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426:, economic adviser John Ross, green adviser Mark Watts and culture adviser Jude Woodward, refused to state whether or not they are still active as Socialist Action, and a spokesman for Livingstone responded to the charges by referring to Singh's removal from his job for "failure to discharge his duties" and calling Singh "an embittered ex-employee". Livingstone referred to the claims in the 404:, a former member of SA who had been Policy Advisor on Asian Affairs to Ken Livingstone from 2001 to 2007, detailed some of the history and activities of Socialist Action, accusing members of planning a "bourgeois democratic revolution", trying to accumulate power and manipulating the Mayor. A subsequent episode of the 399:
Running as an independent candidate for Mayor in 2000, Livingstone's decision to appoint members of Socialist Action to his administration during his first term drew criticism in the media. When Livingstone re-appointed his administration in 2004, members of Socialist Action were described as his
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In 2007 Livingstone changed the GLA rules so that his eight key advisers, four associated with SA (including John Ross and the late Redmond O'Neill), who as temporary appointments would not normally have been entitled to severance pay, received an average of ÂŁ200,000 each.
295:. Socialist Action participated in the 1989 and 1990 Fourth International Youth Summer Camps but suffered another split after the 1991 World Congress. Small groups of Socialist Action members regularly resigned and joined the International Group, and its successor, the 430:
documentary as a hatchet job. Later, Livingstone said “Almost all of my advisers had been involved in Socialist Action... It was the only rational left-wing group you could engage with. They used to produce my socialist economic policies. It was not a secret group.”
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group. It considers the Soviet model to have been preferable to capitalism for the working class, but it has always criticised that model for its bureaucratic and undemocratic features, accepting Trotsky's definition of the USSR as a
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group would extend to Socialist Action as well, the group decided to disappear from public view, closing down the bookshop, and taking other measures to guarantee invisibility. Members were assigned
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organisation, attempting to work within other organisations, with members using code names and not revealing their affiliation. It maintains a website but no publicly visible formal organisation.
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in 2015, many of its leading members became active in the party leadership. Former member Atma Singh said that Socialist Action were building "a real power base" around Corbyn and journalist
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after the 2007 split in that party. Several of its supporters became members of the party and one served as its national treasurer. In 2009, its members played leading roles in the
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goes back to 1985, when the group's leader, John Ross, became Livingstone's economic advisor. In the mid-1980s the group adopted Livingstone as something of a figurehead, regarding
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The group's character changed in a wave of splits in the mid-1980s, beginning in 1985 when a minority, led by Phil Hearse, Dave Packer, Davy Jones, and Jane Kelly formed the
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Its members continue to publish occasional pamphlets and leaflets. It relaunched its website, with an analysis of the world economic situation following the
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described Socialist Action as among "Western apologists" for "totalitarian China", "committed to whitewashing China's authoritarian form of capitalism".
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to argue that the US economy is in a long-term decline and in turn the non-capitalist character of China is helping it to emerge from the crisis.
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2007 list of the most influential people in London. Its members have maintained leading positions in many campaigns - the
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in 2013) while John Ross has been linked to Corbyn's inner circle. Fletcher resigned from his role in early 2017.
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and various coalitions against the wars against Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, for example. As a result,
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By the mid-1980s, the group had around 500 members. Working with increasing secrecy in the
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The organisation was linked with the 2000–2008 Greater London mayoral administrations of
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Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalisation Movement Is Changing the Face of Democracy
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https://www.socialistaction.net/2023/11/01/learning-from-chinas-economic-achievements/
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Socialist Action was heavily involved in the publication and editorial control of
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exert an influence beyond that which might be expected from so small a grouping.
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The remainder of the group drew pessimistic conclusions from the fall of the
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said that "its members became highly influential in the leader’s office."
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was "instrumental" in getting Livingstone elected to the Labour Party's
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strategy "to protect members from any potential Militant-style purge".
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account "hailed the Russian troops as 'defenders and peacekeepers'."
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Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)
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Communist Party (British Section of the Third International)
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Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
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Workers' Institute of Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought
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In 2001, SA stopped publishing its journal, also named
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Communist Party of South Wales and the West of England
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Communist Workers League of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
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entered the Labour Party and changed its name to the
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Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity
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Organisations associated with the Labour Party (UK)
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Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
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