Socialist Appeal | |
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Founded | April 1992 |
Split from | Militant tendency |
Succeeded by | Revolutionary Communist Party (6 May 2024) |
Newspaper | Socialist Appeal |
Youth wing | Marxist Student Federation |
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Socialist Appeal was the British section of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT), founded in 1992 alongside the IMT by supporters of Ted Grant and Alan Woods after they were expelled from the Militant tendency of the Labour Party.[1] The organisation relaunched itself in 2024 as the Revolutionary Communist Party.
The organisation described itself as a "Marxist organisation which stands for the socialist transformation of society." Its stated aim was to build a revolutionary leadership capable of leading the working class in a struggle against capitalism.[2] It described its politics as descending from Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.[3]
Socialist Appeal published a fortnightly newspaper under the same name. On 21 January 2024, the paper was renamed to The Communist and merged with the Scottish IMT newspaper, Revolution.[4] The organisation also produced books, pamphlets, magazines and other Marxist educational material, sold through the Wellred Books Britain bookstore, which it operated.[5]
In 2013, Socialist Appeal officially launched its youth wing, the Marxist Student Federation (MSF), to provide a "national platform for Marxist ideas in the student movement."[6] As of 2022, the MSF claims a presence at over 50 campuses across Britain,[7] focused on political discussions at university Marxist societies, as well as campaigning within the labour movement.[8]
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