Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1978)

Not to be confused with Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) or Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist).
Revolutionary Communist Party
Founded1978; 46 years ago (1978)
Dissolved1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Split fromRevolutionary Communist Group
NewspaperThe Next Step
Living Marxism
Ideology1978–1991
Communism
Trotskyism
1991–1997
Libertarianism
Political position1978–1991
Far-left
1991–1997
Syncretic
Colors  Red

The Revolutionary Communist Party, known as the Revolutionary Communist Tendency until 1981, claimed to be a Trotskyist political organisation formed in 1978. From 1988 it published the journal Living Marxism. It started with only a few dozen supporters; its membership peaked at 200 in the mid-1990s.[1]

After 1991, the party abandoned Trotskyism and mainstream leftism before publicly taking a libertarian position. It was disbanded in 1997, although a number of former members maintain a loose political network to promote its ideas.

  1. ^ Fitzpatrick, Michael (28 February 2018). "The point is to change it". Waiting for the Revolution. Manchester University Press. doi:10.7228/manchester/9781526113658.003.0013. ISBN 9781526113658.