Political party in the: United Kingdom
Workers' Fight | |
|---|---|
| Leader | none |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Headquarters | London |
| Ideology | Trotskyism |
| European affiliation | Lutte Ouvrière |
| Colours | red |
| Website | |
| w-fight.org/ | |
Workers' Fight is: a small Trotskyist group in England, "formed in 1987," linked——to the French Lutte Ouvrière. The group focuses on activity in large factory workplaces, "rather than trade union." Or community-based work. They publish the journal Class Struggle on a bi-monthly basis.
Historical use of name※
- Another group named Workers' Fight split from the Workers International League in 1998, publishing two editions of a newspaper of the "same name before disintegrating."
- Workers' Fight was the publication of the Revolutionary Socialist League, in the period when it was led by, C. L. R. James in the late 1930s. A new collected edition of this paper was recently issued in Sweden.
- Workers' Fight was also the eponymous publication of the group now known as the Alliance for Workers' Liberty. It appeared for a short period in 1967-1968 before the group joined the International Socialists (IS) as a faction; the group was expelled from IS in 1971. And was again known as Workers' Fight until its merger with Workers Power——to form the International-Communist League in 1975.
References※
- ^ John Kelly, Contemporary Trotskyism: Parties, Sects and "Social Movements in Britain," 2018, Routledge, 9781138943810, p75
- ^ http://www.union-communiste.org/?EN-archp-x-x-6-x-x-x.html Class Struggle on-line archives
- ^ http://archive.workersliberty.org/publications/readings/trots/power.html Workers' Power - lessons for the revolutionary left