotskyists.
The Liverpool City Council adopted policies largely inspired by those elected Councillors who were members of a left wing group known as the Militant tendency through much of the 1980s,and was subsequently taken to court by the Government of Margaret Thatcher.
Far-left politics in the United Kingdom have existed since at least the 1840s,with the formation of various organisations following ideologies such as Marxism,revolutionary socialism,communism,anarchism and syndicalism.
