Spartacist League of Britain

Spartacist League of Britain
Founded 1978
Headquarters London
Ideology Trotskyism
Political position Far-left
European affiliation None
International affiliation International Communist League
European Parliament group None
Politics of the United Kingdom
Political parties
Elections

The Spartacist League of Britain (Spartacist League/Britain) is a Trotskyist political party in Britain. It is the British section of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist).

Its origins lay in the London Spartacist Group, formed in 1975.[1] In 1977 the group was joined by New Zealanders Bill Logan and Adaire Hannah, who had led the Spartacist League of Australia and New Zealand from 1972 to 1977, and who were "transferred to London at the behest of the Spartacist international leadership" with a view to strengthening the tendency's organisation there.[2] "The Spartacist League/Britain was founded in 1978 as a fusion between the London Spartacist Group and the Trotskyist Faction (TF), which split from Alan Thornett’s Workers Socialist League ...".[1] The Trotskyist Faction, with about two dozen members, left the Workers Socialist League on 19 February 1978 and merged with the London Spartacist Group at a conference held seven weeks later over the weekend of 4–5 April. The new party claimed to have about fifty members in London and the Midlands.[3]

The group published a monthly periodical called Spartacist Britain, which changed its title to Workers Hammer in 1984 and is now a quarterly.

See also

Dave Spart

References

  1. 1 2 Thirty years of the Spartacist League/Britain, Workers Hammer, No. 203, Summer 2008. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  2. ↑ The ‘Logan Question’ in the Spartacist Tendency. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  3. ↑ Robert Alexander, International Trotskyism: a documented analysis of the world movement (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991), p. 498.

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