Socialist Action | |
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Founded | 1982 |
Headquarters | London |
Ideology | Trotskyism Market Socialism[1] |
Political position | Far-left |
International affiliation | None |
Website | |
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Socialist Action is a small Trotskyist group in the United Kingdom.[2] From the mid-1980s Socialist Action became an entryist organisation, attempting to work within other organisations, with members using code names and not revealing their affiliation.[3][4] It maintains a website but no publicly visible formal organisation.
The organisation was linked with the 2000–2008 Greater London mayoral administrations of Ken Livingstone, although Livingstone was never a member.[3] Four of Livingstone's key advisers were Socialist Action members; all made the "top 25" in the Evening Standard's 2007 list of the most influential people in London.[5][6] Its members have maintained leading positions in many campaigns - the National Abortion Campaign, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, National Assembly Against Racism and various coalitions against the wars against Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, for example. As a result, Socialist Action exert an influence beyond that which might be expected from so small a grouping.[citation needed]
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