The Anticapitalist Party ( tr, Antikapitalist Parti) was a
Trotskyist
Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a rev ...
organisation in
Turkey
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. It was part of the
International Socialist Tendency
The International Socialist Tendency (IST) is an international grouping of unorthodox Trotskyist organisations espousing the ideas of Tony Cliff (1917–2000), founder of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain (not to be confused with t ...
led by the
Socialist Workers Party (UK)
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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
Equality and Democracy Party
Equality and Democracy Party (''Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi'', EDP) was a left-libertarian and social liberal political party in Turkey. It was founded on 14 March 2010 by . Halis, of Alevi descent, was a former MP for the Social Democratic P ...
(, 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
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