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| The '''Movement for Socialism''' is an occasional grouping of socialists in the ]. It originated as one half of the major split in the ] of 1985. Initially, both halves continued under the WRP name and both published a newspaper named '']'', but ]'s group later renamed the publication ''Workers Press''. | |||
| ==Workers' Revolutionary Party (Workers Press)== | |||
| The group was initially led by Cliff Slaughter and ], but Banda left in 1986 to form the ].<ref>''Encyclopedia of British and Irish political organizations parties, groups'' By Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley, p.170</ref> Another early split was the International Communist Party, which later became the ] (SEP) which was led by David Hyland in Britain.<ref>''Encyclopedia of British and Irish political organizations parties, groups'' By Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley, p.171</ref> Hyland died in 2013 <ref>http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/20/dave-d20.html</ref> | |||
| The post-Healy WRP (Workers Press) group entered into a period in which its press became the focus of debate on the history of the WRP/] for the members of the WRP and other ]s in Britain and abroad. It was also active in the ] movement<ref>''Encyclopedia of British and Irish political organizations parties, groups'' By Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley, p.171</ref><ref>Charlie Pottins </ref> and had close links with Searchlight South Africa <ref>https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/otherstu/srchlght.htm</ref> founded by ] and ] | |||
| Moves were made to organise an Open Conference of Trotskyists throughout the world, but this miscarried and in the end a minority of the WRP around veteran ] and Martin Ralph formed the 'Bolshevik Faction' in August 1987. This splintered away from the WRP (Workers Press) in February 1988 to form the ] as a section of the ] (LIT) led by Argentinian Trotskyist leader ]. | |||
| In 1990, the WRP (WP), along with a few other Trotskyist groups, including the Group of Opposition and Continuity of the Fourth International (GOCFI), led by ],(aka Balazs Nagy) formed the ]. | |||
| ==Movement for Socialism== | |||
| In 1996 the decision was taken to abandon the name WRP, and the group renamed itself the Movement for Socialism. This later split again, with Cliff Slaughter's moiety continuing to use the name 'Movement For Socialism' (MFS) and the Bob Archer/Dot Gibson fragment adopting the name of the Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International (WIRFI). ] is the current General Secretary of the ] in the UK <ref>http://npcuk.org/about-us/npc-officers</ref> and makes quite frequent appearances in the broadcasting media on questions and issues of pensioners' rights, struggles, living standards, etc <ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17465319</ref> | |||
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