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7 unusual facts about Tony Cliff


Neo-Trotskyism

Examples of neo-Trotskyists would be Tony Cliff and Max Schachtman (who eventually no longer referred to Trotskyism).

Permanent revolution

An attempt to elaborate an exception to the theory was made by Tony Cliff of the Socialist Workers Party (Britain).

Stan Newens

At UCL, he met Anil Moonesinghe, a Sri Lankan Trotskyist, who was later to become a Cabinet Minister in Sri Lanka) and joined the Socialist Review Group led by Tony Cliff, a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), which later became the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).

Tony Cliff

This debate was linked to other discussions on the nationalised industries in Britain and the increasingly critical stance of Haston and the RCP as to the leadership of the Fourth International with regard to Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia in particular.

The Fourth International held until 1951 that the 'glacis' states had remained capitalist even while the FI maintained the position that Russia was a degenerated workers' state.

As well as authoring many articles on social questions for the groups' publications, she was an activist in the National Union of Teachers until her retirement.

Trotskyist writer Samuel Farber, a long-time supporter of the International Socialist Organization in the US, has argued that the internal party regime established by Cliff during this period is "reminiscent of the one established by Zinoviev in the mid-twenties in the USSR" consequently leading to the various crises and splits in the group later on.


Chanie Rosenberg

Chanie Rosenberg (born 1922) is a South African-born artist, former teacher and socialist who is the sister of Michael Kidron, the widow of Tony Cliff, and a founder member of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain.

Haymarket Books

Haymarket also publishes accounts of various revolutions such as Alexander Rabinowitch's The Bolsheviks Come to Power, Building the Party and All Power to the Soviets by Tony Cliff about the Russian Revolution, along with books about the Spanish Revolution and the German Revolution.


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