Socialist Appeal is the publication of a British Trotskyist organisation founded by Ted Grant and Alan Woods after they claimed to have been expelled from the Militant tendency. The organisation is popularly known as the Socialist Appeal group. It is the British section of the International Marxist Tendency. Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... Edward (Ted) Grant (born July 9, 1913) is a Trotskyist politician. ... Alan Woods is a British activist born in Swansea, South Wales in 1944 into a working-class family with a strong Communist tradition. ... It has been suggested that Militant (Britain) be merged into this article or section. ... The International Marxist Tendency (IMT) is a Trotskyist tendency based on the ideas of Ted Grant. ...

Ted Grant had been "one of the founders" and a major theoretical leader of the Militant tendency ^[1] but claimed to have been expelled with other supporters after the 1991 debate on the "Open Turn".

A special conference decision to endorse the Open Turn by 93% to 7% entailed Militant supporters abandoning the entrist strategy of working within the Labour Party and leaving to form an independent party. The new party known as Militant Labour later changed its name to become the Socialist Party (in England and Wales). In Scotland, Scottish Militant Labour instigated the formation of the Scottish Socialist Party. Entryism (or entrism or enterism) is a political tactic by which a smaller organisation joins a (usually hostile) larger organisation in an attempt to either gain recruits, influence or both. ... The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... Militant Labour was the name of the political party openly formed by members of the RSL/Militant Tendency party when they abandoned the Trotskyist tactic of entryism in 1990. ... The Socialist Party is a Trotskyist political party active in England and Wales and part of the Committee for a Workers International. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Monarch Queen Elizabeth II... This article is about the country. ... Scottish Militant Labour (SML) was a minor political party operating in Scotland in the 1990s and was part of the Committee for a Workers International. ... The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) (Scottish Gaelic: ) is a radical left-wing Scottish political party which campaigns on a socialist economic platform and for Scottish independence. ...

The split was due to the Militant Tendency's majority adoption of the "Open Turn" and Grant's continued support for the tactic of entrism within the Labour Party. After the debate and conference decision the Militant Tendency claimed that Grant and Woods had begun a separate organisation and had split from the Militant Tendency, whilst Grant and Woods claimmed to have been expelled. The Socialist Appeal group claims that they focus on educating their members. Entryism (or entrism or enterism) is a political tactic by which an organisation encourages members to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits, or take over entirely. ...

As Labour under Tony Blair has embraced the Third Way and moved away from its socialist roots, most Trotskyist tendencies in Britain that employed the tactic of entryism have left Labour and either run candidates under their own banner, such as the Socialist Party, or joined electoral coalitions such as the Scottish Socialist Party or the Socialist Alliance. Supporters of Socialist Appeal have rejected this turn and they are the best known Trotskyist group in Britain to maintain the entrist tactic into the twenty-first century. For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency... The Third Way, or Radical Middle, is a centrist philosophy of governance that embraces a mix of market and interventionist philosophies. ... Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ... The Socialist Alliance was a left-wing electoral alliance in England in existence between 1992 and 2005. ...

Although they remain relatively small in Britain, their tendency internationally International Marxist Tendency have grown significantly in number, especially in the Indian subcontinent and Latin America, where they are enthusiastic supporters of the Bolivarian Revolution and Hugo Chávez (they instigated the formation of the Hands Off Venezuela campaign group). As well as publishing their magazine Socialist Appeal, the group has also published a number of books by Leon Trotsky, Ted Grant and Alan Woods. The group has devoted much of their time to developing the multilingual website In Defence of Marxism. The International Marxist Tendency (IMT) is a Trotskyist tendency based on the ideas of Ted Grant. ... // Chávez extols the anti-imperialist aspects of Bolivarianism, which were first kindled during his college years, in an address to hundreds of thousands of chavistas along Caracass Avenida Bolívar on May 16, 2004. ... Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (IPA: ) (born July 28, 1954) is the current President of Venezuela. ... Hands Off Venezuela is a political lobby group based in the United Kingdom and with branches in many other countries. ...   (Russian: Лeв Давидович Трóцкий, Lev Davidovich Trotsky, also transliterated Leo, Lyev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij, Trockij and Trotzky) (November 7 [O.S. October 26] 1879 – August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (), was a Ukrainian-born Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. ...

Historical Publications of the Same Name

Socialist Appeal was also the name of two other newspapers associated with Ted Grant: one was the newspaper of the British Trotskyist Workers International League (in the World War II era), and (immediately following that) of the also Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist Party, the latter being no relation to other as of 2004 parties of the same name. The Workers International League was a Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Revolutionary Communist Party was a British Trotskyist political party, formed in 1944 and active until 1949, and publishing the Socialist Appeal fortnightly newspaper, a theoretical journal Workers International News and an entrist paper for its Labour Party fraction The Militant. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... There are a number of political parties called the Revolutionary Communist Party active in various countries across the world. ...

References

1. ^ Grant, Ted, The unbroken thread, Introduction, page ix

External links

• Socialist Appeal official website
• In Defence of Marxism