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 | | | Leader | Peter Taaffe | | | Founded | 1997 | | Headquarters | London | | | Political Ideology | Trotskyism | | Political Position | Far left | | International Affiliation | Committee for a Workers' International | | European Affiliation | European Anticapitalist Left | | European Parliament Group | none | | Colours | none | | | Website | www.socialistparty.org.uk | | | See also | Politics of the UK
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Peter Taaffe is a Trotskyist political figure and general secretary of the Socialist Party of England and Wales. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ...
The term far left refers to the relative position a person or group occupies within the political spectrum. ...
The Committee for a Workers International (CWI) is an international association of Trotskyist Parties. ...
The European Anti Capitalist Left (EACL) is an informal network for European anticapitalist left wing parties with a certain representativeness. ...
Politics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland take place in the framework of a constitutional monarchy in which the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government. ...
This is a list of political parties in the United Kingdom. ...
The United Kingdom has five distinct types of elections: general, local, regional, European and mayoral. ...
| The Socialist Party is a Trotskyist political party active in England and Wales and part of the Committee for a Workers' International. They publish a weekly newspaper entitled The Socialist and a monthly Socialism Today. As an organisation, it has evolved from the Militant Tendency, who in the early 1980s started to be expelled from the Labour Party, for operating as an entryist political party with a programme and organisation entirely separate from that of the Labour Party (the Militant claimed to be nothing more than a newspaper at the time). Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ...
// Political scientists have developed concepts of different ideal types of political parties in order to better compare them with each other. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
This article is about the country. ...
The Committee for a Workers International (CWI) is an international association of Trotskyist Parties. ...
The Socialist is the weekly paper of the Socialist Party of England and Wales. ...
It has been suggested that Militant (Britain) be merged into this article or section. ...
The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ...
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. ...
There was a debate with the Militant Tendency as to whether or not to cease working within the Labour Party and the majority of the group decided to do so, although a minority around Ted Grant broke away to form Socialist Appeal. This debate ran alongside a parallel debate on the future of Scottish politics. The result was that the experiment of operating as an "open party" was first undertaken in Scotland under the name of Scottish Militant Labour. This initiative would eventually lead to the foundation of the Scottish Socialist Alliance. The majority of Scottish members, after forming the Scottish Socialist Party, left the CWI in early 2001 as they moved away from traditional Trotskyist politics. Edward (Ted) Grant (born July 9, 1913) is a Trotskyist politician. ...
Socialist Appeal is the publication of a minor British Trotskyist organisation founded by Ted Grant after he left the Militant Tendency. ...
Motto: (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots2 Government - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - UK Prime Minister Tony Blair MP - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification - by Kenneth I 843 Area - Total 78,772 km...
Scottish Militant Labour (SML) were a minor political party operating in Scotland in the 1990s. ...
The Scottish Socialist Alliance (SSA) was a coalition of left-wing bodies in Scotland which existed from 1996 to 1998, and was the forerunner of the Scottish Socialist Party. ...
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is a left-wing Scottish political party which campaigns for a socialist economic platform and Scottish independence. ...
For a while, the party was known as Militant Labour. In 1997, the group changed its name to the Socialist Party, but the ownership of this name has been contested by the much older Socialist Party of Great Britain. As a result, the new party is frequently known as "The Socialist Party of England and Wales". In elections, it has had to use the name "Socialist Alternative". They were one of the founders of the local Socialist Alliance groups, but they left in 2001. 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. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Arguing against capitalism, Speakers Corner, October 31, 2004 The Socialist Party of Great Britain, also known as the SPGB, is a small Marxist party, which is emphatically not Leninist. ...
The Socialist Alliance was a left-wing electoral alliance in England in existence between 1992 and 2005. ...
2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Since ending their tenure in the Socialist Alliance, the Socialist Party has run candidates in elections as Socialist Alternative. Following the UK local elections, 2006, it has three councillors in Coventry, one in Stoke, two in Lewisham, South London and one in Huddersfield. In February 2005, the Socialist Party announced plans to contest the 2005 parliamentary elections as part of a new electoral alliance called the Socialist Green Unity Coalition. Several former components of the Socialist Alliance that did not join Respect also joined the SGUC. Local government elections took place in England (only) on Thursday May 4, 2006. ...
A councillor is a member of a council (such as a city council), particularly in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and other parts of the Commonwealth. ...
The Precinct in Coventry city centre. ...
This page is about Stoke-on-Trent in England. ...
Lewisham is an area within the London Borough of Lewisham in south-east London. ...
Statistics Population: 146,234 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE145165 Administration Metropolitan borough: Kirklees Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Fire and rescue: West Yorkshire Ambulance: Yorkshire Post office...
The Socialist Green Unity Coalition is an electoral alliance formed by leftist parties and political organisations in Great Britain to contest English and Welsh seats in the 2005 parliamentary election. ...
RESPECT The Unity Coalition is a left wing British political party founded on January 25, 2004 in London. ...
The Socialist Party is a smaller organisation than the Militant of the 1980s, but has influence in some trade unions. In 2007, 24 Socialist Party members are elected members of trade union national executive committees. Under the leadership of Peter Taaffe, their policies have remained close to the Trotskyist mainstream. Their demand for the nationalisation of the one hundred and fifty top British companies and their longstanding practice of running in elections has led some critics to label them as reformists though the party insists that their method is based on Trotsky's Transitional Programme. A Trade Union (Labour union) ... is a continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment. ...
Peter Taaffe is a Trotskyist political figure and general secretary of the Socialist Party of England and Wales. ...
Nationalization is the act of taking assets into state ownership. ...
Reformism (also called revisionism or revisionist theory) is the belief that gradual changes in a society can ultimately change its fundamental structures. ...
The full name of the Transitional Program is The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International:The Mobilization of the Masses around Transitional Demands to Prepare the Conquest of Power. ...
The Socialist Party is affiliated to the Committee for a Workers International, and is indeed the largest of its forty members. The party participates also in the broader European Anticapitalist Left. The Committee for a Workers International (CWI) is an international association of Trotskyist Parties. ...
The European Anti Capitalist Left (EACL) is an informal network for European anticapitalist left wing parties with a certain representativeness. ...
In November 2005 at its annual 'Socialism' event, the Socialist Party formally launched the 'Campaign for a New Workers' Party' with the aim of persuading individuals, campaigners and trade unions to help set up and back a new broad left alternative to New Labour that would fight for working class people. The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT union) held a conference in January 2006 to address what it calls 'The crisis in working class representation', in which Dave Nellist was invited to speak. Most of the speakers were in favour of a broad left alternative to New Labour. The remaining speakers, such as MP John McDonnell, wished it well. The Socialist Party held a conference on March 19th 2006, which was attended by around 1,000 people, to formally launch the Campaign for a New Workers' Party. Ongoing events • Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal • Al Jazeera bombing memo • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak • Black sites scandal • Conservative leadership race (UK) • Fuel prices • Irans nuclear program • Jilin chemical plant explosions • Kashmir earthquake • Malawi food crisis • Malaysian prisoner abuse scandal • New Delhi bombings investigation • Niger food crisis • North Indian cyclone...
The Campaign For A New Workers Party is a broad campaign which argues for the establishment of a new political party to represent working class people. ...
A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers...
New Labour is an alternative name of the British political Labour Party. ...
The term working class is used to denote a social class. ...
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) is a trade union in the United Kingdom which unionises transport workers. ...
Dave Nellist Dave Nellist is a Trotskyist political figure and former Labour MP for the former constituency of Coventry South East. ...
New Labour is an alternative name of the British political Labour Party. ...
John Martin McDonnell (born on September 8, 1951, Liverpool) is a British politician and Labour Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington. ...
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