:''There was also a
Revolutionary Workers' Party (Trotskyist) in Peru.''
The Revolutionary Workers' Party (Trotskyist) was a
socialist political party in Britain, based in
Birmingham.
[Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, ''Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations'', London: Frances Pinter, 2000]
History
It was founded in 1963 by members of the
Revolutionary Socialist League who supported the
Fourth International of
J. Posadas
Homero Rómulo Cristalli Frasnelli (January 20 1912 – May 25 1981), better known under the pseudonym J. Posadas or sometimes Juan Posadas, was an Argentine Trotskyist whose personal vision is usually described as Posadism. Originally a collec ...
when it split from the
International Secretariat of the Fourth International.
The group began working on the ''European Marxist Review'' and publishing ''Red Flag''. It later supported
Sinn Féin, the
Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party (BPP), originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxist-Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, Califo ...
and also worked within
Labour Party Young Socialists.
In the early 1970s, the party suffered a major split, with supporters of
Dave Douglass leaving to form the Socialist Union (Internationalist).
The remainder of the party remained loyal to Posadas' line; it continued with a very low level of activity after his death in 1981, and continued to publish ''Red Flag'' intermittently until the year 2000.
Posadism
The organisation adhered to
Posadism, the theories of Argentine Trotskyist,
J. Posadas
Homero Rómulo Cristalli Frasnelli (January 20 1912 – May 25 1981), better known under the pseudonym J. Posadas or sometimes Juan Posadas, was an Argentine Trotskyist whose personal vision is usually described as Posadism. Originally a collec ...
. He was the author of a number of works with an unconventional slant; he tried to create a synthesis of
Trotskyism and
Ufology. His most prominent thesis from this perspective was ''Flying saucers, the process of matter and energy, science, the revolutionary and working-class struggle and the socialist future of mankind'' (1968). Posadists believed that
extra-terrestrials visiting earth in
flying saucers must come from a socially and scientifically advanced civilisation to master inter-planetary travel and that the working-class should welcome the alien invaders as their liberators.
References
External links
Satirical portrait of the group by John Sullivan
at Trash Fiction
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1963 establishments in the United Kingdom
Defunct Trotskyist organisations in the United Kingdom
Fourth International Posadist
Political parties established in 1963