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Revolutionary Socialist League (Panama)
Revolutionary Socialist League may refer to: *Revolutionary Socialist League (UK) ** Revolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1938) ** Revolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1957) * Revolutionary Socialist League (US) (1972–1989) * Revolutionary Socialist League (Germany) (1994–2016) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1938)
The first Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) was formed in early 1938 by the merger of the Marxist League (UK, 1936), Marxist League led by Harry Wicks and the Marxist Group (UK), Marxist Group led by C. L. R. James.Barberis, Peter; McHugh, John; Tyldesley, Mike. ''Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century''. A & C Black, 2000, p160 In August 1938, James P. Cannon and Max Shachtman came to London in an attempt to unite all four British Trotskyist groups. The RSL, the Militant Group, and the Revolutionary Socialist Party (UK), Revolutionary Socialist Party merged to form a new Revolutionary Socialist League, but the Workers International League (1937), Workers International League (WIL) refused, claiming that agreement on perspectives was insufficient and that the new group represented a dilution of democratic centralism. The new RSL became the British affiliate of the newly formed Fourth International. It mainta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1957)
The Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) was a Trotskyist group in Britain which existed from 1956 to 1964, when it became Militant, an entryist group in the Labour Party. Formation After the dissolution of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Ted Grant and his supporters were expelled from the RCP's successor The Club in 1950 and formed the International Socialist Group. They went on to fuse with supporters of the International Secretariat of the Fourth International in Britain as the Revolutionary Socialist League in 1956 and were recognised as the official British section at its fifth world congress in 1957. The RSL held its first congress in 1957.Aitman, T. (1991A comment on some aspects of entrism/ref> It was an entryist group within the Labour Party that published ''Socialist Fight''. In 1958 the group was recognised as the British section of the International Secretariat of the Fourth International and, after the reunification in 1963, the British section of the Four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Socialist League (US)
The Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) was a Trotskyist group in the United States established in 1973 and disbanded in 1989. History The RSL originated in the Revolutionary Tendency within the International Socialists (U.S.) (IS) led by Sy Landy and Ron Tabor. They had three principal differences with the IS: they believed that the IS had abandoned strict adherence to Trotskyism; they felt that the emphasis on the day-to-day work within the trade unions diminished propagating the revolutionary objectives outlined in the Fourth International's transitional program; and they felt that the USSR and the other Communist states were state capitalist, rather than bureaucratic collectivist.Alexander, Robert ''International Trotskyism: a documented analysis of the world movement'' Durham, Duke University Press 1991 pp. 903–904 While the RT at first seemed to have the upper hand, with Landy elected national secretary in 1972, by the next year Landy and his faction had been expell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |