The Communist League was a small
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 Britain. Better known as Movement for a Socialist Future, it split from the
Marxist Party
The Marxist Party was a tiny Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. It was formed as a split from Sheila Torrance's Workers' Revolutionary Party in 1987 by Gerry Healy and supporters including Vanessa and Corin Redgrave. At firs ...
in 1990, claiming to hold more closely to the ideas of
Gerry Healy
Thomas Gerard Healy (3 December 1913 – 14 December 1989) was a political activist, a co-founder of the International Committee of the Fourth International and the leader of the Socialist Labour League and later the Workers Revolutionary Part ...
, who had died the previous year. In 1994, it published a strongly positive biography of Healy, with a foreword by
Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office i ...
.
The same year, it founded a small international organisation, which it declared the
Fifth International
The phrase Fifth International refers to the efforts made by groups of socialists and communists to create a new workers' international.
Previous internationals
There have been several previous international workers' organisations, and the c ...
of Communists. It produced the magazine ''Socialist Future Review''.
The group decided to orient itself towards the
anti-capitalist movement
Anti-capitalism is a political ideology and movement encompassing a variety of attitudes and ideas that oppose capitalism. In this sense, anti-capitalists are those who wish to replace capitalism with another type of economic system, such as ...
and published a book entitled ''A World to Win''. In June 2005, it dissolved itself into a group calling itself A World to Win.
See also
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Movement for Socialism (Britain)
The Movement for Socialism is an occasional grouping of socialists in the United Kingdom. It originated as one half of the major split in the Workers Revolutionary Party of 1985. Initially, both halves continued under the WRP name and both pub ...
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Communist League of Great Britain
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The Communist League of Great Britain was an anti-revisionist group in the United Kingdom.
It origins were in the Communist Party of Great Britain, where a faction formed around Bill Bland. Initially Maoist, it joined the majority o ...
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Communist League (UK, 1988)
The Communist League is a British political party that was formed by a group of members expelled in 1988 from Socialist Action. Those members had joined the American Socialist Workers Party's Pathfinder tendency. It maintained a bookshop in Londo ...
References
External links
Movement for a Socialist Future archiveA World to Win
Political parties established in 1990
Defunct Trotskyist organisations in the United Kingdom
Workers Revolutionary Party (UK)
Political parties disestablished in 2005
1990 establishments in the United Kingdom
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