Revolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1956)

Revolutionary Socialist League
Revolutionary Socialist League
General Secretary	Jimmy Deane
Founded	1956
Dissolved	1964
Split from	The Club
Succeeded by	Militant
Newspaper	Workers International Review (1956–1957); Socialist Fight (1958–1963)
Ideology	Socialism; Trotskyism
Political position	Far-left
International affiliation	Fourth International
	Politics of the United Kingdom; Political parties; Elections;

The Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) was a Trotskyist group^[1] in Britain which existed from 1956 until 1964 when it became Militant, an entryist group in the Labour Party.

^ ^a ^b Grady, Helen (8 November 2014). "The English city that wanted to 'break away' from the UK". BBC News. Archived from the original on 11 November 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2015. Known as the Militant Tendency, it had sprung from a Trotskyist group called the Revolutionary Socialist League and its goals included widespread nationalisation and embarking on a massive programme of public works.

[BBC1-1] Grady, Helen (8 November 2014). "The English city that wanted to 'break away' from the UK". BBC News. Archived from the original on 11 November 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2015. Known as the Militant Tendency, it had sprung from a Trotskyist group called the Revolutionary Socialist League and its goals included widespread nationalisation and embarking on a massive programme of public works.

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