The Anticapitalist Party ( tr, Antikapitalist Parti) was a

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organisation in

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. It was part of the

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led by the

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. The antecedents of Antikapitalist can be traced back to 1982 when the origins of the (today's Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party) were formed. After founding of the Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party in 1997, internal problems emerged and led to a split in the new party in 1998 and a group named (Workers Democracy) (İD) left the group. The leaderships of the British and Greek SWPs supported different sides in this dispute. Some time later some members of İD left to form . Some small groups left the group; the members left in was small and unable to organize. The group was abolished in 2010. The few last members of Antikapitalist joined the

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(, EDP).

References

External links

Antikapitalist web site (in Turkish)
2010 disestablishments in Turkey Anti-capitalist political parties Defunct communist parties in Turkey International Socialist Tendency Political parties disestablished in 2010 Political parties with year of establishment missing Trotskyist organizations in Turkey {{Turkey-party-stub