Tony Cliff

British socialist activist (1917–2000) Tony CliffTony Cliff in 1986BornYigael Glückstein(1917-05-20)20 May 1917Zikhron Ya'akov, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman EmpireDied9 April 2000(2000-04-09) (aged 82)London, EnglandPolitical partySocialist Workers PartySpouseChanie RosenbergChildren3, including Donny GlucksteinRelativesMichael Kidron (brother-in-law), Baroness Kidron (niece), Adam Kidron (nephew) Tony Cliff (born Yigael Glückstein, Hebrew: יגאל גליקשטיין; 20 May 1917 – 9 April 2000) was a Trotskyist activist. Born to a Jewish family in Ottoman Palestine, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1947 and by the end of the 1950s had assumed the pen name of Tony Cliff. A founding member of the Socialist Review Group, which became the International Socialists and then the Socialist Workers Party, in 1977. Cliff was effectively the leader of all three. Biography Early life in Palestine Tony Cliff was born Yigael Glückstein in Zikhron Ya'akov in the Ottoman Empire's Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem (in what is now Israel), in 1917, the same year Britain seized control of the territory from the Ottoman Empire during World War I. He was one of four children born to Akiva and