League for Socialist Action (UK)
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The League for Socialist Action 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 ...
organisation in Britain. It consisted of a group of members who split from the
International Marxist Group :''See also the International Marxist Group (Germany). The International Marxist Group (IMG) was a Trotskyist group in Britain between 1968 and 1982. It was the British Section of the Fourth International. It had around 1,000 members and suppor ...
in 1976 in support of the US Socialist Workers Party's tendency in the
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. Its publication, ''Socialist Action'', was produced several times each year. Its pamphlets included ''Abortion a Woman's Right!'' (1975) ; ''The Labour Party'' (1976) ; and ''Revolution in the Americas'' (1981).http://content-backend-a.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt900021c7&doc.view=entire_text It engaged in
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in the Labour Party after 1976, and merged with the International Marxist Group in 1982.


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