Alan Woods is a British activist born in Swansea, South Wales in 1944 into a working-class family with a strong Communist tradition. At the age of 16 he joined the Young Socialists and became a Marxist joining the Militant Tendency. He studied Russian in the Sussex University and later in Sofia (Bulgaria) and the Moscow State University (MGU). He has been involved in the Marxist movement in Spain, where he participated in the struggle against the Francisco Franco dictatorship. He speaks several languages, including Italian, Spanish, French, German and Russian. Swansea (Welsh: Abertawe, mouth of the Tawe) is a city and county in South Wales, situated on the coast immediately to the east of the Gower Peninsula. ... Approximate extent of South Wales South Wales is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the East and South, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the North and West. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... The Young Socialists is the name given to the youth sections of several socialist and social democratic political parties. ... Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... The Militant Tendency was a Trotskyist faction within the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, accused of entryist tactics. ... University of Sussex Logo © University of Sussex The University of Sussex is an English campus university located near the East Sussex village of Falmer, near Brighton and Hove and on the edge of the South Downs. ... Official website: sofia. ... Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian: Московский государственный университет имени Ðœ.Ð’.Ломоносова, often abbreviated МГУ, MSU, MGU) is the largest and arguably the oldest university in Russia, founded in 1755. ... Francisco Franco Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (pron. ...

In 1983, Woods and five other members of the Militant Tendency's editorial board were expelled from the Labour Party by the party's National Executive Committee. Wood's appeal was rejected by conference in October of that year. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The National Executive Committee or NEC is the chief administrative body of the Labour Party. ... The Labour Party Conference, or annual national conference of the Labour Party, is formally the supreme decision-making body of the Party. ...

In the early 1990s Woods and his mentor, Ted Grant were expelled from the Militant Tendency and its parent organization, the Committee for a Workers International over what they considered to be the ultraleft turn of this organisation. Grant and Woods and their supporters internationally formed the Committee for a Marxist International in 1992, which is also known as the International Marxist Tendency. This article is about the year. ... Edward (Ted) Grant (born July 9, 1913) is a Trotskyist politician. ... The Committee for a Workers International (CWI) is an international association of Trotskyist Parties. ... The Committee for a Marxist International (also known as the International Marxist Tendency) is a Trotskyist tendency based on the ideas of Ted Grant and Alan Woods. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

Publications by Alan Woods:

• Marxism in Our Time (1992)
• China in Crisis (1994)
• The Socialist Alternative to the European Union (1997)
• Revolution in Albania (1997)
• A New Stage in the Capitalist Crisis (1998)
• Indonesia: the Asian Revolution has Begun (1998)
• The Kosovo pogrom and the Balkan Powder-keg (1998)
• Crisis in Russia, the free market failure,
• History of Philosophy,
• Two books co-authored with Ted Grant
  • Lenin and Trotsky: what they really stood for (1969)
  • Reason in Revolt: Marxist philosophy and modern science (1995)
• Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution (1999).
• British Poets and the French Revolution (2003)
• The revolutionary dialectic of Republicanism - An Open Letter to Irish Republicans (2003).
• Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution (2005)
• The Venezuelan Revolution - a Marxist perspective (2005)

• His most recent book is "Marxism and the USA" (Wellred USA, 2005).

He is currently the editor of the Marxist journal Socialist Appeal, published in London and the editor of the web site In Defence of Marxism (Marxist.com). Edward (Ted) Grant (born July 9, 1913) is a Trotskyist politician. ...