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| Founded | April 1992 |
| Dissolved | May 2024 |
| Split from | Militant tendency |
| Succeeded by | Revolutionary Communist Party (2024) |
| Newspaper | Socialist Appeal |
| Student wing | Marxist Student Federation |
| Ideology | Marxism Leninism Trotskyism |
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Socialist Appeal was the British section of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT), founded in 1992 alongside the IMT by supporters of Ted Grant and Alan Woods after they were expelled from the Militant tendency of the Labour Party.[1] In 2024 the Great Britain-based elements of the IMT were relaunched as the Revolutionary Communist Party.
The organisation described itself as a "Marxist organisation which stands for the socialist transformation of society." Its stated aim was to build a revolutionary leadership capable of leading the working class in a struggle against capitalism.[2] It described its politics as descending from Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.[3]
Socialist Appeal published a fortnightly newspaper under the same name until January 2024, and operated the Wellred Books publisher and bookstore.
- ^ Wade, Bob (27 July 2006). "Ted Grant: Trotskyite behind the Militant Tendency's infiltration of the Labour party". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 18 October 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ^ Appeal, Socialist (3 January 2003). "About us". Socialist Appeal. Archived from the original on 1 February 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
- ^ "About us". In Defence of Marxism. Archived from the original on 9 December 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2012.