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124: 220: 66: 25: 476: 453:, was damaging Militant. Grant and Woods and their supporters internationally formed the Committee for a Marxist International in 1992, which was later to be known as the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) and remained active in the Labour Party. The British section of the IMT was known as 448:
turn of this organisation when it decided to split from the Labour Party. The minority group, led by Ted Grant, also argued that a decline in emphasis on political education, as well as the development of a bureaucratic clique around
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leaving the CWI, to found the Committee for a Marxist International (soon renamed International Marxist Tendency) in 1992. They continued with the policy of
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In 2010, Woods was subject to severe criticism, firstly by some Venezuelan newspapers then by international media outlets, for an article (
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Reformism or Revolution – Marxism and Socialism of the 21st Century (reply to Heinz Dieterich)
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and grew up in the Townhill and Penlan areas of the city. At the age of 16 he joined the
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until the early 1990s. A series of disagreements on tactics and theory led to Woods and
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In November 2012, Woods went on a speaking tour in both the United States and Canada.
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The revolutionary dialectic of Republicanism – An Open Letter to Irish Republicans
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into the Labour Party. Woods has expressed particularly vocal support for the
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established an important base of support at the university and in the town.
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The Reawakening of the World Working Class and the Tasks Faced by Marxists
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The First World War: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter (2019)
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in Venezuela, and repeatedly met with the Venezuelan President
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XXI Century Socialism, or There is Nothing New Under the Sun
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Woods was the editor for some years of the Marxist journal
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The Venezuelan Revolution – a Marxist perspective (2005)
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Reason in Revolt: Marxist philosophy and modern science
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Woods was born into a working-class family in Swansea,
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may contain excessive or inappropriate references to
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The Celia Hart Controversy – Stalinism or Leninism?
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London: Militant Publications. p. 452. 709: 579:Lenin and Trotsky: what they really stood for 531:A Socialist Alternative to the European Union 628:Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution (2005) 555:The Kosovo pogrom and the Balkan Powder-keg 53:Learn how and when to remove these messages 1107:Far-left politicians in the United Kingdom 436:In the early 1990s, Woods and his mentor, 218: 158:reliable, independent, third-party sources 561:Crisis in Russia, the free market failure 549:Indonesia: the Asian Revolution has Begun 509:Where is the Venezuelan revolution going? 194:Learn how and when to remove this message 176:Learn how and when to remove this message 106:Learn how and when to remove this message 474: 418:(MGU). Woods's work in Brighton for the 152:by replacing them with more appropriate 1097:British expatriates in the Soviet Union 605:British Poets and the French Revolution 135:too closely associated with the subject 1019: 896: 872:. London: Faber & Faber. pp.  779: 755:. London: Faber & Faber. pp.  720: 444:, over what they considered to be the 442:Committee for a Workers' International 353:Committee for a Workers' International 1057:Revolutionary Communist International 863: 843: 826: 746: 471:Revolutionary Communist International 333:Revolutionary Communist International 300:Revolutionary Communist International 86:by removing references to unreliable 799: 543:A New Stage in the Capitalist Crisis 425: 320:(born 23 October 1944) is a British 117: 90:where they are used inappropriately. 59: 18: 13: 1032:Alumni of the University of Sussex 930:. 10 November 2010. Archived from 593:Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution 464: 14: 1118: 956:. The Economist. 20 November 2010 928:El Universal (Caracas, Venezuela) 721:Turner, Robin (7 December 2010). 599:Marxism and the National Question 34:This article has multiple issues. 1102:British critics of postmodernism 1042:British political party founders 133:may rely excessively on sources 122: 64: 23: 988: 946: 916: 800:Yapp, Robin (5 December 2010). 517: 511:) he wrote on the IMT website. 42:or discuss these issues on the 1082:Moscow State University alumni 890: 857: 853:. London: Wellred. pp. i. 837: 820: 773: 740: 687: 391:, becoming a supporter of the 1: 830:History of British Trotskyism 681: 459:Revolutionary Communist Party 374: 327:and author. 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