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21-592: Revolutionary Left may refer to: Revolutionary Left (France) Revolutionary Left (Spain) Revolutionary Left Movement (Peru) Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile) Revolutionary Left Movement (Bolivia) Revolutionary Left Movement (Venezuela) Revolutionary Left Union , an electoral front in Peru International Socialism (Uruguay) or Revolutionary Left Dev Sol See also [ edit ] Far-left politics Topics referred to by
42-638: A Trotksyist international. In 1986, the group were the main impulse behind the creation of the Spanish school students' union . The current general secretary of the Spanish School students union is Ana Garcia, who is also a member of Revolutionary Left. She was interviewed on the situation in Catalonia at 9:10. The two organisations have been linked and criticised by the People's Party (Spain) They are in favour of
63-543: A Workers' International (CWI). Revolutionary left publishes El Militante in Spanish, Militant in Catalan and Euskal Herria Sozialista. They contain a socialist perspective on news and current issues. It campaigns for a party of the working class to express the political needs of those not benefiting from the capitalist system. They believe a strong and organized movement of workers and young people can overthrow capitalism and establish
84-565: A new society. This can be achieved by taking banks and big businesses into public ownership and administering them through democratic control and management. The group originated around a newspaper called Nuevo Claridad (New Clarity) which was the paper of the youth section of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in Alava in June 1976. By 1979 the leadership of PSOE had decided to move
105-596: A separate Scottish periodical called Revolution , which analysed events in Scotland, and put forward a Marxist position in relation to the Scottish independence movement. Revolution 's masthead carries the slogan "For a Scottish workers' republic and world socialist revolution!". In July 2021, the Labour Party's National Executive Committee banned Socialist Appeal and ruled that its members could be automatically expelled from
126-673: A student wing, the Marxist Student Federation (MSF), to provide a "national platform for Marxist ideas in the student movement," focused on political discussions at university Marxist societies, as well as campaigning within the labour movement . Following the Scottish independence referendum in which Scots voted to retain the union with the rest of the United Kingdom, the International Marxist Tendency launched
147-499: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Revolutionary Left (Spain) Revolutionary Left ( Spanish : Izquierda Revolucionaria , Catalan : Esquerra Revolucionària , Basque : Ezker Iraultzailea , Galician : Esquerda Revolucionaria ) is a Trotskyist political party in Spain formerly affiliated with the Committee for
168-930: The Socialist Party of England and Wales . Grant together with Alan Woods formed Socialist Appeal in Britain. The faction fight within Militant played itself out within the CWI with supporters of the Grant faction leaving to form the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) in several countries, particularly Spain. In late 2009, a dispute developed between the IMT leadership and the leadership of its sections in Spain ( El Militante ), Venezuela ( Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria ) and Mexico. In January 2010, these organisations, together with
189-674: The 1940s: one was the newspaper of the Workers International League and immediately following that of the Revolutionary Communist Party . Socialist Appeal was part of the then International Marxist Tendency (now the Revolutionary Communist International ). In Latin America , it supported President of Venezuela 's Hugo Chávez ’s Bolivarian Revolution and the IMT instigated the formation of
210-511: The 1970s and 1980s, Socialist Appeal's predecessor, the Militant tendency , had been a significant force within the British Labour Party . At the height of its influence in the mid-to-late 1980s, Militant had three Labour MPs, control of Liverpool City Council and later initiated the campaign that they claim forced the abandonment of the poll tax . Grant had been one of the founders and
231-601: The Labour Party. On 14 November 2023, Socialist Appeal announced that the IMT within Great Britain would be refounded as the Revolutionary Communist Party. The founding congress of the party took place in May 2024. Socialist Appeal refers to the fortnightly newspaper of the same name. In September 2009, the publication Socialist Appeal changed from a magazine journal format to a full colour tabloid. As part of
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#1732848549895252-437: The Labour Party. Ted Grant, once the group's most important member, was expelled and his breakaway minority, now known as Socialist Appeal, continued with the entryist strategy. The majority changed its name to Militant Labour and then in 1997 to the Socialist Party . Socialist Appeal began publishing their own journal in 1992. In 2000, the group was estimated to have around 250 supporters. In 2013, Socialist Appeal launched
273-824: The analysis of the CWI regarding the lowering of socialist consciousness following the collapse of the Stalinist regimes and the consequences this had for the international workers' movement at the time along with the extent to which these effects are still present today. Revolutionary Left in Spain together with other groups that left the CWI: Revolutionary Socialism in Portugal, and Revolutionary Left groups in Mexico and Venezuela and Offensiv in Germany, formed Izquierda Revolucionaria Internacional (International Revolutionary Left) as
294-669: The establishment of the Revolutionary Community Party, the paper was merged with the Scottish IMT newspaper, Revolution, to form The Communist in January 2024. The group also produced and/or published books, pamphlets, magazines and other Marxist educational material through the Wellred Books site operated by themselves. Socialist Appeal was also the name of two British Trotskyist newspapers associated with Ted Grant in
315-718: The group in Colombia and part of the section in Mexico, the broke with the IMT and established a new international body, the Revolucionaria Internacional (International Revolutionary Left). After a series of discussions and exchanges of documents, a merger was agreed upon by the Revolutionary left along with their co thinkers in Venezuela and Mexico with the Committee for a Worker's International . In early April 2019, IR split from CWI after differences emerged relating to
336-514: The party away from its Marxist roots and expel the Marxists around Nuevo Claridad . There were further expulsions from PSOE in 1980. In 1989 the name of the newspaper was changed to El Militante . The CWI split in early 1992 over many issues, primarily whether to continue working within social democratic parties. The majority in the UK, rejecting entryism, formed Militant Labour, which subsequently became
357-478: The right to self-determination including independence but fight for a socialist Catalan state as part of voluntary Iberian federation. They are against alliances with pro capitalist parties for independence as it would suppress the voice of the working class who hold the real power for change through mass movements. Socialist Appeal (UK, 1992) Socialism Communism Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Other Socialist Appeal
378-477: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Revolutionary Left . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Revolutionary_Left&oldid=1241561426 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Political party disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
399-438: 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. It described its politics as descending from Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky . Socialist Appeal published a fortnightly newspaper under the same name until January 2024, and operated the Wellred Books publisher and bookstore. In
420-475: The theoretical leader of the Militant group, but he was expelled with other supporters after the 1991 debate on the Open Turn . The split was caused by what Grant and Woods claimed was the bureaucratic centralist degeneration of Militant's internal regime, as well as Grant's continued support for the tactic of entryism within the Labour Party. In 1991, Militant decided by a large majority to abandon entryism in
441-580: 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 . In 2024 the Great Britain-based elements of the IMT were relaunched as the Revolutionary Communist Party. The organisation described itself as a "Marxist organisation which stands for
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